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>> The public which is not in attendance tonight may address

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the Planning Commission during specified times on the agenda.

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Were they here come they would speak once at the podium

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come and state their name and address

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come a direct comments only to the Commission

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and limit their speaking time to only three

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minutes speaking only once during the comment period.

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So we will begin by calling ourselves to order

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and Andrea will do a roll call for us.

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Thank you.

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>> Britt comment , Ermann, (Indistinct) we have a quorum.

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>> Thank you.

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>> I move approval of the consent agenda.

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All in favor, say aye.

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All those opposed?

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None.

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We have no public hearings this evening.

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And as I mentioned, no public in attendance

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comments so no public comment.

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We will move right on to unfinished business.

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We have a slate of planning Commission --

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we have our annual planning commission officer elections.

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We have a chair, a vice chair and a secretary.

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We will first hear from the nominating >> Madam

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chair, the nominating committee which consists of me

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and Jerry Ford put together a slate of nominees.

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Melissa Jones for chair, Susanna Rinhart for vice chair

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And Blayne Keesee for Secretary.

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>> Are there other nominations?

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Seeing none we will move to a vote.

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Do we need a motion on this one or does this count as a motion?

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>> I move we approve the slate of officers as presented by Mr.

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Britt.

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>> Thank you.

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Now we will have a vote.

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All those in favor of the slate, say aye.

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All those opposed?

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None.

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We shall move on to committee reports.

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The Zoning Ordinance Review Committee has not met.

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Does the historic Design Review Board have anything?

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Nothing to report.

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Mr. Ford come I believe you have a report on the Montgomery

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County Planning Commission?

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>> The Planning Commission met on the 19th and as a spoiler

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alert, there were no public hearings.

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What was interesting is the first thing is since they had

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time, the representative for the Virginia Cooperative Extension

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gave a very extensive presentation about their role

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in the community as communities everywhere.

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I recommend everyone go back and look at that first 15 minutes

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because it was a very good presentation.

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And they did welcome a new member

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to the Planning Commission.

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I forget the gentleman previously

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who had retired after maybe 20 years of service

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on the Planning Commission.

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Then what they did is they moved into a work session

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and there are two items they worked on.

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One is a housing development in the eastern part of the county

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down there really by the eastern Montgomery School.

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Our good friend that we see often

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come to the hardest working men in the land use,

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Steve Simons was there for that, then

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that was followed by a smaller use request that

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is more here on prices fork road heading out

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towards Peppers Ferry Road.

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Someone wants to convert some of that land

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and build actually a wrestling facility.

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Training and whatnot.

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So they did their work session on that, at which point

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they exited their work session and then they

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did just what we do tonight where

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they did their little reports so that was that.

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>> Okay.

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Do you know who the new member is?

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>> I cannot remember her name.

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>> I was trying to look it up but it's not coming up.

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>> Yakama she's been around.

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What actually really cracked me up

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is that the chair of the Planning Commission

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introduced to the new person and said

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that she was a graduate of UVA wise

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and then he proceeded to say, which

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is not how we refer to our dear neighbors in Charlottesville.

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UVA unwise.

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[Laughs]

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>> Pam Jenkins?

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No, never mind.

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>> Any additional items for planning commissioners?

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No?

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All right.

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New business.

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The chair's report.

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I don't have a report.

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How about the planning director?

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>> Yes.

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So we do not have any pending public hearing items so staff

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would recommend canceling the work session on September 15th,

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if that would be the pleasure of the Planning commission,

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and then also I did want to let you know that our consultant

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that is doing the Recode Blacksburg process will be

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in town on October 6th and they would like to have a work

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session.

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That will be the night of a regular meeting.

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We anticipate it being a shorter meeting,

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so I believe that both items could be scheduled with plenty

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of time on the same evening.

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So I just wanted to make you all aware of that.

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Also coming I had sent out an email

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about the comprehensive plan update

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and do encourage you all to take a look at the survey

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and pass that on as you can two others in the community.

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And then if you have any ideas for staff for public engagement,

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please let myself or may gold know,

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and we are actively looking for places

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to go out and kind of meet the community where

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they are at events and such.

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As they happen this fall and to next spring.

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>> Would there be also scheduled public input sessions?

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>> Yes, and then we will have normal kind of public engagement

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sessions either here or at the community center.

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But we do want to make more effort, additional effort.

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I think as we have in the past.

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It will be conscious of okay, where

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are people gathering that we can take advantage of where

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they already are and try to gather some feedback that way

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Tremec

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>> That sounds great .

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Thank you.

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Does Town Council have a report?

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>> Today at our work session we had the final presentation

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on our community branding which if we look at the spring,

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as we have talked about, Blacksburg is going to begin

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rolling out the new branding that has been worked on.

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Now that this is complete, our dated website

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we'll move forward with getting that updated and improved.

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There is a picture of that.

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Also, we had an update about the Arpa funding,

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the American Rescue Plan Act funding

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because we are coming up on the three years

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to spend it from today we had the Community Foundation and RV

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presented on their strengthening Blacksburg's child care

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workforce.

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It was a great presentation.

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I think it has made a lot of good efforts

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and we can move forward from there.

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I was very excited to hear them and then

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we also had live, work and grow, who

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helped with the Food Security Network presentation and we

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heard about all the ways trying to get food to everyone

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and that equally was inspiring and good to hear.

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And that was the main items we covered today.

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>> Fabulous.

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All right.

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Then we will conclude with that and we will adjourn.

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Thank you.