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IS IT ON WHEELS OR, I JUST THOUGHT IT'S LIKE WE HAD A MEETING, YOU KNOW, AND IT, LIKE, IT WAS FLIPPED AROUND AND OUR TRAIN FLIPPED AROUND AND I WAS LOOKING, I WAS SITTING, SOMETHING TOOK ME THE LONGEST TIME TO REALIZE WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
SO I DIDN'T REALIZE, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I AM MR. MYERS AND I DON'T, NO.
I DROVE HIS CAR MORNING, SO HE'S GOT COME, HE'LL BE HERE.
DID YOU WANT TO SEE PAUL? NO, I JUST WANT HIM TO GET THAT.
SHOULD I GO SIT OVER HERE? AREN'T YOU STARTING ALL THE TIME? NO, IT'S JANE.
THANKS FOR AN INTERESTING MEETING.
SO, OF COURSE, I THINK IT WAS, AND THEN, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, SO THEY, WELL, GOOD EVENING.
WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR TAKING THEIR TIME, UH, TO COME OUT HERE TONIGHT TO THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE SMALL AREA PLAN.
UH, MY NAME IS VICTOR CARPENTER.
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OH, MR. DUKE.UM, MR. UH, MS. LASETTE AND, UH, MR. LUMPKINS ARE HERE FROM THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
UH, I WANNA INTRODUCE, UH, DEPUTY COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, CRYSTAL OTUS, WHO WILL, UH, START US OFF.
AND APOLOGIES FOR MR. CARPENTER.
HE'S A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER, SO HE, UH, BUTCHERED ANY NAMES.
I'M GONNA TURN THAT OFF AND THEN GET SOME HANDS SANITIZER.
UM, BEFORE I START, I WANT TO FIRST OFF, WELCOME YOU ALL.
I'M GLAD EVERYONE CAME OUT THIS EVENING.
UM, IN CASE YOU MISSED IT OUT FRONT, WE HAVE A FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GLAND'S PROPOSED SMALL AREA PLANS FOR COURTHOUSE VILLAGE IN CENTERVILLE.
SO IT'S JUST A QUICK DOWN AND DIRTY FIVE THINGS AS TAKEAWAYS, JUST COVERING, UM, WHAT THESE PLANS MEAN AND WHAT WENT INTO THE PROCESS.
SO I HOPE YOU'LL GRAB ONE AND I HOPE EVERYONE SIGNED IN.
AND IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK AND HAVE A QUESTION AT THE END, WE HOPE YOU SIGNED UP AS WELL.
IF NOT, WE'LL ALWAYS GO AROUND, UM, AT THE END FOR OPEN QUESTIONS.
SO, ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, AGAIN, WE'VE GONE OVER OUR WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION.
UM, I WILL GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THINGS, UM, AND THEN WE WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHUCK RAPP FROM TIM'S GROUP.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THE OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT WILL BE SOMETHING WE COVER, AS WELL AS THE NEXT STEPS FOR THE PROPOSED SMALL AREA PLANS.
YOU WILL HAVE A PRESENTATION, AS I MENTIONED, AND WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATION ON THESE PROPOSED PLANS.
SO THE PURPOSE OF OUR MEETING THIS EVENING WITH YOU ALL IS REALLY SHARING THE PROPOSED COURTHOUSE VILLAGE PLAN AND HOW THE PLANS CAN BE USED TO GUIDE ZONING IN THE FUTURE AND PLAN, PLAN FOR GROWTH THAT FITS GOOCHLAND AND IS REFLECTIVE OF OUR VALUES.
SO BY DOING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT HOW WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH ALL OF THE PUBLIC INPUT AND PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALL AS THE PUBLIC TO BE INFORMED AHEAD OF THE UPCOMING PUBLIC HEARINGS.
SO, WHERE HAVE WE BEEN IN THIS PROCESS? IT'S BEEN A LONG PROCESS.
THERE'S A LOT ON THAT SCREEN CUZ IT'S BEEN A LONG PROCESS.
SO IT'S BEEN WELL OVER A YEAR, ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF.
THAT'S WHY I'M DEPUTY COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, NOT FINANCE DIRECTOR.
UM, WE BEGAN IN FEBRUARY, 2022 WITH A KICKOFF IN PUBLIC OUTREACH.
AGAIN, WE STARTED WITH COMMUNITY MEETINGS BACK IN FEBRUARY, 2022, AND WE'RE HAVING ONE THIS EVENING.
UM, THERE'S BEEN A TOTAL OF FIVE MEETINGS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL SMALL AREA THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.
UM, WE'VE HAD ROUND TABLES, WE'VE HAD A COMMUNITY-WIDE SURVEY THAT WAS ACTIVE FOR FOUR MONTHS.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT THEM.
THEY CAME OUT, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AROUND THANKSGIVING WASN'T QUITE A HIT.
SO, YOU KNOW, UM, WE TOOK SOME TIME BETWEEN NOVEMBER AND UM, FEBRUARY AS WELL AS, UM, IN JANUARY TO MEET WITH PROPERTY OWNERS AND STAKEHOLDERS AND REALLY ASSESSED ALSO THE FEEDBACK FROM THAT AS WELL AS OUR ONLINE COMMENT PERIOD.
BECAUSE WE RECEIVED HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF ONLINE COMMENTS.
BASICALLY, WE WERE MISSING THE MARK.
SO AS PART OF THAT, WE, UH, TOOK A STEP BACK AND WANTED TO BE VERY INTENTIONAL IN HOW WE HIGHLIGHTED PUBLIC FEEDBACK AND GENERAL CONCEPTS AND SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR WHAT CAN BECOME A REGULATING PLAN FOR GLAND COUNTY.
SO, AGAIN, FOSTERING SOMETHING THAT'S FLEXIBLE, THAT REFLECTS PUBLIC INPUT AND OUR COMMUNITY VALUES, WHICH IS NOT WHERE WE INITIALLY STARTED WITH THAT DRAFT IN NOVEMBER.
SO I HOPE YOU'LL FIND THAT TONIGHT.
AND, AND HERE'S WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES WITH OUR, UH, PROPOSED PLANS BEING MADE PUBLIC.
SO OUR GOAL WITH THESE PLANS IS TO USE THE PUBLIC INPUT THAT WE'VE RECEIVED TO DATE TO CREATE PUBLIC VALUE.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS ARE GOOD SERVICES OPPORTUNITIES, UM, INVESTMENTS BY PUBLIC DOLLARS THAT BENEFIT YOU ALL AS A COMMUNITY, UM, TO BE REFLECTIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE OF GOLAND AS A WHOLE.
AND REALISTIC AND RELATIVE PLANS THAT FOSTER THAT INTENTIONAL AND THOUGHTFUL GROWTH, NOT JUST SPRAWL OR NOT JUST EVERY ONE-OFF APPLICATION COMING IN AS PART OF A PLANNING PROCESS.
UM, AND REALLY FOCUSING ON HOW WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT PRESERVATION, BECAUSE THAT IS ONE OF THE CORE VALUES OF, YOU KNOW, 85% OF THE COUNTY REMAINING RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL.
SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT SOME NEXT STEPS LOOKING AHEAD, WE HAVE THIS COMING WEEK.
WE WILL HAVE OUR PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARINGS.
I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO COME OUT FOR THOSE.
THOSE ARE ON MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.
AND THEN IN JUNE, WE WILL HAVE OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISOR PUBLIC HEARINGS, AND THAT'S THE MIDDLE OF JUNE.
AND SO I WILL NOTE THAT IF ADOPTED, AGAIN, IF ADOPTED THESE PROPOSED PLANS, STAFF WILL WORK IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS AFTER JUNE.
IT WILL TAKE, YOU KNOW, MONTHS TO DEVELOP PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE, AMENDMENTS AND DESIGN GUIDELINES THAT WILL BE REFLECTIVE OF THESE SMALL AREA PLANS.
AND AGAIN, I DO ENCOURAGE YOU ALL
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TO LOOK AT THE FIVE, UM, THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT OUR PLANS.AND NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHUCK RAPP WITH TIM'S GROUP TO FOCUS ON MORE WHAT'S IN THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE PLAN.
UH, I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME THIS EVENING TO COME AND, UH, SHARE, SHARE US, UH, UH, SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THESE DRAFT PLANS.
ALLOW ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THESE TO YOU AND HOPEFULLY ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS, PROVIDE SOME CLARITY.
AND, UH, WITH THAT WE'LL DIVE IN.
UM, SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TONIGHT'S AGENDA.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR TEAM THAT WE HAVE HERE, TIM'S GROUP AND THE TEAM THAT'S BEEN WORKING ON THESE PLANS AND SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE'VE BROUGHT TO THIS, UH, TO THIS EFFORT.
WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR OBJECTIVE WITH THESE SMALL AREA PLANS, WHAT WE'RE HOPING TO ACHIEVE, UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE DID ALSO WAS CREATE AN INTRODUCTION TO SMALL AREA PLANS AS A CHAPTER THAT COULD RELATE TO, TO THIS PLAN, AS WELL AS THE CENTERVILLE SMALL AREA PLAN, AND THEN ANY FUTURE SMALL AREA PLANS THAT THE COUNTY MIGHT WANNA PURSUE.
THEN WE'LL DIVE INTO THE DETAILS OF THE COURTHOUSE, UH, VILLAGE PLAN, AND THEN WE'LL PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS, UH, AND HOPEFULLY HAVE SOME GOOD DISCUSSION AFTERWARDS.
SO WITH THAT, UH, MY NAME'S CHUCK RAPP.
I'M A SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER WITH TIM'S GROUP.
I'VE BEEN IN THE PLANNING FIELD IN THIS REGION, UH, BOTH ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR SIDE AS WELL AS THE PRIVATE SECTOR SIDE FOR, FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS NOW.
UM, AT TIM'S GROUP, WE'RE, WE'RE A MULTIDISCIPLINE FIRM.
WE HAVE CIVIL ENGINEERS, WE HAVE TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS, WE HAVE URBAN PLANNERS, WE HAVE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, WE HAVE GIS SPECIALISTS.
SO WE ARE ABLE TO PULL FROM THAT, UH, THE VARIETY OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND EXPERTISE TO REALLY MAKE SURE WE COULD TOUCH ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS THAT WE WANTED TO HIT THROUGHOUT THIS PLAN.
UH, IT, IT, WE ARE A FIRM THAT HAS OUR HEADQUARTERS IN RICHMOND.
WE HAVE MULTIPLE OFFICES IN THIS AREA.
WE HAVE OFFICES ALSO IN CHARLOTTESVILLE AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA, VIRGINIA BEACH.
SO REALLY, WE, WE, WE, WE'VE BEEN DEEPLY ROOTED IN THIS REGION THROUGHOUT THE STATE, UH, FOR, FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW, UH, AND REALLY HAVE HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH GLAND COUNTY AS WELL AS OTHER LOCALITIES IN THIS AREA, VERY SPECIFIC WITH LAND USE LAW, UM, AND LAND USE, UH, REGULATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN, IN THIS REGION AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
AS I WAS TOUCHED ON EARLIER, JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS TIMELINE.
SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE A WHILE.
THERE'S ABOUT A YEAR SPENT REALLY IN THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT SIDE OF THINGS, UH, PRIOR TO US COMING ON BOARD AND, AND, AND WE, WE CERTAINLY SPENT OUR FUSE FIRST.
SO, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THIS STARTED BACK IN FEBRUARY 22.
UM, AND, AND THEN WENT ON A YEAR.
WE CAME IN AROUND THE MARCH TIMEFRAME.
AND WE REALLY SPENT THAT FIRST MONTH JUST READING THROUGH ALL OF THE PUBLIC INPUT, WATCHING THE VIDEOS, TALKING WITH STAFF, TRYING TO GET A GOOD HANDLE ON EVERYTHING THAT WAS EXPRESSED, UH, WHERE THINGS MIGHT HAVE GONE WRONG, TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD THE ABILITY TO, TO HOPEFULLY ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS AND THAT THIS FINAL DRAFT PLAN AND REFLECTED WHAT WAS EXPRESSED THROUGHOUT THAT PUBLIC INPUT PERIOD.
CAUSE WE REALLY WANT THIS TO BE A PLAN THAT, THAT THAT REFLECTS THE VALUES AND THE GOALS OF, UH, THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE AREA.
SO WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT OUR APPROACH, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE REALLY WANNA DO, WHICH WE THINK IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE INITIAL DRAFTS, IS TO ESTABLISH A, A CLEAR PLAN STRUCTURE.
WE WANT THIS PLAN TO BE NAVIGATABLE FOR ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO READ IT CLEARLY, SEE THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS.
SO, SO WE HAVE SPECIFIC CHAPTERS, SUB CHAPTERS UNDERNEATH IT.
SO THE TYPICAL THINGS YOU WOULD SEE IN A LONG RANGE PLAN, UM, AND, AND BROKEN APART.
SO IT'S EASY TO FIND THE INFORMATION YOU'RE INTERESTED IN.
IF YOU'RE JUST INTERESTED IN TRANSPORTATION, YOU CAN GO TO THAT CHAPTER.
SO WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS JUST A, A, A, A BRIEF SNAPSHOT OF OUR TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS PARTICULAR PLAN.
WE WANTED TO REALLY ARTICULATE THE VISION, UH, FROM ALL THE PUBLIC INPUT THAT WE HEARD.
SO YOU SEE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF OUR PLAN THAT WE'LL GET INTO, WE TALK ABOUT SOME, SOME, SOME VISION STATEMENTS.
UH, AND HOPEFULLY THAT GUIDES THE PLANNING WORK THAT WE DID OVER THE, OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
AND IT'S REFLECTED IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE PLAN.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE ALSO WANNA DO IS CLICK CLEAR AND, AND CONSISTENT GRAPHICS.
UH, SO, SO YOU'LL SEE REPEATED MAPS THAT, THAT CLEARLY ORIENT YOURSELF WITH LANDMARKS, KEY ROADWAYS, SO THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT ONE OF THESE MAPS, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT AWAY.
UM, AND THEN ANYTIME WE COULD, WE WANNA USE INFOGRAPHICS OR CHARTS OR, OR OTHER THINGS TO TRY AND, AND, AND GET AWAY FROM THE LONG NARRATIVE.
AND SO RATHER THAN SPEND THREE OR FOUR PAGES OF TEXT DESCRIBING SOMETHING, IF WE CAN EXPLAIN IT, SOME BULLET POINTS OR A GRAPHIC OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE'VE TRIED TO DO THAT THROUGHOUT THESE PLANS.
UH, AND THEN LAST, WE REALLY JUST WANTED THIS TO BE RELEVANT AND APPLICABLE TO GLAND COUNTY.
WE WANT THIS TO REFLECT GLAND COUNTY AND BE SOMETHING THAT IT CAN ACTUALLY BE OBTAINED.
SO IF IT'S UNREALISTIC, WE TRY TO KEEP IT OUTTA THIS PLAN.
UH, I'D LOVE TO TAKE A SECOND JUST TO TALK ABOUT KINDA SMALL AREA PLANS AND WHAT THEIR PURPOSE IS, WHAT THEY AREN'T.
UM, AND SO, SO ANY LONG-RANGE PLAN IS REALLY A 10 TO 20 YEAR VISION.
YOU'RE LOOKING OUT FAR IN, IN THE FUTURE, AND YOU'RE TRYING TO, TO, TO GUIDE THE, THE, UM, WHETHER IT'S GROWTH OR JUST EVOLUTION OF AN AREA OVER TIME, AND YOU WANT IT TO REFLECT THAT.
SO IT'S NOT AN IMMEDIATE, IT'S A LONG TERM, IT'S A SLOWER PROCESS.
THERE'S A LOT OF STEPS THROUGHOUT THAT THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE, UH, ACCOMPLISHED OR TAKEN ON TO GET TO THAT POINT.
UH, IT'S USUALLY USED AS A GUIDE FOR REZONINGS OR OTHER INVESTMENT DECISIONS.
SO YOU CAN REFER TO THIS, IT, IT, IT'S NOT A, A LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT, BUT IT DOES PROVIDE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO HOPEFULLY PROVIDE THAT ROADMAP OR THAT GUIDE WHEN DIFFICULT DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE, AS DEVELOPMENTS MIGHT COME FORWARD, OR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS OR THINGS LIKE THAT ARE IDENTIFIED.
WHAT IS NOT IS, IS A ZONING CHANGE.
IT DOES NOT CHANGE CHANGE BY RIDE ZONING ON A PROPERTY.
IT DOESN'T CHANGE WHAT YOU CAN DO ON A PROPERTY AS IT SITS.
AGAIN, IT IS JUST A VISION, IT'S A GUIDE, IT'S A RECOMMENDATION.
IT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING ON A PROPERTY AT ALL.
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TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS OF A REZONING TO DO ANY OF THE THINGS IN THIS PLAN, UM, OR GO THROUGH A, YOU KNOW, IN A FUNDING MECHANISM TO TRY AND FUND ANY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS LISTED HERE.BUT IT IS JUST AN IDEA TO TRY AND CAPTURE THAT VISION SO THAT THERE IS AT LEAST SOMETHING THAT THAT IS AGREED UPON AS A COMMUNITY AS TO WHAT YOU WANNA DO MOVING FORWARD.
UH, WHAT WE DO FOCUS ON IS THE, THE, THE CHARACTER IN THE, THE FORM OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, THE NATURAL RESOURCES THAT YOU MAY WANNA PROTECT HERE.
AND REALLY TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE CHARACTER, UH, OF THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE 10 TO 20 YEARS FROM NOW.
WHAT ASPECTS DO WE LIKE NOW? AND, AND HOW YOU WANT TO WANNA PRESERVE THAT OR ENHANCE THAT IN THE FUTURE.
UM, WE TRY TO ALSO ALIGN THIS WITH ANY FUTURE INVESTMENT OR DEVELOPMENT SO THAT, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND INVESTMENTS WITH THE COUNTY CAN KEEP PACE WITH DEVELOPMENT SO THAT, UH, THINGS HAPPEN IN, IN A, IN A GRADUAL PROCESS.
SO THAT, THAT AS DEVELOPMENTS COME AND MAYBE YOU NEED MORE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THIS MIGHT NEED TO GO, AND YOU CAN REALLY PLAN TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.
AND THEN LAST, REALLY TRY TO ENCOURAGE EFFICIENT USE OF, OF EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN LAND SO THAT, WHERE YOU HAVE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, THE ROADWAYS, OTHER INVESTMENTS, WE WANT TO, WE WANT TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE, UH, USING THAT AREA RATHER THAN SPRAWLING OUT.
AND THAT, THAT ALLOWS YOU TO CAPITALIZE ON THAT EXISTING INVESTMENT AS WELL.
AND, AND REALLY PRESERVE THE REMAINDER OF THE COUNTY, WHICH IS, I BELIEVE IS WHY MANY OF Y'ALL LIVE IN GLAND COUNTY.
WE WANNA PRESERVE THAT RURAL ASPECT, UH, AND, AND, AND KEEP, UH, DEVELOPMENT FROM JUST ENCROACHING AND SPRAWLING OUT.
SO I'LL GO THROUGH A FEW SLIDES HERE THAT SHOW THIS INTRODUCTION.
AND, AND, AND THIS IS, AS I MENTIONED, UH, JUST KIND OF STARTS TO, TO, TO PUT SOME CONTEXT INTO GLAND COUNTY, UH, AND SOME OF THE INFORMATION, UH, TO, TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND INTO THE, THE TWO AREA PLANS IN, IN PARTICULAR, UH, COURTHOUSE VILLAGE WE'LL SPEAK ABOUT.
SO THIS IS JUST A REGIONAL CONTEXT MAP.
WE JUST REALLY WANTED TO SHOW HERE WITH, WITH THIS, UH, WHERE IS, IS GLAND COUNTY IN RELATION TO THE REGION.
SO YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, CHARLOTTESVILLE TO THE NORTHWEST, YOU HAVE RICHMOND TO THE SOUTHEAST, YOU HAVE SOME OF THE MAJOR TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS, AND IT ALSO SHOWS WHERE THE TWO, UH, SMALL AREA PLAN BOUNDARIES ARE WITHIN THE COUNTY TO SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COUNTY, THE REGION, AND ALL OF THAT.
UH, ONE THING WE LOOKED AT WAS TRANSPORTATION PATTERNS.
SO JUST WANTED TO, TO, TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT AS TO WH WHERE COMMUTERS WERE, WERE COMING IN AND OUT OF THE COUNTY, UH, ESPECIALLY IN HOW THEY RELATE TO THE TWO VILLAGES.
AND YOU CAN SEE THERE'S PREDOMINANTLY A LOT OF TRAFFIC TO THE EAST WITH THE RICHMOND AREA, UH, COMING IN.
A LOT MORE TRAFFIC TOWARDS THE, THE CENTERVILLE AREA FOR SURE, WITH A LOT OF THE EMPLOYERS THERE AND THINGS THAT YOU HAVE.
AND THEN SOME OF THE SMALLER CORRIDORS IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.
UH, FEEDING THE OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTY ALSO TOOK A LOOK AT EMPLOYMENT CENTERS, YOU KNOW, WHERE SOME OF THE MAJOR EMPLOYERS AND, AND I THINK THIS, THIS REALLY HELPS TO HIGHLIGHT HOW WE APPROACH THESE TWO, UH, AREAS DIFFERENTLY.
SO YOU HAVE CENTERVILLE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF OF MAJOR EMPLOYERS THERE, A LOT OF PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYERS.
UH, WHEREAS IN THE COURTHOUSE AREA, A LOT, A LOT OF PUBLIC SERVICES.
UH, SO YOU HAVE THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS, YOU HAVE THE SCHOOL BOARD, SCHOOL BOARD BUILDINGS, YOU HAVE THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, YOU HAVE THE, THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF, IT'S A DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPE OF USE THAT WE WANT TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE, WHEN WE'RE DOING THIS LONG-RANGE PLAN.
ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT HERE WERE THE COMMUNITY GOALS.
SO WE, WE WANTED TO TRY AND LOOK THROUGH ALL THE COMMUNITY INPUT THAT WE HEARD AND TRY AND GET SOME TAKEAWAYS, UH, THAT SEEMED TO BE REPEATING, UH, THROUGH ALL THE DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD HEARD, UH, FROM THE INPUT UP TO DATE.
AND SO WE REALLY CAME TO THESE FOUR BULLET POINTS, WHICH, WHICH WE HOPE CAPTURE A LOT OF THE INPUT THAT WAS HEARD.
AND IT WAS THIS DESIRE TO PROMOTE SMALL BUSINESS, UH, ESPECIALLY PARTICULARLY IN, IN THE, IN THE, THE VILLAGE CORE HERE IN COURTHOUSE VILLAGE, UH, UH, DESIRE TO ENSURE THAT THE BUILT FORM, SO, SO BUILDING FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, UH, IS CONTEXTUALLY APPROPRIATE WITH THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT THAT'S ALREADY HERE, ESPECIALLY WITH, WITH SOME OF THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S OF APPROPRIATE SCALE, UH, AND FITS THE, THE STYLE HERE, UH, IN EACH VILLAGE, WHICH IS DIFFERENT IN EACH VILLAGE.
UM, AND REFLECTS THAT IN THESE PLANS THERE'S A STRONG DESIRE TO HAVE WALKABLE PUBLIC SPACES.
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SIDEWALKS, UH, PUBLIC SPACES FOR, FOR, MAYBE IT'S A PLAZA OR, OR GREENWAY CONNECTIVITY.
UM, AND, AND REALLY MULTIMODAL KIND OF TRANSPORTATION ELEMENTS THROUGHOUT THESE PLANS.
THE LAST ONE THING THAT WE WAS DEFINITELY, UH, PROBABLY THE MOST PROMINENT, UH, FEEDBACK THAT WE HEARD WAS THIS DESIRE TO, TO, UH, ENSURE THAT WE PRESERVE THE COMMUNITY CHARACTER OF GUCCI COUNTY IN THIS AREA.
SO WE TRIED TO LOOK FOR WAYS THAT WE CAN BRING THAT INTO SOME OF THAT.
SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGH, THROUGH, UH, BUILDING DESIGN, DESIGN GUIDELINES, THINGS LIKE THAT, AND HOW CAN WE ENSURE THAT THAT, UH, IS NOT LOST OVER TIME.
SO WITH THAT, UH, WE'LL GO INTO THE SPECIFICS OF THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE PLAN HERE AND TALK TO THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THERE.
SO, AS I MENTIONED, WE WANTED TO START OFF RIGHT AWAY WITH IDENTIFYING SOME VISION ELEMENTS OR SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT THAT, THAT, THAT WE FOCUSED ON THROUGHOUT THIS.
AND, AND YOU'LL SEE THE VERY FIRST ONE THERE IS, IS I THINK, UH, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THE HISTORIC FA UH, FABRIC OF, OF THE COURTHOUSE VILLAGE AREA.
SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE INSTITUTIONAL HEART OF GLAND COUNTY.
YOU HAVE THE COURTHOUSE HERE, YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE OLD HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
UH, AND SO THAT NEEDED TO REALLY BE A, A DRIVING FACTOR IN SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE HERE.
AND YOU'LL SEE THAT HOPEFULLY IN SOME OF OUR LAND USE RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, ECONOMIC VITALITY, WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT, THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH HERE, UH, AND OPPORTUNITIES, UH, TO, TO PROMOTE THAT, UH, THROUGH ADDITIONAL USES OR ADAPTIVE OVERUSE OF EXISTING BUILDINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT WHEN, AS I MENTIONED
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EARLIER, WHEN I HAVE WELL PLANNED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES, WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT KEEPS PACE WITH, WITH ANY TYPE OF GROWTH, UH, AND THAT YOU HAVE EFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EXISTING RESIDENTS AND ANY FUTURE RESIDENTS AS WELL.UM, AS MENTIONED, A MIXED USE OF WALKABLE VILLAGE, SO SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITIES WITH GREENWAYS AND, AND OTHER ELEMENTS AND SIDEWALKS AND TRAILS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO, TO REALLY PROMOTE THAT, THAT MULTIMODAL COMPONENT TO THIS, AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S MULTIPLE WAYS TO GET AROUND, UH, TO COMMUNITY CENTERS AND OTHER ELEMENTS.
AND LAST, THE RESOURCE PROTECTION AND GROWTH ABSORPTION.
UH, YOU HAVE SOME, SOME GREAT STREAM CORRIDORS HERE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE PROTECT THAT, THE, THOSE NATURAL RESOURCES HERE AS WELL AS THE HISTORIC RESOURCES.
YOU'LL SEE WE HAVE SOME COMPONENTS IN HERE TO TALK ABOUT HISTORIC RESOURCES AND HOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION OPTIONS.
UH, AND AS I MENTIONED, THE ABILITY TO, TO REALLY CONCENTRATE SOME GROWTH HERE SO THAT IT DOES PROTECT THE RURAL ASPECTS IN THE RURAL AREA OF THE COUNTY.
SO WITH THAT, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A MAP.
I JUST WANNA SHOW KIND OF AN EXISTING BASE MAP THAT YOU'LL SEE.
AND AS WE DO GO THROUGH EACH TOPIC, WE, WE OVERLAY THE ELEMENTS OF THAT TOPIC ON THIS MAP.
AND SO THIS MAP, UH, HAS AN ATTEMPT TO, TO TO REALLY IDENTIFY, YOU KNOW, THE MAJOR ROADS, SO THEY, THEY POP OUT AT YOU AND SOME OF THE MAJOR FEATURES OF THE AREA HERE.
UM, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE AN AREA MARKED TO THE, TO THE WEST THERE, UH, CALLED A RURAL ENHANCEMENT AREA.
AND SO WE, WE TRIED TO ALIGN THE BOUNDARY, UH, OF THIS DRAFT, UH, VILLAGE PLAN HERE WITH, WITH THE EXISTING, THE ADOPTED TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND MASS AND MASTER UTILITIES PLAN WITH WHERE THOSE SERVICES ARE PLANNED.
SO RECOGNIZING THAT THAT AREA, UM, COULD BE EXAMINED IN A FUTURE ELEMENT, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY WHERE THINGS ARE PLANNED RIGHT NOW.
SO WE DIDN'T WANNA EXTEND THIS VILLAGE BOUNDARY INTO THAT AREA.
SO TRANSPORTATION, THERE'S A HEAVY CONNECTION BETWEEN TRANSPORTATION AND LAND USE.
YOU WANNA ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO GO WITH THE LAND USES THAT MAY COME IN THE FUTURE.
UH, AND SO, SO WE LOOKED AT, UH, HERE WE HAVE OURT STREETS, LOCAL STREETS.
WE DID AN INVENTORY OF ALL THE SIDEWALKS, UH, AND TRAILS THROUGHOUT HERE JUST TO START TO KIND OF GET THAT BENCHMARK, THAT BASE, UH, BASE MAP TO BUILD OFF OF.
AND THEN WITH THAT, WE GO INTO THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF STREET TYPOLOGIES, AND THESE ARE ALIGNED WITH VDOT.
UH, VDOT HAS STREET TYPOLOGIES THAT MATCH.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GO WITH HERE.
UM, AND YOU REALLY HAVE TWO TYPES HERE.
YOU HAVE ARTERIALS IN LOCAL STREET.
SO WE, WE DID, WE HAVE A STREET SECTION HERE AND WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON THAT OF, OF THE TYPES OF THINGS YOU WANT TO HAVE WITH THE LOCAL STREET.
UM, AND I'LL SAY, SO ALL OF THE ROADS SHOWN HERE ON THIS MAP THAT DO DEFER FROM THE PRIOR CONSULTANT.
THESE, THE, THESE, THESE ROADS HERE ARE EITHER EXISTING OR APPROVED AS PART OF A DEVELOPMENT ALREADY.
SO NOTHING HERE IS A PROPOSED ROAD.
UM, THEY ARE, THEY'RE ALREADY PART OF, PART OF A PLAN THAT'S BEEN ADOPTED, UH, OR IT'S BEEN APPROVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
SO, UH, THE IDEA WOULD BE, WOULD BE TO ASSUME THAT EVENTUALLY THAT WILL COME TO FRUITION ONE DAY.
UM, O OTHER ROADS THAT YOU'LL SEE, WE ALSO SHOW THAT ARE EITHER PART OF THE COUNTY'S ADOPTED TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
SO WE'RE NOT PROPOSING ANY NEW MAJOR THINGS HERE.
WE WORKED WITH COUNTY STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE MATCH THAT.
UM, AND SO THIS, THE, THE IDEA HERE IS YOU HAVE A STREET SECTION THAT, THAT COULD HOPEFULLY BE USED AS A GUIDE, MAYBE WHEN A DEVELOPMENT COMES FORTH, UH, FORWARD SO THAT YOU CAN, UH, TRY TO GET THINGS LIKE SIDEWALKS, UH, OR, OR MAYBE SOME STREET TREES ON THE BACK OF THE SIDEWALK.
AND SO YOU KIND OF KNOW WHAT THINGS TO HOPEFULLY EXPECT, UH, AND ASK OF A, OF A DEVELOPMENT, UM, OR IF THERE'S A FUNDING OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE A ROADWAY AS WELL.
ARTERIAL STREETS ARE THERE OTHER THAN ONE.
UH, SO YOU HAVE RIVER ROAD, YOU HAVE FAIRGROUND, AND YOU HAVE, UH, SANDY HOOK.
AND, AND MOST THESE ARE REALLY JUST TWO-LANE ROADS IN THE, IN THE VILLAGE HERE.
UH, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU MAY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO A MULTI-USE PATH, SO TO KIND OF GET THAT MULTI-MODAL ELEMENT ON, ON THE SIDE IF YOU DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR A BIKE LANE.
SO WE WANTED TO INCORPORATE THAT HERE AND SHOW THAT, UM, IN SIDEWALKS AS WELL ON THE OTHER SIDE ALONG THAT, THAT, UH, OPPORTUNITY WE LOOKED AT, AT RIVER ROAD.
AND, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE, IN THE VILLAGE CORE, YOU HAVE A PRETTY WIDE, UH, RIGHT OF WAY FROM CURB TO CURB RIGHT NOW.
UM, PRETTY HU VERY WIDE TRAVEL LANE.
SO WE THOUGHT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY WOULD BE TO, TO RECOMMEND A ROAD DIET.
UM, AND A ROAD DIET IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A COUPLE OPTIONS HERE THAT SH THAT THE, THE COUNTY COULD LOOK INTO.
UH, AND ONE OF THEM WOULD BE TO EXPAND THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE SIDE, THE, THE CURB IN TOWARDS THE ROAD.
YOU STILL HAVE, HAVE PLENTY OF ROOM FOR, FOR ADEQUATE TRAVEL LANES.
AND IT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO, UH, INCORPORATE SOME STREET TREE PLANTINGS TO CREATE A LITTLE MORE, UH, BUFFER FROM THE SIDEWALK AND INCORPORATE SOME TREES IN THAT, IN THAT VILLAGE CORE AREA.
OR THE OTHER OPTION WOULD BE, UH, ON STREETE PARKING, WHICH WOULD FREE UP SOME ADDITIONAL SPACE MAYBE ON THE PRIVATE PROPERTY, OR WILL YOU HAVE EXTENDED RIGHT OF WAY TO, TO CREATE SOME OF THOSE WALKABLE PUBLIC SPACES OR THINGS LIKE THAT AND ENHANCE THAT ASPECT OF THE VILLAGE CORE.
SO THESE ARE TWO OPTIONS THAT YOU COULD DO, UH, WHERE THE, WHERE THE RIGHT SITUATION, UH, FITS, UH, WHEN OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES, OR IF A DEVELOPMENT WERE TO COME FORWARD, THIS WOULD BE, AGAIN, THAT ROADMAP TO GO BACK TO AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY LIKE THIS.
THIS IS WHAT WE'D LOVE TO SEE COME FORTH AS PART OF THAT DEVELOPMENT.
ALONG THAT FRONTAGE, UH, AS I MENTIONED THERE, THERE'S A STRONG, UH, DESIRE IN THE PUBLIC INPUT THAT WE READ THROUGH FOR GREENWAY CONNECTIVITY.
UH, AND YOU HAVE SOME GREAT, GREAT STREAMS THAT, THAT RUN ALONG, UH, DIFFERENT AREAS, RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
AND SO WE PROVIDED SOME INFORMATION ON THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF GREENWAY TRAILS.
YOU OFTEN HAVE PAVED PATHS, WHICH ARE THE MULTI-USE PATHS THAT YOU TYPICALLY SEE, UH, ADJACENT TO ROADWAYS.
IT'S A PAVED PATH, UH, MORE, MORE IN, IN THAT DEVELOPED AREA.
UH, TRAILS ARE OFTEN FOUND, AND THEN THEY CAN BE CRUSHED DOWN.
THEY CAN BE A NATURAL SURFACE.
YOU SEE THOSE OFTEN ON IN THE FLOODPLAIN OR SO ALONG STREAMS WHERE YOU HAVE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE GETTING INTO TO WET
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AREAS, THAT'S WHERE YOU WANT TO KIND OF RAISE THAT, DO A BOARDWALK TYPE THING TO PRO PROTECT THE, THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THERE AS WELL.SO AGAIN, IT'S THIS O THIS, UH, KIND OF, UH, ARRAY OF OPTIONS THAT, THAT CAN BE PICKED AND CHOSEN.
SO YOU HAVE A REFERENCE GUIDE AS DEVELOPMENTS COME FORWARD OR OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES TO PICK THE RIGHT SOLUTION TO FIT THE FIT THE OPPORTUNITY.
SO WITH THAT, WE BROUGHT ALL OF THAT TOGETHER INTO A COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION MAP.
AND SO THIS MAP REFLECTS, UH, EVERYTHING FROM THE POTENTIAL ROAD DIET AREA TO THINK ABOUT, UH, LOCAL PROPOSED LOCAL STREETS AND GREENWAYS AND MULTIUSE PASS AND SIDEWALKS ALL IN ONE SO THAT YOU HAVE EVERYTHING IN ONE MAP TO, TO REFERENCE, UH, IN THE FUTURE MOVING FORWARD.
UH, OTHER ELEMENTS THAT WE LOOKED INTO AS PARKS, RECREATION, OPEN SPACE, YOU KNOW, THE DESIRE TO HAVE, UH, WALKABLE OPEN SPACES, ACCESS TO RECREATION.
AND SO WE CAME UP WITH A COUPLE OF IDEAS HERE.
UH, THE FIRST ONE SHOWS A PEDESTRIAN ENHANCEMENT ZONE.
AND THIS IS IF, IF THAT ROAD DIET WERE TO BE IMPLEMENTED, AND YOU MAY BE ABLE TO, TO TAKE SOME OF THE, UH, SIT THAT, THAT NEED FOR PARKING AND PUT IT ON THE ROADWAY, IT WOULD FREE UP SOME SPACE THAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE RIGHT OF WAY IN A LOT OF AREAS, UH, IN THE VILLAGE CORE THERE TO DO AN ENHANCED PEDESTRIAN REALM THERE WHERE YOU COULD HAVE, UH, EXPANDED SIDEWALKS OR MAYBE SOME ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING OR SOME SEATING ALONG THAT ROADWAY AND PROVIDE SOME BEAUTIFICATION, UH, IN THAT VILLAGE CORE TO ADD TO TO THE AESTHETIC.
OTHER THING I WANTED TO CAPTURE, YOU KNOW, AND EVEN DRIVING IN TODAY THIS EVENING, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A FARMER'S MARKET SPACE.
IT'S AN INCREDIBLE SPACE, UH, WANTED TO REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AND, AND HOPEFULLY WHETHER IT'S THAT LOCATION OR A FUTURE LOCATION AND ENCOURAGE THE COUNTY TO, TO, TO REALLY MAKE THAT A PERMANENT LOCATION AND, AND ENHANCE IT WITH MAYBE, SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE, JUST A LITTLE SKETCH THAT SHOWS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE AN OPEN AIR STRUCTURE FOR VENDORS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND KIND OF A COMMUNITY LAWN SPACE THAT FOLKS WOULD GATHER AROUND TO REALLY MAKE THAT A PERMANENT FEATURE.
FARMER'S MARKETS ARE GREAT WAYS, UH, TO REALLY BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, UH, AND A LOT OF SUCCESS DOING THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, ALONG THE GREENWAYS, UH, IDEA TWO, YOU HAVE THE, THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY ALONG THE RIVER THERE.
JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THERE'S A POTENTIAL TO, TO CONTINUE A GREENWAY TRAIL THROUGH THAT PROPERTY UP ADJACENT TO THE RIVER.
UH, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE, THE, THE COUNTY TO EXPLORE THAT, UH, WHEN OPPORTUNITIES ARISE, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
SO I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH, AND SOME DESIRES THROUGH THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HEARD TO CREATE SOME ADDITIONAL USES ON THAT COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROPERTY.
SO WE WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, GET THAT IN THIS PLAN AS SOMETHING THAT, THAT DISCUSSION SHOULD BE, CONTINUE TO BE ONGOING TO FIND WAYS TO BRING ADDITIONAL USES THAT COULD BE A COMMUNITY BENEFIT ON, ON THAT PROPERTY AS WELL.
THEN I ALSO MENTIONED HISTORICAL RESOURCES.
UH, THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES IN THIS VILLAGE HERE AND, AND WE WANT TO FIND, UH, WAYS TO AT LEAST DOCUMENT THEM.
UH, AND SO WE'VE, WE'VE LISTED ALL THE, ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, REGISTERED PROPERTIES AND, AND SOME, SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL PROTECTION THAT THE COUNTY COULD EXPLORE AS WELL, WHETHER THAT BE THROUGH A LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT, UM, OR, OR ADDITIONAL EFFORTS, UH, WITH THE NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT AS WELL, OF GETTING PROPERTIES LOCATED, UH, REGISTERED ON THOSE AS WELL.
UM, SO JUST AGAIN, PROVIDING THAT KIND OF TOOL TOOLBOX, UH, TO HELP SAVE THOSE, THOSE IMPORTANT RESOURCES THAT MAKE, UH, THE VILLAGE UNIQUE.
AND THEN LAST, PROBABLY THE MOST, UH, IMPORTANT TOPIC TO MOST PEOPLE I'M SURE IS, IS LAND USE.
UM, AND SO ONE OF THIS IS OUR DRAFT LAND USE MAP.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TRIED TO REALLY DO WAS SIMPLIFY WHAT WAS DONE BY THE PRIOR CONSULTANT.
THERE WERE A LOT OF THINGS ON HERE FROM OVERLAYS AND MULTIPLE DISTRICTS, AND WE REALLY TRIED TO KIND OF SIMPLIFY THAT BACK WHILE STILL KIND OF ACCOMPLISHING, UH, WHAT THAT INTENT WAS.
AND, AND ONE THING WE REALLY TRIED TO FOCUS ON WAS THE IDEA OF HAVING HIGHER INTENSITIES ALONG THE VILLAGE CORE THAT RADIATE OUT TO LESSER DENSITIES AS YOU GET TO THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE AND THEN OUT INTO THE RURAL AREA.
SO YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF GRADUAL TRANSITION.
SO I'LL GO THROUGH EACH ONE, UM, IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL HERE.
SO FIRST I'LL SAY ON SOME OF THESE, UH, MIXED USE TYPE DISTRICTS THAT WERE ARE, ARE LAND USE DESIGNATIONS, THERE ARE SOME IMAGES HERE.
THE IMAGES ARE PURPOSEFULLY NOT MEANT TO SHOW ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING STYLES AND THE DETAIL OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.
THAT IS A RECOMMENDATION THROUGH DESIGN GUIDELINES.
THIS IS REALLY JUST INTENDED TO SHOW BUILDING FORM.
HOW IS A BUILDING RELATED TO ON THE STREET AND HOW TALL SHOULD A BUILDING BE BASED ON THE CONTEXT? AS I MENTIONED, CONTEXTUALLY SENSITIVE, UH, DEVELOPMENT THAT MATCHES THAT SURROUNDING AREA AND DOESN'T STAND OUT.
SO IN THE HISTORIC HEART, UH, OF YOUR RIGHT ON RIVER ROAD, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE A LITTLE LESSER INTENSITY.
UH, WE DIDN'T RE WE DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT REALLY SHOULD BE MORE THAN TWO STORIES IN THAT AREA THAT REALLY SEEMS TO MATCH WHAT'S OUT THERE NOW, UH, FROM A HEIGHT PERSPECTIVE.
AND THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO HAVE THAT MIXED USE, WHETHER IT BE MULTIPLE USES, A DIFFERENT USE ON THE GROUND FLOOR IN THE SECOND FLOOR, UM, OR THE SAME USE THROUGHOUT.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO ENCOURAGE WAS THOSE BUILDINGS BE BROUGHT UP CLOSER TO THE STREET.
SO A LOT OF THE OLDER HISTORIC BUILDINGS HAVE THAT, THAT STRONG STREET, UH, PRESENCE SO THAT YOU HAVE THAT WIND, THAT WINDOW SHOPPING, THAT STOREFRONT FEEL.
AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE THAT PATTERN SO THAT IT DOESN'T BREAK IT.
UM, AND IF YOU DO WANT TO HAVE PARKING IN THE FRONT, WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO A SMALL AMOUNT OF PARKING IN THE FRONT AND, AND PUT, TRY TO PUT THE MAJORITY OF THE PARKING ON THE SIDE OR THE REAR.
AND AGAIN, CUZ YOU CAN REALLY FEEL WHEN YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH, ESPECIALLY THROUGH A HISTORIC TOWN, UH, WHEN THAT RHYTHM IS BROKEN ALL OF A SUDDEN AND YOU DON'T HAVE THAT PRESENCE UP AGAINST, UP AGAINST THE BUILDING.
UM, FOR THE NEXT ZONE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IS MIXED USE COMMERCIAL, OUR NEXT DESIGNATION.
AND THAT, THAT'S REALLY WHERE YOU HAVE YOUR, YOUR SHOPPING CENTERS RIGHT NOW.
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UM, YOUR EXISTING GROCERY STORE.YOU, YOU HAVE SOME COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES OUT THERE, GAS STATION, UM, JUST OUTSIDE OF THE ROUNDABOUT.
AND SO, SO WE RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S A DIFFERENT CHARACTER.
UM, AND SO YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE SOMETHING SLIGHTLY MORE INTENSE, BUT WE WOULD, IF IT WAS, WE WOULD WANT THAT SETBACK SLIGHTLY FURTHER FROM THE ROAD TO, TO CREATE A BIT MORE OF A BUFFER AND NOT FEEL LIKE IT'S UP CLOSE TO THE ROAD.
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE A LARGER LANDSCAPE SETBACK.
AND IF A BUILDING WERE TO GO UP TO THREE STORIES IN THAT AREA, WE WOULD RECOMMEND SOMETHING CALLED A STEP BACK WHERE YOU'RE GONNA PUSH THAT TOP STORY BACK AND THAT HELPS TO, TO REDUCE THAT CANYON EFFECT, UH, OF FEELING THAT THAT BUILDING'S ON TOP OF YOU.
SO, UM, THAT'S REALLY THE, THE MOST INTENSE OPTION THAT WE, THAT WE LAID OUT THERE, JUST ACKNOWLEDGING THAT YOU KIND OF ALREADY HAVE THAT, UH, SOME OF THAT, THAT HAP TAKING PLACE WITH, WITH THE EXISTING SHOPPING CENTER.
UH, BUT WE DO FEEL THAT THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO DO INFILL AND CREATE SOME ADDITIONAL USES THERE TO CREATE A LITTLE MORE OF A VIBRANT AREA.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S A LOT OF PUBLIC, UH, COUNTY OWN OR INSTITUTIONAL USES THROUGHOUT THE, THE VILLAGE, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZING THAT THAT IS, YOU KNOW, THE DRIVERS OF CIVIC LIFE, THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE ARE, ARE GETTING, UH, ACCESS TO, TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, AND REALLY JUST WANNA IDENTIFY THAT AS, AS A KEY FEATURE IN THIS VILLAGE.
UM, MOVING FORWARD TO THE RESIDENTIAL CATEGORIES, WE HAVE TWO RESIDENTIAL CATEGORIES, UH, IN OUR LAND USE, UH, MAPS HERE.
SO WE HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL, WHICH IS THE ONE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER TO THE VILLAGE CORE AND TO THE MIXED USE COMMERCIAL.
UM, AND, AND THOSE ARE THE SLIGHTLY SMALLER LOTS WHERE WE HAVE A TWO TO FOUR ACRE, UH, UNIT COUNT THERE.
SO, UM, YOU WANT SLIGHTLY SMALLER BUILDINGS, MAYBE MAY, UH, UH, BUILD HOUSES ORIENTED TOWARDS A SIDEWALK OR COMMON GREEN SPACES, THINGS LIKE THAT, AMENITY SPACES, UM, STILL NOTHING TOO DENSE THERE.
WE'RE TRYING TO, YOU SAID WE'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, HALF ACRE TO A QUARTER ACRE, LOTS THAT KIND OF, UH, MATCH THAT PATTERN.
UM, AND THEN AS YOU RADIATE OUT GOING TO THOSE LARGER LOT SIZES, UH, LARGER HOMES, LARGER SETBACKS, AND THAT'S A GOOD TRANSITION TO THE RURAL AREA ON THE EDGE OF THOSE BOUNDARIES.
UM, WITH THAT WE WILL LEARN TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENT HOUSING TYPES.
AGAIN, TO GIVE A LITTLE MORE, UH, INFORMATION TO FORMS. YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THROUGHOUT THIS PLAN, WE REALLY FOCUS ON BUILDING FORM TO MAKE SURE THAT, AGAIN, IT'S CONTEXTUALLY SENSITIVE TO, TO THE EXISTING, UH, DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE HERE, UH, AND, AND FIT.
SO WITH EACH OF THESE, WE'VE GOT TOWN HOMES, UH, WHICH OF COURSE ARE, ARE YOUR ATTACHED UNITS.
YOU MAY HAVE, UH, SEVERAL OF THEM IN A ROW, AND WE KIND OF IDENTIFY WHICH ZONES THOSE ARE APPROPRIATE IN.
UH, THEN WE GO THROUGH THE DUPLEXES, THE DOUBLE UNITS, UH, AND THEN THE SINGLE FAMILY CLUSTER AND THE SINGLE FAMILY LARGE LOT.
SO IN THE, THE, THE SINGLE FAMILY CLUSTER, UH, YOU COULD HAVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL, UM, AND THEN IF THEY WERE SLIGHTLY LARGER LOTS, THEY MAY BE ABLE TO FIT INTO THAT, THAT SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL.
WHEREAS IN THE SINGLE FAMILY LARGE LOT, THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY THING THAT'S IN THAT ZONE.
UM, AS YOU WORK THERE, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO INCORPORATE SOME TOWN HOMES, UH, AND, AND IT'S CLOSER IN, INTO THAT VILLAGE CORE AS WELL.
UM, AND THAT'S WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE THOSE TIGHTER LOTS.
WE ALSO TRIED TO IDENTIFY AND TIE THIS BACK TO THE, TO THE, TO THE COUNTY'S ADOPTED ZONING.
UH, AND SO WE HAVE SOME, SOME CHARTS IN HERE.
THIS ISN'T MEANT FOR YOU TO READ THROUGH IT ALL HERE, BUT I JUST WANNA SHOW IT AS AN EXAMPLE OF LAND USE CONTROLS, AGAIN, UH, REGULATORY CONTROLS THAT THE COUNTY WOULD NEED TO LOOK INTO TO, TO HELP BRING THIS VISION FORWARD IN THE FUTURE.
SO IT TALKS ABOUT THE INTENT OF EACH OF THE DIFFERENT, UH, LAND USE CATEGORIES.
IT TALKS ABOUT THE PRIMARY USES, WHICH WE WOULD RECOMMEND, AND THE SECONDARY USES.
SECONDARY USES HAVE TO BE, UH, SUPPORTIVE OF THAT PRIMARY USE.
UH, SO IF SOMETHING SAYS SECONDARY, IT'S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WOULD WANT ON THAT PROPERTY.
UM, AND THEN WE IDENTIFIED THE DIFFERENT CURRENT ZONING DISTRICTS THAT THOSE MIGHT RELATE TO.
SO IF SOMEONE WANTED TO, UH, REZONE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO LOOK INTO ONE OF THOSE AND SEE IF IT MATCHES.
AND WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME OF THOSE CURRENT ZONING DISTRICTS DON'T REALLY, UH, WORK AS THEY ARE.
AND SO THERE'S ADDITIONAL WORK THEY WOULD NEED TO BE, UH, DONE BY THE COUNTY TO TO, TO BRING THOSE TO LIFE, TO, TO, SO THAT THEY MATCH THIS PLAN.
UH, A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH KIND OF THE MIXED USE.
RIGHT NOW THERE'S A MIXED USE P U D UH, ZONING DISTRICT, WHICH IS, I THINK IT'S 20 ACRES.
UH, AND YOU'RE NOT, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE SOME OF THAT SMALLER MIXED USE INFILLS, PARTICULARLY IN THE VILLAGE CORE, YOU WOULD NEED TO REDUCE THAT TO ALLOW SOME OF THAT MIXED USE TO HAPPEN.
SO WE IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL OVERLAYS, UH, ON, ON YOUR ARTERIAL ROADS FOR LANDSCAPING, THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THAT COULD BE ENHANCED.
UH, DESIGN STANDARDS, DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND, UH, BE DEVELOPED TO HELP GUIDE THAT, THAT ARCHITECTURAL FORM.
UH, THAT'S REALLY THE NEXT STEP HERE.
UH, WHAT ARE THE KEY FEATURES OF, OF BUILDING DESIGN AND LANDSCAPING THAT YOU WANT ON THAT FRONTAGE AS WELL AS ZONING AMENDMENTS FOR THE, THE ZONING DISTRICTS.
AND THAT COULD BE THINGS LIKE LANDSCAPING, SIDEWALKS, SOME OF THE IMAGES THAT YOU SAW TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN DEVELOPMENTS COME FORWARD YOU DO GET THOSE SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREETS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THEN WE WENT THROUGH AND WE KIND OF, UH, BROUGHT EVERYTHING TOGETHER IN THE END HERE OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WITHIN EACH CHAPTER THERE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I'VE, I'VE MENTIONED AND WE BROUGHT THAT ALL TOGETHER IN PRIORITY LIST AND IT GIVES SOME INFORMATION UNDER EACH ONE SO THAT THE COUNTY DOES HAVE THE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES, DIFFERENT OPTIONS, UH, TO HELP IMPLEMENT SO THAT YOU CAN BRING THIS, THE IDEA THROUGH THIS PLAN FORWARD, UM, OVER TIME AS OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELF.
AND HOPEFULLY AS YOU COME BACK AND REVIEW THESE PLANS AND YEARS IN THE FUTURE, YOU'LL SEE THAT SOME OF THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN TICKED OFF AND YOU CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THAT LIST AND SEE THAT PROGRESS HAPPEN OVER TIME.
SO WITH THAT, UH, JUST A REMINDER OF THE UPCOMING DAYS, PUBLIC HEARINGS NEXT WEEK, UM, AND THEN PUBLIC
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HEARINGS WITH THE BOARD AS WELL IN JUNE.AND I WILL STOP THERE FOR QUESTIONS AND HOPEFULLY I CAN ANSWER AS NEEDED.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? UM, SO WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER.
WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER THAT HAS SIGNED UP.
UM, SO BEFORE WE MOVE INTO, UM, OPEN AUDIENCE QUESTIONS, UM, WE HAVE MR. SLOAN, WHO HAS SIGNED UP, STEP ON UP, TELL US YOUR NAME AND YOU WANT ME TO STAND UP OR JUST SIT HERE AND YOU, YOU MAY SIT OR STAND, WHATEVER SUITS YOU.
UM, I, I'M, I'M LAZY SO I'LL, I'LL SIT DOWN.
MY NAME IS BEN SLOAN, I LIVE AT, UH, 2 0 52 MAINTENANCE ROAD MAINTENANCE, VIRGINIA 23,102.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
UM, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE EXTENT OF THIS AS A PLAN, LOOKING AT THIS DOCUMENT AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS? IT, IT APPEARS, THIS IS MORE A VERY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW MM-HMM.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT ANALYSIS WAS DONE IN A PARTICULAR, UH, I WOULD ASK ABOUT TRANSPORTATION DATA COLLECTION AND SO FORTH, AND THEN, UH, IF, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT IS INCREASED LOAD ON THE LAND IN TERMS OF NUMBER OF HOUSES AND SO FORTH, HOW THAT WOULD AFFECT, UH, THE THOROUGHFARES, UH, IN PARTICULAR THE ROUTE 65, 22 CORRIDOR, RIVER ROAD, AND UH, THEN ALSO IN PARTICULAR FAIRGROUND ROAD AS IT'S THE EASTWEST CORRIDOR FOR THIS AREA TO SHORE PUMP IN OTHER AREAS.
SO, SO THIS IS PURPOSEFULLY AT A HIGH LEVEL LIKE THAT, UH, AND I, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT ANY LONG TERM, UH, LAND USE PLAN BE AT THAT LEVEL.
UM, CUZ YOU WANT IT TO BE FLEXIBLE, YOU WANT IT TO BE ADAPTABLE AND YOU WANTED TO JUST ARTICULATE A VISION.
UM, SO, SO WE, WE, WE DID LOOK THROUGH A LOT OF DATA.
WE MET WITH TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS, WE MET WITH A LOT OF STAFF.
UM, SO, AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID, WE BROUGHT IN THE COUNTY'S ADOPTED TRANSPORTATION PLAN RATHER THAN DO ADDITIONAL STUDIES, UH, CUZ THEY REALLY FEEL THAT A TRANSPORTATION.
SO YOU HAVE THAT OVERARCHING, YOU HAVE A COMP PLAN, THEN YOU HAVE MORE DETAILED, UH, SMALL AREA PLANS OR CORRIDOR STUDIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, AND THEY OFTEN RECOMMEND ADDITIONAL MORE DETAILED WORK.
SO VERY DETAILED STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF A PARTICULAR CORRIDOR REALLY SHOULD BE A PROJECT, UH, THAT I WOULD RECOMMEND COMES OUT OF A PLAN LIKE THIS.
UH, JUST LIKE DESIGN GUIDELINES OR ZONING ORDINANCE UPDATES.
UH, WHEN YOU TRY TO, TO PUT TOO MUCH COMPLEXITY INTO A LONG RANGE PLAN, IT, IT, IT CAN OFTEN BE DIFFICULT TO, TO REALLY, IT BECOMES TOO, TOO DIFFICULT TO BE ADAPTABLE OVER TIME.
UM, AND BECAUSE A LOT OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS MAY, MAY BE DEPENDENT UPON FUNDING SOURCES OR THINGS LIKE THAT, OR, OR WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DEVELOPMENTS ARE GONNA COME SIMILAR TO A LAND USE BUILDOUT, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, MAY WANNA KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY HOUSES IS THIS GONNA BE.
UM, THAT IS A VERY COMPLICATED TASK THAT INVOLVES, UH, A LOT OF ANALYSIS AS TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND, AND REGULATIONS WITH THE ORDINANCE.
AND, UH, SO THIS IS TRYING TO STAY HIGHER, WHEREAS SOME OF THAT COULD BE A NEXT STEP, UH, IF, IF THERE'S A PARTICULAR FOCUS THAT WOULD WANNA COME OUT OF IT.
SO THEREFORE, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY, MY GUIDELINES ARE, MY GUARDRAILS ARE HERE, BUT, UM, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST THEN WITH THE, UM, INCREASED LOADING OF HOUSE ROOFTOPS, WHICH IS NECESSARY FOR ONE OF THE GOALS, SMALL BUSINESSES CERTAINLY, UM, HOW THAT THEN WOULD BE CARRIED FORTH IN JUST SOME OTHER WORK THAT WOULD BE DONE AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.
SO THAT, UH, OTHER ANALYSIS WOULD ALL BE INCUMBENT UPON.
UM, LET'S SAY ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF THIS, UM, WHETHER IT BE, AND I'LL, I'LL GO OFF INTO ANOTHER THREAD REAL QUICK, UH, WHICH IS, YOU MENTIONED THE STREAM AND THAT PARTICULAR STREAM COMES FROM THE PLACE THAT'S COMMONLY KNOWN IF YOU'RE, UH, COME HERE EVEN OR A, UH, LONG TIME, THE DUMP.
UM, AND I ASSUME THE ANALYSIS, AND I I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT ANY ANALYSIS HAS BEEN DONE IN A LONG TIME, BUT SOME OF THE EFFLUENT HAS SOME PROBLEMS WITH FROM THAT, THAT STREAM.
SO THINGS LIKE THAT WOULD BE CARRIED FORTH BEYOND THIS CERTAINLY.
AND SO THIS IS, AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL AND THE APPROVALS THEN THAT ARE OCCURRING OR WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS JUST, UH, THIS, THIS IS A GOAL WE WANT TO REACH AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL IS, IS BASICALLY WHAT IT IS.
UM, AND ONE OF, ONE OF, WELL, I'LL SAY ONE OF THE BENEFITS, UH, FOR INSTANCE, YOU MENTIONED THE STREAMS, UH, OR MAYBE HAVING A GREENWAY ON AN ADOPTED PLAN LIKE THIS IS IF YOU WERE TO APPLY FOR FUNDING TO MAYBE DO SOME STREAM RESTORATION OR SOME IMPROVEMENTS OR EVEN A GREENWAY TRAIL ON THAT, THE FIRST THING THAT YOU'RE GONNA GET ASKED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION RECREATION IS DO YOU HAVE AN ADOPTED PLAN THAT SHOWS A GREENWAY ON THAT STREAM CORRIDOR? UM, SO IT REALLY GIVES YOU SOME BACKING OR FOR A ROAD IMPROVEMENT SHOWING THE, BRINGING THE TRANSPORTATION PLANS THAT THE COUNTY HAS ADOPTED INTO ANOTHER ADOPTED DOCUMENT PROVIDES ADDITIONAL, UM, IMPORTANCE THAT THE COUNTY'S BEHIND IT, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARE BEHIND IT, AND WE DO, THIS IS A MAJOR ROAD, AND SO IT NEEDS TO BE A FOCUS
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FOR VDOT FOR FUNDING AND OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT.SO, SO, UH, IN THE, IN THE, UH, CONCLUSION, OR I'LL SAY THE LAST PAGES WE'RE, UM, TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF IMPLEMENTATION, REALLY, UH, IT'S, IT'S UNSPOKEN, BUT IT IS INCLUDED THAT THERE WILL BE, UH, FURTHER DATA COLLECTION, DATA DRIVEN ANALYSIS THAT WILL PRESCRIBE MORE FEATURES, FUNCTIONS THAT WILL BE INCORPORATED IN, UH, LET'S SAY SUBORDINATE PLANS TO THIS CERTAINLY THIS, THIS IS THAT, THIS IS THE, THE STARTING POINT REALLY, THAT, THAT THEN GUIDES PRIDE, PROVIDES THAT OVERARCHING, UH, MAP TO, AGAIN, START DOING MUCH MORE DETAILED STUFF IN THE FUTURE.
AND, AND IF I MAY INTERJECT, I KNOW YOU ASKED SOMETHING ABOUT BUSINESS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AND HOW WE FOSTER THAT SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, MS. WORLEY AND I, UH, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, UM, WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF STARTED TAKING A STEP, AT LEAST TRYING TO START SOME INITIAL PLANNING.
UM, IF WE PROCEED AS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS IS TO DO A STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN FOR COURTHOUSE AND CENTERVILLE TO LOOK AT WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO YOU HAVE YOUR VARIED AND DIVERSIFIED BUSINESS AND WHAT THAT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION IS FOR COURTHOUSE IS VERY DIFFERENT, ESPECIALLY IF WE PROCEED WITH THE FAIRGROUND ROAD EXTENSION AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME ADDITIONAL INFILL COMMERCIAL SPACE.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE BEING VERY MINDFUL OF AS WELL.
SO AGAIN, IT GOES TO WHAT MR. RAPP WAS SAYING, THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD UPON THIS.
SO THIS IS REALLY A FOUNDATIONAL ASPECT, UM, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S AN INTENTIONALLY BROAD SO THAT WE HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY, BUT THEN THERE'S THAT GUIDING DOCUMENT OF SOME REGULATING CONCEPTS SO THAT THEN WHEN YOU GO AFTER FUNDING OR IF SOMEONE ASKS WHY YOU'RE DOING THE NEXT STEP, THAT'S MORE DETAILED, THERE'S A RATIONALE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR WORK.
ANYONE ELSE UP IN THE BACK FIRST AND THEN WE'LL GET UP TO THE FRONT.
CUZ I SAW THAT HAND GOING FOR A WHILE.
I THINK Y'ALL DID A GREAT JOB WITH THE ENHANCING WHAT'S ALREADY HERE.
UM, THE TWO THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO BRING UP IS THAT WHEN YOU SAY TWO STORIES, I WOULD HATE FOR US TO BE LIMITED WITH THAT, ESPECIALLY IN A TOWN, UM, WHERE WE HAVE VERY LIMITED GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES.
UM, I THINK A THREE TO FOUR STORY PRODUCT WILL STILL GIVE YOU A NICE TOWN AND CREATIVE WONDERFUL COMMUNITY.
UM, I ALSO WOULD SAY THAT, UM, THE SETBACKS FOR BUSINESSES AND PARKING DEFINITELY NEED TO BE LOOKED AT, LOOKED AT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL.
UM, I WOULD SAY PARKING IS GOING TO BE HUGE IN YOUR GROWTH AREAS FOR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT TO BE LOOKED AT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, I WOULD SAY SETBACKS ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, CRUCIAL TO BUSINESSES TO SEE THAT YOU'RE ASKING MORE OF A SETBACK COULD, AGAIN, WHEN YOU HAVE SUCH A TIGHT GROWTH AREA BE A PROBLEM.
SO I WOULD HATE TO LIMIT BUSINESSES THAT SEE THIS AS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO OUR COUNTY.
UM, I JUST, AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, ENHANCING WHAT'S HERE.
I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING WHERE, WHERE YOU'RE HEADING.
UM, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPERS WILL OBVIOUSLY BRING TO THE TABLE.
SO LEAVING IT OPEN, I CAN SEE THE ADVANTAGE TO THAT.
BUT I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, IF YOU WANNA MAKE IT SPECIAL IN THESE GROWTH AREAS, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO REALLY LIKE LOOK AT A DENSER PRODUCT TYPE PARKING,
AND COULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME PLEASE FOR THE RECORD? OH, I'M SORRY.
AND I THINK WE HAD A QUESTION HERE IN THE SECOND ROW.
HI, MY NAME IS JANET LEER AND I WAS ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION WITH NIGHT BOWLS ABOUT A CENTURY AGO.
UM, I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW, UM, THE STAFF MEET WITH PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE STAKEHOLDERS MM-HMM.
AND SO PART OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED, UM, OVERWHELMINGLY WAS THAT IT WAS VERY RESTRICTIVE.
UM, THERE WAS A LOT OF HEAVY INFORMATION LAYERED IN, WAS NOT USER FRIENDLY AND UM, IT WAS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF GUGLIN WITH ITS IMAGES.
UM, THERE WAS A LOT OF FOCUS ON DENSITY VERSUS FORM AND CHARACTER.
UM, TOO MANY LAND USE DESCRIPTIONS.
I MEAN EVEN FOR SOME OF, UM, OUR PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE WORKING TO, UH, ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CENTERVILLE AREA.
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HODGEPODGE LAND USE CATEGORIES FOR CENTERVILLE.WE WENT FROM 11 CATEGORIES TO SIX COURTHOUSE.
HERE WHERE WE'RE AT TONIGHT, WE HAD SIX CATEGORIES.
NOW WE'RE DOWN TO FOUR, NO, SORRY, SIX.
WE HAD, WE'VE GOT FIVE NOW FIVE.
I'M PROBABLY GETTING SICK TOO.
SO, SO YOU'RE SAYING IN RESPONSE TO WHAT WAS PRESENTED PREVIOUSLY, THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE NOW.
YOU'VE HAD MEETINGS WITH THEM, WITH THE, WITH THE LANDOWNERS? WE HAVE ON, UH, THE TIMMONS PLAN? NO MA'AM.
SO WE HAD A YEAR AND A HALF, A LITTLE OVER A YEAR OF COMMENT PERIOD WHERE WE RECEIVED HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF COMMENTS.
THIS IS AN EFFORT TO PUT A BOW AROUND ALL OF THE COMMENTS WE'VE RECEIVED.
WE HAVE HAD MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR PLANNING COMMISSION, WITH OUR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OVER THE LAST, UM, TWO MONTHS, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE COMING ALONG WITH A APPROACH THAT IS ACCEPTABLE AND THAT WE'RE AT LEAST LAYING THAT FOUNDATION.
CUZ AGAIN, THIS IS NOT DESIGNED TO BE THE END ALL, BE ALL.
YOU KNOW THAT THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS AND, BUT I WAS JUST CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT THEIR, WHAT THEIR FEEDBACK WAS AT THIS POINT.
CUZ LANDOWNERS ARE, YOU KNOW, CRITICAL.
AND, AND THERE WAS LANDOWNER FEEDBACK THAT WAS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WITH THE WORK THAT WE HAVE DONE.
NOW THAT IS REFLECTED IN THE CURRENT PROPOSED PLAN.
I'M ONE OF THOSE THAT DID A PHD ON WRITING UP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOTH
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ARE YOU SIR? I PROBABLY HAVE A PERSPECTIVE A LOT OF YOU DON'T HAVE.
I WALKED ACROSS THE STAGE UP THERE 69 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH.
I'VE ALSO BEEN ON A PLAN COMMISSION EQUALIZATION BOARD, SO I HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA, LAND USE AND ALL.
I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED THAT THE FUTURE PLANNING FOR THE COURTHOUSE WASN'T SHOWN ON US PLAYING SOMEWHERE.
SO WE KNEW GENERALLY WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT.
THE MAIN CONCERN I HAVE, AND IT'S A VERY POSITIVE ONE AND I'M PROBABLY ANY MINORITY, IS I'M LIKING THE MULTI-FAMILY UNITS.
WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL HERE, THE TEACHERS HAD TO LIVE IN HEN ROCKER AND THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
THEY STILL HAVE TO LIVE IN HEN ROCKER, THE MALTA FAMILY UNIT, GIVE THE TEACHERS AND THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES A POSITIVE STEP TOWARD POSSIBLY LIVING OUT HERE AND BEING PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND I SHOULD STAY UP FRONT THAT I OWN LAND IN THIS GROUP, BUT AT MY AGE IT DOESN'T MATTER.
I DON'T, I DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT AT THIS POINT
MULTIFAMILY HOUSING SHOULD ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT AS WELL AS OFTEN A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE OUT HERE AND BECOME PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
THE OTHER THING THAT I LIKE IS THE GREENWAY.
THAT IS, UH, A VERY POSITIVE PART I THINK OF, OF THIS PLAN.
UM, WE MAY HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
WE MOVED HERE FROM HENRICO AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE MOVED HERE FROM HENRICO WAS TO GET AWAY FROM THE MULTI-HOUSING, THE THREE STORY HOUSING, THE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING.
I LIKE THE PLAN, I LIKE THE TWO STORY.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE GUC AND COURTHOUSE BECOME THE NEXT GORDONSVILLE.
I LIKE GOING THROUGH GORDONSVILLE.
LOTS OF PEOPLE GO THROUGH GORDONSVILLE.
WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF WE COULD GO THROUGH GLAND COURTHOUSE THE SAME WAY AND BRING IN BUSINESSES AND SMALL BUSINESSES? THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
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ANYWAY, THAT'S MY PERSPECTIVE.IT'S NOT A QUESTION, SORRY, BUT IT'S, I JUST HAD TO SAY IT OR I'D BUST OUTTA MY SEAT.
RIGHT OVER HERE IN THE FRONT, JAMIE.
I MOVED HERE IN 2000, I GUESS.
UM, I LIVE ON CEDAR QUEENS ROAD.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE ALWAYS LIKED ABOUT GLAND COUNTY AND THE LONG RANGE PLANNING AS A VILLAGE CONCEPT, AND THIS, THIS TO ME SEEMS TO BE THE NEXT LEVEL ON THE TWO PARTICULAR VILLAGES.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT GLAND LACKED IS, IS A KIND OF A DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR.
UH, GOING TO COLLEGE IN FARMVILLE, UH, ALONG WITH THAT IS A QUINTESSENTIAL TO ME SMALL TOWN CONCEPT.
UM, AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOT TWO AND THREE AND EVEN FOUR STORY BUILDINGS, BUT IT, IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM URBAN.
SO I GUESS IT, IT IS HOW THEY'RE BUILT.
UM, I'M FINE WITH IF, IF THERE WAS AN AREA THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTED A COUPLE OF BLOCKS.
I THINK WHAT WE MISS IS SIDE STREETS TO SOME DEGREE WE HAVE THE MAIN STREET WITH, WITH THIS CONCEPT, I WOULD THINK YOU WOULD NEED SIDE STREETS ON EITHER SIDE WITH RESIDENTIAL OR, OR OR PARKING OR BOTH.
UH, UM, BUT I AM A FAN OF, UH, THIS WHOLE PLAN.
I GUESS ANOTHER QUESTION I NOTICED THAT LOOKS LIKE THE HIGHEST DENSITY WAS TOWNHOUSES DIDN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT MULTIPLE STORIES OR WHATNOT.
WHEN I THINK OF TOWNHOUSES, THINK WHAT IS THE HIGHEST DENSITY, UH, THAT KIND OF THOUGHT OF IN HIS PLANNED, BECAUSE I DO THINK HE'S RIGHT.
WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH LOW INCOME, NOT EVEN LOW INCOME HOUSING, BUT JUST AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
UM, AND, AND ESPECIALLY IN HIGH DENSITIES IN THIS COUNTY, THAT'S FOR SURE.
SO, UH, AND I WILL SAY TO THE UH, POINT, UH, THAT THAT WASN'T ALLOWED USE IN THE MIXED USE COMMERCIAL.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE DID SEE SOME LARGER BUILDINGS AND THAT'S WHY WE ASKED FOR A LITTLE SLIGHTLY LARGER STEP BACK.
THE, THE, THE, THE CHALLENGE OF, OF LAND USE PLANNING IS BALANCING THE DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND THE DIFFERENT DESIRES.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE TRIED TO STRIKE A BALANCE HERE.
UM, TOWN HOME TOWN HOMES, WELL, WE, WELL, SO IN THE MIXED USE AREAS, UH, WE ACTUALLY STAY AWAY FROM, FROM THE WORD DENSITY TO AN EXTENT AND TRY TO JUST TALK ABOUT BUILDING FORM.
UM, SO WE TALK ABOUT HOW HIGH, WHAT'S THE LOCATION TO THE STREET, UM, BECAUSE IT'S ALSO VERY HARD TO, TO UNDERSTAND DENSITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE THING WE ALL, MOST OF US CAN PICTURE WHAT A QUARTER ACRE HOME SITE IS.
PRETTY HARD TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 20 UNITS AN ACRE APARTMENT COMPLEX IS.
UH, OR THE, THE, THE SMALL INFILL MIXED USE BUILDING THAT IS IN A HISTORIC CORE, UH, ON A MAIN STREET TYPE APPROACH.
YOU CAN GET UP UP TO A PRETTY HIGH DENSITY.
IF YOU'RE ON A ONE EIGHTH ACRE LOT AND YOU'RE DOING A, A TWO OR THREE STORY BUILDING VERY QUICKLY, UM, YOU CAN GET UP.
I MEAN, I'VE DONE TINY ONES WHERE YOU UP TO 20 UNITS AN ACRE CUZ YOU JUST DON'T EVEN HAVE ABOUT AN EIGHTH OF AN ACRE.
SO THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO JUST TALK ABOUT FORM, UM, AND GET AWAY FROM IT A LITTLE BIT.
I JUST WANTED TO AGREE WITH NIGHT BACK THEN, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO, WHO FELT STRONGLY ABOUT THAT ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION? I WAS ONE AS WELL.
AS WELL AS IN YOUR MORE RURAL AREAS, UH, OUT, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE WHERE YOU HAVE A LITTLE PROPERTY AND NEAR US IS A DEVELOPMENT THAT AT THE TIME, AND I STILL BELIEVE THIS WAS PERFECT FOR A TOWNHOUSE DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE OF THE OPEN SPACE IT AFFORDED AND THE VIEW OF A, OF A LAKE.
UH, AND INSTEAD BECAUSE THE MAJORITY WOULD NOT ALLOW IT, WE ENDED UP WITH THESE SHORT STREETS, WITH CUL-DE-SACS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW A FIRE ENGINE TURNS AROUND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST ONE ROAD AFTER ANOTHER.
AND YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE LOVELY HOMES.
NOT THE BEST FOR THAT PROPERTY.
I THINK THAT'S A CRITICAL THING TO LOOK AT, UH, IS THE PROPERTY THAT YOU'RE DEVELOPING.
AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE, I AGREE WITH YOU GORDONSVILLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE SORT OF ENVISION A TOWNHOUSE AS A STRAIGHT ROW OF, YOU KNOW, TWO STORY, YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE COUNTRY IN ATLANTA, YOU CAN HAVE HOUSES THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR.
ONE IS A SINGLE FAMILY, THE ONE BESIDE IT, WHICH LOOKS VERY SIMILAR ON THE ELEVATIONS AND THE FRONT AND SO FORTH, IS A DUPLEX.
AND YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW DRIVING DOWN THE STREET, WHICH IS WHICH, WHICH I THINK IS ALSO, UH, THE THING TO CONSIDER IN CALIFORNIA YOU HAVE, UM, A SINGLE FAMILY, UM, UH, UNIT WITH THAT'S ACTUALLY A FOURPLEX.
BUT THE WAY THAT IT'S DESIGNED, YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, FROM THE STREET.
SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT TRADITIONAL TWO STORY, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU HAVE TO THINK OF YOUR DESIGN.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES THAT HAVE COME A LONG WAY COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT BRIDGELAND WAS WILLING TO CONSIDER FOR
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A SINGLE FAMILY, UH, VERSUS A MULTI-FAMILY AND MIXING IT TOGETHER.YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S NOT JA IT'S NOT JUST A STORE, RO STORE UNDER AN APARTMENT ABOVE
BUT, UM, IN TERMS OF THE WHOLE PLAN OUTSIDE OF THE VILLAGE AS WELL COULD BE MORE CREATIVE.
AND WHAT YOU END UP WITH COULD BE A LOT NICER, BETTER IN TERMS OF THE WHOLE EFFECT FOR THE, FOR THE COUNTY AND THE COMMUNITY.
AND DENSITY DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, IT'S JUST HOW YOU DO IT.
HOW ARE YOU JONATHAN LYLE? I LIVE AT, UH, 1521 MANNEQUIN ROAD.
I, I'M NOT BRAGGING, BUT I AM GONNA ADMIT I HAVE THE BENEFIT OF A BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE EDUCATION AND DENSITY IS NOT HARD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND.
UM, IN DENSITY MEANS MORE PEOPLE, AND AUSTIN WILL PROBABLY TELL YOU MORE PEOPLE MEANS MORE DEMAND ON ROADS.
SO I'M PERPLEXED THAT YOU HAVEN'T AT LEAST LOOKED AT YOUR PLAN AND CALCULATED OR FORECAST WHAT THE DENSITY MIGHT BE.
YOU USE A PHRASE EARLY ON WHAT THE DESIRED OUTCOME IS.
AND SO IF YOU'RE AS IN CENTERVILLE AT ONE TIME, 16 DENSITY TO THE ACRE, IT IT, IT STARTS TO PUT A DEMAND ON NOT JUST THE ROADS, BUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE EMT AND THE FIRE AND THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
WOULD IT BE A STRETCH TO ASK THAT WHAT IFS OR MAYBE DENSITIES COULD BE CALCULATED AND JUST SHARED? BECAUSE AT ONE TIME THE CENTERVILLE PLAN COULD HAVE HAD 25,000 PEOPLE IN IT IF IT WAS BUILT OUT WITH THE SUGGESTED OR DESIRED DENSITIES.
SO, UM, I'LL DO SOME TUTORING.
I MEAN I'VE DONE DONE IT FOR A WHILE, BUT WE LEARNED TO DO THAT AT BRIDGEWATER.
SO IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU COULD CALCULATE THE DENSITIES? SO I, I HAVE, I HAVE DONE DETAILED BUILD OUT ANALYSIS BEFORE FOR PROJECTS.
UM, I DO THINK IT'S A USEFUL EXERCISE.
UH, I WOULD SAY IT, IT'S MUCH MORE COMPLEX THAN JUST DOING, UH, UNITS PER ACRE.
UM, CAUSE YOU HAVE TO FACTOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES, INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS, UM, ROADWAYS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, AND SO I'VE, I'VE CERTAINLY DONE THEM BEFORE AND I DO THINK THAT THERE'S A BENEFIT.
IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE A, A GOOD, A GOOD NEXT STEP I WOULD THINK, UH, TO, TO ADD TO THIS PLAN AS, AS THINGS MOVE FORWARD FOR SURE.
COULD I DISTILL THAT DOWN TO A YES.
I CAN'T SPEAK TO ME DOING IT PART OF THIS PLAN, BUT I DO THINK IT IS A GOOD EXERCISE.
AND THAT'S PART OF THE AS AS CITIS.
SO A AGAIN, WHAT WE HAVE TONIGHT IS A FOUNDATIONAL TOOL.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE BOARD CAN TAKE AND CREATE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TOOLS THAT THEN CAN GO IN THAT TOOLBOX.
SO AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S NOT THAT IT'S OFF BOUNDS.
THIS IS DESIGNED TO BE THE FOUNDATIONAL PIECE.
AND SO WHEN YOU GET THE DETAILED INFORMATION, THAT'S THROUGH RECOMMENDED NEXT STEPS AND ADDITIONAL ANALYSES WHEN YOU WANNA LOOK AT CONCERTED AREAS.
I WILL ALSO SAY THAT WITHIN THE PLAN AS A WHOLE, WE HAVE A GIS MAP THAT WAS DONE BY OUR GI GIS COORDINATOR, MR. WORLEY, THAT SHOWS OPEN, UM, VACANT LOTS AS WELL AS DEVELOPED LOTS AND THOSE PLANNING TO COME ONLINE AND THE TOTAL SORT OF FOOTPRINT IN SQUARE MILES OF EACH SMALL AREA.
AND THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE SMALL AREA PLANS.
I DON'T HAVE A MASTER'S OF BRIDGEWATER, SO I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ALL OF THAT.
I CANNOT COMMIT TO SPENDING WITHOUT ALLOCATED FUNDS.
SO I GUESS THAT'S A SHORT ANSWER I HAVE.
SO BUS SEBASTIAN LING, ELEPHANT RIVER, UH, HOW SOON WILL WE HAVE THE ARCH ARCHITECTURAL GUIDELINES SPECIFICALLY FOR THE COURTHOUSE? UH, CORE? UM, THAT'S A, IF THESE PLANS ARE ADOPTED, UM, DEVELOPING THE ARCHITECTURAL GUIDELINES, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH STAFF AND OUR DESIGN REVIEW COMMISSION.
AND THAT WOULD GO THROUGH A LENGTHY PROCESS.
I DON'T HAVE AN EXACT TIMELINE THAT COULD BE SIX MONTHS, NINE MONTHS, OR A YEAR.
AGAIN, IT'S GOING TO BE A THOUGHTFUL, INTENTIONAL, AND DELIBERATIVE PROCESS.
THAT WOULD ALSO INVOLVE PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AS WELL.
THERE WOULD BE A COMMUNITY MEETING, PUBLIC HEARING, JUST AS WE'RE HAVING NOW.
UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S CREATING THAT LOOK AND FEEL.
BUT THAT IS A NEXT STEP IF THESE PLANS, UM, ARE ADOPTED.
BUT IT WOULD INVOLVE THE WORK OF OUR DESIGN REVIEW COMMISSION AND THEN AS WELL AS OUR
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PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING IT, OUR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HEARING IT.IT'S NOT MANY YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
IF WE HAVE NEW DEVELOPMENT, WE WANT ALL THIS TO SERVE ALREADY TO CREATE THIS NEW COLLECTOR.
YOU OUR, OUR DESIRE IS, UM, GIVEN THE GROWTH PRESSURES THAT WE'RE HAVING, IF THESE PLANS ARE ADOPTED TO BEGIN THOSE NEXT STEPS SHORTLY THEREAFTER, MEANING, UM, LATER IN THE SUMMER, EARLY FALL, THAT THEN WE WOULD START GEARING THAT UP.
WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER PLANNING STUDY THAT'S GETTING READY TO RAMP UP AS WELL FOR THE, UM, SOUTH OF PATTERSON AREA.
BUT AGAIN, WE WOULD WANNA ACT ON THIS JUST SO THAT WE KEEP THE MOMENTUM AND WE ACTUALLY PLAN FOR THINGS RATHER THAN THEM FALLING IN OUR LAP.
KNIGHT POSE AGAIN, ONE OTHER ADVANTAGE OF MALTA FAMILY HOUSING IS TO TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF OF THE RURAL AREAS.
RIGHT NOW I'M ON ROCK CASTLE ROAD, WE HAVE 13 BY RIGHT HOUSES GOING WITHIN A QUARTER OF A MILE UP THERE THAT IS NOT RURAL.
SO HOPEFULLY IF WE GO TO MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING IN THE COMPLEXES AT CENTERVILLE AND HERE WILL TAKE SOME PRESSURE OFF OF THESE AREAS.
UM, RECENTLY THERE WAS A VERY DETAILED STUDY, UH, VDOT STUDY DONE ON FAIRGROUNDS ROAD.
UM, WAS THAT INCORPORATED INTO ANY OF YOUR THINKING REGARDING THE, UH, THE SMALL AREA PLAN? UH, TURN IT OVER TO, WE'LL LET OUR TRANSPORTATION MANAGER ANSWER THAT CUZ THAT COULD BE A DETAILED ANSWER.
AUSTIN GO TRANSPORTATION MANAGER FOR THE COUNTY.
UM, WE DIDN'T TAKE THE DATA ITSELF BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS WAS A VERY HIGH LEVEL APPROACH, BUT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE PROPOSED AS PART OF THE FAIRGROUND CORRIDOR STUDY WERE CERTAINLY IMPLEMENTED INTO THIS PLAN AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL.
BUT AS FAR AS THE SPECIFIC DATA POINTS, THEY, THEY, THEY WERE NOT A PART OF THIS PLAN.
SO, UM, WE'RE GONNA GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ONE OR TWO MORE QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'RE GONNA WORK ON WRAPPING IT UP AGAIN.
I WANNA REMIND EVERYONE THAT OUR NEXT STEPS, LOOKING AHEAD, WE HAVE OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS COMING UP.
ANY TAKERS GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE.
WELL, WE HOPE YOU WILL COME OUT THIS COMING WEEK TO OUR PLANNING COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS ON COURTHOUSE AND CENTERVILLE AS WELL AS TO OUR JUNE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THE FIF 12TH AND 15TH.
AND IF YOU'D LIKE, UM, ANY ADDITIONAL PLAN SPECIFIC INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 5 56 58 40 OR YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL US.
THOSE EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE THERE AND WE WILL BE MAKING ALL THIS INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE.
AND THIS MEETING HAS BEEN STREAMED, SO IT WILL BE RECORDED AND YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT.