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[4:51] I want to August 20, 2026, Plan Commission Work Session for your County Plan Commission. At this moment, I turn it over to Ms. Meade.
[5:00] Good morning. Good morning. We will go through our agenda review. This evening we will call to order at 630 p.m. You will then adopt the agenda. Then have approval of the minutes. Are there any comments on the July 16 minutes?
[5:17] Okay, Gary, no, we'll move along.
[5:19] There isn't a board of zoning appeal agenda to review.
[5:22] You'll have Citizens' time.
[5:23] And then we have two regular agenda items.
[5:26] The first one is a resolution
[5:28] to initiate a zoning ordinance text amendment
[5:30] to article three from more of five, six,
[5:33] and 15 related to family day homes.
[5:36] Ms. Lines.
[5:37] Welcome, Ms. Lines.
[5:39] Good morning.
[5:39] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[5:40] And members of the commission.
[5:43] This agenda item is prompted by the passing of House Bill
[5:46] 2, 5, 8, 5, 8, 20, 26 for junior general assembly, and the focus of this bill is to make
[5:52] changes to terminology as it relates to childhood care and education, specifically family
[5:58] day home terminology. So family day home would be changed to home-based child care and
[6:04] family day system is changed to home-based child care system. Approving this initiation would
[6:10] allow staff to review the zoning ordinance and make necessary changes to be in compliance
[6:14] with Richmond's changes. Thank you. I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions
[6:18] or staff on this item? Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Moving on.
[6:23] The 3D Resolution to Initiate is uninorganized text amendment to Article 3,
[6:27] Forward 6 and 15 related to data centers and other relevant definitions.
[6:32] Morning, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning to you as well.
[6:35] This sort of allows staff to begin working on a potential text amendments related to the
[6:39] use of data center definitions, data centers and related other definitions in the ordinance.
[6:44] as well to any accessory users, have the answer any questions?
[6:48] Any questions?
[6:51] Private utilities are going to be included in that effort?
[6:56] It could be.
[6:57] It's not the cycle related process.
[6:59] They should be.
[7:02] It is not an accessory used to a data center.
[7:06] So, I will move that that be amended to include
[7:13] analysis of what we need to be thinking about if somebody proposes a private utility
[7:20] in Falker County, in whatever connection.
[7:24] I have this point.
[7:25] You have a motion on the floor?
[7:28] Well, else here, what Adam has to say about it, and then he might improve on the motion.
[7:33] I'm just not prepared to say that we've covered all of the articles and locations in the zoning ordinance.
[7:39] Okay.
[7:40] So what I would suggest is that we, this was directed by the board to the fast track,
[7:45] so that we move on with that and then follow with the private utilities if necessary.
[7:51] I would like it if when it goes, the board directed this and then we need to send it back to the board to ask them to implement it.
[7:59] No, essentially what we could do is initiate a separate.
[8:01] Okay, so we can initiate that because they have, right?
[8:06] I need to understand the process.
[8:08] What I would like us to know that in the process of looking at this, we're not completely looking at data centers unless we look at private utilities, and y'all have heard me say that 3,000 times.
[8:18] Yeah, I can, I may be looking chat afterwards.
[8:20] Great.
[8:21] I would suggest leaving this one alone.
[8:23] When we revisit private utilities at a separate amendment, if necessary.
[8:28] I have one question under public interest of health safety and welfare of the citizens.
[8:33] Does that include, will this look at water usage, water discharge systems, will that encompass
[8:41] it under health or welfare for data centers?
[8:50] I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to.
[8:53] Well, that's kind of, I think, I think, you know, fuel gas-fired generators and that kind
[9:01] also have pollution. Those are health and health and welfare issues.
[9:05] Yeah, Article 6 is the accessory uses. That's an initiated, potentially covered that way.
[9:11] The accessory uses data centers. Okay. The definition would could cover
[9:17] cooling if that's what we're referring to. Yeah. When we currently say,
[9:20] you have to have these recycled water. I think that has been so much
[9:25] using to the industry because we're cycle water typically has some men that reuse, like
[9:33] from a purple pipe, from coming off of treatment plant, and we don't really have that
[9:38] in bulk here.
[9:40] So it has been tripled by the zoning ministry, or just basically being not potable or groundwater.
[9:44] Okay.
[9:45] Closed lip systems being acceptable.
[9:48] So we could clarify that a little better in the definitions, and then we'll start.
[9:55] Okay.
[9:58] I'm still concerned about the issue.
[10:01] If use of water or use of electricity, all of that is an accessory use?
[10:07] Well, could I suggest that we initiate it? Let us produce something forward to you all.
[10:11] If we don't have it right, we keep working.
[10:15] Sure.
[10:19] Because this is the initiation.
[10:21] We haven't done that level. Now, I don't suspect this will be back in September.
[10:25] we're probably more work to get to ready in October.
[10:28] If we learn through that process that we need to initiate other sections of the code,
[10:34] we can bring that to you.
[10:36] And September is like, hey, we just get something we need to be initiated.
[10:38] We have done that in past efforts.
[10:40] And we could then do that without needing to go back through the board.
[10:44] So the advisors get to get permission for you to work on that.
[10:47] Yeah, we're asking you to give the permission.
[10:49] So we don't need to, the boards aware of this amendment.
[10:52] All right.
[10:52] But in the interest of time, because they didn't have a August immediately, they have suggested that.
[10:58] But the board initiated this amendment.
[11:01] No, you all are being asked to initiate it.
[11:04] The board is aware and has directed staff to see if you all would be willing to initiate it this evening.
[11:10] Okay.
[11:11] And this is just the vote to initiate it.
[11:14] Correct.
[11:14] Correct.
[11:15] We are going to have a document to approve.
[11:17] No, there is a resolution to says.
[11:20] This study says staff start working and we will then start working.
[11:25] We don't have anything to add to it.
[11:26] There's something there's some ideas floating around in our heads, but beyond that, nothing's
[11:31] on paper.
[11:32] We're aware of some of the concerns that the mission has had or where some of the concerns
[11:35] of the community has had, where the concerns of the Board has shared.
[11:39] So we have to take all that from the right into a proposal, bring it back to you all.
[11:44] If you don't have it right, we can either initiate other's articles of the ordinance or
[11:48] sections of the order of the specific or key for working on fighting in the language.
[11:53] Okay, Mr. Chairman, if I may, I'll move that we approve this on the condition that it includes a hard good look at private utilities.
[12:01] Yeah, you don't need to make a question.
[12:03] Just tell us you understand that, but okay.
[12:05] But in terms of closing out, it's hard to come up.
[12:07] Okay, but just, and please correct me, Adam, if I'm wrong.
[12:12] But on one of the initiation, they come into our regular agenda items.
[12:16] If it were something that we were looking at, that would be on public hearing.
[12:21] That's correct.
[12:22] Let's say Code Requires.
[12:23] Thank you.
[12:23] Thank you.
[12:24] Thank you.
[12:28] Okay.
[12:29] That will then take you to your public hearings this evening, which you have to.
[12:33] The first one is the zoning ordinance text amendment to articles 4, 11, 14 and 15.
[12:39] Related to boards, commissions, and committees.
[12:44] In February of 2025, the Board of Supervisors initiated this text amendment in May of 15,
[12:53] May 15, 2025, the Planning Commission held a public hearing.
[12:57] You left that public hearing open.
[13:00] There were two speakers in opposition.
[13:02] Essentially, staff was asked to evaluate various boards, commissions, and committees,
[13:07] and their roles as defined in the zoning ordinance.
[13:10] staff was asked to propose eliminating any of these groups which are not required under the code of Virginia or are not currently providing the defined role which is required by the zoning ordinance.
[13:21] Following review, the proposed amendment removes references to the architectural review board and reassigns those responsibilities to community development staff.
[13:30] And that Falker County does not have any locally designated historic districts were not required to have an ARB.
[13:37] The proposed transfer of responsibilities could be temporary until such time that a historic
[13:43] area district were to be proposed. Further, in the future, the Board of Supervisors wishes
[13:49] to establish a citizen advisory committee, which is focused on preservation or something similar.
[13:55] They certainly could do so under their own guidelines providing a unique mission with adoption
[14:00] of a resolution and in fact that has been discussed but this testimony essentially just removes
[14:08] it from the ordinance there's been no changes since the May draft I'm happy to answer
[14:12] any questions any questions staff what's the opportunity caused of just keeping it as
[14:22] a deal as well we continue to think about it how much how much staff times it is the ARB's
[14:29] systems demanding right now.
[14:32] I think it is, you know, several hours a month, they do meet monthly.
[14:36] This direction is coming from the board, so we are asking for action, so we'll ask that
[14:42] you either make a motion to recommend a approval or it's mine, or table in it, that's another
[14:49] option.
[14:49] That's why.
[14:50] That was just my question.
[14:52] Yes.
[14:52] I do think that there's a little bit more thought.
[14:56] There has been quite a bit of discussion at the board level.
[15:00] And we think that they are the ones that have asked us to re-engage this spring.
[15:05] Yeah, I've been on the ARB as a planned commission.
[15:10] Lea is on, I guess, for since Bob got offices, then I think you're going to ask.
[15:15] And that committee does a lot of good work.
[15:16] If you look at the letters that came in, you can see a list of all the stuff that gets done like that group.
[15:24] So I definitely recommend that.
[15:26] I'm okay with this, getting it out of the zoning ordinance, the ARB, but at the same time I want to suggest that I'll make the B, I'll be glad to make the motion tonight.
[15:40] That we, at the same time, is that that happens, that they re-appoint the cultural characteristics of the advisory committee that will do the same work and then the language would have to be updated and to what exactly with this.
[15:56] Committee does, but I don't want to get rid of the error of being without that, having
[16:05] it basically at the same time.
[16:08] And you could certainly include that in your motion, and we have a pass that along
[16:10] to the board.
[16:12] Any other discussion?
[16:15] Hearing none, living on.
[16:16] Okay, that brings us to the final public hearing item.
[16:19] This evening, rezoning amendment related to Mint Rock, Mr. Schellenberger.
[16:24] Thank you, Ms. Reed.
[16:26] The proposal is to read a reasoning amendment for just over five and a half acres in
[16:30] Midbrook's commercial area.
[16:31] It's in the fields in service district, the commercial office, mixed use land use, as well as
[16:36] as part of the fields in the town center, and designated urban development area.
[16:40] Properties zone mixed use, fields in core, subjects of current, proper statement, code of
[16:45] development, concept of development, play, and originally it proves in April 2012, you know,
[16:51] in several amendments throughout the years.
[16:55] Current entitlements allow for 575 to well units,
[16:59] 400, three of those are in the PRD portion,
[17:02] including attached and detached units, 182 of those have been developed.
[17:07] There is a 100 multifamily, age restricted units within the MUB portions,
[17:12] 80 of those have been developed.
[17:14] They're allowed for 54 single-family attached units,
[17:17] townhomes, and the MUB portion, those have all been developed.
[17:20] And then they're also allowed for 18 residential units of commercial and the MUB portions which have not been developed.
[17:27] Additionally, the crew was allowed for 310,000 square feet of commercial and MUB portions of the project.
[17:33] 8,000 square feet of which has been developed includes RB's Starbucks and then a combined AT&T and DEMSary office.
[17:39] You also have approvals for attached well units in the MUB, hotel in the MUB, commercial uses
[17:46] within a building between 20 and 70,000 square feet, and three drive through facilities.
[17:53] With this request, they're seeking to amend the proper statement, code of development,
[17:57] concept development plan, to accommodate two interstit commercial users, tractor supply,
[18:01] and should pull like they have both determined at mid-broke's to best location and be able to
[18:09] and they contemplated as part of mid-Rex original approvals, and it also then provides for a known timeline as their interested parties
[18:15] versus them continuing to market unknown end users.
[18:22] The most significant change is to deposit the development plan.
[18:25] You see on the screen, the box in yellow and the image on the top is the currently approved CDP.
[18:31] It remains unchanged with the exception of the box on the bottom is an alternative development plan for building A and building B.
[18:39] Building A has been revised a little bit smaller and also allows for outdoor storage and display of sale items.
[18:45] Those are the orange areas on the lower image.
[18:48] Building B has been revised to be a little bit smaller in the company to drive through facility.
[18:54] There's one other change requested to the plan,
[18:57] related to key pedestrian streets.
[18:58] That's the purple dash line on the plan.
[19:01] Currently the ordinance requires for 75% of the first floor uses to be active commercial.
[19:06] It approvals allow for 60% of first-floor commercial if building F is developed as a building
[19:14] E is developed as a hotel.
[19:16] What this request is asking for is 55% of building E as a hotel and building B is the
[19:21] Chipotle Reshup proposed.
[19:24] What that equates to is no act of commercial in those two buildings in 75% in the rest.
[19:29] And that can be approved by the board with the determination that a sufficient act of commercial
[19:33] will be included throughout the rest of the project.
[19:37] The plan also adds buffering details, I was a service buffer area behind building A that's shown on the far right inside of the screen and then a drive through buffer for building B, which is similar to the same traffic buffer that was utilized at the Starbucks at the other end of the project.
[19:56] It also adds to know it's required in the outdoor storage and it's required to be needed.
[20:00] We're literally screened from view, and we need to go for sale and rent, and require it to be the less in the area of the footprint of the building.
[20:10] Who's development has been revised to address the active commercial along keep that street street spent in earlier?
[20:16] It also includes outdoor storage with some standards as mentioned earlier, and then it allows building aid to have less glazing along route 17 and parking lot the sides.
[20:25] It will be less poor mainstream oriented as the other buildings would be and then the proper statement has been modified.
[20:32] I propose we modified to allow for two buildings located on the KBS from Streets as part of the first 70,000 square feet versus the originally required free.
[20:40] And what that was when that was originally drafted, it was assumed that building A would develop early or first in the process with the commercial development around it.
[20:52] filling in, whereas the development patterns we're actually seeing is that the sites along
[20:56] 17 coming first, so that would allow these two to move forward.
[21:01] Any questions I'm happy to answer them?
[21:03] Any questions at this time?
[21:05] I've got a couple more of this, like a little 50-type thing, but Jefferson Boulevard, would that
[21:14] be built kind of at the same time that if this gets passed like this?
[21:19] It is the Jefferson County there, isn't that woke up?
[21:25] Jefferson comes off of Jefferson comes off of 17, doesn't it, Adam?
[21:32] I think this woke up because I looked at the other day.
[21:35] I think that this Jefferson would have said woke up.
[21:38] This plan may show it.
[21:43] So the developments in this series have been constructed
[21:45] and then these areas have been constructed.
[21:47] We're reviewing plans to extend Jefferson right now all the way to the end, so that's under review curve.
[21:55] That person is already in the infirm review not in for construction.
[22:01] Yeah, that needs to go in.
[22:03] I think you told me that that's going to have a left end left end or right end.
[22:10] Left end and left out.
[22:11] Yeah, so that's good because this whole, all of this development can be Starbucks,
[22:17] RBs, and everybody's not having a, not Starbucks.
[22:21] People go out of the way to get the Starbucks, but these other places need that great left
[22:27] in left out.
[22:28] And then just two other, these are more picking questions, but at what point would we ask somebody
[22:36] to look at that parking lot, that parking lot is,
[22:40] We have a lot of ugly big, too big parking lots here and fall here and what can we do
[22:48] to make it the right size for trackers of life and then also the one you go through to
[22:56] politely just kind of go through Starbucks and you go through the job to get your drink
[23:02] and then take a left. Those are tiny, hard to make a left. You can hop on the curve on the
[23:09] to a core.
[23:11] It's not clear.
[23:12] Yeah, that level of detail would come next with the site plan.
[23:17] And that I would just have to tell you all my opinion,
[23:20] and then you all would look at that.
[23:22] Yeah.
[23:23] And we've got a recording here now of your concern.
[23:26] We'll pass that along in the applicants here.
[23:31] And kind of on a side note,
[23:33] we have had conversations with both,
[23:35] It's putty team and the trackers by team very informal and so far so they're looking for better direction from staff before they start really
[23:45] Engineering it and we're kind of waiting to see how this process plays out before we get to detail.
[23:50] Yeah, the right of the way it is right now when you go through the drive through and then you're kind of driving through a parking lot to get out.
[24:00] Maybe it has to be like, I probably don't have to be like that, but just a lot of driving
[24:06] through parking lots, especially like the food on a parking lot, is kind of a, then the
[24:13] big lot since the way that you get to the exits, so you just, yeah, and there is flexibility
[24:20] built into the approvals that would allow some modifications, and as the commercial streets
[24:26] or probably on the main team, we have some flexibility
[24:29] that we don't typically have with V-Doc regulations.
[24:33] Any other questions, just that?
[24:35] It's just point.
[24:36] I want our two.
[24:37] Kind of to Matthew's point about the parking.
[24:42] The parking lot in yellow, that is intended to serve building A,
[24:47] building B, building C, correct all three?
[24:49] Yes, and it's not that specific.
[24:54] It's served the whole development.
[24:55] Okay, so it's not used by users for the whole development
[25:01] There's reductions, approves, part of the previous approval is to allow for, because of the walkability and shared uses and things like that.
[25:11] The parking is primarily based on a 55,000 square foot building, and we're proposing about a 25, so yeah, there's probably some ability to
[25:22] So we can certainly work with the advocacy team on that.
[25:26] One of the things, excuse me, when I was reviewing this,
[25:30] and to Matthew's point about just the angles and the turns
[25:35] and the difficulty getting in and out of, you know,
[25:39] this parking lot as well as the food line, plaza, across the street.
[25:44] What about where the purple intersects?
[25:47] see there's a traffic circle or peers to be a traffic
[25:49] intended traffic circle for building
[25:51] e the future hotel.
[25:54] What about if what a traffic circle
[25:56] work where those two roads come together and I apologize,
[26:01] I can't read.
[26:05] It's probably not necessary, and it's not really
[26:08] shown on this plan super clearly.
[26:15] But this is an outdoor plaza, green space.
[26:20] probably really more hard-skate as well as this area here.
[26:24] So directly across one another, okay?
[26:26] Yeah, and then we have had discussions with the hotel here.
[26:30] That isn't a traffic circle, that's more of the port co-share that was really
[26:33] conceptually to those on.
[26:35] So, for the drop-off, I don't know that the traffic circle you start pushing
[26:40] buildings back and further away and you really want them close to the street and close to
[26:44] sidewalk in this instance, and particularly with the plazas you want them to relate to the buildings
[26:52] and through the sidewalks, but the modification to the internal circulation in that yellow box
[27:00] or the box below it and making sure the drive-through functions appropriately can all be done.
[27:07] This was done as more of a high level conceptual to show that it can fit once the two end users
[27:14] engineers get involved with those details because they all have their own specs.
[27:19] And then just a question since you've got Route 17, this piece of butts right up to Route 17, what will be the orientation of tractor supply?
[27:31] Will the front of the store be facing the parking lot or facing Route 17?
[27:35] What's facing the parking lot? Okay. Okay. Yeah, this was maybe this third iteration of the commercial center. Okay, and we'll let the second one
[27:49] That building move there and the thought was that if you have its face along 17 or the side along 17, that can be dressed up in kind of
[27:59] act as a identifying feature versus before is kind of buried in the back. So I think that
[28:05] that does help to get some of the urban feel that's looked for in the company.
[28:09] So then when we get the site plan design that's I just have concerns that the side of the building
[28:17] that's going to be facing 17 not become like the storage yard, the, okay, this bottom pitcher.
[28:26] Yes. That's the side that would face 17.
[28:28] conceptually and then the orange is clearly internal and those were discussions we had early on with the epicotemus
[28:36] Things that staff thought was important and assumed you all dead too. Yeah. Thank you. That's all. Any other questions?
[28:44] I've got a comment of
[28:47] Marshall District and
[28:49] Center District had the luxury of having attracted to the people in lead district going to see the
[28:56] joining Zeter Run would also like to have that same luxury so I would appreciate your support
[29:03] on this plus we lost our A's hardware in Beald and we lost our farmers co-op in Marsville
[29:11] which five miles down the road. So tractor supplies truly needed. I have heard from some
[29:18] people that they would like to not have to collect a call pepper or to warrant and for some
[29:23] I think it's a good, it's a good design and thank you for getting some of those questions answered in advance.
[29:30] Yeah, thank you.
[29:32] Moving on, there's me.
[29:33] Yes, that brings you to Commissioner's time and I do have some announcements.
[29:40] The board did not have a meeting in August, so there's nothing to report there.
[29:44] If you have not heard the Remington Digital Campus application,
[29:48] I'm also known previously as Giga Land with Drew their application last week, so that will not be going to the board.
[29:57] And then you have a light agenda today, but you have a...
[30:01] The family day home text amendment, we will be bringing that back to you. And the Scott District, there is Port Rush Energy Center, a comprehensive plan, compliance review for a battery storage facility.
[30:14] In the Marshall District, there is Marshall Station, two special exceptions, two category
[30:22] 13 special exceptions to allow two drive-through facilities in conjunction with proposed fast food
[30:29] eating establishments. This is at the 711 Holtzman in Marshall. We do not know the end users.
[30:37] In the Marshall District also, the Vietnam Buddhist Meditation Center at Category 6,
[30:44] special permit for a minor place of worship,
[30:49] and the lead district is waterlings pet
[30:53] aquimation. It's a category two special permit for an intimate use. This is
[31:01] creamatorium for animals. Is that a district? Is that a ultimate book form? Yes, sir. We've
[31:09] been working with this group. They've been working at this for a while with WSAM staff.
[31:13] And that was a special exception, a special permit,
[31:19] and then two data center applications,
[31:22] convergent data centers in the lead district, as well as remintant innovation campus in the lead district.
[31:31] And that concludes my announcements.
[31:35] Commissioner's time. Anything for Commissioner's time? You don't have?
[31:40] No, thank you. You just want to make the announcement that you don't want to.
[31:43] Oh, yes, pardon me. I will not be able to attend the evening's meeting, so I will be absent.
[31:50] All right. Thank you. Matthew. No, sir. Thank you. Thank you all for attending.
[31:56] Nice gentleman. Last time there is any other business to come before this commission, we are adjourned.
[31:59] Thank you.