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[I. CALL TO ORDER ]
MEETING FOR JUNE 17TH, 2026.AND MS. POTTER, WOULD YOU CALL THE ROLE COMMISSIONER MARNER? PRESENT? CHAIRMAN NEIL? PRESENT.
ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS FROM THE AGENDA? ANYONE LIKE TO PROPOSE? UH, IF NOT THEN WE'LL GO TO THE
[IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ]
APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE MAY 20TH, 2026 REGULAR MEETING.HAVE ALL THE MEMBERS HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE MINUTES AND THEN GETS HAPPY AND, UH, ANY CHANGES REQUESTED.
WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? I MOVE TO APPROVE THE REGULAR MEETING MINUTES FROM MAY 20TH, 2026.
ANY DISCUSSION? AND MS. POTTER, PLEASE CALL THE RULE VICE CHAIRMAN MARRAZZO? YES.
COMMISSIONER MARSH? OBJECTION.
AND NOW WE'RE AT THE PUBLIC COMMENTS NOT RELATED TO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND I DON'T SEE ANYONE HERE, BUT HAS ANYONE SIGNED UP? NO.
THEN WE'LL SKIP THAT PORTION AND WE
[VI. CONSENT AGENDA ]
WILL GO TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.WE HAVE ONE CONSENT AGENDA ON HERE FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION, UM, SUBMITTED BY THE ROADIE CLUB OF FRONT ROYAL FOR AN ARTISTIC MURAL SEATING 60 SQUARE FEET IN SIZE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING FACING INTERSECTION, NORTH COMMERCE AVENUE IN MANASSAS STREET, LOCATED 37 WATER STREET, IDENTIFIED BY TAX MAP 28 8 DASH SIX DASH C3, THE PROPERTY ZONE C TWO DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DISTRICT.
WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA TO PUBLICLY ADVERTISE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING IN JULY AS PRESENTED.
AND WOULD YOU GO AHEAD AND CALL THE ROLL COMMISSIONER MARSH? YES.
[VII. PUBLIC HEARING ]
PUBLIC HEARING SECTION OF THIS.UH, WE HAVE ONE APPLICATION HERE FOR A SPECIAL USE APPLICATION SUBMITTED BY ANDRE, A MONTESINOS ON BEHALF OF PROPERTY OWNER EAGLE SKY INDUSTRIAL PARK, LLC, TO ALLOW AN AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD JUNKYARD LOCATED AT 5 0 8 KENDRICK LANE, IDENTIFIED BY TAX MAP NUMBER 20 A ONE DASH THREE DASH FOUR PROPERTY ZONE I TWO INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT.
AND MR. WARE, DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION, JUST A BRIEF PRESENTATION FOR TONIGHT.
UH, APPLICATION 26 0 0 1 39 SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A JUNK YARD LOCATED AT 5 0 8 KENDRICK LANE.
IT IS IN THE I TWO INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT DISTRICT.
UH, SO JUNK YARD DEFINED BY TOWN CODE 1 75 3.
THAT'S ANY LAND OR BUILDING USED FOR THE ABANDONMENT, STORAGE, KEEPING, COLLECTING OR BAILING OF PAPER RAGS, SCRAP METAL, AND OTHER SCRAPS OR DISCARDED MATERIALS OR FOR THE ABANDONMENT, DEMOLITION, DISMANTLING STORAGE, OR SALVAGING OF AUTOMOBILES OR OTHER VEHICLES, NOT IN RUNNING CONDITION MACHINERY OR PARTS THEREOF.
THE TERM JUNKYARD SHALL BE INCLUDE THE TERM AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD, WHICH SHALL BE ANY LOT OR PLACE WHICH IS EXPOSED TO THE WEATHER UPON WHICH MORE THAN THREE MOTOR VEHICLES OF ANY KIND INCAPABLE OF BEING OPERATED ARE PLACED.
AND THAT DOES, AS I SAID, REQUIRES A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
THE AREA OUTLINED IN RED, THERE IS A PORTION OF THE PROPERTY, APPROXIMATELY SIX ACRES THAT THE APPLICANT WOULD LIKE TO USE OFF OF 5 0 8 KENDRICK LANE FOR SAID JUNKYARD.
UH, THERE'S THE AERIAL VIEW, UH, THERE OF THE FORMER OLD VIRGINIA COMPANY IN THE BUILDING THERE AT THE FRONT ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS.
AND THE AREA AGAIN, THERE IS HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW ON THE AERIAL VIEW OF THE MAP.
UH, THE PROPERTY IS, UH, THERE FOR NEXT TO THE RIVER.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAD QUESTIONS AT THE WORK SESSION ABOUT THIS.
UM, AND THERE'S THE FLOOD PLAIN.
SO THE DARK BLUE IS IN THE A E ZONE, UH, WHICH FORMALLY WAS CALLED THE 100 YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
AND THE LIGHT BLUE IS IN WHAT WE CALL, UH, FORMERLY CALLED THE FUP A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
UH, SO THE DARK BLUES, THE 1% OF ANNUAL FLOODING, UH, FORMERLY, LIKE I SAID, CALLED THE, UH, 100 YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
SO A PORTION OF THE AREA OUTLINED FOR THE SIX ACRES IS IN THE FLOODPLAIN.
UH, THAT'S THE, UH, MOST CURRENT AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY WE HAVE WITH, UH, THE TREES REMOVED.
UH, THERE YOU CAN SEE SOME DIRT EXPOSED
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THERE AND, UH, SEATED IN GRASS IN THAT AREA.THE CONTOURS, UH, IS A ELEVATION ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
AND YOU CAN SEE THERE ON THE, UH, LEFT PART WHERE WE HAVE THE DARK BLUE WITH THOSE CONTOURS, CONTOURS THAT FORM A V.
UH, USUALLY IT REPRESENTS A VALLEY.
SO THE WATER WOULD DRAIN IF I CAN GET, UH, MAYBE NOT.
SO THE WATER WOULD DRAIN FOLLOWING THE CONTOURS WOULD DRAIN FROM HERE FOLLOWING THE BE DOWN TO THE RIVER.
SAME ELEVATION GO AROUND THE PROPERTY.
SO THE WATER WOULD DRAIN THIS DIRECTION AND PERPENDICULAR TO A CONTOUR MINE.
SO SOME WATER WOULD GO THIS WAY AND SOME WATER WOULD GO IN THAT DIRECTION OR
YOU CAN SEE ON THE NORTH PART WHERE THOSE CONTOUR LINES ARE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER.
THAT REPRESENTS THE STEEPER THE SLOPE.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE IN THIS AREA HERE WHERE THE V IS FORMED.
SO THAT FORMS A VALLEY WHERE WATER WOULD DRAIN FROM HERE DOWN THIS DIRECTION AND DOWN INTO THE RIVER.
WATER HERE WOULD FLOW PERPENDICULAR TO THE LINE, MEANING IT GOES NORTH INTO HERE WHERE IT'S VERY STEEP AND GOES INTO A DRAINAGE DITCH HERE ON THE NORTH END OF THE PROPERTY.
AND WATER HERE WOULD FOLLOW 90 DEGREES OF THE LINE GOING IN THIS DIRECTION.
SO THERE IS A VALLEY HERE ON THE PROPERTY IN A VERY STEEP AREA JUST NORTH OF IT HERE, WHERE THESE CONTOUR LINES ARE EXTREMELY CLOSE TOGETHER, FORMING A REAL STEEP SLOPE THAT GOES INTO THIS DRAINAGE DITCH.
UH, YOU HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT LAST TIME.
SO WE PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE BIT OF TO GO OVER THAT.
SO A LITTLE BIT ON THE CONTOUR LINES.
EACH LINE REPRESENTS ITS, UH, SAME ELEVATION.
UH, SO YOU CAN SEE HERE AT THE TOP ON THE LEFT THAT WOULD BE A HIGH POINT OR A NULL AND CLOSER THE LINES GET TOGETHER IS STEEPER TO GROUND REPRESENTED HERE.
THEN WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM, WHEN YOU HAVE CONTOUR LINES THAT ARE SPACED FURTHER APART, THAT MEANS FLATTER OF THE GROUND AND KIND OF REPRESENTED YOU WANT LIKE A VISUAL OF YOUR HAND.
THERE'S THE HIGH POINT WATER WOULD FLOW THIS WAY AND DOWN THIS WAY.
AND AS IT GETS DOWN HERE WHERE IT'S FLATTER, UH, IT'S THE SLOPE IS LESS STEEP.
UH, SO THAT AREA DOES HAVE SOME, UH, QUESTIONABLE SLOPES IF YOU WOULD, WITH THE V FORMING HERE, COUNTING OFF WATER OFF THE SITE, GOING IN THIS DIRECTION TO THE RIVER AND ALSO HERE INTO THIS DRAINAGE DITCH.
SO YOU DID HAVE SOME CONCERNS, UH, AT THE WORK SESSION.
UH, YOU FORMED, UH, YOU'RE WELL AWARE IT WAS IN YOUR PACKET.
I BELIEVE THERE'S 12 QUESTIONS THAT, UH, WITH SOME BULLET POINTS THAT YOU SENT TO THE APPLICANT TO RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTIONS AT THE WORK SESSION.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR TONIGHT'S PART OF THE MEETING? ANYTHING? JUST, WAS ANY OF THIS IN THE, UM, THAT KARST REGION? IT IS IDENTIFIED, UH, IN THE KARST REGION OF THE COUNTY.
UH, I, WE DID NOT FIND ANY MAPS SHOWING ANY OF THE CAVES IN THIS AREA, BUT IT IS NOTED IT IS IN A KARST AREA OF THE COUNTY, WHICH IS AN ADDITIONAL RISK.
DID AND, UM, THE APPLICANT'S NOT HERE.
DID, WAS THERE, WAS THERE ANY, UM, THE SITE WOULD REQUIRE SUBSTANTIAL MITIGATION FOR RETAINING THE FLUIDS.
WAS ANY OF THOSE PLANS OR ANY OF THOSE THOUGHTS GIVEN, UM, THE QUESTIONS THAT WAS SENT TO THE APPLICANT? THEY DID NOT RESPOND IN WRITING AS OF TODAY, AS I'M AWARE OF.
THEY DID NOT RESPOND TO ANY OF YOUR, UH, QUESTIONS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAD HAD HAD, AND WE SORT FORWARD THOSE TO THE APPLICANT.
UH, THEY DID NOT ANSWER ANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU SENT TO THEM THAT HAD COME AVAILABLE.
TONIGHT'S MEETING TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
WHERE WAS THE SINKHOLE ON THIS MAP? UH, THE SINKHOLE WAS BASICALLY, UH, IN THIS AREA HERE.
IT WAS A SINKHOLE DEVELOPED HERE AND HERE WITH THE DRAIN.
AND THEN THAT PIPE WAS EXTENDED AND THAT OUTFLOW THAT CONTINUES, UH, THERE, SO THERE WAS A SAME COAL A COUPLE YEARS AGO THAT, THAT WAS ON THE PROPERTY, UH, FROM WATER STORM AND WATER RUNOFF.
THE PIPE WAS LENGTHENED, UH, BUT IT STILL DISSIPATES TOWARD
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THE RIVER WATER.UH, WHILE WAS THIS DRAINAGE AREA HERE DOWN THE RIVER, THIS COUNTY, YOU SEE THE STAR LINE ON, THAT'S THE, UH, DRAIN PIT THAT GOES INTO THE RIVER, THE AREA WHERE THE SLOPE.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS? NO.
AND THE APPLICANT'S NOT HERE, SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO THAT.
AND OP I'LL DO THE FORMALITY OF OPENING PUBLIC HEARING.
NO ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK CONNIE.
SO I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
I'LL EVEN GO THE LITTLE MAGIC THING THERE.
I GUESS I SHOULD DO IT TWICE WITH THE OTHER SIDE.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? I GUESS WE'RE AT THAT POINT.
I MOVE THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION FORWARD A RECOMMENDATION OF DENIAL FOR SPECIAL USE PERMIT 2 6 0 0 1 3 9 FOR AN AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARD JUNKYARD LOCATED AT 5 0 8 KENDRICK LANE, IDENTIFIED BY TAX MAP NUMBER 20 A 1 34 DUE TO DRAINAGE CONCERNS, PROXIMITY TO THE RIVER AND LACK OF DETAIL AS REGARDS TO, UH, LAND USE AND, UH, CONTAMINATION MITIGATION.
AND ANY OTHER, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION YOU WANTED TO SAY IN ADDITION TO THAT? OKAY.
THEN YOUR NEXT, CONNIE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING? YOU SECONDED IT? NOPE.
WE DISCUSSED THIS PRETTY THOROUGHLY AT THE WORK REFRESHER.
ANY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING? NO.
MR. BROOKS? I'M A LITTLE RELUCTANT ON DENYING IT OUTRIGHT ONLY BECAUSE, UM, THE APPLICANT MAY HAVE TO COME BACK A YEAR LATER IF THEY WANT THIS.
UM, I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO ASKING SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AND GETTING SOME OF THAT FEEDBACK FROM THE APPLICANT TODAY.
I DO RECOGNIZE STAFF'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE FLOOD PLAIN AND THE MANAGEMENT AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO PERSONALLY I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE, UM, INTERACTION WITH THE APPLICANT BETWEEN THIS COMMISSION AND THEM SO WE COULD KIND OF BETTER GAUGE WHAT, UH, WHAT THE PLANS FOR MITIGATION ARE ON THEIR END RATHER THAN OUTRIGHT DENYING IT.
UM, BUT I DO AGREE THAT, UM, APPROVAL AT THIS POINT IS PROBABLY NOT SUITABLE, PROBABLY NOT PRUDENT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
YEAH, I, I, FOR ME, ME LOOKING AT THIS TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, IT WOULD BE A HERCULEAN EFFORT OF MITIGATION WITH THE SLOPES IN THE SOILS AND THE, UM, CURSE REGIONS.
UH, SO I, I DON'T, I DON'T SEE HOW THIS COULD BE POSSIBLE EE ECONOMICALLY OR, OR VIABLE AND CERTAINLY ENVIRONMENTALLY.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? WOULD YOU GO AND PLEASE CALL THE ROLE VICE CHAIRMAN MARRAZZO? YES.
THE SECOND THING ON HERE WAS A, UM, A SPECIAL APPLICATION FOR RAMSEY, BUT I UNDERSTAND THIS WAS BEING WITHDRAWN.
YES, THE APPLICANT WITHDREW THE APPLICATION.
AND THERE'S NO FORMALITY WE NEED TO DO TO THAT ONCE? NO, HE SUBMITTED THAT IN WRITING TO STAFF.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE ALL THE WAY TO THE COMMISSION MEMBER REPORTS AND WE'LL WALK ON DOWN THE LINE.
YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING EITHER.
[IX. PLANNING DIRECTOR REPORT ]
SO PLANNING DIRECTOR REPORT.FOR THE MONTH OF MAY WE HAD, OR WE ISSUED 30, UH, ZONING PERMITS.
WE HAD FOUR NEW DWELLING UNITS BRINGING THE, THIS YEAR'S TOTAL TO FIVE.
UM, WE HAD 15 NEW CODE ENFORCEMENT CASES OPENED, UM, 18 INSPECTIONS OR RE-INSPECTIONS.
UM, AND THEN WHERE ARE WE ON OH EIGHT NEW BUSINESS LICENSES, BRINGING THIS YEAR'S TOTAL TO 42 BUSINESS LICENSES.
UM, AND THEN RIGHT OF WAY UTILIZATIONS.
SO WE HAD, UM, 204 WALK-INS TO PLANNING AND ZONING, BRINGING OUR TOTAL UP TO 956 FOR THE YEAR TO DATE, SO.
AND JUST ANY CLOSING COMMENTS FROM ANY OF THE MEMBERS? NO.
THEN WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVED.
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CHAIRMAN MARRAZZO? YES.WE ARE ADJOURNED AND JUMP RIGHT.