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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-15-2021 FORMAL SESSION AGENDA CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
"COMMUNITY FOR A LIFETIME"
CITY COUNCIL
MAYOR ROBERT M. "BOBBY"DYER,At Large BIce
VICE MAYOR JAMES L. WOOD,Lynnhaven-District 5 �N�
JESSICA P.ABBOTT,Kempsville-District 2
MICHAEL F.BERLUCCHI,Rose Hall-District 3
BARBARA M.HENLEY,Princess Anne-District 7 U ,. ` '
LOUIS R.JONES,Bayside-District 4 ` •
JOHND.MOSS,At Large 4+.*
AARONR.ROUSE,At Large �. ,,,. ,,,,to'‘'
GUYK.TOWER,Beach-District 6
ROSEMARY WILSON,At Large
SABRINA D. WOOTEN,Centerville-District I
CITY HALL BUILDING
CITY COUNCIL APPOINTEES CITY COUNCIL AGENDA 2401 COURTHOUSE DRIVE
CITY MANAGER-PATRICK A.DUHANEY VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA 23456-9005
CITY ATTORNEY-MARK D.STILES PHONE:(757)385-4303
CITY ASSESSOR-RONALD D.AGNOR June 15,2021 FAX(757)385-5669
CITY AUDITOR-LYNDONS.REMIAS E-MAIL:CITYCOUNCIL@vbgov.com
CITY CLERK-AMANDA BARNES
MAYOR ROBERT M. "BOBBY" DYER
PRESIDING
I. CITY MANAGER'S BRIEFING - Virginia Beach Convention Center- 2:00 PM
A. FY2021 MONTHLY FINANCIAL UPDATE
Letitia Shelton, Director—Finance
II. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION/INITIATIVES 2:15 PM
III. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS
IV. CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REVIEW 2:45 PM
V. INFORMAL SESSION -Virginia Beach Convention Center- 3:00 PM
A. CALL TO ORDER—Mayor Robert M. "Bobby" Dyer
B. CITY COUNCIL ROLL CALL
C. RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
VI. FORMAL SESSION -Virginia Beach Convention Center - 6:00 PM
A. CALL TO ORDER—Mayor Robert M. "Bobby"Dyer
B. INVOCATION
C. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
D. ROLL CALL OF CITY COUNCIL
E. CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED SESSION
F. MINUTES
1. INFORMAL and FORMAL SESSIONS June 1, 2021
2. SPECIAL SESSION June 8, 2021
G. PUBLIC COMMENT
1. Upcoming Changes to the City's Election System Resulting from the Recent Case of
Holloway, et al. v. City of Virginia Beach and recent changes to Virginia State Law
H. FORMAL SESSION AGENDA
1. CONSENT AGENDA
I. ORDINANCES/RESOLUTIONS
1. Ordinances to AMEND City Code Sections:
a. 2-20 re location of City Council Meetings
b. 2-83 re make Juneteenth a City Holiday(Requested by Mayor Dyer,Vice Mayor
Wood, Council Members Abbott,Berlucchi,Henley,Jones,Rouse,Tower, Wilson
and Wooten)
2. Resolution to ADOPT a Revised City Council Policy re remote participation by Council
Members in Council Meetings (Requested by City Council)
3. Ordinance to AMEND and REORDAIN Ordinance re continue expanded outdoor
restaurant seating until October 31,2021 (Requested by Council Member Tower)
4. Resolution to DIRECT the City Manager to submit a grant application re Virginia Beach
Trail(Requested by City Council)
5. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE extension of the employment contract re City Manager
(Requested by City Council)
6. Ordinances re Compensation to City Council Appointees effective July 1, 2021:
a. City Manager
b. City Attorney
c. City Clerk
d. City Real Estate Assessor
e. City Auditor
7. Ordinance to AMEND the 2021 Housing Choice Administrative Plan and AUTHORIZE
the City Manager to EXECUTE and SUBMIT the Plan Amendments to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)
8. Resolution to REQUEST the Voter Registrar apply for a waiver re administer split
precincts for Pembroke, College Park, Sherry Park, and Baker precincts for 2021
election
9. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE the City Manager to EXECUTE Use Agreements for the use
of a portion of City property located at the Dome Site re Megabus Northeast, LLC and
FlixBus, Inc.
10. Ordinance to APPOINT three (3) viewers for one-year terms beginning July 1, 2021 re
view each street or alley proposed to be closed
11. Resolution to PROVIDE a workers' compensation presumption re salaried Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) personnel
12. Resolutions to SUPPORT Revenue Sharing projects and AUTHORIZE the City Manager
to EXECUTE a Project Agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation
(VDOT):
a. #100183 First Colonial Road/Virginia Beach Boulevard Intersection Improvements
b. #100318 Princess Anne Road Phase VII
c. #100340 Rosemont Road Phase V
d. #100356 Sandbridge Road—Nimmo Parkway Phase VII-A
e. #100381 Shore Drive Corridor Improvement Phase III
13. Ordinance to AMEND FY2021-22 Housing and Neighborhood Preservation Operating and
Capital Budgets re adjustments
14. Ordinances to ACCEPT and APPROPRIATE:
a. Ordinance $2,571,194 from the Virginia Office of Children's Services,
TRANSFER$1,113,005 from the City Manager's Pandemic and Vaccine Support
Reserve to the FY2020-21 Human Services Operating Budget and
AUTHORIZE the use of$313,925 of existing non-personnel funds re Children's
Services Act program
b. $91,812 from Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to the
FY2020-21 Parks and Recreation Operating Budget re childcare programs
15. Ordinance to TRANSFER $33,303 from Capital Project #100424 "Traffic Safety
Improvements III"to Capital Project#100212"Independence Boulevard Baxter Road
Sidewalk"
J. PLANNING
1. OCEAN RENTAL PROPERTIES,LLC for a Change in Nonconformity re redevelop the
site with eight (8) new dwelling units where nine (9) exist at 416 Norfolk Avenue
DISTRICT 6—BEACH
RECOMMENDATION: STAFF—DENIAL
PLANNING COMMISSION—APPROVAL
2. SOUTH LYNNHAVEN, LLC for a Modification of Conditions re allow the vacation of
easements to construct office use at 877 South Lynnhaven Road DISTRICT 3 — ROSE
HALL (Approved August 13, 1984)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
APPLICANT REQUESTS DEFERRAL TO JULY 6, 2021
3. ROBIN GAUTHIER, CEO ON BEHALF OF SAMARITAN HOUSE, INC./
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA, EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF
SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA for a Conditional Use Permit re group home at 1593
Lynnhaven Parkway DISTRICT 1 —CENTERVILLE (Deferred from May 18, 2021)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
4. BPMS CASCADES 2, LLC for a Conditional Use Permit re mini-warehouses at 2121
Centerville Turnpike DISTRICT 1 —CENTERVILLE
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
5. SH CAMPUS, LLC/ ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH for a Conditional
Use Permit re group home at 3396 Stoneshore Road DISTRICT 3 —ROSE HALL
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
6. DIANA BUHRMANN / MICHAEL KORNOELJE for a Conditional Use Permit re
family day-care home at 998 Boughton Way DISTRICT 3 —ROSE HALL
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
7. MISTIE WOOD for a Conditional Use Permit re family day-care home at 1105 Voss Court
DISTRICT 7—PRINCESS ANNE
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
8. Ordinance to AMEND City Zoning Ordinance(CZO) Sections 210.2,212,215,216 and 217
re signs and billboards
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
9. Ordinances re Short Term Rentals:
a. AMEND City Zoning Ordinance (CZO) Section 102 re establish Short Term Rental
Overlay Districts,East Shore Drive,North End and Oceanfront Resort(Requested by
Vice Mayor Wood, Council Members Jones and Tower)
b. AMEND the Official Zoning Map by the Designation and Incorporation of Property
into Short Term Rental Overlay Districts-East Shore Drive,North End and Oceanfront
Resort District(Planning Commission Version)
c. AMEND Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521, and 2203 of the CZO and
Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code re Requirements and
Use of Short Term Rentals and Overlays (Planning Commission Version)
d. AMEND Section 241.2 of the CZO re Short Term Rentals and establishing Additional
Safety Requirements (Planning Commission Version)
e. ADD Article 23, Consisting of Sections 2300 - 2303, (Short Term Rental Overlay
Districts) to the CZO, establishing Regulations and Requirements re Short Term
Rentals in Each Overlay District(Planning Commission Version)
f. ESTABLISH Transitions Rules for the Review of Conditional Use Permits re Short
Term Rentals in the Short Term Rental Overlays (Requested by Vice Mayor Wood,
Council Members Jones and Tower)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
K. APPOINTMENTS
2040 VISION TO ACTION COMMUNITY COALITION
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COMMISSION
BAYFRONT ADVISORY COMMISSION
BEACHES AND WATERWAYS ADVISORY COMMISSION
BIKEWAYS AND TRAILS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
CHESAPEAKE BAY PRESERVATION AREA BOARD
CLEAN COMMUNITY COMMISSION
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION GRANT(COG)REVIEW AND ALLOCATION COMMITTEE
GREEN RIBBON COMMITTEE
HEALTH SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
INVESTIGATION REVIEW PANEL
MINORITY BUSINESS COUNCIL
OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STEERING COMMITTEE
SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD
TRANSITION AREA/INTERFACILITY TRAFFIC AREA CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
URBAN AGRICULTURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
VIRGINIA BEACH TOWING ADVISORY BOARD
L. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
M. NEW BUSINESS
N. ADJOURNMENT
If you are physically disabled or visually impaired
and need assistance at this meeting,
please call the CITY CLERK'S OFFICE at 385-4303
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Citizens who wish to speak can sign up either in-person at the Convention Center or virtually via
WebEx. Anyone wishing to participate virtually,must follow the two-step process provided
below:
1. Register for the WebEx at:
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2. Register with the City Clerk's Office by calling 757-385-4303 prior to 5:00 p.m. on June
15, 2021.
I. CITY MANAGER'S BRIEFING -Virginia Beach Convention Center- 2:00 PM
A. FY2021 MONTHLY FINANCIAL UPDATE
Letitia Shelton, Director—Finance
II. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION/INITIATIVES 2:15 PM
III. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS
IV. CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REVIEW 2:45 PM
V. INFORMAL SESSION -Virginia Beach Convention Center- 3:00 PM
A. CALL TO ORDER—Mayor Robert M. "Bobby" Dyer
B. CITY COUNCIL ROLL CALL
C. RECESS TO CLOSED SESSION
VI. FORMAL SESSION -Virginia Beach Convention Center- 6:00 PM
A. CALL TO ORDER—Mayor Robert M. "Bobby"Dyer
B. INVOCATION
C. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
D. ROLL CALL OF CITY COUNCIL
E. CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED SESSION
F. MINUTES
1. INFORMAL and FORMAL SESSIONS June 1, 2021
2. SPECIAL SESSION June 8, 2021
G. PUBLIC COMMENT
1. Upcoming Changes to the City's Election System Resulting from the Recent Case of
Holloway, et al. v. City of Virginia Beach and recent changes to Virginia State Law
H. FORMAL SESSION AGENDA
1. CONSENT AGENDA
I. ORDINANCES/RESOLUTIONS
1. Ordinances to AMEND City Code Sections:
a. 2-20 re location of City Council Meetings
b. 2-83 re make Juneteenth a City Holiday(Requested by Mayor Dyer,Vice Mayor
Wood, Council Members Abbott, Berlucchi,Henley,Jones,Rouse,Tower, Wilson
and Wooten)
2. Resolution to ADOPT a Revised City Council Policy re remote participation by Council
Members in Council Meetings(Requested by City Council)
3. Ordinance to AMEND and REORDAIN Ordinance re continue expanded outdoor
restaurant seating until October 31,2021 (Requested by Council Member Tower)
4. Resolution to DIRECT the City Manager to submit a grant application re Virginia Beach
Trail(Requested by City Council)
5. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE extension of the employment contract re City Manager
(Requested by City Council)
6. Ordinances re Compensation to City Council Appointees effective July 1, 2021:
a. City Manager
b. City Attorney
c. City Clerk
d. City Real Estate Assessor
e. City Auditor
7. Ordinance to AMEND the 2021 Housing Choice Administrative Plan and AUTHORIZE
the City Manager to EXECUTE and SUBMIT the Plan Amendments to the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD)
8. Resolution to REQUEST the Voter Registrar apply for a waiver re administer split
precincts for Pembroke, College Park, Sherry Park, and Baker precincts for 2021
election
9. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE the City Manager to EXECUTE Use Agreements for the use
of a portion of City property located at the Dome Site re Megabus Northeast, LLC and
FlixBus,Inc.
10. Ordinance to APPOINT three (3) viewers for one-year terms beginning July 1, 2021 re
view each street or alley proposed to be closed
11. Resolution to PROVIDE a workers' compensation presumption re salaried Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) personnel
12. Resolutions to SUPPORT Revenue Sharing projects and AUTHORIZE the City Manager
to EXECUTE a Project A eement with the Virginia Department of Transportation
(VDOT):
a. #100183 First Colonial oad/Virginia Beach Boulevard Intersection Improvements
b. #100318 Princess Anne Road Phase VII
c. #100340 Rosemont Road Phase V
d. #100356 Sandbridge Road—Nimmo Parkway Phase VII-A
e. #100381 Shore Drive Corridor Improvement Phase III
13. Ordinance to AMEND FY2021-22 Housing and Neighborhood Preservation Operating and
Capital Budgets re adjustments
14. Ordinances to ACCEPT and APPROPRIATE:
a. Ordinance $2,571,194 from the Virginia Office of Children's Services,
TRANSFER$1,113,005 from the City Manager's Pandemic and Vaccine Support
Reserve to the FY2020-21 Human Services Operating Budget and
AUTHORIZE the use of$313,925 of existing non-personnel funds re Children's
Services Act program
b. $91,812 from Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to the
FY2020-21 Parks and Recreation Operating Budget re childcare programs
15. Ordinance to TRANSFER $33,303 from Capital Project #100424 "Traffic Safety
Improvements III"to Capital Project#100212"Independence Boulevard Baxter Road
Sidewalk"
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
• AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: An Ordinance to Amend Section 2-20 of the City Code Regarding the Location
of City Council Meetings
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The City Charter provides that the City Council shall have the power
to adopt rules of procedure, including the time and place of holding regular meetings of
the Council. Based on this authority, the Council has provided the time, place, and
frequency of regular meetings in the City Code. Earlier in the COVID-19 Pandemic, the
City Council moved the meeting location for regular meetings to the Virginia Beach
Convention Center (the "VBCC") because of the additional space in the VBCC. In the
intervening months, there has been a mass vaccination effort, and for residents over the
age of twelve, those that desire a vaccine have had the opportunity to receive a vaccine.
Additionally, the Governor has updated guidance that allows for vaccinated residents to
return to activities reminiscent of life prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Considerations: Because the location of the City's regular meetings is codified
by ordinance, the attached ordinance makes the change to the section of the City Code
providing for the location of regular meetings. This change will return the regular meetings
to the Council Chambers in City Hall. As required by state law, a copy of the ordinance
is to be posted on the door of the current location for regular meetings, and a notice
provided in a newspaper having general circulation in the City at least seven days prior
to the meeting on July 6.
• Public Information: Public information will be provided through the normal
Council agenda process. If adopted, the ordinance will be posted on the door of the Suite
5 of the VBCC, and a public notice will be provided in the Beacon.
■ Attachment: Ordinance
Recommended Action: Approval
Requesting Department: Office of the City Manage
City Manager:/% 9
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 2-20 OF THE CITY
2 CODE REGARDING THE LOCATION OF CITY COUNCIL
3 MEETINGS
4
5 WHEREAS, the City Council moved the location of its regular meetings to the
6 Virginia Beach Convention Center to allow for additional space to comply with public
7 health measures;
8
9 WHEREAS, the mass vaccination efforts have provided the opportunity for
10 residents to receive vaccines;
11
12 WHEREAS, the Governor has loosened certain public health measures; and
13
14 WHEREAS, the City Council desires to move the location of its regular meetings
15 back to the Council Chamber in City Hall.
16
17 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
18 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, THAT:
19
20 1. Section 2-20 of the City Code is hereby amended and reordained to read as
21 follows:
22
23 Sec. 2-20. Time and place of regular meetings.
24
25 (a) Regular formal meetings of the council shall be held in the Council Chamber of the
26 City Hall Building, Municipal Center , Virginia
27 Beach, Virginia, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 6:00 p.m., unless such
28 date shall fall upon a legal holiday. However, in July and December of each year, regular
29 meetings shall instead be held on the first two (2) Tuesdays of the month at 6:00 p.m.
30 The council may also convene informal meetings on the dates of regular formal meetings
31 at such times as the council may deem appropriate, and on the second and fourth
32 Tuesday of every month except July and December. Informal meetings, which shall be
33 held in the Council Chamber, , and at which no
34 votes shall be cast, shall be for the purpose of discussing matters of interest to the council,
35 and receiving briefings/reports from the city manager, city staff and city boards,
36 commissions, committees and other city agencies. Closed session may be convened in
37 the Conference Room adjacent to the Council Chamber. The city manager shall notify the
38 public of the times of such informal meetings in advance thereof.
39
40 ....
41
42 2. The City Clerk shall cause a copy of this ordinance to be posted on the door of
43 Suite 5 of the Virginia Beach Convention Center and a notice of the location
44 change to be published in a newspaper having general circulation at least seven
45 days prior to the first regular meeting at the Council Chamber of the City Hall
46 Building.
47
48 3. This ordinance shall be effective for all regular meetings after July 1, 2021.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
h-u-6 i'Yl �cCity Manager's Office`" JCit ey's Office
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM j
ITEM: An Ordinance to Amend § 2-83 of the City Code to Make Juneteenth a City
Holiday
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Juneteenth holiday celebrates the emancipation of those who
had been enslaved in the United States. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of
the June 19, 1865, announcement of General Order 3 by Union Army General Gordon
Granger, proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas. Local celebrations of Juneteenth
often include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional
songs, and reading of works by noted African-American writers.
• Considerations: The attached ordinance codifies Juneteenth as a City Holiday.
The ordinance also authorizes use of existing funding to offset any increased costs
related to overtime.
• Public Information: Advertisement will be as part of the City Council agenda.
• Recommendations: Adopt the attached ordinance.
• Attachments: Ordinance
REQUESTED BY MAYOR DYER, VICE MAYOR WOOD, AND COUNCILMEMBERS
ABBOTT, BERLUCCHI, HENLEY, JONES, ROUSE, TOWER, WILSON AND
WOOTEN
REQUESTED BY MAYOR DYER, VICE MAYOR WOOD, AND COUNCILMEMBERS
ABBOTT, BERLUCCHI, HENLEY, JONES, ROUSE, TOWER, WILSON AND
WOOTEN
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND § 2-83 OF THE CITY CODE
2 TO MAKE JUNETEENTH A CITY HOLIDAY
3
4 Section Amended: § 2-83
5
6 WHEREAS, the Juneteenth holiday celebrates the emancipation of those who had
7 been enslaved in the United States;
8
9 WHEREAS, Juneteenth is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19,
10 1865, announcement of General Order 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger,
11 proclaiming freedom from slavery in Texas;
12
13 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
14 CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
15
16 1. The City Code of the City of Virginia Beach is hereby amended and reordained
17 to amend § 2-83 to read as follows:
18
19 Sec. 2-83. — Holidays.
20
21 (a) The following days are designated as full-paid "holidays" and shall be so
22 observed by the city. All permanent and probational merit employees shall be
23 covered by the provisions of this section.
24
25 (1) The first day of January (New Year's Day).
26 (2) The third Monday in January (Martin Luther King Day).
27 (3) The last Monday of May (Memorial Day).
28 (4) The nineteenth day of June (Juneteenth).
29 (45) The fourth day of July (Independence Day).
30 (56) The first Monday of September (Labor Day).
31 (67) The eleventh day of November (Veterans Day).
32 (78) The fourth Thursday of November (Thanksgiving Day).
33 (69) The day after the fourth Thursday of November (the day after
34 Thanksgiving Day).
35 (610) The twenty-fourth day of December (Christmas Eve).
36 (1-911)The twenty-fifth day of December (Christmas Day).
37 {11}
38 (12) Three (3) flexible personal holidays (to be taken as a personal,
39 national, religious or other holiday the city does not observe). Part-time
40 employees shall not be eligible for these holidays.
41
42 If any holiday enumerated in subsections (1) through (10) above falls on a
43 Saturday or Sunday, the city manager shall determine when the holiday will
44 be observed and shall so notify affected employees and the public at least
45 thirty (30) days prior to the holiday. If no such notice is provided by the city
46 manager, then when any holiday enumerated in subsections (1) through
47 (10) above falls on a Saturday, the Friday next preceding such a day shall
48 be a holiday, and when any holiday enumerated in subsections (1) through
49 (10) above falls on a Sunday, the Monday next following such day shall be
50 a holiday.
51
52 (b) In addition to the holidays prescribed in subsection (a) above, any other
53 day so declared by the mayor shall be a holiday.
54
55 (c) Part-time employees shall receive time off with pay for the proportionate
56 part of the day which would have normally been worked.
57
58 (d) Employees who have been in a nonpay status for more than fourteen
59 (14) days prior to any holiday shall not be eligible for compensation for
60 holidays subsections (1) through (11) listed in paragraph (a) above.
61
62 2. The City Manager is hereby authorized to make such transfers of existing
63 appropriations to offset any increased costs (such as overtime) related to the
64 City holiday authorized herein.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia this _ day of
, 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
Office of the City Attorney
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: A Resolution Adopting a Revised Policy for Remote Participation by
Councilmembers in Council Meetings
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: In March 2020, the City Council adopted a Policy for Remote
Participation by Councilmembers in Council Meetings ("Policy"), as authorized by the
Virginia Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"). The Policy enables one or more
councilmembers to participate from a remote location in City Council meetings, so long
as a quorum of the Council is physically assembled at the meeting location. The policy
currently authorizes a member to participate in the meeting from a remote location if: (1)
the member is unable to attend the meeting due to a temporary or permanent disability
or other medical condition that prevents the member's physical attendance ("medical
reason"); or(2) the member is unable to attend due to a personal matter, and the member
identifies with specificity the nature of the personal matter ("personal reason").
Participation for a personal reason currently is limited to twice per year, but there is no
limit with respect to participation for a medical reason.
• Considerations: Earlier this year, the FOIA was amended, effective July 1, 2021,
with respect to remote participation in two ways: (1) a member may also participate
remotely in an unlimited number of meetings if a family member's medical condition
required the member to provide care for the family member, thereby preventing the
member's physical attendance; and (2) the limit on remote participation for a personal
reason will be two meetings per year or 25% of the meetings held per year, rounded up
to the next whole number, whichever is greater. This resolution would adopt a revised
Policy that includes those two changes, effective July 1, 2021.
• Public Information: Public information will be provided through the normal
Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Resolution and Revised Policy
Requested by the City Council
REQUESTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
1 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A REVISED POLICY FOR
2 REMOTE PARTICIPATION BY COUNCILMEMBERS IN
3 COUNCIL MEETINGS
4
5 WHEREAS, in March 2020, the City Council adopted a Policy for Remote
6 Participation by Councilmembers in Council Meetings ("Policy"), as authorized by the
7 Virginia Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA");
8
9 WHEREAS, the Policy enables one or more councilmembers to participate from a
10 remote location in City Council meetings, so long as a quorum of the Council is physically
11 assembled at the meeting location, if: (1) the member is unable to attend the meeting
12 due to a temporary or permanent disability or other medical condition that prevents the
13 member's physical attendance ("medical reason"); or(2) the member is unable to attend
14 due to a personal matter, and the member identifies with specificity the nature of the
15 personal matter ("personal reason");
16
17 WHEREAS, the Policy provides that participation for a personal reason is limited
18 to twice per year, but there is no limit with respect to participation for a medical reason;
19
20 WHEREAS, earlier this year, the FOIA was amended, effective July 1, 2021, with
21 respect to remote participation in two ways: (1) a member may also participate remotely
22 in an unlimited number of meetings if a family member's medical condition required the
23 member to provide care for the family member, thereby preventing the member's
24 physical attendance; and (2) the limit on remote participation for a personal reason will
25 be two meetings per year or 25% of the meetings held per year, rounded up to the next
26 whole number, whichever is greater;
27
28 WHEREAS, the attached revised Policy includes those two changes in order to
29 make the Policy consistent with the change in law, effective July 1, 2021 .
30
31 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
32 OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, THAT:
33
34 The City Council hereby adopts the attached revised policy, effective July 1, 2021.
35
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
City Attorney's Office
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Title: Policy for Remote Participation by Councilmembers in Council Meetings
Date of Adoption:March 31,2020 Dates of Revisions: Page 1 of 2
1.0 Purpose and Need
The purpose of this policy is to enable members of the City Council to participate in City Council
meetings remotely, by electronic communication means, in accordance with the Virginia Freedom
of Information Act.
2.0 Policy
It is the policy of the Virginia Beach City Council that individual members of the Council may
participate in Council meetings by electronic means as permitted by Virginia Code § 2.2-3708.2 or
its successor provision. This policy shall apply to the entire membership and without regard to the
identity of the member requesting remote participation or the matters that will be considered or
voted on at the meeting.
2.1 The Request and Eligibility Criteria
Whenever an individual member wishes to participate from a remote location, the member shall
notify the Mayor and Clerk on or preferably before the day of the meeting that (1) the member is
unable to attend the meeting due to a temporary or permanent disability or other medical condition
that prevents the member's physical attendance or due to a family member's medical condition that
requires the member to provide care for such family member, thereby preventing the member's
physical attendance ("medical reason"); or (2) the member is unable to attend due to a personal
matter and the member identifies with specificity the nature of the personal matter ("personal
reason"). Participation for a personal reason is limited to two meetings per calendar year or 25% of
the meetings held per calendar year, rounded up to the next whole number, whichever is greater.
2.2 Quorum and Minutes Requirements
A quorum of the Council must be physically assembled at the primary meeting location in erdec-to
enable remote participation by a member, and arrangements must be made for the voice of the
remote participant to be heard by all persons at the primary meeting location.
The reason that the member is unable to attend the meeting and the remote location from which
the member participates shall be recorded in the meeting minutes. If the reason for the remote
participation is kw-a medical reason, the minutes shall include a statement to that a temporary or
permanent disability or other medical condition prevented the member's physical
attendance at the primary meeting location or that a family member's medical condition required
the member to provide care for such family member, thereby preventing the member's physical
attendance. While the fact that a disability or
attendance must be recorded+r}4The minutes do not need to included is not required tip-identify
the specific disability or medical condition or, if applicable, the identity of the family member. If
instead the member is unable to attend due to a personal reason, the minutes must include the
specific nature of the personal matter.
Title: Policy for Remote Participation by Councilmembers in Council Meetings
Date of Adoption: Dates of Revisions: Page 2 of 2
2.3 Challenges
If a member's proposed participation from a remote location is challenged by another member as
being inconsistent with this policy, then the Council shall vote on whether to allow such
participation. If the Council votes to disapprove the member's remote participation because such
participation would violate this policy, such disapproval shall be recorded in the minutes with
specificity.
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: An Ordinance to Amend and Reordain Ordinance #3616M to Continue
Expanded Outdoor Restaurant Seating Until October 31, 2021
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: During the early portion of the Public Health Emergency,
restaurants were limited to takeout service and outdoor seating. In response to these
limitations, the City Council adopted Ordinance #3616M (ORD #3616M) on May 14,
2020. ORD #3616M allowed the expanded use of outdoor restaurant seating and
authorized the City Manager or designee to issue temporary permits for the use of
public property provided such use complied with relevant public health, alcohol
beverage control, and public safety requirements. ORD #3616M requires temporary
outdoor restaurant permits to expire 30 days after the expiration of the Statewide
Declaration of Public Health Emergency.
• Considerations: To allow certainty to the restaurant industry, the attached
ordinance amends and reordains ORD #3616M to allow temporary outdoor restaurant
permits to expire on or before October 31 , 2021. All other permissions and
requirements of ORD #3616M will continue in full force and effect.
• Public Information: Public information will be provided through the normal
Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance; Exhibit A (ORD #3616M)
Requested by Councilmember Tower
REQUESTED BY COUNCILMEMBER TOWER
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REORDAIN
2 ORDINANCE #3616M TO CONTINUE EXPANDED
3 OUTDOOR RESTAURANT SEATING UNTIL
4 OCTOBER 31, 2021
5
6 WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance #3616M (ORD #3616M) on May
7 14, 2020, which is attached hereto as Exhibit A;
8
9 WHEREAS, ORD#3616M allowed the expanded use of outdoor restaurant seating
10 and authorized the City Manager or designee to issue temporary permits for the use of
11 public property provided such use complied with relevant public health, alcohol beverage
12 control, and public safety requirements;
13
14 WHEREAS, ORD#3616M requires temporary outdoor restaurant permits to expire
15 30 days after the expiration of the Statewide Declaration of Public Health Emergency;
16 and
17
18 WHEREAS, to allow certainty to the restaurant industry, the City Council desires
19 to amend and reordain ORD #3616M to provide a date certain for the expiration of the
20 temporary outdoor restaurant permits authorized by such ordinance;
21
22 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
23 OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA THAT:
24
25 ORD #3616M is hereby amended and reordained to provide all temporary outdoor
26 restaurant permits authorized by ORD #3616M shall expire on October 31, 2021. All
27 other permissions and requirements of ORD #3616M shall continue in full force and
28 effect.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on this
day of , 2021.
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Exhibit A
ORD - . 3616M
REQUESTED BY MAYOR DYER AND VICE MAYOR WOOD
1 AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE EXPANDED USE
2 OF OUTDOOR RESTAURANT SEATING AND TO
3 AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO APPROVE
4 TEMPORARY OUTDOOR DINING PERMITS
5
6 WHEREAS, by Executive Order No. 61, dated May 8, 2020, the Governor of
7 Virginia initiated Phase 1 of reopening restaurants from ordered closures due to the
8 COVID-19 Pandemic;
9
10 WHEREAS, as part of Phase 1, restaurants are permitted to reopen to the extent
11 they only have seating in outdoor spaces with limited capacity and adequate spacing;
12
13 WHEREAS, the Governor's Executive Orders have provided additional procedural
14 and regulatory discretion to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, and
15 pursuant to such Executive Orders, the Authority has issued guidance for outdoor dining
16 in Topic 16, issued May 13, 2020; and
17
18 WHEREAS, the City Council desires to provide additional opportunities for Virginia
19 Beach restaurants to serve patrons during Phase 1 and subsequent loosening of
20 business restrictions, as provided herein.
21
22 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
23 OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA THAT:
24
25 1. The City Council hereby approves the expanded use of outdoor restaurant
26 seating provided the facilities comply with the Governor's Executive Orders, including but
27 not limited to Executive Orders 61 and 62 and any subsequent orders, and the rules
28 promulgated by the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority, including but not limited
29 to Topic 16.
30
31 2. The City Council hereby authorizes the City Manager or designee to issue
32 temporary permits for use of public property for outdoor dining at restaurants during those
33 phases of reopening wherein the Governor has limited indoor serving of patrons in
34 restaurants. For purposes of this ordinance, the term "restaurant" shall mean an existing
35 business with a business license to operate as a restaurant. The permitted area for
36 outdoor dining shall be adjacent to, or in close proximity to, the restaurant. Any permit
37 authorized by this ordinance shall require the permittee to comply with applicable public
38 health, alcohol beverage control, and public safety requirements, including but not limited
39 to the requirements contained in the Governor's Executive Orders pertaining to COVID-
40 19 and related guidelines.
41
42 Such permit shall be in the form of a revocable license and of similar legal effect
43 as those encroachments authorized by Article VI of Chapter 33 of the City Code. The
44 permits may include any public property not otherwise necessary for safe and accessible
45 pedestrian, bicycle, or vehicular traffic. The permit shall require the same indemnity and
46 insurance provisions as those set forth in § 33-113(dX2) and (dX3)of the City Code.
47
48 No fee shall be assessed for the processing of permit applications, and it is the
413 desire of the City Council that City staff prioritize and process applications promptly. The
50 denial of such permit may be appealed to the City Manager, and the denial by the City
51 Manager may be appealed to the City Council.
52
53 3. Any authorization provided by this ordinance or permit issued pursuant to
54 this ordinance shall automatically expire thirty (30) days after the end of the Statewide
55 Declaration of Public Health Emergency unless sooner terminated. A permit may be
56 revoked for the noncompliance with any requirement of the permit, and the continued
57 occupancy of City property after revocation may be remedied in the same manner as
58 authorized for unlawful encroachments.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on this
day of_ , 2020.
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: A Resolution to Direct the City Manager to Submit a Grant Application for the
Virginia Beach Trail
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Norfolk Southern railroad right-of-way is an approximate 12-
mile tract of land extending from the Norfolk jurisdictional boundary to the Oceanfront.
The City has reserved this property for the future development of the Virginia Beach Trail
(VB Trail). The VB Trail has the potential to dramatically improve connectivity and offer
enhanced pedestrian and bicycle opportunities.
• Considerations: The attached resolution directs the City Manager to submit a
grant application for RAISE federal funding. The resolution also authorizes the City
Manager to retain consultants and/or engineers to assist in preparation of the grant
application. The deadline for this grant application is July 12, 2021. The anticipated total
project cost for this segment of the VB Trail is up to $15 million, of which the federal
portion requested will be up to $12 million. If awarded, the City would provide a $3 million
local match.
• Public Information: Advertisement will be as part of the City Council agenda.
• Recommendations: Adopt the attached resolution.
• Attachments: Ordinance
REQUESTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
REQUESTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
1 A RESOLUTION TO DIRECT THE CITY MANAGER TO
2 SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE VIRGINIA
3 BEACH TRAIL
4
5 WHEREAS, the Virginia Beach Trail (VB Trail) is a multi-purpose path that will be
6 located on the former Norfolk Southern railroad right-of-way; and
7
8 WHEREAS, the City Council desires that a grant application be made for the
9 federal RAISE funding opportunity for the VB Trail.
10
11 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
12 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, THAT:
13
14 The City Manager is hereby directed to make a grant application for the VB Trail
15 in the upcoming RAISE funding opportunity, and the City Manager is authorized to use
16 existing funds to retain consultants and/or engineers in furtherance of such grant
17 application.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: An Ordinance to Authorize Extension of the Employment Contract for the City
Manager
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The City Council appointed Patrick Duhaney as City Manager in
June 2020 and approved his employment contract for the term of July 20, 2020 to July
19, 2022. The City Council and the City Manager desire to extend his contract by three
years.
• Considerations: This ordinance authorizes the Mayor to execute the attached
contract extension on behalf of the City.
• Public Information: Public information will be provided through the normal
Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance; Amendment to Employment Agreement, and
Employment Agreement
Requested by City Council
REQUESTED BY CITY COUNCIL
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF THE
2 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT FOR THE CITY MANAGER
3
4 WHEREAS, the City Council appointed Patrick Duhaney as City Manager in June
5 2020 and approved his employment contract for the term of July 20, 2020 to July 19,
6 2022; and
7
8 WHEREAS, the City Council desires to extend his contract by three years.
9
10 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
11 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, THAT:
12
13 The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the attached contract extension on
14 behalf of the City.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day of
, 2021.
APPROVED AS TO
LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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AMENDMENT
TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,VIRGINIA
AND
PATRICK DUHANEY
This Amendment, dated this day of June,2021,is by and between the City of Virginia
Beach, a body politic and corporate and political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia
("City"), and Patrick Duhaney("Employee") (collectively referred to herein as the"parties"), and
amends the Employment Agreement entered into by the parties on June 23, 2020 ("Employment
Agreement").
Whereas, the term of the Employment Agreement is July 20, 2020 to July 19, 2022, unless
extended by mutual agreement of the City and the Employee, and whereas, the City and the
Employee desire to extend the term of the Employment Agreement for three additional years.
WITNESSETH:
THAT FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the promises and agreements contained
herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the Employment Agreement is hereby modified as follows:
1. TERM: The City and the Employee agree to the extension of the Employment Agreement
for the period of July 20, 2022 through July 19, 2025.
2. All the other terms, conditions, requirements, and provisions of the Employment
Agreement shall remain in force and effect.
WITNESS the following signatures:
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH EMPLOYEE
Mayor City Manager Patrick Duhaney
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
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This Agreement is entered into this ,v3 day of �LA (�� , 2020 by and
between the CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, a municipal corporation, hereinafter
referred to as"City"and Patrick Duhaney, hereinafter referred to as "Employee."
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS,the City wishes to hire Employee as its City Manager,
WHEREAS,Employee agrees to accept such employment; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto desire to set forth herein the terms and conditions of such
continued employment.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and obligations set
forth herein and other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Article I—Duties
(a) Employee shall perform the functions and duties of the position of City Manager in
accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of Virginia Beach and all other applicable
statutes and ordinances.
(b) Employee shall perform such functions and duties in accordance with the policy
and direction of the City Council.
(c) Employee shall also perform any other legally permissible duties or functions as
the City Council may deem appropriate to assign him at any time during the term hereof.
Article Il—Term of Agreement
(a) Except as otherwise provided herein,this Agreement shall commence July 20,2020
and end July 19, 2022, unless extended by mutual agreement of the City and Employee.
(b) Except as provided by Article III, below,during the term hereof, Employee agrees
to remain in the exclusive employ of the City.
(c) Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit in any way the authority of City Council to
terminate Employee at any time; provided, however that such termination shall be in accordance
with the provisions of Article III, below.
(d) Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the right of Employee to voluntarily resign;
provided, however,that such resignation shall he in accordance with Article III, below
Article Ill—Termination and Resignation: Severance Pay
(a) In the event Employee is terminated by the City before the expiration of the term
of this Agreement,he shall receive as severance pay an amount equal to twelve(12)
months of his annual gross salary. In addition, City shall pay the total cost of
COBRA continuation coverage for a period not to exceed nine months or until such
time as Employee secures alternative employment providing employer-provided
health benefits, whichever is earlier. Employee shall also be entitled to payment of
all leave accrued as of the date termination in accordance with existing City policy.
Except as provided in this paragraph, all other benefits shall cease as of the date of
termination. However, if Employee is terminated for misfeasance, malfeasance, or
nonfeasance in office, all compensation by the City shall end as of the date of
termination
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(b) If Employee voluntarily resigns, then all compensation and benefits shall cease as
of the effective date of such resignation. Employee shall give the City ninety (90) days written
notice of any such resignation; provided, however, it is expressly understood that City Council
may, in its sole discretion waive any or all of this ninety(90)day notice requirement.
(c) In the event the City,at any time during the employment of Employee,reduces the
salary or other fringe benefits of Employee by a percentage greater than the percentage of any
across-the-board reduction for all City employees, or refuses to comply with any other provisions
of the Agreement benefiting Employee,or in the event Employee resigns following the request of
a majority of the members of City Council that he resign; then Employee may, at his option, be
deemed to have been "terminated", and shall receive severance pay and benefits in accordance
with Article III (a)of this Agreement.
Article IV—Corn pensation
This Agreement contemplates that the salary and benefits set forth herein may be adjusted
by City Council annually,by ordinance.
City Council agrees to pay Employee for services rendered pursuant hereto an annual gross
salary of two hundred and seventy thousand dollars($270,000),payable in installments at the same
time and in the same manner as other City employees are paid. Such annual gross salary will be
increased annually by ordinance in an amount no less than the average increase for all other City
employees for the corresponding fiscal year unless Employee has received an unsatisfactory
performance evaluation.
In addition to the annual gross salary described above, the City agrees to contribute an
amount equal to 6 percent of Employee's salary, not to exceed the maximum permissible annual
3
contribution for which Employee is eligible, as announced by the Intenial Revenue Services for
each calendar year, distributed equally over the annual biweekly payroll cycle per year as deferred
compensation, for the benefit of Employee, to the International City Management Retirement
Corporation. This amount may be adjusted by City Council annually, by ordinance.
Article V—Automobile Allowance
in lieu of supplying a City-owned vehicle for use by Employee in conducting City business,
City agrees to pay Employee a car allowance as additional salary in the sum of seven hundred and
fifty Dollars($750)per month and in addition,Employee shall be reimbursed for business mileage
at the same rate at which other City employees are reimbursed. Said sum for car allowance may
he increased from time to time by action of the City Council. in consideration thereof, Employee
shall provide his own vehicle and shall be solely responsible for all fuel, maintenance, insurance,
and other expenses related thereto. This allowance amount may be adjusted by City Council
annually, by ordinance.
Article VI —Temtaorari Housin and Moving Ex )enses
Employee shall be required to establish residency within the City of Virginia Beach. City
will reimburse the actual cost of temporary housing in an amount of up to $12,000 to Employee
until permanent housing can he secured. In addition, the City will pay for usual and customary
moving expenses for Employee to relocate to Virginia Beach. Employee will adhere to City
guidelines for payment of moving expenses.
4
Article VII—Fringe Benefits
(a) In addition to the Compensation set forth in Article IV and the Automobile
Allowance set forth in Article V, the City agrees to provide the same hospitalization and medical
insurance, including dental and vision coverage, available to all City employees in accordance
with existing City policies and ordinances to the same extent as other City employees. Employee
shall pay any premium or other cost associated with participation in these benefit programs on the
same terms as all other City employees. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent changes in
the nature of such benefits to Employee should such benefits be subsequently altered for all other
City employees.
(b) Except as set forth in this Article VII, Employee shall receive fringe benefits such
as paid time off ("PTO"), life insurance, hospitalization and medical insurance, Virginia
Retirement System benefits, etc. in accordance with existing City policies and ordinances as
applicable to all other City employees. Nothing herein shall be constructed to prevent changes in
the nature of such benefits to Employee should such benefits be subsequently altered for all other
City employees. Employee shall be credited with 15 days PTO on the first day of employment and
then accrue PTO at the maximum rate allowed City employees under the City Code. Employee
shall also receive 40 hours of executive leave annually.
Article VIII—Hours of Employment
It is recognized that the nature of Employee's position requires flexible hours. Therefore,
Employee in consideration of his compensation shall work whatever hours arc necessary to
satisfactorily perform the functions and duties of City Manager.
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{ Article IX— Dues and Subscriptions
City agrees to pay professional dues and subscriptions of Employee necessary for its
membership and participation in national, regional, state, and local associations and organizations
of a job-related nature(including the International City and County Management Association)and
for travel and associated expenses of Employer to secure his attendance at professional meetings
and conferences, as budgeted and approved by the City Council.
Article X—General Business-Related Expenses
Except as specifically provided in Articles V and VIII, the City agrees to reimburse
Employee for job-related expenditures in accordance with existing City policy
Article XI—Other Terms and Conditions of Employment
(a) The City agrees to evaluate the performance of Employee after six months of
employment and thereafter at least once each year. All aspects of such evaluation shall be treated
confidentially by the City and Employee subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act.
(b) The City Council may at any time prescribe any other terms and conditions of
employment related to Employee's performance as City Manager as it may deem necessary,
provided such terms and conditions are not inconsistent with the specific provisions of this
Agreement.
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(c) City agrees to provide self-insurance coverage and legal counsel for Employee in
matters relating to his official duties within the scope of his employment,as is provided to all other
City employees.
(d) All provisions of state or city law or policy relating to terms and conditions of
municipal employment generally as they now exist or may hereafter be amended shall apply to
Employee; provided however, that should any such law or policy be so changed as to be
inconsistent with the terms hereof,this Agreement shall be deemed amended so as to comply with
such law or policy.
(e) The text herein shall constitute the entire Agreement between the parties and shall
only be amended by a writing executed by both parties.
(f) If any provision hereof shall be deemed unlawful, invalid, ultra vires, or otherwise
unenforceable, the remainder of the Agreement shall be deemed severable and shall remain in full
force and effect.
(g) This Agreement supersedes any other agreement between the parties.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City of Virginia Beach has caused this Agreement to be
executed on its behalf by its mayor in accordance with an ordinance of the City Council authorizing
such execution, and Employee, Patrick Duhaney, has executed this Agreement, both the day and
year first above written.
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AGENDA ITEM 1
ITEMS: Ordinances Pertaining to the Compensation of the City Manager, City
Attorney, City Clerk, City Real Estate Assessor, and City Auditor
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: City Code § 2-89 provides that the City Council shall determine,
on an annual basis, the compensation of the City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk,
City Real Estate Assessor, and City Auditor, all of whom are directly appointed by the
City Council.
• Considerations: These ordinances set the compensation amounts for the
appointees, effective July 1, 2021 .
• Public Information: Public information will be provided through the normal
Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Five ordinances
Requested by City Council
1 AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE
2 COMPENSATION OF THE CITY MANAGER
3
4 WHEREAS, Section 2-89 of the City Code provides that the direct appointees of
5 the City Council shall have their salaries and benefits determined annually by action of
6 City Council;
7
8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
9 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
10
11 That the annual salary of the City Manager shall remain at $270,000, his car
12 allowance shall remain at $9,000 annually, and the City's contribution to his deferred
13 compensation account shall remain at $16,200.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 2021 .
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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1 AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE
2 COMPENSATION OF THE CITY ATTORNEY
3
4 WHEREAS, Section 2-89 of the City Code provides that the direct appointees of
5 the City Council shall have their salaries and benefits determined annually by action of
6 City Council.
7
8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
9 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
10
11 That the annual salary of the City Attorney shall remain at $234,273, the City's
12 contribution to his deferred compensation plan shall remain at $10,000 annually, and his
13 car allowance shall remain at $10,000 annually.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
City Attorney's Office
CA 15448
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June 4, 2021
1 AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE
2 COMPENSATION OF THE CITY CLERK
3
4 WHEREAS, Section 2-89 of the City Code provides that the direct appointees of
5 the City Council shall have their salaries and benefits determined annually by action of
6 City Council.
7
8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
9 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
10
11 That, effective July 1 , 2021 , the annual salary of the City Clerk shall be $109,788,
12 and the City's contribution to her deferred compensation account shall remain at $6,000
13 annually.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
City Attorney's Office
CA 15449
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1 AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE
2 COMPENSATION OF THE CITY REAL
3 ESTATE ASSESSOR
4
5 WHEREAS, Section 2-89 of the City Code provides that the direct appointees of
6 the City Council shall have their salaries and benefits determined annually by action of
7 City Council;
8
9 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
10 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
11
12 That, effective July 1 , 2021, the annual salary of the City Real Estate Assessor
13 shall be $159,194, and the City's contribution to his deferred compensation plan shall
14 remain at $6,000 annually.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
City Attorney's Office
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June 4, 2021
1 AN ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO THE
2 COMPENSATION OF THE CITY AUDITOR
3
4 WHEREAS, Section 2-89 of the City Code provides that the direct appointees of
5 the City Council shall have their salaries and benefits determined annually by action of
6 City Council; and
7
8 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
9 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
10
11 That, effective July 1 , 2021, the annual salary of the City Auditor shall be $140,248,
12 and his car allowance shall remain at $6,000 annually.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 2021 .
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
City Attorney's Office
CA15447
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June 4, 2021
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM l
ITEM: An Ordinance to Amend the 2021 Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan
and to Authorize the City Manager to Execute and Submit the Plan Amendments
to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The City's Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation
("DHNP") operates the federally funded Housing Choice Voucher program ("HCV
Program"), formerly known as the Section 8 Program. The U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development("HUD") requires agen cies that operate HCV programs to submit
(1) an Annual Agency Plan for each fiscal year in which federal funding is received for its
HCV program, and (2) an HCV Administrative Plan. The City Council annually reviews
and approves these plans.
On May 10, 2021, DHNP was notified that itwould receive funding for 35new emergency
housing vouchers under the American Rescue Plan Act ("ARPA"). Utilization of these
vouchers requires amendment of DHNP's HCV Administrative Plan.
• Considerations: The HCV Administrative Plan detailsthe policies and procedures
that govern the day-to-day operation of the HCV Program. The proposed amendments
are needed to allow DHNP to use the emergency housing vouchers. Without the
amendments,the vouchers cannot be utilized as intended.
• Public Information: Normal Council agenda process.
• Recommendations: Adopt the attached ordinance.
• Attachments: Ordinance,Summary of Amendments
Recommended Action: Approval A
Submitting Department/Agency: sing & Neighborhood Preservation
City Manager:/0
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE 2021 HOUSING CHOICE
2 VOUCHER ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN AND TO AUTHORIZE
3 THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AND SUBMIT THE
4 PLAN AMENDMENTS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
5 HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
6
7 WHEREAS, the City's Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation
8 ("DHNP") operates the federally funded Housing Choice Voucher Program ("NOV"),
9 formerly known as the Section 8 Program;
10
11 WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD")
12 requires agencies that operate HCV programs to submit an HCV Administrative Plan
13 which was previously approved;
14
15 WHEREAS, the City has been made aware of emergency housing vouchers
16 authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act ("ARPA"); and
17
18 WHEREAS,DHNP proposes edits to the HCV Administrative Plan that are needed
19 to utilize the emergency housing vouchers authorized by ARPA.
20
21 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
22 VIRGINIA BEACH,VIRGINIA, THAT:
23
24 1. The DHNP HCV Administrative Plan amendments to allow use of emergency
25 housing vouchers for the Housing Choice Voucher Program are hereby
26 approved, provided such amendments conform in all material aspects to the
27 Summary of Amendments attached hereto.
28
29 2. The City Manager is hereby authorized to execute and submit the plan
30 amendments and any certifications regarding such amendments to the U.S.
31 Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach,Virginia on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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Summary of Amendments
Housing Choice Voucher Administrative Plan
In order to Utilize Emergency Housing Vouchers
This document summarizes the content of the plan amendments that will be submitted to HUD in
order to comply with the requirements for utilizing Emergency Housing Vouchers allocated under
the American Rescue Plan act.
1. Regarding eligibility for assistance, for the Emergency Housing Vouchers we will follow the
policies defined in 3.111 of our administrative plan with the following exceptions:
a. We will only search criminal records for the previous 12 months rather than 5 years.
b. We will not bar households which owe a debt to any PHA.
c. We will not bar households for criminal drug activity unless the household member is
"currently engaged" in the activity.
These changes are program requirements.
2. We will not maintain a separate waiting list for EHVs. We will accept referrals from Virginia
Beach's Continuum of Care, which is the Homeless Resource Center.
3. The minimum rent will be $0. This differs from our policy in 6.III.A which defines the minimum
rent for regular voucher holders as $50.
4. We will not follow the preferences laid out in our administrative plan in 4.III.C. Instead, we will
give preferences to families with adjusted monthly income of between 0 and 30% of the
median, and families with a household member receiving SSI or SSDI or Social Security, and
families with minor children.
5. The initial voucher length will not be 60 days as in 5-II.E of our administrative plan. The initial
voucher length will be 120 days.
6. We will grant up to 2 30-day extensions of the initial voucher, based on the recommendation of
the household's assigned housing locator.
7. Payment standards for 1- and 2-bedroom vouchers will be set at 120% of the Fair Market Rent,
and at 110%of the FMR for all other sized vouchers.
8. The EHV program allocates$3500 for each of the 35 vouchers, and that money may be used for
household support. We will adopt the following policy:
a. The amount of financial support will be related to household size.
b. The money may be spent on household items including but not limited to furniture and
cooking items, or on landlord incentives to ensure rapid lease up, or some combination
of the two. This will be at the discretion of the assigned housing locator.
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM J
ITEM: A Resolution to Request the Voter Registrar Apply for a Waiver to Administer Split
Precincts
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The 2020 General Assembly amended the Virginia Code (§ 24.2-
307) to require the elimination of split precincts for elections held in November 2021 and
all subsequent elections. The governing bodies of localities are required to establish
precincts that are wholly contained within a single congressional district, Senate district,
House of Delegates district, and local election district. The Virginia Code sets a date of
June 15 for the completion of precinct alignment for a November election. The City has
not eliminated its split precincts because delays in the release of 2020 Census data have
pushed back the decennial redistricting process for the Commonwealth and the City.
Section 24.2-307 allows a governing body to request a waiver from the State Board of
Elections to administer split precincts.
• Considerations: This action makes no change to any current precinct boundary
or polling place. Rather, this request seeks to administer the City's precincts in their
current form.
The City has four (4) precincts that are split among the house districts, Pembroke
(Precinct 0039), College Park (Precinct 0041), Sherry Park (Precinct 0057), and Baker
(Precinct 0061). Because of known issues regarding the release of the 2020 Census
data, the State Board of Elections has established a waiver process, and the Board
requires a resolution from the governing body requesting the waiver to administer split
precincts.
• Public Information: Normal Council Agenda process.
• Recommendations: Adopt the attached resolution.
• Attachments: Resolution
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Voter Registrar's Office
City Manager: I
1 A RESOLUTION TO REQUEST THE VOTER
2 REGISTRAR APPLY FOR A WAIVER TO
3 ADMINISTER SPLIT PRECINCTS
4
5 WHEREAS, § 24.2-307 of the Virginia Code mandates that "[e]ach precinct shall
6 be wholly contained within a single congressional district, Senate district, House of
7 Delegates district, and election district used for the election of one or more members of
8 the governing body or school board for the county or city";
9
10 WHEREAS, the City has four precincts that are split among the Virginia House of
11 Delegate districts, Pembroke (Precinct 0039), College Park (Precinct 0041), Sherry Park
12 (Precinct 0061), and Baker (Precinct 0061) (collectively, the "Split Precincts");
13
14 WHEREAS, the Virginia Code requires the City Council establish precinct
15 boundaries to be consistent with any congressional district, Senate district, House of
16 Delegates district, and local election district by June 15. 2021;
17
18 WHEREAS, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Census data has not been
19 received by the Commonwealth or the City;
20
21 WHEREAS, without updated Census data, the City is unable to establish precinct
22 boundaries that eliminate the Split Precincts by June 15, 2021;
23
24 WHEREAS, § 24.2-307 of the Virginia Code requires the City Council apply for a
25 waiver from the State Board of Elections to continue to administer the Split Precincts for
26 any election held in 2021.
27
28 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
29 OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, THAT:
30
31 The City Council hereby requests and authorizes the Voter Registrar to apply, on
32 behalf of the City Council, for a waiver from the State Board of Elections pursuant to §
33 24.2-307 of the Virginia Code to administer Pembroke (Precinct 0039), College Park
34 (Precinct 0041), Sherry Park (Precinct 0061), and Baker(Precinct 0061)as split precincts
35 for any election held in 2021
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on this
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: An Ordinance Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Use Agreements
for the Use of a Portion of City Property Located at the Dome Site by
Megabus Northeast, LLC and FlixBus, Inc.
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: Megabus Northeast, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company
("Megabus"), operates a commercial passenger bus service with stops along the
northeastern corridor of the United States. On April 18, 2017, by Ordinance ORD-
3499K, City Council approved Megabus' use of the former HRT Bus Transfer Site
located at the Dome Site (the "Premises") for up to five years.
Due to the pandemic, on July 24, 2020, Megabus terminated its agreement with the
City for the use of the Premises. However, with its operations improving, Megabus has
approached the City about reinstating its agreement to use the Premises on the same
terms and conditions as were previously approved.
In the meantime, FlixBus, Inc., a Delaware corporation authorized to transact business
in Virginia ("FlixBus"), another commercial passenger bus service, has requested to
use the Premises on the same terms and conditions as Megabus.
Megabus and FlixBus have each represented that they can conduct operations at the
Premises without conflict with the other.
• Considerations: Megabus and FlixBus each present additional transportation
options into the City for residents and visitors. The existing bus pull-off facility at Pacific
Avenue and 19th Street would allow the companies to conduct their operations without
interfering with traffic on Pacific Avenue.
The Resort Advisory Commission (RAC) and its Transportation Pedestrian Parking
Committee (TPPC) were briefed in 2017 and had no objection to Megabus' planned
operations. No issues were reported with Megabus' previous use of the Premises.
The proposed use of the Premises would be until such time as the Premises are
needed for the Atlantic Park Development. At that time, the parties will attempt to
locate a mutually acceptable substitute location and would return to City Council for
consideration of the right to use that location.
• Public Information: Public notice via the normal City Council agenda process.
• Alternatives: Approve the terms of the use agreement, revise the terms of the
use agreement or decline entering into a use agreement.
• Attachments: Ordinance
Summary of Terms
Location Map
Disclosure Statements (2)
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department
City Manager:(
1 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY
2 MANAGER TO EXECUTE USE AGREEMENTS
3 FOR THE USE OF A PORTION OF CITY
4 PROPERTY LOCATED AT THE DOME SITE BY
5 MEGABUS NORTHEAST, LLC AND FLIXBUS,
6 INC.
7
8 WHEREAS, on April 18, 2017, City Council approved the use of the
9 former HRT Bus Transfer Site located at the Dome Site at the corner of Pacific Avenue
10 and 19th Street (the "Premises") by Megabus Northeast, LLC ("Megabus") for use as a
11 drop-off and pick-up location for bus service for up to five years;
12
13 WHEREAS, due to the pandemic, Megabus terminated its agreement with
14 the City for use of the Premises on July 24, 2020;
15
16 WHEREAS, Megabus now desires to restart its operations in the City and
17 has requested use of the Premises on the terms and conditions set forth in the
18 Summary of Terms, attached hereto as Exhibit A;
19
20 WHEREAS, FlixBus, Inc. ("FlixBus"), another commercial passenger bus
21 company, has approached the City about also using the Premises for drop-off and pick-
22 up;
23
24 WHEREAS, FlixBus has also agreed to the terms and conditions set forth
25 in the Summary of Terms;
26
27 WHEREAS, under the terms of the proposed use agreements with
28 Megabus and FlixBus, the City could terminate either party's right to use the Premises
29 when the Premises are needed for the start of construction of the Atlantic Park project
30 at the Dome Site; and
31
32 WHEREAS, the operations of Megabus and FlixBus in the City would
33 provide additional transportation options in the City's resort area for residents and
34 tourists.
35
36 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
37 OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
38
39 That the City Manager, or his designee, is hereby authorized to execute
40 use agreements with Megabus and FlixBus, each in accordance with the Summary of
41 Terms attached hereto as Exhibit A and made a part hereof, and such other terms,
42 conditions, and modifications as may be acceptable to the City Manager and in a form
43 deemed satisfactory by the City Attorney.
44
45 Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on this
46 day of , 2021 .
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EXHIBIT A
SUMMARY OF TERMS
OWNER: City of Virginia Beach (the "City")
USERS: Megabus Northeast, LLC ("Megabus") and FlixBus, Inc. ("FlixBus")
(each User will have a separate agreement)
TERM: July 1, 2021 (or when a User resumes service, whichever is later)
through December 31, 2021 (unless sooner needed for Atlantic
Park)
FEE: $1,061.21 per month, escalated by 2% monthly (based on fee
Megabus was paying when prior agreement terminated)
PREMISES: Former HRT Bus Transfer Site at the intersection of Pacific and
19th Street at the Dome Site (Portion of GPIN: 2427-17-0853)
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF USERS:
• Use the Premises for the pickup and drop-off of Users' passengers, with each User
only having the right to exclude other's use of the Premises two hours before and after
scheduled pickup and drop-off times.
• Keep sidewalks and streets adjacent to the Premises clean and free from trash
and debris.
• Users may install a trash can and up to two (2) benches at locations approved by the
City at Users' sole cost and with Users bearing all operation and maintenance costs of
such items.
• Each User to indemnify the Owner for any and all damages to persons and property in
connection with Users' use of the Premises
• Maintain all appropriate permits, licenses and insurance required by state and local codes.
• Pay all applicable taxes.
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF OWNER:
• Have access to the Premises at any time, without prior notice, in the event of an
emergency.
• Maintain the right to grant easements and rights-of-way across, in, under and through
the Premises for streets, alleys, public highways, drainage, and other similar purposes.
TERMINATION:
• The City may terminate the agreement upon thirty (30) days' written notice, for any
reason, including if the City determines that the Premises are needed for construction
of the Atlantic Park development at the Dome Site.
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Disclosure Statement
City of Virginia Beath
Planning & Community
. Development
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board, commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name Megabus Northeast LLC
Does the applicant have a representative? I Yes ❑ No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Michael Waters,Service Delivery Director
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? U Yes D No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc. below. (Attach a list if necessary)
See attachment#1
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
Variant Equity Advisors,LLC(parent);Coach USA, Inc.(subsidiary);Megabus Northeast LLC(subsidiary)
1"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities, resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
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Planning & Community
Development
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action? ❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑ Yes No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the serice.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes I No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property? ❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
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6. Does the applicant have a=in tru tion contractor In connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?0 Yes t No
• If yes,identify the company and Individual providing the service.
7 Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes Ni No
• If yes,Identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services In connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?0 Yes % No
• If yes,identify the firm and Individual providing the service.
A. llcant Sknature
I certify that all of the information contained In this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
Information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
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Applicant Signature
Print Name and Title
Michael R.WOWS
Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? 0 Yes No
• If yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USF or tv All disdesures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Coamcil meeting
that pertains to the applications
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Meeabus Northeast(NE)LLC Officers Listing
President
Linda Burtwistle
Vice President(s)
Farhaad Chanduwadia
Colin Emberson
Scott Sprengel
Colm Lynch
Jim Rutherford
349 First Street/Elizabeth,New Jersey 07206/908-354-3330
Disclosure Statement 1/13
City of Virginia Raxh
Planning & Community
Development
-111111 .
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name FlixBus, Inc.
Does the applicant have a representative? ■ Yes ❑ No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Paul Henjes
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? ® Yes ❑ No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
President: Pierre Gourdain;Treasurer: Lutz Nagel;Secretary:Christina Steinmann
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
FlixMobility GmbH(Address: Friedenheimer Bruecke 16,80639 Munich Germany)
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
2"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities, resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement A/13
C5'tu of Virginia Bm<h
Planning & Community
Development
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action? ❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑ Yes ■ No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the serice.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑ Yes ■ No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ■ Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Associes corp;Alain Demeestere
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes • No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property? ❑ Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
Wage
Disclosure Statement
Pia nning& Column nity
Development
6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes E. No
• if yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent In connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes NE No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?0 Yes No
• If yes,Identify the firm and Individual providing the service.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained In this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Applicant Slinan ne
Paul Henjes,Government Relations Associate,FlixBus, Inc.
Print Name and Title
June 3rd,2021
Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? ❑ Yes it No
• If yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
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AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: An Ordinance Appointing Three (3) Viewers for One-Year Terms Beginning
July 1, 2021, to View Each Street or Alley Proposed to be Closed
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: Pursuant to authority granted to the City of Virginia Beach by the
General Assembly during its 1997 Session, City Council, by ordinance adopted June
23, 1998, added § 33-111.2 to the City Code, which provides for the appointment of
three (3) viewers for one-year terms, beginning July 1 of each year, to view each and
every street or alley proposed to be altered or vacated during the terms of such viewers.
• Considerations: Because the terms of the current viewers expire on June 30,
2021, it is necessary to appoint viewers for one-year terms beginning July 1, 2022.
• Public Information: This ordinance will be advertised as a routine agenda item.
• Attachments: Ordinance
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Department of Planning
City Manager: ii-6,-2,
1 AN ORDINANCE APPOINTING THREE (3) VIEWERS FOR
2 ONE-YEAR TERMS BEGINNING JULY 1, 2021, TO VIEW
3 EACH STREET OR ALLEY PROPOSED TO BE CLOSED
4
5 WHEREAS, Section 33-11.2 of the City Code provides that "[t]hree (3) viewers
6 shall be appointed each year to serve terms of one year beginning July 1 to view each
7 and every street or alley proposed to be altered or vacated during the term;" and
8
9 WHEREAS, it is the desire of City Council to appoint the Directors of the
10 Departments of Planning, Public Works and Parks and Recreation to serve as viewers
11 for one-year terms, beginning July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2022.
12
13 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
14 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
15
16 That the Director of Planning, Director of Public Works and Director of Parks and
17 Recreation of the City of Virginia Beach are each hereby appointed as a viewer to serve
18 a one-year term beginning July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2022, to view each and
19 every application to close a street or alley, and to report in writing their opinion of what
20 inconvenience, if any, would result from discontinuing the street or alley or portion
21 thereof.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the
day of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL
SUFFICIENCY:
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AGENDA ITEM J
ITEM: A RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE A WORKERS' COMPENSATION
PRESUMPTION TO SALARIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
PERSONNEL
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Virginia Beach City Council included in its Legislative Agenda
for the General Assembly 2021 Session a request to authorize the workers' compensation
presumption as to death or any, health condition or impairment resulting in total or partial
disability from hypertension or heart disease to salaried emergency medical services
personnel. The 2021 Special Session I Acts of Assembly Chapter 436 amended § 65.2-
402 of the Code of Virginia authorizes localities to extend that workers' compensation
presumption to salaried and/or volunteer emergency medical services personnel who
have completed five years of service, upon adoption of a resolution. The amended law is
effective July 1, 2021. The presumption provides that any such death, health condition or
impairment from hypertension or heart disease shall be presumed to be occupational
diseases, suffered in the line of duty, unless such presumption is overcome by a
preponderance of competent evidence to the contrary. Subsection (D) of the statute
provides that the presumption only applies if the person entitled to invoke it has, if
requested by the City, undergone preemployment physical examinations that meet the
criteria set forth therein, and such examinations found the person free of respiratory
diseases, hypertension, cancer or heart disease at the time of the examinations. This
presumption already applies to City of Virginia Beach members of the Police Department,
the sheriff and deputy sheriffs, and firefighters.
• Considerations: City of Virginia Beach salaried emergency medical services
personnel already undergo pre-employment physical examinations and annual
occupational physical examinations similar to those of police officers, sheriff deputies and
firefighters.
• Public Information: Information will be disseminated through the regular Council
agenda notification process. The Chief of the Department of Emergency Medical
Services previously briefed the Council of Virginia Beach Volunteer Rescue Squads
regarding this initiative.
• Recommendations: The Department of Emergency Medical Services
recommends approval of the resolution.
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Department of Emergency Medical Service
City Manager 1 9
1 A RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE A WORKERS'
2 COMPENSATION PRESUMPTION TO SALARIED
3 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL
4 WHEREAS, the 2021 Special Session I Acts of Assembly Chapter 436 amended
5 § 65.2-402 of the Code of Virginia to allow localities to extend the workers' compensation
6 presumption as to death or any health condition or impairment resulting in total or partial
7 disability from hypertension or heart disease to salaried emergency medical services
8 personnel who have completed five years of service, upon adoption of a resolution;
9 WHEREAS, the amended law is effective July 1, 2021;
10 WHEREAS, the presumption provides that any such death, health condition or
11 impairment shall be presumed to be occupational diseases, suffered in the line of duty,
12 unless such presumption is overcome by a preponderance of competent evidence to the
13 contrary;
14 WHEREAS, subsection (D) of the statute provides that the presumption only
15 applies if the person entitled to invoke it has, if requested by the City, undergone
16 preemployment physical examinations that meet the criteria set forth therein, and such
17 examinations found the person free of respiratory diseases, hypertension, cancer or heart
18 disease at the time of the examinations;
19 WHEREAS, this presumption already applies to members of the Police
20 Department, the sheriff and deputy sheriffs, and firefighters;
21 WHEREAS, the City of Virginia Beach values and recognizes salaried emergency
22 medical services personnel employed by the City as critical resources who perform
23 valuable lifesaving services to the community; and
24 WHEREAS, the City of Virginia Beach desires to extend the presumption to
25 salaried emergency medical services providers.
26 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
27 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
28 That effective July 1, 2021, the aforementioned rebuttable presumption shall apply
29 to salaried emergency medical services personnel, as that term is defined in Va. Code §
30 32.1-111.1, employed by the City of Virginia Beach who have completed five years of
31 service in their position and who meet the criteria in Virginia Code § 65.2-402(D).
32 Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day
33 of , 2021.
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ITEMS: Five Resolutions to Support Revenue Sharing Projects and to Authorize the City
Manager to Execute a Project Agreement with the Virginia Department of
Transportation in Furtherance Thereof
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Virginia General Assembly established the Revenue Sharing
Program (§ 33.2-357 of the Code of Virginia) to provide localities with additional funds for
priority projects or to supplement funding for existing projects on the highway network
within a locality. The program provides state funding at a dollar-for-dollar match with local
funds. The City has received and programmed the following allocations:
Total Revenue Total Local
Project Cost Sharing Contribution
First Colonial Road / VB Blvd $31 ,962,696 $10,000,000 $21 ,962,696
Princess Anne Road Phase VII $33,609,843 $15,000,000 $18,609,843
Rosemont Road Phase V $20,393,592 $9,000,000 $11,393,529
Sandbridge Rd — Nimmo Phase VII-A $21,690,581 $10,000,000 $11,690,581
Shore Drive Corridor Phase III $32,166,881 $10,000,000 $22,166,861
Total $139,823,593 $54,000,000 $85,823,510
These five projects were previously covered under a programmatic agreement dated July
28, 2018. This agreement was valid for a term of three years and expires July 1, 2021 .
Beginning July 2021 , the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is no longer
utilizing programmatic agreements for the Revenue Sharing Program. Now, a separate
project agreement is required for each project. Further, for each project agreement, VDOT
now requires a resolution from the local governing body stating its support for the project
and authorization to execute the project agreement.
• Considerations: These actions do not require the adjustment of funding. Local
funding for each of the project was previously appropriated and is sufficient to satisfy the
City's required local match. These actions are necessary to comply with VDOT project
requirements.
• Public Information: Normal Council Agenda process.
• Attachments: Resolutions (5); Maps (5)
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Public Works Engineering
City Manager: Orr
1 A RESOLUTION TO AFFIRM THE CITY SUPPORT OF
2 REVENUE SHARING PROJECT # 100183 "FIRST
3 COLONIAL ROAD / VIRGINIA BEACH BOULEVARD
4 INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS" AND TO AUTHORIZE
5 THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A PROJECT
6 AGREEMENT WITH THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF
7 TRANSPORTATION IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF
8
9 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia
10 Beach have heretofore had a programmatic agreement that provided assurances and
11 commitments by the City to fund its local share for projects that received funds from the
12 Commonwealth under the Revenue Sharing Program;
13
14 WHEREAS, the City's current programmatic agreement with the Virginia
15 Department of Transportation expires at the end of June 2021; and
16
17 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has decided to discontinue
18 and phase out programmatic agreements and instead require a City Council resolution to
19 ensure the commitment of local funds for Revenue Sharing projects.
20
21 NOW, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
22 VIRGINIA THAT:
23
24 1. The City Council of Virginia Beach hereby commits to fund the City's local
25 share of preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction, as applicable, of Project
26 # 100183, "First Colonial Road / Virginia Beach Boulevard Intersection Improvements,"
27 under agreement with the Virginia Department of Transportation, in accordance with the
28 project's financial document.
29
30 2. The City Manager and/or his designee is hereby authorized to execute all
31 agreements and/or addendums for approved projects with the Virginia Department of
32 Transportation.
33
34 3. The authorization provided by this resolution extends to the corresponding
35 name and UPC numbers for the project listed supra as such project is named or
36 designated by the Commonwealth on the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six-
37 Year Improvement Plan
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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1 A RESOLUTION TO AFFIRM CITY SUPPORT OF
2 REVENUE SHARING PROJECT # 100318 "PRINCESS
3 ANNE ROAD PHASE VII" AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY
4 MANAGER TO EXECUTE A PROJECT AGREEMENT WITH
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8 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia
9 Beach have heretofore had a programmatic agreement that provided assurances and
10 commitments by the City to fund its local share for projects that received funds from the
11 Commonwealth under the Revenue Sharing Program;
12
13 WHEREAS, the City's current programmatic agreement with the Virginia
14 Department of Transportation expires at the end of June 2021; and
15
16 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has decided to discontinue
17 and phase out programmatic agreements and instead require a City Council resolution to
18 ensure the commitment of local funds for Revenue Sharing projects.
19
20 NOW, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
21 VIRGINIA THAT:
22
23 1. The City Council of Virginia Beach hereby commits to fund the City's local
24 share of preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction, as applicable, of Project
25 # 100318, "Princess Anne Road Phase VII," under agreement with the Virginia
26 Department of Transportation, in accordance with the project's financial document.
27
28 2. The City Manager and/or his designee is hereby authorized to execute all
29 agreements and/or addendums for approved projects with the Virginia Department of
30 Transportation.
31
32 3. The authorization provided by this resolution extends to the corresponding
33 name and UPC numbers for the project listed supra as such project is named or
34 designated by the Commonwealth on the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six.
35 Year Improvement Plan.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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3 ROAD PHASE V" AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY
4 MANAGER TO EXECUTE A PROJECT AGREEMENT WITH
5 THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN
6 FURTHERANCE THEREOF
7
8 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia
9 Beach have heretofore had a programmatic agreement that provided assurances and
10 commitments by the City to fund its local share for projects that received funds from the
11 Commonwealth under the Revenue Sharing Program;
12
13 WHEREAS, the City's current programmatic agreement with the Virginia
14 Department of Transportation expires at the end of June 2021; and
15
16 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has decided to discontinue
17 and phase out programmatic agreements and instead require a City Council resolution to
18 ensure the commitment of local funds for Revenue Sharing projects.
19
20 NOW, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
21 VIRGINIA THAT:
22
23 1. The City Council of Virginia Beach hereby commits to fund the City's local
24 share of preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction, as applicable, of Project
25 # 100340, "Rosemont Road Phase V," under agreement with the Virginia Department of
26 Transportation, in accordance with the project's financial document.
27
28 2. The City Manager and/or his designee is hereby authorized to execute all
29 agreements and/or addendums for approved projects with the Virginia Department of
30 Transportation.
31
32 3. The authorization provided by this resolution extends to the corresponding
33 name and UPC numbers for the project listed supra as such project is named or
34 designated by the Commonwealth on the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six-
35 Year Improvement Plan.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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2 REVENUE SHARING PROJECT # 100356 "SANDBRIDGE
3 ROAD — NIMMO PARKWAY PHASE VII-A" AND TO
4 AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A
5 PROJECT AGREEMENT WITH THE VIRGINIA
6 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN FURTHERANCE
7 THEREOF
8
9 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia
10 Beach have heretofore had a programmatic agreement that provided assurances and
11 commitments by the City to fund its local share for projects that received funds from the
12 Commonwealth under the Revenue Sharing Program;
13
14 WHEREAS, the City's current programmatic agreement with the Virginia
15 Department of Transportation expires at the end of June 2021; and
16
17 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has decided to discontinue
18 and phase out programmatic agreements and instead require a City Council resolution to
19 ensure the commitment of local funds for Revenue Sharing projects.
20
21 NOW, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
22 VIRGINIA THAT:
23
24 1. The City Council of Virginia Beach hereby commits to fund the City's local
25 share of preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction, as applicable, of Project
26 # 100356, "Sandbridge Road — Nimmo Parkway Phase VII-A," under agreement with the
27 Virginia Department of Transportation, in accordance with the project's financial
28 document.
29
30 2. The City Manager and/or his designee is hereby authorized to execute all
31 agreements and/or addendums for approved projects with the Virginia Department of
32 Transportation.
33
34 3. The authorization provided by this resolution extends to the corresponding
35 name and UPC numbers for the project listed supra as such project is named or
36 designated by the Commonwealth on the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six-
37 Year Improvement Plan.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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9 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation and the City of Virginia
10 Beach have heretofore had a programmatic agreement that provided assurances and
11 commitments by the City to fund its local share for projects that received funds from the
12 Commonwealth under the Revenue Sharing Program;
13
14 WHEREAS, the City's current programmatic agreement with the Virginia
15 Department of Transportation expires at the end of June 2021; and
16
17 WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has decided to discontinue
18 and phase out programmatic agreements and instead require a City Council resolution to
19 ensure the commitment of local funds for Revenue Sharing projects.
20
21 NOW, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
22 VIRGINIA THAT:
23
24 1. The City Council of Virginia Beach hereby commits to fund the City's local
25 share of preliminary engineering, right-of-way, and construction, as applicable, of Project
26 # 100381, "Shore Drive Corridor Improvements Phase III," under agreement with the
27 Virginia Department of Transportation, in accordance with the project's financial
28 document.
29
30 2. The City Manager and/or his designee is hereby authorized to execute all
31 agreements and/or addendums for approved projects with the Virginia Department of
32 Transportation.
33
34 3. The authorization provided by this resolution extends to the corresponding
35 name and UPC numbers for the project listed supra as such project is named or
36 designated by the Commonwealth on the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six-
37 Year Improvement Plan.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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AGENDA ITEM J
ITEM: An Ordinance to Amend the FY 2021-22 Operating and Capital Budgets of the
Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: Since the finalization of the City's adopted budget in May, multiple
events and notifications have occurred that require adjustments to the Department of
Housing and Neighborhood Preservation's FY 2021-22 Operating Budget. The table
below outlines these changes:
Program FY 2021-22 Actual Variance
Estimated
CDBG $2,760,216 $2,744,919 ($15,297)
ESG $175,778 $175,346 ($432)
HOME $1,116,169 $1,104,622 ($11 ,547)
HOPWA $1,939,442 $2,177,661 $238,219
SRAP $1 ,346,393 $1,622,977 $276,584
Total $7,337,998 1 $7,825,525 I $487,527
In addition to the program changes, the Department will receive funds from the American
Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). For purposes of this request, there are two types of ARPA
funding. First, there is $480,495 for emergency Housing Choice Vouchers. Second,
there is $3,840,395 that are guided by HOME Program regulations, and such funds are
intended to expand housing stability and affordable housing.
• Considerations: The requested changes are needed to reconcile the
department's budget to actual funding. A more detailed discussion on each of the
changes is provided in the attached Summary.
• Public Information: Normal Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance; Summary of Changes; Capital Project Detail Page
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Housing and Neighborhood Preservation
City Manager: pitiV
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE FY 2021-22
2 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGETS OF THE
3 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD
4 PRESERVATION
5
6 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
7 VIRGINIA THAT:
8
9 1. The following adjustments are made in the Department of Housing and
10 Neighborhood Preservation's FY 2021-22 Operating Budget:
11 1) Decrease appropriations by $15,297 for Community Development Block
12 Grant funds, with federal revenue decreased accordingly;
13 2) Decrease appropriations by $432 for Emergency Shelter Grant funds, with
14 federal revenue decreased accordingly;
15 3) Decrease appropriations by $11,547 for HOME Investment Partnership
16 Program funds, with federal revenue decreased accordingly;
17 4) Increase appropriations by $238,219 for Housing Opportunities for People
18 with HIV and AIDS funds, with federal revenue increased accordingly;
19 5) Increase appropriations by $3,840,395 for American Rescue Plan HOME
20 program funds, with federal revenue increased accordingly;
21 6) Increase appropriations by $480,495 for American Rescue Plan Emergency
22 Housing Voucher funds, with federal revenue increased accordingly; and
23 7) Increase appropriations by $276,584 for State Rental Assistance Program
24 funds, with state revenue increased accordingly.
25
26 2. The following adjustments are made in the FY 2021-22 Capital Improvement
27 Program:
28 1) Capital Project #100584, "Housing Resource Center Accessibility" is hereby
29 established in the FY 2021-22 Capital Improvement Program;
30 2) $1,267,510 is hereby transferred to CIP #100584 from CDBG funds; and
31 3) $196,490 is hereby accepted and appropriated to Project #100584 from the
32 Virginia Department of Emergency Management for an emergency generator,
33 with state revenue increased accordingly.
34
35 3. The effective date of this ordinance is July 1, 2021.
Requires an affirmative vote by a majority of all of the members of City Council.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
Budget and Management Services City or 's Office
CA15469/R-1 /June 2, 2021
Summary of Changes
Attachment to Agenda Request to Amend the FY 2021-22 Operating Budget of the
Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation and to Establish the Housing
Resource Center (HRC) Accessibility CIP Project
City Council - June 15, 2021
Item Funding Source/Need Amounts Discussion/Explanation
a. Adjust appropriations to CDBG ($15,297) Each year in the operating budget the department
match actual Federal ESG ($432) estimates the amount of Federal funding it will receive.
allocations of funds HOME ($11,547) Once we are notified of the actual amounts, the
HOPWA $238,219 appropriation amounts must be adjusted to match the
actuals.
b. Appropriate funding from $3,840,395 These are new funds provided under the American Rescue
American Rescue Plan - Plan Act, and guided by HOME Program regulations. The
item #1 department proposes to use them to provide short term
rental subsidies for people experiencing homeless and
housing instability, and to develop new affordable housing
opportunities. These funds must be appropriated but will
not be able to be expended until HUD provides subsequent
regulatory guidance, expected in the late summer of this
year.
c. Appropriate American $317,821 housing This funding provides emergency vouchers for up to 35
Rescue Plan - item #2: voucher assistance; households meeting homeless or domestic violence
Emergency Housing $180,164 administrative criteria; and provides funding for support services including
Vouchers and services fees; housing search and other assistance to ,ielp ensure
$480,495 TOTAL households remain off the street. These funds will be
available on July 1, 2021.
d. DBHDS -State Rental $276,584 The Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and
Assistance Program (difference between Development Services contracts with our department to
(SRAP)funds budgeted amount and administer rental subsidies on behalf of their clients in
total allocation of Virginia Beach. They have indicated that they will provide
$1,622,976) additional funding for this program in the upcoming fiscal
year.
f. Establish the Housing Appropriate $196,490 Provision of an elevator to the singles shelter areas on the
Resource Center VDEM Grant; 2nd floor of the Housing Resource Center has become
Accessibility Transfer $1,175,044 necessary due to the high percentage of participants with
Improvements CIP; CDBG and $ 92,466 mobility limitations. This activity can be funded 100% with
appropriate VDEM grant CDBG (match for available Federal CDBG funds and VDEM generator funds.
funds; and Transfer VDEM) The VDEM funds were applied for and approved by VDEM
VDEM and Federal to help fund enhancements to the emergency generator
CDBG Funds into the CIP $1,464,000 Project capacity in the Housing Resource Center that will help
total power the elevator during a power outage. The project will
be administered by the department of Public Works.
City of Virginia Beach FY 2022 thru FY 2027 Capital Improvement Program
Project: Title:Housing Resource Center{HRC}Accessibility Status: Proposed
•
Category: Buildines and Assets Department: Public Works Ranking:
Project Type Project Location
Project Type: New Facility Construction J Expansion District:
Programmed Funding
Programmed Appropriated Budgeted Non-Appropriated Programmed C1P Funding Future
Funding To Date FY 2022 FY 2023 FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027 Fundhtg
S1,464,000 - S 1.464.000 - - - - - -
Description and Scope
The project is to provide for increased mobility access via construction of an exterior elevator at the City of Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center located at
104 N.Witchduck Road. The project will install an elevator to the second level male and female dorm areas of the facility for increased ADA accessibility_
Construction includes a building elevator addition external to the existing facility to include site excavation,footers,concreate pad,and exterior elevator
housing with brick veneer to match existing structure. Elevator installation includes,but is not limited to,elevator cab able to accommodate a stretcher,
mechanical and J or hydraulic drive components,shaft,electronic controls,and back-up power and automatic transfer switch for safe egress during power
interruption.
Purpose and Need
The purpose of this project is to increase ADA accessibility at the City of Virginia Beach Housing Resource Center from 7 to 34 total beds_ This enables the
Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation to meet the needs for reasonable accommodations at the Housing Resource Center.
History and Current Status
Construction of the 525M Housing Resource Center was completed in September 2019 by S.B Ballard Construction Company. The HRC provides support to
families and individuals who are homeless or in imminent danger of losing their home. The most vulnerable homeless are often sheltered in the facility and
many of these vulnerable members of our community suffer from physical limitations and injuries that limit mobility. During facility design and construction
data demonstrated that accessible respite care dorm spaces on the lower level could accommodate patrons unable to maneuver the stairs to the living quarter!
on the second level. However,after construction of the HRC,there was an unanticipated increase in the number of patrons needing ADA accessible overnight
accommodations,consistently exceeding capacity on the lower floor.
Operating Budget Impacts
Project Map Schedule of Activities
Project Activities From-To Amount
Design 07;21—12121 S 59,000
Construction 01122—03;23 S 1.171.000
Contingency 01;22—03;23 S 234,000
Total Budgetary Cost Estimate S 1.464.000
NO MAP REQUIRED
Means of Financing
Funding Subclass Amount
Local Funding -
State Funding $196,490
Federal Funding $1,267,510
Total Funding:51,464,000
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM ,/
ITEM: An Ordinance to Accept and Appropriate State Funds and to Transfer Funds from
the City Manager's Special Pandemic and Vaccine Support Reserve to the
Department of Human Services for the Children's Services Act Program
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: In 1992, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Children's
Services Act (CSA). The mission of the CSA is to create a collaborative system of
services and funding that is child-centered, family-focused, and community-based when
addressing the strengths and needs of troubled and at-risk youth and their families.
The City of Virginia Beach CSA program is part of the Human Services Department, and
it operates under the guidelines of the Virginia Office of Children's Services (OCS). The
program receives an annual allocation of funding from the Commonwealth through OCS.
A local match is required, which varies based on the category of services being provided
and the volume of services needed to serve the children each fiscal year. In total, the
budget for the Virginia Beach CSA in FY 2020-21 is $13.5 million, which was based upon
FY 2019-20 actuals. Of this amount, approximately two-thirds came from non-City
sources.
If costs exceed budget, additional appropriations can be made to local CSA programs
through a supplemental request process. This process ensures that all children in need
of services can be accommodated. Based upon an analysis of program spending by the
Virginia Beach CSA staff, the Community Policy and Management Team, the local
governing board for the CSA program, voted unanimously on April 26, 2021 to make a
supplemental request to OCS. The total cost of the increase is $3,998,124, of which
$2,571,194 would be from the Commonwealth. OCS approved the request on May 6,
2021. The remaining $1,426,930 must be provided by the City.
Costs for these services are projected to exceed budget for several reasons. CSA costs
have risen due to increased program utilization and increased rates. Both higher costs
and more use are ongoing trends statewide. For example, in its recently concluded
session, the Virginia General Assembly mandated that OCS implement a statewide rate
setting process for one of CSA's core functions, private day special education, for FY
2022-23. These trends have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. As a result of
the safer-at-home orders, additional services had to be provided to each child and family,
and in-home provider visits rose as families required extra assistance. Thus, the average
cost of Community Based Services, for example, escalated almost 40% in FY 2020-21
above FY 2019-20. Further, additional students were referred to private day school
services in the last year by the Virginia Beach City Public Schools. As these private day
schools generally have very high tuition (the median statewide tuition was $54,000 in
2019), costs from additional participations can be a substantial cost burden upon the CSA
program.
• Considerations: To fulfill the required local match necessary to receive over $2.5
million from the Commonwealth, the City must contribute $1,426,930. A portion of this,
$313,925, can be absorbed within the existing Human Services non-personnel operating
budget. However, further funds in the amount of $1,113,005 are required.
On February 2, 2021, the City Council established a City Manager's Special Pandemic
and Vaccine Support Reserve. The dedicated purpose of this reserve was to address
unforeseen pandemic needs for the City workforce. As the additional funds needed for
the CSA program are for City services and not workforce needs, use of the fund through
the City Manager's discretion is not allowed. However, as the reserve has $2.5 million in
funds available and the CSA needs are related to the pandemic, it is recommended that
the City Council use this reserve as the funding source from which to contribute the
remaining share of the local match needed to receive the additional revenue from OCS.
The attached ordinance would authorize the transfer of $1,113,005 from the reserve to
the Department of Human Services.
• Public Information: Normal Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Department of Human Services
City Manager:
1 AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT AND APPROPRIATE STATE
2 FUNDS AND TO TRANSFER FUNDS FROM THE CITY
3 MANAGER'S SPECIAL PANDEMIC AND VACCINE
4 SUPPORT RESERVE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN
5 SERVICES FOR THE CHILDREN'S SERVICES ACT
6 PROGRAM
7
8 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
9 VIRGINIA THAT:
10
11 1 $2,571,194 from the Virginia Office of Children's Services is hereby accepted and
12 appropriated, with funds from the Commonwealth increased accordingly, to the FY
13 2020-21 Operating Budget of the Department of Human Services for expenditures
14 related to the Children's Services Act program.
15
16 2. $1,113,005 is hereby transferred from the City Manager's Special Pandemic and
17 Vaccine Support Reserve to the Department of Human Services within the FY
18 2020-21 Operating Budget for a portion of the local match for the Children's
19 Services Act program.
20
21 3. The use of $313,925 of existing Human Services non-personnel operating funds
22 is hereby authorized for a portion of the local match for the Children's Services Act
23 program.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
Requires an affirmative vote by a majority of all of the members of City Council.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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AGENDA ITEM J
ITEM: An Ordinance to Accept and Appropriate Grant Funding to the Department of
Parks and Recreation
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Department of Parks and Recreation's Out-of-School Time
(OST) Program is the largest childcare organization in Virginia Beach and serves
approximately 11% of the Virginia Beach City Public School elementary school
population of 31,215 students. The total childcare market (licensed, religious exempt,
voluntary registered, military, and Parks and Recreation) in Virginia Beach is just over
10,000 children, and the OST program holds a market share of approximately 35%. The
Department of Parks and Recreation's Early Childhood Programs are licensed and
serve 21/2 - to 5-year-olds.
Virginia has received federal funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic
Security (CARES) Act for a fourth round of incentive grants to help childcare providers
remain open and provide care for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Virginia
Department of Social Services has awarded the Department of Parks and Recreation
an additional $22,953 per site for four sites that continued to be open and provided
childcare during the pandemic. This is a total grant award of $91,812. Providers and
childcare business owners can use the funds for hazard pay for employees, reducing
costs for parents, providing mental health and wellness supports to staff, or any of the
safety requirements to protect children and staff from COVID-19.
• Considerations: The attached ordinance appropriates $91,812 in grant funding.
The proposed use of this funding is to purchase supplies for programs and to provide
training to staff.
• Public Information: Normal City Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Parks and Recreation
City Manager: (0
1 AN ORDINANCE TO ACCEPT AND APPROPRIATE
2 GRANT FUNDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
3 PARKS AND RECREATION
4
5 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH,
6 VIRGINIA THAT:
7
8 $91,812 in Federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding is
9 hereby accepted and appropriated, with federal revenues increased accordingly, to the
10 Department of Parks and Recreation's FY 2020-21 Operating Budget for childcare
11 programs.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day
of , 2021.
Requires the affirmative vote of a majority of all members of the City Council.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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AGENDA ITEM 1
ITEM: An Ordinance to Transfer$33,303 in Federal Funds from Capital Project # 100424
"Traffic Safety Improvements III" to Capital Project # 100212 "Independence
Boulevard / Baxter Road Sidewalk"
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background: The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) is a federally
funded transportation initiative intended to help localities fund community-based projects
that expand travel choices and enhance the transportation experience by improving the
cultural, historical, and environmental aspects of transportation infrastructure. The TAP
focuses on providing pedestrian and bicycle access and facilities, as well as community
improvements. The Buckner Boulevard Shared-Use Path provided a ten-foot wide
shared-wise path along the south side of Buckner Boulevard from Rosemont Road to the
western intersection of Rica Drive, a distance of approximately 0.6 miles. Within the
Capital Improvement Program, the Buckner Boulevard Shared-Use Path project was a
sub-project of Capital Project # 100424, "Traffic Safety Improvement Program Phase III."
The Buckner Boulevard Shared-Use Path project was completed under budget in October
2017. Therefore, Buckner Boulevard has excess federal TAP funds remaining. Excess
federal funds from completed TAP projects may be transferred to other active TAP
projects within a locality. Capital Project # 100212, "Independence Boulevard / Baxter
Road Sidewalk" is an existing, active TAP project that is eligible to receive excess federal
TAP funding. On May 20, 2021, the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning
Organization approved a request by the City to transfer these funds to "Independence
Boulevard / Baxter Road Sidewalk."
• Considerations: The excess federal TAP funding for the Buckner Boulevard
Shared-Use Path sub-project within Project # 100424 must be transferred to another
active TAP project within Virginia Beach or the funds will be returned for allocation to
eligible projects elsewhere in the Commonwealth. The funds to be reallocated through
this transfer are entirely federal; there is no adjustment of local funds. As such, if
approved, the total appropriations available for Project # 100212, "Independence
Boulevard / Baxter Road Sidewalk" will increase by $33,303.
• Public Information: Normal City Council agenda process.
• Attachments: Ordinance, Map
Recommended Action: Approval
Submitting Department/Agency: Public Works
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1 AN ORDINANCE TO TRANSFER $33,303 IN FEDERAL
2 FUNDS FROM CAPITAL PROJECT # 100424 "TRAFFIC
3 SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS III" TO CAPITAL PROJECT #
4 100212 "INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD / BAXTER ROAD
5 SIDEWALK"
6
7 WHEREAS, at its May 20, 2021 meeting, the Hampton Roads Transportation
8 Planning Organization approved a request by the City to transfer excess funds from the
9 Buckner Boulevard Shared-Use Path project, a sub-project of Capital Project #100424,
10 "Traffic Safety Improvement Program Phase III," to Capital Project #100212,
11 "Independence Boulevard / Baxter Road Sidewalk."
12
13 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
14 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA THAT:
15
16 $33,303 in federal Transportation Alternatives Program revenue is hereby
17 transferred from Capital Project # 100424, `Traffic Safety Improvements III," to Capital
18 Project# 100212, "Independence Boulevard / Baxter Road Sidewalk.'
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia on the day of
, 2021.
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1. OCEAN RENTAL PROPERTIES,LLC for a Change in Nonconformity re redevelop the
site with eight (8) new dwelling units where nine (9) exist at 416 Norfolk Avenue
DISTRICT 6—BEACH
RECOMMENDATION: STAFF—DENIAL
PLANNING COMMISSION—APPROVAL
2. SOUTH LYNNHAVEN, LLC for a Modification of Conditions re allow the vacation of
easements to construct office use at 877 South Lynnhaven Road DISTRICT 3 — ROSE
HALL(Approved August 13, 1984)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
APPLICANT REQUESTS DEFERRAL TO JULY 6, 2021
3. ROBIN GAUTHIER, CEO ON BEHALF OF SAMARITAN HOUSE, INC./
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA, EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF
SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA for a Conditional Use Permit re group home at 1593
Lynnhaven Parkway DISTRICT 1 —CENTERVILLE (Deferred from May 18, 2021)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
4. BPMS CASCADES 2, LLC for a Conditional Use Permit re mini-warehouses at 2121
Centerville Turnpike DISTRICT 1 —CENTERVILLE
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
5. SH CAMPUS, LLC / ST LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH for a Conditional
Use Permit re group home at 3396 Stoneshore Road DISTRICT 3 —ROSE HALL
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
6. DIANA BUHRMANN / MICHAEL KORNOELJE for a Conditional Use Permit re
family day-care home at 998 Boughton Way DISTRICT 3 —ROSE HALL
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
7. MISTIE WOOD for a Conditional Use Permit re family day-care home at 1105 Voss Court
DISTRICT 7—PRINCESS ANNE
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
8. Ordinance to AMEND City Zoning Ordinance(CZO) Sections 210.2,212,215,216 and 217
re signs and billboards
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
9. Ordinances re Short Term Rentals:
a. AMEND City Zoning Ordinance (CZO) Section 102 re establish Short Term Rental
Overlay Districts,East Shore Drive,North End and Oceanfront Resort(Requested by
Vice Mayor Wood, Council Members Jones and Tower)
b. AMEND the Official Zoning Map by the Designation and Incorporation of Property
into Short Term Rental Overlay Districts-East Shore Drive,North End and Oceanfront
Resort District (Planning Commission Version)
c. AMEND Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521, and 2203 of the CZO and
Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code re Requirements and
Use of Short Term Rentals and Overlays (Planning Commission Version)
d. AMEND Section 241.2 of the CZO re Short Term Rentals and establishing Additional
Safety Requirements(Planning Commission Version)
e. ADD Article 23, Consisting of Sections 2300 - 2303, (Short Term Rental Overlay
Districts) to the CZO, establishing Regulations and Requirements re Short Term
Rentals in Each Overlay District(Planning Commission Version)
f. ESTABLISH Transitions Rules for the Review of Conditional Use Permits re Short
Term Rentals in the Short Term Rental Overlays (Requested by Vice Mayor Wood,
Council Members Jones and Tower)
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVAL
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
In accordance with Virginia Code§2.2-3708.2,Virginia Code§15.2-1413 and the City's Continuity
of Government Ordinance adopted on March 2, 2021, and Chapter 1289 of the 2020 Acts of
Assembly as amended,a Public Hearing of the Virginia Beach City Council will be held on Tuesday,
June 15,2021 at 6:00 p.m.In Suite 5 of the Virginia Beach Convention Center.Due to physical
distancing and safety precautions related to the pandemic,limited public seating will be available in
Suite 5,with overflow seating in Suite 4.Members of the public will be able to observe the City Council
meeting through livestreaming on www.vbgov.com,broadcast on VBTV,and via WebEx.Citizens who
wish to speak can sign up to speak either in-person at the Convention Center or virtually via WebEx
by completing the two-step process below.Citizens signed up to speak in-person who cannot be
seated in Suite 5 will wait in Suite 4 of the Convention Center until called into the meeting room to
speak. In-person speakers will be required to follow physical distancing and safety protocols,
including wearing a mask while in the Convention Center.Citizens requiring accommodations to these
requirements are encouraged to participate through electronic means or to contact the City Clerk's
Office at 757-385-4303 to discuss accommodations.All interested parties are invited to observe.
If you wish to make comments virtually during the public hearing,please follow the two-step process
provided below:
1. Register for the WebEx at:
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The following requests are scheduled to be heard:
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC (Applicant& Property Owner) Change in Nonconformity Adjacent
Addresses: 416 Norfolk Avenue Adjacent GPIN(s): 2427141242, 2427142119 Council District
Beach
South Lynnhaven, LLC(Applicant& Property Owner) Modification of Conditions Address: 877 S
Lynnhaven Road GPIN(s):1496342200 Council District Rose Hall
BPMS Cascades 2,LLC(Applicant&Property Owner)Conditional Use Permit(Mini-Warehouses)
Address:2121 Centerville Turnpike GPIN(s):1454985427 Council District Centerville
Robin Gauthier(Applicant)Catholic Diocese of Richmond Virginia(Property Owner)Conditional Use
Permit(Group Home)Address: 1593 Lynnhaven Parkway GPIN(s):1485484285 Coundl District
Centerville
SH Campus,LLC(Applicant)St Luke's United Methodist Church(Property Owner)Conditional Use
Permit(Group Home)Address:3396 Stoneshore Road GPIN(s):1486822513 Council District Rose
Hall
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Diana Buhrmann(Applicant)Michael Kornoelje Jr.(Property Owner)Conditional Use Permit(Family
Day-Care Home)Address:998 Boughton Way GPIN(s):1496414416 Council District Rase Hall
Mistie Wood(Applicant&Property Owner)Conditional Use Permit(Family Day-Care Home)Address:
1105 Voss Court GPIN(s):2415329877 Council District Princess Anne
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH-Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to amend Article 2,Section B-Sign
Regulations to comply with recent court decisions regarding the constitutionality of sign regulations.
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH-Ordinances to Amend the City Zoning Ordinance Pertaining to Short Term
Rentals:To Amend Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance Establishing Short Term Rental Overlay
Districts, East Shore Drive, North End,And Oceanfront Resort;To Add Article 23, Consisting of
Sections 2300 To 2303, (Short Term Rental Overlay Districts) to The City Zoning Ordinance
Establishing Regulations and Requirements Pertaining to Short Term Rentals in Each Overlay District;
To Amend The Official Zoning Map by the Designation and Incorporation of Property Into Short Term
Rental Overlay Districts-East Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort District;To Amend
Sections 401,501,601,901,1110,1125,1521,and 2203 of the City Zoning Ordinance and Section
5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code Pertaining to the Requirements and Use of
Short Term Rentals and Overlays;Establishing Transitions Rules for the Review of Conditional Use
Permits for Short Term Rentals in the Short Term Rental Overlays;To Amend Section 241.2 of the City
Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Short Term Rentals and Establishing Additional Safety Requirements.
Copies of the proposed plans,ordinances,amendments and/or resolutions are on file and may be
examined by appointment in the Planning Department at 2875 Sabre St,Suite 500,Virginia Beach,
VA 23452 or online at www.vbgov.com/pc.For information call 757-385-4621.Staff Reports will be
available on the webpage 5 days prior to the meeting.
If you require a reasonable accommodation for this meeting due to a disability,please call the City
Clerk's Office at 757-385-4303.If you are hearing impaired,you can contact Virginia Relay at 711
for TDD service.The meeting will be broadcast on cable TV,www.vbgov.com and Facebook Live.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, please check our website at
www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council for the most updated meeting
information.
All interested parties are invited to participate.
Amanda Barnes
City Clerk
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ITEM: OCEAN RENTAL PROPERTIES, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner] Change
in Nonconformity (Redevelop the site with eight new dwelling units where
nine exist) for the property located at 416 Norfolk Avenue (GPINs
2427141242, 2427142119). COUNCIL DISTRICT — BEACH
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
The applicant seeks to demolish the existing five nonconforming structures on
three lots totaling 11 ,935 square feet. As these lots under current requirements,
that were platted in 1924, can only be developed with up to three duplexes (six
units) as a matter of right, the request to construct eight townhouses requires an
approval by City Council to structurally alter and reconstruct the existing
nonconforming use to the townhouse style multifamily development. The reduction
in units decreases the degree of nonconformity in density while the layout results
in an increase in the degree on nonconformity for percentage of lot coverage,
exceeding the maximum lot coverage allowed in the A-12 Apartment District by
approximately 3,110 square feet or 65 percent.
The proposed three-story, contemporary-style townhouses are proposed with an
exterior of vinyl lap siding, windows, railing, and shutters, as well as an asphalt
shingle roof. The proposed redevelopment includes right-of-way improvements of
sidewalks and curb and gutter improvements along Norfolk Avenue and Baltic
Avenue. Eighteen on-site parking spaces (including two carport spaces) are
provided, thereby meeting the minimum parking requirement.
■ Considerations:
Section 105(d)(1) of the Zoning Ordinance states, "no nonconforming structure
shall be enlarged, extended, reconstructed, or structurally altered, if the effect is
to increase the nonconformity...exception...by resolution of the city council based
upon its finding that the proposed condition is equally appropriate or more
appropriate to the district than is the existing nonconformity." The Planning
Commission noted their preference to redevelop the property that contains several
buildings that were constructed as early as 1948. The vote of 5-3 to approve the
application included alterations to Conditions 1 and 3. As recommended, Condition
1 increases the number of units allowed on the site to eight, rather than six as
recommended by Staff; and Condition 3 permits a decreased front and side yard
setback for proposed Unit 1 from 30 feet to 4.63 feet. These modifications are
indicated below by underlined and strikethrough text. Further details pertaining to
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
Page 2 of 3
the application, as well as Staff's evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff
Report.
Staff received 14 letters of support and one petition of support that included five
signatures all of whom also provided individual letters of support. There is no
known opposition to this request.
• Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021, the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend
approval of this request by a vote of 5 to 3.
1 . When the site is redeveloped, the maximum density shall not exceed sip (6-)
eight (8) multi-family dwelling units.
2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior building materials shall substantially
adhere to the elevations entitled, "Norfolk Avenue Residential at Baltic Avenue
— Conceptual Elevations" December 9, 2019, and prepared by Finley Design
Architecture + Interiors, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City
Council and is on file in the Department of Planning and Community
Development.
3. When the site is redeveloped, a minimum the building setbacks of ten (10) feet
shall be reduced as depicted on the
concept plan entitled, "Conceptual Site Plan Exhibit", dated April 30, 2021 , and
prepared by WPL, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council
and is on file in the Department of Planning and Community Development.
These are is a deviations to the front and side yard setbacks required by the
Zoning Ordinance.
4. Prior to Site Plan approval, a Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the
Department of Planning & Community Development for review and approval.
5. When the site is redeveloped, 5-foot wide sidewalks shall be installed along
Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue with curb and gutter.
6. When the site is redeveloped, the curb line radius at the intersection of Norfolk
Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be 35 feet, the curb line radius at the
intersection of Baltic Avenue and 9th Street shall be 25 feet, in accordance with
Section 3.5 of the Public Works Design Standards Manual. The property line
radius at the intersection of Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be 20 feet,
and the property line radius at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and 9th Street
shall be 10 feet, in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Subdivision Regulations.
7. Prior to Site Plan approval, a subdivision plat to vacate the interior property
lines shall be submitted to the Department of Planning & Community
Development for review, approval, and recordation.
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
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■ Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Ordinance
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Letters of Support (14)
Petition of Support (1 with 5 signatures of property owners who also individually
provided the letters of support)
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Denial. Planning Commission recommends
Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department 0
City Manager:/,2
1 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN EXPANSION AND
2 RELOCATION OF A NONCONFORMING USE ON
3 PROPERTY LOCATED AT 416 NORFOLK AVENUE
4
5 WHEREAS, Ocean Rental Properties, LLC (the "Applicant") has made application
6 to the City Council for authorization to expand and relocate the nonconforming multifamily
7 structures located at 416 Norfolk Avenue and zoned A-12 Apartment Zoning District with
8 the demolition and reconstruction of all nonconforming structures on the parcel;
9
10 WHEREAS, this parcel currently contains five (5) residential structures with nine
11 (9) nonconforming dwelling units which were built prior to the adoption of the applicable
12 zoning regulations and are therefore nonconforming;
13
14 WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Virginia Beach recommended
15 approval of this application on May 12, 2021; and
16
17 WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 105 of the City Zoning Ordinance, the expansion
18 and relocation of nonconforming structures is unlawful in the absence of a resolution of
19 the City Council authorizing such action upon a finding that the proposed structures as
20 expanded will be equally appropriate or more appropriate to the zoning district than are
21 the existing structures.
22
23 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
24 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
25
26 That the City Council hereby finds that the proposed structures as expanded and
27 relocated, will be equally appropriate to the district as are the existing nonconforming
28 structures under the conditions of approval set forth herein below.
29
30 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA
31 BEACH, VIRGINIA:
32
33 That the expansion and relocation of the nonconforming structures is hereby
34 authorized, upon the following conditions:
35
36 1. When the site is redeveloped, the maximum density shall not exceed eight(8)multi-
37 family dwelling units.
38 2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior building materials shall substantially
39 adhere to the elevations entitled, "Norfolk Avenue Residential at Baltic Avenue—
40 Conceptual Elevations" December 9, 2019, and prepared by Finley Design
41 Architecture + Interiors, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council
42 and is on file in the Department of Planning and Community Development.
43 3. When the site is redeveloped, the building setbacks shall be reduced as depicted on
44 the concept plan entitled "Conceptual Site Plan Exhibit" dated April 30, 2021, and
45 prepared by WPL which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is
46 on file in the Department of Planning and Community Development. These are
47 deviations to front and side yard setbacks as required by the Zoning Ordinance,
48 4. Prior to site plan approval, a Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Department
49 of Planning & Community Development for review and approval.
50 5. When the site is redeveloped, 5-foot wide sidewalks shall be installed along Norfolk
51 Avenue and Baltic Avenue with curb and gutter.
52 6. When the site is redeveloped, the curb line radius at the intersection of Norfolk
53 Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be 35 feet, the curb line radius at the intersection of
54 Baltic Avenue and 9th Street shall be 25 feet, in accordance with Section 3.5 of the
55 Public Works Design Standards Manual. The property line radius at the intersection
56 of Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be 20 feet, and the property line radius at
57 the intersection of Baltic Avenue and 9th Street shall be 10 feet, in accordance with
58 Section 4.1 of the Subdivision Regulations.
59 7. Prior to site plan approval, a subdivision plat to vacate the interior property lines
60 shall be submitted to the Department of Planning & Community Development for
61 review, approval and recordation.
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY.
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Applicant & Property Owner Ocean Rental Properties, LLC Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing May 12, 2021
City Council Election District Beach 5
Virginia Beach
Request
Change in Nonconformity
Staff Recommendation 0
Denial � •
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Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
Agenda Item 5
Page 1
Background & Summary of Proposal
• The subject property,zoned A-12 Apartment District,consists of five residential structures that according to the City
Assessor's records were constructed in 1948.These dwellings vary in both size and shape contain a total of nine
nonconforming units.
• The subject 11,935 square foot site consists of three lots that were platted in 1924. For newly created lots zoned A-
12 Apartment District, a site of this size could yield three residential units.
• Particular to the subject site, as these three lots were created prior to the adoption of the Zoning Ordinance in 1954
and were legally established, a total of three duplex units (six total units)would be permitted as a matter of right.
• The applicant proposes to demolish the existing structures and redevelop the site with two new buildings,each
containing four townhomes (eight total units).As the proposal exceeds the maximum of six units permitted,the
applicant seeks to obtain permission to replace the existing nonconforming uses and fully redevelop the parcel with
eight townhome units.
• The submitted elevations depict three-story townhouses with a contemporary design with asphalt shingle roofing,
vinyl lap siding,vinyl windows,vinyl railing,and vinyl shutters.
• The submitted conceptual layout plan depicts the eight townhomes, 18 on-site parking spaces(including two carport
spaces),and foundation and street frontage plantings,and a five-foot wide sidewalk proposed along Norfolk
Avenue.
• The required front yard setback from Norfolk Avenue,9m Street and Baltic Avenue is 30 feet,and the side yard
setback is 10 feet.The existing buildings are 9.80 feet from Norfolk Avenue, 2.90 feet from Baltic Avenue,and 3.60
feet from 9th Street rights-of-way, respectively.The townhouses are depicted 4.63 feet from Norfolk Avenue and
Baltic Avenue, 10.50 feet from 9m Street,and 10.50 from the side yard,thereby not meeting the minimum required
setbacks along the streets.
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Application Types
MOD — Modification of Conditions or
CUP—Conditional Use Permit Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance STR—Short Term Rental
CRZ—Conditional Rezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
Agenda Item 5
Page 2
Evaluation & Recommendation
As stated above, as a matter of right the property could be developed with up to three duplex units (six units in total).
While the proposed redevelopment will reduce the number of dwelling units from nine to eight,the number remains in
excess of what is permitted by-right, which is six units. It is important to note that when a nonconforming structure is
demolished, it loses its nonconforming status and the new development is required to comply with the current
regulations. Section 105 of the Zoning Ordinance does not permit removal of an existing nonconforming structure in
order to redevelop the site with a new nonconforming structure.The applicant is requesting to utilize Section 105 (d) of
the Zoning Ordinance to allow for the nonconforming structure to be "enlarged, extended, reconstructed, or structurally
altered" by resolution of City Council.
The property is located within the 70-75 dB DNL noise zone. While the residential use is not compatible with this noise
zone, the reduction in the number of units is consistent with AICU7_ regulations of the Zoning Ordinance.
While there are certain elements of the proposal that have merit, such as decreasing the number of units by one,
reducing the degree of nonconformity of the building setbacks, and improved aesthetics of the site, in Staff's view the
proposed density is too dense for this 11,935 square foot parcel. The proposed density at 29.20 units per acre is
incompatible with the surrounding area, which consist of single family residentials and apartments to the south that has
a density of 17.65 units per acre. The proposed redevelopment further increases the percentage of lot coverage,
exceeding the maximum lot coverage allowed in the A-12 Apartment District by approximately 3,110 square feet or 65
percent. It is unclear how the applicant will address stormwater management for this redevelopment as the information
was not submitted with the application. In addition,Traffic Engineering reviewed the proposal and commented that the
proposed curb line radii and property line radius along Norfolk Avenue and 9' Street are proposed to be substandard.
As the proposal is not consistent with the Zoning Ordinance for nonconforming structures and the proposed density is
incompatible with the surrounding area, Staff recommends denial of this request; however, should the Planning
Commission contemplate approval,the following conditions are provided for consideration.
Recommended Conditions
1. When the site is redeveloped,the maximum density shall not exceed six-{)eight (8) multi-family dwelling units.
2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior building materials shall substantially adhere to the elevations entitled,
"Norfolk Avenue Residential at Baltic Avenue—Conceptual Elevations" December 9, 2019, and prepared by Finley
Design Architecture+ Interiors,which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the
Department of Planning and Community Development.
3. When the site is redeveloped, a minimumthe building setbacks of ten (10)feet shall be observed from all property
lines shall be reduced as depicted on the concept plan entitled, "Conceptual Site Plan Exhibit", dated April 30, 2021,
and prepared by WPL, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of
Planning and Community Development. Th+sese are is-a deviations to the front and rear yard setbacks required by
the Zoning Ordinance.
4. Prior to Site Plan approval, a Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Department of Planning& Community
Development for review and approval.
5. When the site is redeveloped, 5-foot wide sidewalks shall be installed along Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue with
curb and gutter.
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
Agenda Item 5
Page 3
6. When the site is redeveloped,the curb line radius at the intersection of Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be
35 feet,the curb line radius at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and 9th Street shall be 25 feet, in accordance with
Section 3.5 of the Public Works Design Standards Manual.The property line radius at the intersection of Norfolk
Avenue and Baltic Avenue shall be 20 feet,and the property line radius at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and 9'
Street shall be 10 feet, in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Subdivision Regulations.
7. Prior to Site Plan approval,a subdivision plat to vacate the interior property lines shall be submitted to the
Department of Planning&Community Development for review, approval,and recordation.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan designates the subject property as Resort Area Strategic Growth Area (SGA).The Resort Area
Strategic Action Plan,adopted in 2008, is the master plan prepared for this SGA and identifies the potential for three
distinct yet complementary districts: Laskin Gateway,Central Beach and Rudee Marina.The Plan provides a vision for
enhancing the energy at the beach into these three areas by developing synergies between the cultural and commercial
life,the recreational and the natural life,and an overall focus of drawing residents and visitors into the area.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Atlantic Ocean watershed. There are no known cultural resources associated with this site.
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Norfolk Avenue 9,830 ADT1 12,500 ADT 1(LOS 4"D")
Existing Land Use 2—66 ADT
Proposed Land Use 3—58 ADT
Baltic Avenue No Data Available 9,900 ADT 1(LOS 4"D")
1 Average Daily Trips 2 as defined by nine multi-family 3 as defined by eight multi-family 4 LOS=Level of Service
dwelling units dwelling units
Master Transportation Plan (MTP) and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Norfolk Avenue is a two lane minor urban arterial. Norfolk Avenue is not addressed in the MTP and there are no
roadway CIP projects scheduled for Norfolk Avenue in the vicinity of this site.
Baltic Avenue, in the vicinity of this site, is a two lane local street.This section of Baltic Avenue is not addressed in the
MTP.There are currently no roadway CIP projects scheduled for Baltic Avenue in the vicinity of this site.
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
Agenda Item 5
Page 4
Public Utility Impacts
Water & Sewer
The subject site is connected to City water and sanitary sewer services.
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• Six letters of support and one petition of support with five signatures (same individuals that provided letters of
support)from nearby property owners have been received by Staff.
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance, the public notice sign(s) was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, April 25, 2021 and
May 2, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting,was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code, this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021.
• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/Bookma rkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11, 2021.
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Disclosure Statement
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Virginia Beach
APPLICANT'S NAME Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT FORM
The completion and submission of this form is required for all applications
that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of
property in the City of Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or
a board, commission, or other body appointed by the City Council. Such
applications and matters include, but are not limited to, the following:
Acquisition of Property Disposition of City Modification of
by City Property Conditions or Proffers
Alternative Economic Development
Compliance,Special Investment Program Nonconforming Use
Exception for (EDIP) Changes
Board of Zoning Encroachment Request Rezoning
Appeals
Certificate of Floodplain Variance
Appropriateness Street Closure
(Historic Review Board) Franchise Agreement
Chesapeake Bay
Preservation Area Lease of City Property Subdivision Variance
Board
Conditional Use Permit License Agreement Wetlands Board
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The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform
public officials who may vote on the application as to whether
they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law.
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SECTION 1 / APPLICANT DISCLOSURE
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Page 1 of 7
Planning Commission and City Council meeting that pertains to the application(s).
APPLICANT NOTIFIED OF HEARING DATE
® NO CHANGES AS OF DATE 0g 03 2021
. REVISIONS SUBMITTED DATE
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Disclosure Statement
Virginia Beach
ICheck here if the APPLICANT IS NOT a corporation, partnership, firm,
business,or other unincorporated organization.
X Check here if the APPLICANT IS a corporation, partnership, firm, business, or
other unincorporated organization.
(A) List the Applicant's name:Ocean Rental Properties, LLC
If an LLC, list all member's names:
Steven W. Bishard. Manager;John Bishard. Member
If a CORPORATION, list the the names of all officers, directors, members,
trustees, etc. below: (Attach list if necessary)
(B) List the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary 1 or affiliated business entity 2
relationship with the Applicant: (Attach list if necessary)
See next page for information pertaining to footnotes 1 and 2
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SECTION 2 / PROPERTY OWNER DISCLOSURE
Complete Section 2 only if property owner is different from Applicant.
Check here if the PROPERTY OWNER IS NOT a corporation, partnership, firm,
business, or other unincorporated organization.
Check here if the PROPERTY OWNER IS a corporation, partnership, firm,
business, or other unincorporated organization, AND THEN,complete the
following.
(A) List the Property Owner's name:
If an LLC, list the member's
names:
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Virginia Beach
If a Corporation, list the names ofall officers, directors, members, trustees,
etc. below: (Attach list if necessary)
(B) List the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary t or affiliated business entity
2 relationship with the Property Owner: (Attach list if necessary)
r "Parent-subsidiary relationship" means "a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or
indirectly owns shares possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation."
See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va Code 4 2 2-3101
2 "Affiliated business entity relationship" means "a relationship, other than parent-subsidiary
relationship,that exists when (i)one business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other
business entity, (ii) a controlling owner in one entity is also a controlling owner in the other entity,or
(iii) there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that should be
considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the
same person or substantially the same person own or manage the two entities: there are common or
commingled funds or assets, the business entities share the use of the same offices or employees or
otherwise share activities, resources or personnel on a regular basis, or there is otherwise a close
working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,
Va Code§ 2 2.3101
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SECTION 3. SERVICES DISCLOSURE
Are any of the following services being provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the Property. If the answer
to any item is YES, please identify the firm or individual providing the service: IF THE
OWNER AND APPLICANT ARE DIFFERENT, EACH MUST COMPLETE THE SECTION
SEPERATELY
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YES NO SERVICE PROVIDER(use additional sheets if
t needed)
I I h Accounting and/or preparer of
I �/ I your tax return
Architect/Landscape Architect/
— Land Planner
Contract Purchaser(if other than
X the Applicant)-identify purchaser
and purchaser's service providers
Any other pending or proposed
Xpurchaser of the subject property
(identify purchaser(s)and
purchaser's service providers)
X Construction Contractors
X Engineers/Surveyors/Agents WPL
Financing(include current TowneBank
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mortgage holders and lenders
selected or being considered to
provide financing for acquisition
or construction of the property)
XLegal Services Sykes Bourdon,Ahern&Levy,PC
Real Estate Brokers /
Inl Agents/Realtors for current and
'/\I anticipated future sales of the
subject property
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SECTION 4. KNOWN INTEREST BY PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR
EMPLOYEE
YES NO Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have
'\/I an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
IIU contingent on the subject public action?
If yes, what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the
interest?
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Virginia Beach
CERTIFICATION:
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is
complete.true,and accurate.
I understand that, upon receipt of notification that the application has been
scheduled for public hearing, I am responsible for updating the information
provided herein two weeks prior to the Planning Commission, Council, VEDA
meeting, or meeting of any public body or committee in connection with this
Application.
ocean R �Pro� Steven W. Bishard,Manager 'o/gl (2a�
APPLE ANT(SIC A PRINT NAME DATE
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards.Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division,and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy,are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
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Item # 5
Ocean Rental Properties, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner]
Change in Nonconformity
Adjacent Addresses: 416 Norfolk Avenue
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL - HEARD
Madam Clerk: Our next Agenda item number five is the Ocean Rental Properties LLC, an
application for a change in nonconformity on property adjacent to 416 Norfolk
Avenue in the Beach District.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome.
Mr. Bourdon: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the Commission, for the record Eddie
Bourdon. Virginia Beach attorney representing the applicant, Steve Bishard and
Josh Moto with the Bishard Companies are here with us this afternoon. This is an
application, not one that we see that often, but there have been a number of them
in the last 10 years or so. This is an application for the modification extension and
relocation of a nonconforming use under Section 105D, D as in dog of our Zoning
Ordinance regarding what we feel is a very desirable redevelopment of a legally
nonconforming use on the subject property. We had provided a physical survey
with the application that didn't make its way into the staff report. But if staff could
put up the composite map I want to take a minute to review what's on the property
now that's been there since 1948. Is there not a composite map that shows the
building footprints?That arial is not quite good enough for what I want to do?There
we go. And hopefully, the physical survey can make its way into the package when
it goes to City Council. You'll see there are five buildings on the property. Those
five buildings house nine units that have existed; the lots are on three lots I should
have said that. The lots have existed since the early 1900s and the five dwelling
buildings with nine units have existed since 1948. The three lots today under
today's zoning, zoning didn't exist when these houses were built. There wasn't any,
there wasn't even a subdivision ordinance in the City of Virginia Beach at the time
they were built on Princess Anne County. But today as staff report says you could
build six units on the three lots that comprise the property. The units that are there
now straddle the boundaries of the property, which are not allowed in the building
code today, another nonconformity with regard to this piece of property. The nine
units that are on the property today have been there for over 70 years, and there
is a grand total of one on-site parking space. One, that parking space is gravel,
there are other parking spaces that are partially on the property and partially in the
right of way, unimproved right of way. But nowhere near the 18 spaces that are
required for the use that's been there for over 70 years. The setbacks on these
buildings, the setbacks for two of the buildings from Baltic Avenue, 2.9 feet and 3.6
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feet, setbacks from 9th Street 3.6 feet and 3.7 feet, setback on the east side, the
only side that doesn't have a right of way, four feet and the setback from Norfolk
Avenue closest point 9.8 feet, all deficient as far as the required setbacks are
concerned. Because this property was developed in 1948, there is absolutely
positively no stormwater management on the site whatsoever at all. So those are
all existing non conformities with regard to this site. The requirement under our
City Code for determining whether City Council wishes to approve by a Resolution,
a modification, enlargement extension, relocation of a non conforming use which
non conforming uses typically, we want them to go away. But many, many
circumstances especially after BRAC, that's not been the case with regard to areas
of the oceanfront that weren't fortunate enough to be rezoned to OR. But the
qualification or the requirement is that there be a finding that the proposed
condition is equally appropriate or more appropriate to the district than the existing
nonconformity. So now I'm going to explain what we've proposed. and I think
demonstrate pretty clearly that in every instance, we're exceeding in terms of
compliance with the ordinance to everything that is there. The current plan that's
before you, if you can put that up please is proposing to redevelop the site with
eight units, one less that has been there for over 70 years. And that complies with
our commitments to the Navy with BRAC and there's no opposition to this from the
Navy. We have 16 on-site parking spaces with a drive aisle to serve them all that
meet City Code, a bit of an improvement over one gravel space. The setbacks and
before we were advised last week that we needed to dedicate right of way at the
intersection of Norfolk Avenue and Baltic Avenue for a higher or higher radius turn
lower radius turns, so I'm not an engineer. But before that, the setbacks along east
side of the property adjacent to residential 10.5 versus the current four, along
Baltic, the setbacks are 10 and a half feet as well. Norfolk Avenue because it's
staggered, the corners of the proposed dwellings that are closest to the right of
way are 10 and the corners of each dwelling that's further away is 14. 10 and 14
and along Ninth Street again, where we've got today 3.6, the setbacks are 10 and
a half and 12 and a half feet respectively for those units.All of the units as proposed
will be built on one property with the re-subdivision plat vacating the property line,
so that that building code deficiency will be settled and the entire redevelopment
will be required to meet the current. very, very stringent, most stringent in the
Commonwealth of Virginia site stormwater collection and treatment requirements
and resiliency for a one and a half foot sea level rise. Again, all improvements
substantial, not at all minor. Currently, there is no curbing and guttering on any of
the three streets that abut this property, not a bit, no sidewalks either. With
redevelopment, all three of the street frontages, over 350 linear feet of street
frontage, will be curbed and guttered and widening will take place on some of those
streets. A five foot sidewalk will be provided in the right of way by the developer as
a part of the redevelopment on both Norfolk Avenue and Baltic, as conditioned. All
the current utilities above ground electricity will all be buried and relocated. And as
I said stormwater treatment will be first of all, there's a permeable paver drive aisle
proposed and the parking is where the underground storage will take place and
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not an inexpensive proposition. There will be, my client will be expending $400.000
plus or minus in improvements to the public rights of way and public utilities, as
well as stormwater management and resiliency on this property, forgetting all the
rest of the development of the property redeveloped with the property, that's the
amount of money that essentially is for public benefit and on this property
compared to again,what is there now. And that's a-that's a large amount of money
to say the least. The other option is just to simply refurbish all the existing buildings,
this application has been pending for 19 months and takes a while to get an
application ready to come forward, my clients haven't owned the property that long.
but they have not during that period of time, invested a lot of money to refurbish,
rehabilitate in an effort to keep these buildings for another 20 years. That's not
what they think is best, and they haven't done so, but that is the other option here.
The bottom line to that this is a tremendously impressive, proposed redevelopment
and you need look but about 75 feet to the east on Norfolk Avenue to see another
development that my clients did or redevelopment of property that was pretty much
as bad as this one. And it's not anymore. And folks, this would be just one more
step in the right direction, will add to the value of all the other properties in the
neighborhood and encourage other redevelopment that needs to take place in this
area. We've provided you with letters of support dropped them off at each of your
spots this morning from 13 neighboring property owners' residents in support of
this application, 13, as well as a petition; I think some of the signatures may be
duplicative on the petition. So I think that the burden that we have in this instance,
has been more than adequately addressed. The idea that, that leaving this as is
with. you know, clean it up. make it look a little prettier and all that versus what is
proposed, to me is not a hard choice. And we've had similar applications,
especially up in the Sea Pines area that had been approved by City Council is four
of them that I'm aware of, and a number of others as well doing the same thing.
Because with our circumstance with BRAC, the oceanfront is the area that we
protected and we want to make sure it gets redeveloped. It's a big part of our City's
future, not the only part but a big part. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any
questions.
Mr. Weiner: Any questions for Mr. Bourdon? Okay, Robyn.
Ms. Klein: Okay. So I think that that was a great presentation that you just made. I think
everyone agrees that that property needs to be redeveloped. There's zero
question. It is quite the eyesore. I find it disconcerting that the owner has been
managing the property for 19 months, and it looks the way it does. Even I
understand not wanting to invest a lot if he wants to redevelop the property, but
the quality of that housing I found disgusting. There was a lady in there who just
signed a one year lease, we took a look at her lease, and there's nothing stopping
the owner from pushing her out of that property upon redevelopment. And so we
have concerns about that. And just the fact that the grass doesn't appear to be
mowed like I was not happy with the property.
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Mr. Bourdon: I completely understand where you're coming from. I will simply say that it's spring.
And you know, with the some of the wet weather, I had to call the people who cut
grass at my house, because they need to be cutting it every week now as opposed
to what they've been doing every couple of weeks. So that may have something to
do with the grass cutting part of it. With respect to the tenant that you spoke to, if
this is approved by city council, the simple reality is that it will take at a minimum
in my experience with our new stormwater regs, etcetera, a year and a half, could
take longer to get site plan approval. That's the unfortunate reality we live in. So
the tenant you're speaking, you spoke with, there is not a snowball's chance that
they're going to be moved out and they can more than likely extend their lease
beyond the year that they're there. It's not going to happen within a year just isn't
possible, unfortunately. But that's the reality with stormwater and resiliency, for
most of the city.
Ms. Klein: My preference would for there to be something in writing just for the tenant's
protection, completely aside from looking at it. I don't think that the purpose of a
nonconforming properties to stay nonconforming. I think that the rent that woman
is paying for what she's living in, versus if the property is redeveloped would greatly
be recovered in six homes versus eight, and so I can't reason all of my personal
feelings aside keeping the property in nonconforming status.
Mr. Weiner: Any other questions? Nope. Okay.
Mr. Bourdon: Thank you very much.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Any speakers? No speakers, okay, we'll close this and open for
discussion. And who wants to go first? Beach area - George.
Mr. Alcaraz: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: No problem.
Mr. Alcaraz: I went on site. I've actually went on site and I did run into some of the adjacent
property owners. I have seen the petition that was for it. I've seen this applicant's
work. I meant to ask Mr. Bourdon, you can just nod your head did this applicant
also do the 16th Street Cypress Avenue project?Yes. Okay. Kind of looks like that.
Well, it looks good too. But, I mean, he's done some extensive design here. I'm
comfortable with it. He's right, Robyn on the site plan is pretty extensive, and the
timeline is extensive to get that through with the city. It's just the stormwater, it's
been extreme to get things through and approved, and I'm sure he'll get it, he'll get
to that point. I'm liking this, the neighbors like it. And you know, they were all out
there we got a petition for it. And that's really all I have to say, I'm gonna be
supporting it, unless anyone else has anything to say about it.
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Mr. Weiner: Whitney.
Mr. Graham: I'll be quick. Um, could we put up the slide of what the property looks like today?
The photograph? Back one photo. Okay. So that's what's there today, built 70
years ago, I mean, you hear that, it's, you know, what's not - it's nonconforming
parking, setback, stormwater, the number of units. And then show of, if you could
the rendering of what it'll and there was think there was another one that was more
of a close up. I mean, gosh, this is what we want. To me, this is a huge
improvement. And I just, you know, I mean, to hear that, you know, they're going
to, you know, they're taking the density down by unit, each unit, I think, it is going
to have two parking spaces. There's no opposition from the Navy, increased
setbacks, stormwater improvements, curb and gutter, sidewalks, utilities getting
buried in this final product, and this is a developer that has done other projects that
are attractive. It's the revitalization of an area that that, you know, in certain pockets
needs it. So I'll be supporting this.
Mr. Weiner: Yeah Robyn, I am sorry.
Ms. Klein: The nonconformity piece really bothers me. And then better than bad is still bad.
And if it's going to take 18 months for the new stormwater, like for all the site plans
to be approved and everything, does that mean that those tenants, that woman
and anyone else that lives in there is going to continue to live in dilapidation during
that time.
Mr. Weiner: Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: So, Whitney, I agree with you, this is a great improvement to this property. And I
believe that anybody that bought this property is their intent is to improve it. I mean,
they're not obviously, they're not going to refurbish the buildings, we were out
there, we walked around them, there's no refurbishing any of those buildings. They
were lucky they actually stand on their own today during this storm. But staff has
denied this and when staff doesn't very often, in the many years that I've been
sitting in the seat, deny an application. And so when they do, you have to look at
it for a reason. And they're doing it because this is a nonconforming piece of
property that someone wants to develop and keep it in a nonconforming way. We
don't do it. They don't let you do business like that. They don't let me do business
like that. And granted, he is one less than what he is applied for, which is great,
but I think that he can build a great, I think he can redevelop the building the
property and to what code is and not leave it in a nonconforming state. I mean, it
states right here in it. Section 105 of the Zoning Ordinance does not permit removal
of an existing nonconforming structure in order to redevelop the site with a new
nonconforming structure. I like to figure it out. I can't, look Eddie, this all, but I
mean, you can't, and that's up to the chair. That's not up to me. You know, I'm not
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saying that it's not a great, you know, plan it is obviously, but staff wants to keep it
like that, and I have to agree with them and that's where I am.
Mr. Weiner: I like to have Eddie come up because we didn't have any speakers for little rebuttal
because I'm torn and I don't know which way to go and I want to hear, like to hear.
Mr. Bourdon: I want to make, I'm not here to argue with anything other than your quote of
something in that staff report. And I didn't get on it to start with but that statement
is utterly false, or is a absolutely new pulled out of thin air statement, and this
ordinance that I read to you the same the ordinance itself, City Council has the
absolute ability to agree and has on many, many applications to allow
modifications of nonconforming uses that change that tear everything down and
build something new. And that insinuation that I heard about last Thursday, for the
first time, never seen that put in a report ever before, okay, that's reality. This idea
that you can't do this, if that were the case, why are we on the agenda, if we can't
do this. And why have we approved other ones? Why have we approved lots and
lots of other ones over the years at the North End. Sea Pines and elsewhere. So
the insinuation that this is something that shouldn't be done or can't be done. The
reality is nonconforming uses;we do want to try to get rid of them. But this provision
is very clear and when we did BRAC, and we said we're going to protect units at
the Oceanfront. And we have a lot of nonconforming stuff at the Oceanfront that
wasn't covered by the OR district where we were able to pull those in and say,
we're going to keep these, this density, we're going to be able to increase density,
even though BRAC is there, these areas were left out of that and that's why we
use a nonconforming use modification provisions and have done so very
successfully over the years. I can't help the fact that apparently, that historical
perspective has been lost. So I just want to make that very clear, that statement in
here is never been in a report before and it doesn't say that in the ordinance. You
can't find those words in the ordinance. And that's not directed at you, but it's that
what's in that report.
Ms. Oliver: You're directing it to me. Thank you.
Mr. Bourdon: No, but you read that.
Ms. Oliver: I read what's in front of me.
Mr. Bourdon: Right, fine and I left that out before because I didn't want to get confrontational with
what staff put in that report. That statement came out of thin air.
Ms. Oliver: No, it's in print.
Mr. Bourdon: As far as what's in the ordinance, it doesn't say that.
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Ms. Oliver: I hear you.
Mr. Bourdon: And is quoting something that supposedly the ordinance says.
Ms. Oliver: Yes, sir. I hear you Mr. Bourdon.
Mr. Bourdon: Thank you.
Ms. Oliver: You did. That's fine. With that, along with the fact that it also says the density, you
know, staff is talking about their density, and that the percentage of the lot covered,
coverage exceeds the maximum by 65%.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Tajan, can you make, why was that in the staff report? Or what can this?
Mr. Tajan: So I'll read it word for word from the Ordinance Mr. Chair, no nonconforming
structure shall be in large, extended, reconstructed or structurally altered if the
effect is to increase the nonconformity, so that is the one piece. Further above it,
it does say no nonconforming use shall be enlarged or extended to cover greater
land area than was occupied by the nonconformity on the effective date of this
ordinance. No nonconformity use shall be moved in whole or in part. So the
ordinance does say that.After that, it does say as it notes in the staff report, section
105-D also allows them to go to City Council for approval through this process,
and that's why we're here. So yes, the ordinance does not allow us staff to do that
that is correct. And again, so it has been the historical practice that is, has been
allowed, and we're not disagreeing with that, but so.
Mr. Weiner: We're good. We're good. We're good.
Mr. Bourdon: I completely agree. And we are as I put on the record, in every case, we're making
the nonconformities better, we're not making them worse.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, thank you.
Mr. Bourdon: And 4400 square feet of our impervious surface, more than the 3100 is for the on-
site parking and the access to the parking.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, thank you, Mr. Redmond.
Mr. Redmond:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I gotta say, I'm going to let City Council settle that, that
y'all have gone between you about whether they can or whether they can't. I don't
know that Moses came down from the mountain with an answer on that question,
that's for the City Council to decide. I will say this. This is an improvement on this
property in every single way, 100 times out of 100. I will take a nonconforming use.
Make an improvement like this and then ended up with a nonconforming use, I'd
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high five, everybody within sight. Everything about this property can and should be
improved and I've yet to find anything that's not an improvement there on. I mean,
sometimes we miss the forest for the trees and this is a place that seems to me
that could desperately use precisely what's being proposed here. And again, this
is not a casino, for whatever reason people tend to treat people living in houses as
though it's some kind of nefarious or noxious use of some sort. They're the least
impactful and damaging kinds of uses, then you can get, it's not a 60,000 foot
fitness facility with 5000 cars a day. It's just a small number of people living in
houses, I think this is a, I think this is a fantastic improvement. And I'm all for
fantastic improvements. Again, if there, I would be delighted if there are 100 more
instances of this that we could enable, I agree with Mr. Alcaraz. I agree with Mr.
Graham and we ought not fumble the ball and we have opportunities like this to
improve our community. So I'll certainly be supporting it and urge my colleagues
to do the same. Thanks.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Wall.
Mr. Wall: I agree it's an improvement. I applaud the applicants, but I think everything that's
been said here can be done by right. I don't think we need to increase the density
and encourage nonconformity.
Mr. Weiner: Whitney do you have something? No.
Mr. Graham: So it's Councils, Council is able, at their discretion to change it. We're here today
to talk about land use. That's our recommendation. From a land use perspective
to take something that's completely nonconforming, and make it less
nonconforming, is still will be nonconforming, but not as nonconforming and it is,
like Mr. Redmond said it's 100 times better. I mean, I just don't even,to me I mean,
this totally makes sense to see this project done. I think it's a big improvement and
I think it's a catalyst for other things great to happen. So I'll be supporting it.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, so, Mr. Redmond, I kind of respectfully disagree with you just a little bit. I do
like the project, but I'm sorry but nonconforming and conforming is considered land
use. And that's what we're here to discuss and we're here to talk about it. What
they're doing, taking a nonconforming and making it still nonconforming, but it's
still very good project. And it's going to, I'm going to support it. We are here for
land use and nonconforming and conforming is land use. So we have to keep that
in the back of our mind. So we're here to discuss that for future. Yes, sir.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Alcaraz, would you care to make a motion? If not, I'd be happy to make a
motion.
Mr. Alcaraz: I'll make a motion, you can follow me. I'll make a motion that we approve agenda
number five.
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Mr. Weiner: Second.
Mr. Redmond: Well, I would actually like to amend his motion. I think we have to, we have to alter
some of these conditions. Condition number one says when the site is
redeveloped; the maximum density shall not exceed six multifamily dwelling units.
We would have to change that to eight and I believe, so I think the applicant has
agreed to this radius change at the corner. I don't know how that's affected. Is this
correct Mr. Tajan? You guys had a conversation about this.
Mr. Tajan: The radius requirement we covered during the site plan review process when they
redevelop the property, so or if Mr. Bourdon wants to...
Mr. Redmond: We want to make sure we get that right before we leave the room.
Mr. Bourdon: We submitted last week when we found out about this requirement of revised plan
with the radius corrected and dedication involved. And that forces the very corner,
the Northwest corner, to that one building at the closest point as it comes around
at five feet rather than 10, everything else stays the same, but because that radius
gets closer to that corner, that setback, which under number two, there are
setbacks. All the setbacks are fine, except for that one tip of that one corner.
Mr. Redmond:And that would be necessary in order to accommodate your request to tighten that
radius, is that correct?
Mr. Tajan: That's correct. Yes.
Mr. Redmond: Okay. So then I would make, then I would say that the, I would suggest perhaps
that Mr. Alcaraz amend his motion to change number one to shall not exceed eight
multifamily dwelling units and number six in the second sentence, the line radius
at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and Ninth Street shall be five feet rather than
10 feet in order to accommodate the staffs concern about that corner. Would you
agree to that?
Mr. Alcaraz: I agree with Mr. Redmond. I appreciate the amendment on with your second.
Mr. Redmond: I second the motion.
Mr. Weiner: We have motion for approval by Mr. Alcaraz and second by Mr. Redmond with the
conditions and Ms. Wilson wants to way in?
Ms. Wilson: No, I just want to mention that, Mr. Graham, this is a project that's financed by
Towne Bank. As such, Mr. Graham has on file a conflicts letter that he will disclose
in votes. So he will at this time just disclose and vote.
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Mr. Weiner: Yeah. do it now before we vote.
Mr. Graham: Okay. I have a disclosure form that's on record with the city that I am on a Board
at Towne Bank, but I do not have any financial interests in this project and I do
plan on voting today.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. We're ready to vote.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Nay.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Nay.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond:Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Nay.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of five in favor and three against agenda item number five has
been recommended for approval with modifications to conditions one and six.
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AYE 5 NAY 3 ABS 0 ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein NAY
Oliver NAY
Redmond AYE
Wall NAY
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. When the site is redeveloped, the maximum density shall not exceed six-(83 eight (8) multi-
family dwelling units.
2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior building materials shall substantially adhere to the
elevations entitled. "Norfolk Avenue Residential at Baltic Avenue— Conceptual Elevations"
December 9, 2019, and prepared by Finley Design Architecture + Interiors, which has been
exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning and
Community Development.
3. When the site is redeveloped, a minimumthe building setbacks of ten (10) feet shall be
observed from all property line, shall be reduced as depicted on the concept plan entitled,
"Conceptual Site Plan Exhibit", dated April 30. 2021, and prepared by WPL. which has been
exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning and
Community Development. Thisese are is a deviations to the front and rear yard setbacks
required by the Zoning Ordinance.
4. Prior to Site Plan approval, a Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Department of
Planning & Community Development for review and approval.
5. When the site is redeveloped, 5-foot wide sidewalks shall be installed along Norfolk Avenue
and Baltic Avenue with curb and gutter.
6. When the site is redeveloped, the curb line radius at the intersection of Norfolk Avenue and
Baltic Avenue shall be 35 feet, the curb line radius at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and
9th Street shall be 25 feet, in accordance with Section 3.5 of the Public Works Design
Standards Manual. The property line radius at the intersection of Norfolk Avenue and Baltic
Avenue shall be 20 feet, and the property line radius at the intersection of Baltic Avenue and
9th Street shall be 10 feet, in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Subdivision Regulations.
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7. Prior to Site Plan approval, a subdivision plat to vacate the interior property lines shall be
submitted to the Department of Planning & Community Development for review, approval,
and recordation.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division. and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr. Dao and City Staff,
My name is tC4n.e, r199 5 . I reside at Li a.$ y'r`INSdveeT
As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Ave')' 1 , I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures, LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex. We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
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May (Q ,2021
ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr. Dao and City Staff, �
My name is � `V,` G JAI1 I ex . I reside at L 2 'L � SJ-T(�
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As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures, LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4, 2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue-redevelopment
Dear Mr. Dao and City Staff, act AA-
My name is \
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As a neighbor to 446 Norfolk Avenue',I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures, LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex. We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr. Dao and City Staff,
My name is k/} I reside at �/ 11i
As a neighbor to 41 orfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures,LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4, 2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
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My name is Ylf "��i{r',r? I reside at �4 �� 5 1
As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures, LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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ATTN: Hoa Dao
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
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As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for ORP Ventures,LLC to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community.I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr.Sanders and City Staff,
My name is LS �` ',� (nS},t � . 1 reside at C1 114 �1 � 71.Y ' �u U' %L
As a neighbor to 416i4orfolk Avenue I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community.I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
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As a neighbor to 416 No Ik Avenue,I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fu.ly support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
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As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4, 2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely*Ibis.
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ATTN:Jonathan Sanders
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr.Sanders and City Staff,
My name is '2-&xJm1 c Do''• I reside at $10 13A-MC--
As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue,I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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ATTN:Jonathan Sanders
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
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My name is ra l/ rZ� e' . I reside at O v/,lt" rs -
As a neighbor to 416 Kiorfolk Avenue,I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community. I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr.Sanders and City Staff,
My name is v!tl�4 r)ti `a I reside at '1 *Elf
As a neighbor to 41 Norfolk Avenue, I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community.I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely you \
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City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr.Sanders and City Staff, lL/7 /
My name is *k441 AfG14,jQ" .I reside at T/ -74/A
As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk Avenue,I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community.
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely your ,
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ATTN:Jonathan Sanders
City of Virginia Beach
Planning Department
2875 Sabre Street,Suite 500
Virginia Beach,VA 23452
Concerning 416 Norfolk Avenue—redevelopment
Dear Mr,Sanders and City Staff, i
My name is ```" 4�/l . I reside at D 6 7 `5,//i.C. 14/€
As a neighbor to 416 Norfolk A(enue,I would like to express my support for Ocean Rental Properties to
redevelop this property into the eight units shown to me on the WPL exhibit dated June 4,2020.
The property at 416 Norfolk Avenue has deteriorated over the years and is due for redevelopment.
Ocean Rental Properties has also shown me the elevations that they are proposing to build for the eight-
unit complex.We believe that these eight units will be a substantial improvement to our community.I
fully support Ocean Rental Properties for redevelopment and hope for the application's success.
Sincerely yours,
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PETITION OF SUPPORT FOR RE-DEVELOPMENT OF 416 NORFOLK AVENUE
We support the redevelopment of 416 Norfolk Avenue to be converted from its existing cottages to the proposed eight-unit development in our
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
\ AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: SOUTH LYNNHAVEN, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner] Modification of
Conditions of a Previously Approved Street Closure for the property located
at 877 South Lynnhaven Road (GPIN 1496342200). COUNCIL DISTRICT —
ROSE HALL
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
On August 13, 1984, City Council approved a Street Closure of approximately
23,470 square feet of right-of-way (South Lynnhaven Road) that required that an
easement be reserved to the City for installation and/or maintenance of public
utilities, and an easement be reserved to the City for access of emergency
vehicles. The applicant seeks to remove these two conditions in order to ultimately
construct an office use on the larger property. This undeveloped property is
approximately 19,300 square feet in size and is zoned B-2 Community Business
District.
During Staff's briefing to the City Council on May 25, 2021 , of pending Planning
Commission applications, details pertaining to the 1984 closure be provided.
Attachments include the 1984 Staff report, the Street Closure exhibit, the
application, the Viewers' meeting memo, and the City Council approval letter with
conditions noted.
• Considerations:
The applicant contends that up to 60 percent or 11 ,694 square feet of the property
is encumbered with the easements, thereby making the site difficult to develop.
Albeit legally nonconforming, adding to the difficulty is the fact that property is well
below the minimum lot size of 20,000 square feet for the B-2 District. Modifying the
conditions to allow the vacation of easements would expand the buildable area on
the site.
The Viewers met and support the removal of the conditions subject to either the
relocation or abandonment as appropriate of any City infrastructure within the
easement area, subject to approval by the Department of Public Utilities, and at
the applicant's expense. Further details pertaining to the application, as well as
Staff's evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff Report.
South Lynnhaven, LLC
Page 2 of 2
One letter of opposition was received from the adjacent property owner to the west
who noted concerns that the future development on this parcel will negatively
impact their site.
• Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021 , the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend
approval of this request by a vote of 7-0, with 1 abstention.
1. As to the applicant's property, the conditions attached to the Street Closure
granted on August 13, 1984 and extended on May 20, 1985 are hereby deleted.
2. As to the applicant's property, a Deed of Partial Vacation to vacate the variable
with public utility and emergency vehicle access easements shall be recorded
with City of Virginia Beach Clerk of Circuit Court within 365 days from the date
of City Council action. The Deed of Partial Vacation shall be subject to the
approval of the City Attorney's Office.
3. All City public utility infrastructure within the easement area to be vacated shall
be relocated or abandoned as determined and approved by the Department of
Public Utilities.
• Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Letter of Opposition (1)
1984 Street Closure Items
- Approval Letter
- City Council Minutes
- Staff Report
- Street Closure Exhibit
- Street Closure Application
- Viewers' Memo
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department G �`� /
City Manager:r0
Applicant& Property Owner South Lynnhaven, LLC Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing May 12, 2021
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Virginia Beach
Request
Modification of Conditions
Staff Recommendation \ / \r- i
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South Lynnhaven, LLC
Agenda Item 8
Page 1
Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a modification of street closure conditions to remove said conditions, allowing the
easements to be vacated in order to increase the buildable area on the site.The applicant proposes to develop the
property into a small office use.
• On August 13, 1984, City Council approved a Street Closure for approximately 23,470 sq. ft. of South Lynnhaven
Road that encompassed a portion of this property with the conditions that (1) an easement be reserved to the City
for installation and/or maintenance of public utilities; (2) an easement be reserved to the City for access of
emergency vehicles; and (3)the closure shall be contingent upon compliance with the above-stated conditions
within 180 days of approval by City Council. On May 20, 1985, City Council approved an extension of time to meet
the street closure conditions and adopted an ordinance for the final approval of the street closure.
• On May 31,1985, the applicant's predecessor in title dedicated the easements as to the applicant's property to the
City by a Deed of Easement recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach.
• The applicant's property is approximately 19,338 square feet, is zoned B-2 Community Business District, and is
currently undeveloped. 11,694 square feet(60%) of the property is encumbered with the easements.
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Zoning History
1
# Request
1 CUP(Automobile Repair)Approved 01/13/2016
_I / 2 CUP(Automobile Repair&Sale)Approved 09/10/1997
3 STC Approved 5/20/1985
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Application Types
CUP—Conditional Use Permit MOD—Modification of Conditions or Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance
LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance STR Short Term Rental
CRZ—Conditional Rezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance
Evaluation & Recommendation
Staff finds this request to modify the original conditions of the street closure to be acceptable.At 19,338 square feet,
the site currently does not meet the 20,000 square foot minimum dimensional requirements for development in the B-2
zoning district. However,the parcel was legally created prior to the minimum dimensional requirements were put into
place, making the property legally nonconforming. Modifiying the conditions to allow the vacation of easements on the
applicant's property would expand the buildable area on the site. Based on its proximity to other commercial uses,
future development of this parcel into office or retail will be compatible to the surrounding area.The proposal to vacate
the easements on the subject property has been reviewed by the Department of Public Utilities and Department of
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Public Works -Traffic Engineering. No concerns were raised for the vacation of the easements. Staff recommends
approval of this request subject to the conditions listed below.
Recommended Conditions
1. As to the applicant's property,the conditions attached to the Street Closure granted on August 13, 1984 and
extended on May 20, 1985 are hereby deleted.
2. As to the applicant's property, a Deed of Partial Vacation to vacate the variable with public utility and emergency
vehicle access easements shall be recorded with City of Virginia Beach Clerk of Circuit Court within 365 days from
the date of City Council action. The Deed of Partial Vacation shall be subject to the approval of the City Attorney's
Office.
3. All City public utility infrastructure within the easement area to be vacated shall be relocated or abandoned as
determined and approved by the Department of Public Utilities.
1984 Street Closure Conditions
The original Street Closure was approved by City Council on August 13, 1984, with an extension of time and final
approval on May 20, 1985. The conditions were as follows:
1. An easement reserved to the City for installation and maintenance of public utilities.
2. An easement reserved for access of emergency vehicles.
3. The closure of this right of way shall be contingent upon compliance with the above-stated conditions within 180
days of the approval by City Council.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
This street closure modification application involves property that is zoned B-2 and surrounded on all four sides by
properties with similar zoning or uses. Therefore,this application is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan Suburban
Area Guiding Planning Principle to create and maintain neighborhood stability and sustainability. Ultimate development
of this property to a B-2 use should not be incompatible to the surrounding uses or the nearby residential neighborhood.
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Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. There does not appear to be any significant natural or cultural
resources on the site.
Public Utility Impacts
Water
• There is an existing 12-inch City water main located within the western half of the closed portion of South
Lynnhaven Road.
• If the site is developed in the future it will be required to connect to City water.
Sewer
• City sanitary sewer is not readily available the site. However,there is an option to connect to the existing 8-inch
City sewer main near the intersection of Ole Towne Lane and Cariage Hill Road.
• The existing 8-inchCity sewer force main, which is no longer in service, located within the portion of the Public
Utility Easement proposed to be vacated will need to be abandoned in accordance with Public Utility Standards.
• The abandonment must be shown on a site plan for future development of the property
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance, the public notice sign(s) was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, April 25, 2021 and
May 2, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting, was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021.
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• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Docu ments/BookmarkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11, 2021.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
City or{'iyireu Bads
Planning&Community
:.Development
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name South Lynnhaven LLC
Does the applicant have a representative? lU Yes 0 No
• .f yes,list the name of the representative.
John Merenda
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? I Yes In No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
John Merenda;Cowles M.Spencer,Jr.,Chris Wood,James Wood,Levi Thompson
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity`relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
n/a
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
revised 11.09.202C Wage
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement \/13
City ofVirginia Mich
Planning&Community
Development
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Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does ar official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
u_x ringent on the subject public action?O Yes ❑ No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
James Wood,part owner
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateraliration,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/matter for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
Mi Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
Mid-Atlantic Commercial Real Estate
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?MI Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Rocklaine Financial
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?IN Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
MSA,Casey Ragle
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property%III Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
Client prefers not to disclose
Revised 11.09.2020 2
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Disclosure Statement
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6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?❑Yes II No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service,
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes EU No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?II Yes E No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Harry R.Purkey,Jr.,P.C.,Harry R.Purkey,Esq.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disdosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Ap Iica` ig
nt Signature
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int Name and Title
John Merenda-Managing Member
Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? I Yes 0 No
• It yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
® No changes as of Date 06.04.2021 S"a'"r° rP,
Print Name Hoa N. Dao
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/ Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
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Item #8
South Lynnhaven, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner]
Modification of Conditions
877 S. Lynnhaven Road
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL-HEARD
Mr.Weiner: Thank you, Alright, go to item number eight.
Madam Clerk: Item number eight is South Lynnhaven. LLC, an application for a Modification of
Conditions on property located at 877 South Lynnhaven Road in the Rose Hall
District.
Mr.Weiner: Good afternoon, please state your name for the record.
Mr.Wood: Chris Wood, I represent the owner. I'm one of the owners of the property. Thank
you all for taking the time. May I proceed?
Mr.Weiner: Yes sir.
Mr.Wood: This property is very small. It was, as you know, I think in closed session that the
street was closed in 1984. For some reason, I don't know why but they left a couple
of the easements over top of them. One of the easements is for emergency
vehicles, which I've never seen that on a property before. But that was on there.
What we would like to do is remove the easements so we can slide the building to
the left; we have spoken to the adjacent neighbor. I know she had some concerns
about it and I feel like we've got a pretty good relationship with her. I've known her
for a long time. And we will certainly continue to work with her. I don't know if she's
here today. To make sure what we would like to do by closing that easement is
slide the building all the way to the South that will allow us not to have a bunch of
setbacks and block her building at all. And it's really about as simple as that. I know
there was a concern in closed session about not having an elevation of the
building. You know,this is a very small building probably less than 3000 feet.You
know, I don't think it would be proffered anyway. So I'm not sure if there's any
benefit to seeing what the building will look like. But certainly, it'll be a high quality
building. We have been discussing with various professional users like doctors and
dentist, and insurance agents and that type of thing. So that's really about it. It's
pretty simple.
Mr.Weiner: I'll start off on this one, because I was pretty much the one that said, and I had no
idea who the owner was. But we've never approved anything without seeing
elevation. If we had one today that we just said that we needed more information,
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please go we defer it.They're going to go put things together, they're going to show
us what the lots going to look like, you know,the pavement,elevations. I'm just not
comfortable approving anything without seeing the elevation. I've been doing it for
years now and we've never done that in years.
Mr.Wood: I don't have a problem giving you a sketch, I guess, we wouldn't want to be
proffered in any way.
Mr.Weiner: Sure.
Mr.Wood: When you recommend when you suggest that would be proffered?
Mr.Weiner: No, no, no, I just wanted to see what's gonna go there. I mean, I don't, granted, it's
gonna go to City Council and they're going to make the final decision, but we don't
really, I don't feel comfortable sending this to City Council to say yes, we're gonna
do this. It's gonna be a, maybe there's a building there. We don't know what's
gonna be there. But I just don't feel comfortable sending that to City Council unless
I know what I'm sending the City Council.
Mr.Wood: We'd be happy to do that. It's going to be very difficult because this site is so small
to come up with something that's real and I wouldn't want to mislead anybody by
saying this is what it's going to be. When it's going to be slightly, likely going to be
different than what you know, before we get through the site plan process, but I'm
happy to do that, and we can defer for 30 days if you want but if it's not gonna be
proffered, I'm not sure the point.
Ms. Oliver: I don't have a problem with this. It's a road that's been closed for quite some time
and he said he's sliding the building over. I think I don't have a problem with this.
Mr.Wood: And there is no reason for easements, I mean easements, I don't mean to interrupt,
there's no reason for these easements anyway. They're old and not being used
and we certainly will work with the utilities department.
Mr.Weiner: And I agree with Ms. Oliver. I mean, yes, the building has been there for since
before I was in high school. It's been there that median has been there. So I have
no problem with that, but I mean, what do y'all think? Do you all want to move
forward? I won't stop it.
Mr.Wall: Well, one thing, how long have you owned the property?
Mr.Wood: Five to seven years, something like that.
Mr.Wall: And but you purchased it knowing that there was that easement on the property.
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Mr.Wood: I can't recall honestly, you know, is a scrap piece of property. We bought it from
Mr. Mastracco who obviously owned a lot of property around there. But yeah, I'm
sure we did know there was an easement there.
Mr.Wall: And that's so your intent is to develop with some kind of a commercial, small
business, you know, on the property. Parking would be achieved on parking
access?
Mr.Wood: All that, yes, sir. We'll be through the site plan approval, no short term rental, I
promise you that. But no, it would be all through. It would be all through the site
plan process as far as the parking and the layout and the utilities and all that.
Mr.Weiner: Whitney.
Mr. Graham: Thank you. So just so I'm clear, the idea here is to basically clean the site up as
far as these easements and then to go out and find a doctor or dentist or some
sort of professional user, then do a build to suit or scrape the building or sell the
property, okay.
Mr.Wood: Yes, sir. We would, once we get this cleaned up, we can move forward on a
conceptual site plan and try to find a user.
Mr. Graham: Okay.All right.
Mr.Weiner: Any more questions. Any other questions? Oh I am sorry.
Mr. Coston: Is anything on the building, I mean on the property right now?
Mr.Wood: No, sir. There's no, there is grass, just grass and a tree. I don't think that the picture
on the left is actually I think that's just off of the property. I could be wrong on that,
but it's just basically a grass field.
Mr.Coston: Probably will support, I think that we can trust staff to make sure what gets built
there conforms to the regulations.
Mr.Weiner: And also, just being consistent what we've done in the last eight years I've been
doing this but if you all feel like we're comfortable with it, I will be comfortable with
it, Jack,you have something to add?
Mr.Wall: What utilities do run under through that easement?
Mr.Wood: I can't answer that with certainty. I think I believe that there is a, I can't answer that
with certainty. I'm not sure about this, I know there's, I think there's the, I think there
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is a water line. I don't think there is sewer. Sewer is down the street and I'm not
exactly sure what's under there.
Mr.Wall: Mr. Morrison, can you, do you have any understanding on the utilities?
Mr.Wood: I know Dominion is overhead there. So I noticed that.
Mr.Wall: Give me one second. I'm sorry. Oh, the sewer is no longer in service? What about
the waterline? What size is that water line?
Mr.Wood: There's a condition to relocate. So we would have to.
Mr.Wall: It is conditioned to have to move it, the condition. Okay. I don't think that paved
area is in the, it is a little misleading that paved area is not part of this application.
I think it's all grass turf areas within the easement. They closed say what is, I'm
just curious with the green, the green box. That's closed portion of South
Lynnhaven Road which is the paved area and is that still public right of way or is
that owned by who owns them, the green area?
Mr. Morrison: The green areas owned by the same person has parcel A with Woodard Realty,
so when it was closed that half was given, was not given, was portioned to
Woodard Realty and the other half was a portion to the applicant's parcel at the
time.
Mr.Wall: And they closed it but they maintain the easement because of those utilities
probably on there, okay.
Mr.Weiner: Any other questions? Any more questions? All right. Thank you, sir.
Mr.Wood: Thank you, sir.
Mr.Weiner: We have no more speakers. No speakers. Open it for discussion or motion.
Ms. Oliver: I'm gonna make a motion.
Mr.Weiner: Okay.
Ms. Oliver: To approve it.
Mr.Weiner: We have a motion for approval. We have a second?
Mr. Coston: Second.
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Mr.Weiner: Motion for approval by Ms. Oliver and second by Mr. Coston. We have Mr.
Redmond hand up.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Chairman to clarify, I am abstaining from this application. The one of Mr.
Wood's partners is a colleague, a work colleague of mine who I am partners with
on other projects, I don't have anything to do with this but it probably best that I
abstain from this and in fact abstain from the shortcoming, the shortly to be
considered short term rental applications on there. Yeah, I know, but I am gonna
leave as my point.
Mr.Weiner: All right, we are ready to vote.
Madam Clerk: Okay, Mr.Alcaraz?
Mr.Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond is abstaining. Vice Chair Wall?
Mr.Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr.Weiner: Aye.
Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of seven in favor zero against with one abstention. Agenda item
number eight has been recommended for approval.
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AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 1 ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein _ _AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSTAIN
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. As to the applicant's property, the conditions attached to the Street Closure granted on
August 13, 1984 and extended on May 20, 1985 are hereby deleted.
2. As to the applicant's property, a Deed of Partial Vacation to vacate the variable with public
utility and emergency vehicle access easements shall be recorded with City of Virginia
Beach Clerk of Circuit Court within 365 days from the date of City Council action. The Deed
of Partial Vacation shall be subject to the approval of the City Attorney's Office.
3. All City public utility infrastructure within the easement area to be vacated shall be relocated
or abandoned as determined and approved by the Department of Public Utilities.
1984 Street Closure Conditions
The original Street Closure was approved by City Council on August 13, 1984, with an
extension of time and final approval on May 20, 1985. The conditions were as follows:
1. An easement reserved to the City for installation and maintenance of public utilities.
2. An easement reserved for access of emergency vehicles.
3. The closure of this right of way shall be contingent upon compliance with the above-stated
conditions within 180 days of the approval by City Council.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code. including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the
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issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED)concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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James H. Morrison
From: Woodardllc <woodardllc@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 10:15 AM
To: James H.Morrison
Cc: Hoa N. Dao; Nicole Garrido
Subject: Re:Notice Rec'd for 877 S. Lynnhaven Road recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Good Morning.Mr. Morrison.
Thank you for your quick response.It is going to take ntc some time to find our paperwork on that street closure. I know it was my
father and I believe the previous owner.Vincent Mastracco.Sr.who petitioned the City for the street closure.Our portion has been
included in our assessment so we have been paying taxes on our part as well. Just how does this affect our portion of the closed
street?
This notice and lack of knowledge to their end game plan is not giving me enough time to research and look into how this will affect
our property. I have tried to find copies of the proposed plans.etc.online.but can not find anything other than what is stated in the
notice.So for now.I am against this proposal.
I know the Wood family has tried for years to do something with this tiny parcel.hut I have to consider the impact to my property.
Mary Joan Woodard
Principal Broker Business Manager
Woodard Realty LLC r,,g 1956
WuudvnI\taiugemuu Inc.
2464 E. Little Creek Road
Norfolk.VA 23518
757.583-4391 Telephone
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OF OUR NAj`QNS
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING MUNICIPAL CENTER
OPERATIONS BUILDING, ROOM 115 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA 23456-9002
2405 COURTHOUSE DRIVE (904) 427-4621
July16, 1984
To: Honorable City Council
From: City Planning Commission
Reference: Application #4991
Application of John J. Woodard for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of
a portion of South Lynnhaven Road beginning at the Northern boundary of Ole Towne
Lane, running a distance of 300 feet along the Western property line, running a
distance of 57 feet more or less along the Northern property line, running a distance
of 307.73 feet along the Eastern property line and running a distance of 110 feet
along the Southern property line. Said parcel contains 23,470 square feet more or
less. PRINCESS ANNE BOROUGH.
Planning Commission Recommendation:
A motion for approval was lost by a recorded vote of 4 for the motion and 5 against.
Application was denied.
Very truly yours,
Albert W. Balko
Chairman
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CITY COUNCIL ACTION: �AUG 1 3 1984
The following conditions shall be required:
1. An easement reserved to the City for installation and
maintenance of public utilities .
2. An easement reserved for access of emergency vehicles.
3. The closure of this right-of-way shall be contingent
upon compliance with the above-stated conditions within
180 days of the approval by City Council .
John J. Woodard
Application #4991
Page Two
EXTENSION OF TIME AND FINAL APPROVAL: mu MAY 2 0 1985
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Item II-H.3
PLANNING ITEM # 22332
Attorney Grover Wright represented the applicant
Robert Engesser spoke but not concerning the application.
Upon motion by Vice Mayor McClanan, seconded by Councilman Jennings, City
Council APPROVED, subject to final approval in 180 days, an Ordinance, closing,
vacating and discontinuing a portion of South Lynnhaven Road, in the petition of
JOHN J. WOODARD.
Ordinance upon application of John J. Woodard for the
discontinuance, closure and abandonment of a portion of
South Lynnhaven Road beginning at the northern boundary
of Old Towne Lane, running a distance of 300 feet along
the western property line, running a distance of 57
feet more or less along the northern property line,
running a distance of 307.73 feet along the eastern
property line and running a distance of 110 feet along
the southern property line. Said parcel contains 23,470
square feet more or less. PRINCESS ANNE BOROUGH.
The following conditions shall be required:
1. An easement reserved to the City for installation
and maintenance of public utilities.
2. An easement reserved for access of emergency
vehicles.
3. The closure of this right-of-way shall be contingent
upon compliance with the above-stated conditions within
180 days of the approval by City Council.
Voting: 11-0
Council Members Voting Aye:
John A. Baum, Nancy A. Creech, Robert E. Fentress, Mayor Harold
Heischober, Barbara M. Henley, H. Jack Jennings, Jr., Louis R.
Jones, Robert G. Jones, Vice Mayor Reba S. McClanan, J. Henry
McCoy, Jr., D.D.S., and Meyera E. Oberndorf
Council Members Voting Nay:
None
Council Members Absent:
None August 13, 1984
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA
TO (ORDINANCE OF VACATION
JOHN J. WOODARD, et al. ,
PROSPERITY ENTERPRISES, et al.
AN ORDINANCE VACATING AND DISCONTINUING
A PORTION OF SOUTH LYNNHAVEN ROAD, IN PRINCESS ANNE
BOROUGH, IN THE CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA
WHEREAS, proper notice of the intended application
of the applicant, John J. Woodard, to be presented to the
City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
day of , 1984, for the vacation of the
hereinafter described public street in the City of Virginia
Beach, Virginia, was on the 30th day of March , 1984,
and on the 8th day of April , 1984, duly published
twice with six days elapsing between the two publications in
a newspaper published or having general circulation in the
City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, specifying the time and
place of hearing at which affected persons might appear and
present their views, in conformity with the manner
prescribed by Code of Virginia, Section 15.1-364, for the
institution of proceedings for the vacation of a public
street; and
WHEREAS, said application was made to the City
Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the
15t1,, day of March , 1984, and in conformity with the
manner prescribed by Code of Virginia, Section 15.1-364, for
the conduct of such proceedings, the City Council of the
City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the 21st day of May
GROVER C. WRIGHT.JR.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, PC.
161,1r6 000 OC..l:ll rOWEN r1,U
VIROINIA IEACII rVINUINIA 12:1460
August 13, 1984
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1984, appointed Robert J. Scott na.,,A r rz^chain r
and C. Oral Lambert , as viewers to view such street
and report in writing whether in their opinion any, and if
any, what inconvenience would result from discontinuing the
same, and said viewers have made such report to the City
Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; and
WHEREAS, from such report and other evidence, and
after notice to the land proprietors affected thereby, along
the street proposed to be vacated, it is the judgment of the
City Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, that
these proceedings have been instituted, conducted and
concluded in the manner prescribed by Code of Virginia,
Section 15.1-364, that no inconvenience would result from
vacating and discontinuing the portion of said street, and
that the portion of said street should be vacated and
discontinued;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of
the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia:
1. That the following portion of South Lynnhaven
Road in the Borough of Princess Anne, in the City of
Virginia Beach, Virginia, be and the same is hereby vacated
and discontinued:
All that certain piece or parcel of land,
situate, lying and being in the City of
Virginia Beach, State of Virginia, being
that part of South Lynnhaven Road marked
by diagonal lines and designated "TO BE
CLOSED Existing South Lynnhaven Road" as
shown on the plat attached hereto entitled
"Plat of Portion of South Lynnhaven Road
to be Closed, Princess Anne Borough,
Virginia Beach, Virginia" , made by James
C. Hickman, Land Surveyor, dated October
31, 1983.
August 13, 1984
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2. A certified copy of this ordinance of vacation
shall be recorded as deeds are recorded and indexed in the
name of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, as grantor,
and in the name of John J. Woodard and Prosperity Enterprises,
as grantees, in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of
the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, at the expense of the
applicant.
3. This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30)
days from the date of its adoption.
Certified to be a true and exact copy of an ordinance
adopted by the City Council of the City of Virginia Beach,
Virginia, at its regular meeting held on the day of
, 1984.
TESTE: RUTH SMITH, CITY CLERK
By
City Clerk
August 13, 1984
37.
A. Description
Application of John J. Woodard for the discontinuance, closure and
abandonment of a portion of South Lynnhaven Road beginning at the Northern
boundary of Ole Towne Lane, running a distance of 300 feet along the
Western property line, running a distance of 57 feet more or less along the
Northern property line, running a distance of 307.73 feet along the Eastern
property line and running a distance of 110 feet along the Southern
property line. Said parcel contains 23,470 square feet more or less.
PRINCESS ANNE BOROUGH.
B. Administrative Comments
Application for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of a portion of
South Lynnhaven Road located directly north of Old Towne Lane. The area
proposed for closure contains 23,470 square feet ( .539 acre) and is an
improved 90 foot right-of-way.
Surrounding zoning is B-2 Community Business District. Land use in the
area is a mixture of retail and commercial uses.
A street closure for a portion of South Lynnhaven Road to the south of this
site was granted on June 21, 1976. This closure was only for surplus
right-of-way and resulted in this portion of South Lynnhaven Road being
reduced to a standard 50 foot right-of-way for a turnaround.
This right-of-way is improved with a two lane pavement section marked for
one way southbound traffic only and includes curb, gutter and sidewalk on
the west side.
A 12 inch water line and an 8 inch sewer force main are located within the
area proposed for closure.
The Fire Department indicates that closure of this street would eliminate
necessary access for emergency vehicles responding to this area.
It is the opinion of the viewers that closure of this street would result
in public inconvenience since:
1. The street currently provides public access for residents and
businesses in the surrounding area.
2. Closure of the street would eliminate necessary emergency access
to this area and would make general circulation more difficult.
C. Evaluation
Based on the findings of the Viewers, recommend this item be denied.
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PLAT OF PORTION
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SOUTH L YNNHAVEN ROAD
TO BE CLOSED
PRINCESS ANNE BOROUGH
VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA
SCALE I 1" c 50' DATE + OCTOBER 31, 1983
JAMES C. HICKMAN
LAND SURVEYOR
S625 PROVIDENCE ROAD
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 13464
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
VIRGINIA
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APPLICATION FOR STREET CLOSURE
Application No. , 9C1 (1
Applicant: _ John J . Woodard Date: March 15, 1984
Address: c/o Grover Wright , Atty. Fee: Street Closure $100.00
Telephone: 428-27'41
A representative of the applicant must be present at the Public Hearing to apprise
the Commission of complete information concerning his request.
A survey is required to accompany all applications for street closures which shall
be prepared by a surveyor, en ineer, or other person duly authorized the State
to practice such, which sha ecome a part of the permanent record and is not
returnable.
Request for: Closure of Portion of South Lynnhaven Road
Reason for Proposed Closure: To relocate street
Description of Property: See attached plat
Borough: Princess Anne
I HEREBY CERTIFY that it is my intention to have the following street(s) closed:
Portion of South Lynnhaven Road
Does an official or an employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in
the subject land? Yes No X If the answer is yes, name the official or the
employee and nature of interest.
Date: March 15, 19_84 Signed: jr/-47.42o n . Woo
Act of Commission: Granted /D n ed Mo led Date 7/D -,/
Action of Council : Granted Y Deni d Modified Date
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Posted to map by: e Sheet
Forwarded to City Assessor
FORM NO. F.S. 1
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INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE
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DATE: June 26, 1984
TO: See Distribution List DEPARTMENT:
FROM: kobert J. Scott DEPARTMENT: Planning
SUBJECT: Report of Viewers - Closure of Portions of Lee Street and Old Country
Road, South Lynnhaven Road, Ego Drive, and Rouse Drive
Lee Street and Old Country Road
Application for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of portions of
Lee Street and Old Country Road. The area proposed for closure consists of .53
acres and is located within the block bounded on the north by 22nd Street, on
the south by 21st, on the east by Cypress Avenue and on the west by Parks Ave.
Surrounding zoning consists of C-1 Arts and Conference District and B-4
Resort Commercial District. Land use in the area is a mixture of resort commer-
cial uses to the north and south and single family residential to the west.
Portions of this right-of-way are improved with a two lane asphalt roadway.
A two (2) inch water line exists in Lee Street.
City Council has denied previous requests to close these streets on March
14, 1977 and October 18, 1971.
It is the opinion of the viewers that public inconvenience would result from
the closure of these streets since there is a possibility for future public use
as parking and/or improvements to circulation in this area.
South Lynnhaven Road
Application for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of a portion of
South Lynnhaven Road located directly north of Old Towne Lane. The area proposed
for closure contains 23,470 square feet ( .539 acres) and is an improved 90 foot
right-of-way.
Surrounding zoning is B-2 Community Business District. Land use in the area
is a mixture of retail and commercial uses.
A street closure for a portion of South Lynnhaven Road to the south of this
site was granted on June 21, 1976. This closure was only for surplus right-of-
way and resulted in this portion of South Lynnhaven Road being reduced to a
standard 50 foot right-of-way with a turn around.
Distribution List Memo
June 26, 1984
Page Two
This right-of-way is improved with a two lane pavement section marked for
one way south bound traffic only and includes curb, gutter and sidewalk on the
west side. A 12 inch water line and an 8 inch sewer force main are within the
area proposed for closure.
The Fire Department indicates that closure of this street would eliminate
necessary access for emergency vehicles responding to this area.
It is the opinion of the viewers that closure of this street would result
in public inconvenience since:
1. The street currently provides public access for residents and busi-
nesses in the surrounding area.
2. Closure of the street would eliminate necessary emergency access to
this area and would make general circulation more difficult.
Ego Drive
Application for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of a portion
of Ego Drive located east of Matt Lane. The area proposed for closure is a
50 foot unimproved right-of-way that contains 3358.30 square feet (.077 acres) .
Surrounding zoning consists of R-6 Residential District and B-2 Community
Business District. Land Use within the area is single family and duplex resi-
dences with commercial development located to the east along First Colonial
Road.
There are no water and sewer lines located within the area proposed for
closure.
It is the opinion of the viewers that closure of this street will not
result in public inconvenience subject to the following conditions:
1. Resubdivision of the property to incorporate the closed area into
adjoining parcels and to avoid the creation of a conforming lot.
2. Dedication of a 20 foot drainage easement on the centerline of the
existing 50 foot right-of-way.
3. The closure of this right-of-way shall be contingent upon compliance
with the above stated conditions with 180 days of the approval by
City Council.
Rouse Drive
Application for the discontinuance, closure and abandonment of a portion
of Rouse. Drive located east of Grayson Road. The area proposed for closure is
a 30 foot wide improved right-of-way totaling 9,016 square feet (.207 acres) .
It should be noted, however, that it is the intent of the applicant to basic-
ally relocate Rouse Drive since he also intends to dedicate to the City a
parcel of property 42.45 feet to the south of equal size for the continuance
of Rouse Drive.
Distribution List Memo
June 26, 1984
Page Three
Adjacent zoning consists of 0-1 Office District. Land Use within the area
is a mixture of office building and single family residences.
There are no city water or sewer lines in the area proposed for closure.
However, there are VEPCO lines and poles which would have to be relocated at
the applicant's expense.
It is the opinion of the viewers that closure of this portion of Rouse
Drive will not result in public inconvenience subject to the following conditions:
1. Dedication of a standard 50 foot right-of-way to the south for the
relocation of Rouse Drive.
2. Provision of a bond to cover the cost of right-of-way improvements,
as required by City staff, for the relocated Rouse Drive.
3. Resubdivision of the property to incorporate the closed portion into
adjacent parcels to avoid the creation of any nonconforming lots.
4. The closure of this right-of-way shall be contingent upon compliance
with the above stated conditions within 180 days of the approval by
City Council
RJS/DCS/dca
Distribution List
Thomas H. Muehlenbeck
David M. Grochmal
C. Oral Lambert
J. Dale Bimson
Aubrey V. Watts, Jr.
William L. Rice
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: ROBIN GAUTHIER, CEO ON BEHALF OF SAMARITAN HOUSE, INC.
[Applicant] CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RICHMOND VIRGINIA, EPISCOPAL
DIOCESE OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA [Property Owners] Conditional
Use Permit (Group Home) for the property located at 1593 Lynnhaven
Parkway (GPIN 1485484285). COUNCIL DISTRICT — CENTERVILLE
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
This request was deferred at the May 18, 2021 public hearing per the City Council's
request.
The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home within the
Green Run neighborhood. As Green Run is zoned PD-H1 , per Section 1110 (b)
of the Zoning Ordinance, modifications to the PD-H1 land use plan are required to
be considered similarly to a zoning change or Conditional Use Permit, and as such,
the applicant is requesting a conditional use within the PD-H1 District.
The site is currently developed with a church. A 1 .90-acre portion of the site will be
conveyed to the Samaritan House, Inc. for the purpose of a Group Home for up to
eight youths who have been victimized. Specifically, the request consists of a new
5,862 square foot, two-story dwelling with an exterior of fiber cement panel vertical
siding, asphalt roof shingles, vinyl windows, and fiberglass doors.
The Group Home will provide a safe and secure home for these children between
the ages of 9 years old to 17 years old. The Group Home will operate 24 hours a
day, seven days a week. Three to four staff members will rotate during normal
business hours with one to two staff members on site at any given time, with one
staff member staying overnight.
• Considerations:
The Group Home will provide a much needed and valuable service to the
community. The proposed structure is compatible with the surrounding residential
character and institutional uses, such as a private school to the north. In Staff's
view, and the Planning Commission concurs, the Group Home will not change the
character of the neighborhood and will not adversely affect the surrounding
properties. Further details pertaining to the application, as well as Staff's
evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff Report.
Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of the Samaritan House, Inc.
Page 2 of 3
Two letters of support were received by Staff, one from the adjacent church and
one from the Green Run Homeowners' Association. The owners of the Montessori
School to the north of the site spoke in opposition at the Planning Commission
public hearing. The concerns noted that the operation of the Group Home will result
in a dangerous situation for their students and staff. This in turn would negatively
impact enrollment. While not a condition of approval recommended by the
Planning Commission, in an attempt to address the oppositions' concerns, the
applicant committed to installing a six-foot tall solid privacy fence along the
property line shared with the school which is shown on the conceptual layout and
will be required to be installed. The applicant worked to address the concerns of
the opposition by agreeing to construct the 6-foot tall solid fence to provide privacy
between the school and group home, as well as selling a 25-foot portion of the
Group Home property to the Montessori School, where the Montessori school
currently encroaches into. The Montessori School is in agreement with these
changes and is no longer in opposition of this request.
• Recommendation:
On April 14, 2021 , the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend
approval of this request by a vote of 9-0.
1. When the site is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance within the
submitted site layout exhibit entitled, "CONCEPTUAL SITE LAYOUT PLAN —
THE HALLOW SAMARITAN HOUSE", prepared by Draper Aden Associates,
dated 12/22/2020, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council
and is on file in the Department of Planning & Community Development.
2. The exterior of the proposed building shall substantially adhere in appearance,
size and materials to the submitted elevations entitled "THE HALLOWS
DEVELOPED FOR THE SAMARITAN HOUSE", prepared by Cox Kliewer &
Company, P.C., dated January 2021, which has been exhibited to the Virginia
Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning & Community
Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development
Services Center Landscape Architect prior to the final site plan approval.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the
Department of Planning & Community Development/Permits and Inspections
Division. The applicant shall secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the
Building Official prior to the occupancy of the Group Home.
5. The applicant shall not exceed the occupancy load set by the Building Official's
Office for this Group Home.
6. The applicant/owner shall submit a subdivision plat with the City of Virginia
Beach Department of Planning & Community Development. Said plat shall be
Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of the Samaritan House, Inc.
Page 3 of 3
subject to the review and approval of the Department of Planning & Community
Development, and plat shall be recorded with the City of Virginia Beach Circuit
Court Clerk's Office within 365 days from the date of the City Council action.
• Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Letters of Support (2)
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department I
City Manager:
Applicant Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of Samaritan House, Inc. Agenda Item
Property Owners Catholic Diocese of Richmond Virginia, Episcopal
Diocese of Southeastern Virginia
\&3 Planning Commission Public Hearing April 14, 2021
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Location
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Watershed ^ 4�'# `5: .J•
Chesapeake Bay
Existing Land Use and Zoning District
Church/PD-H1 Planned Unit Development '; ,
Surrounding Land Uses and Zoning Districts ISP ,,,,
North 7' .
School/PD-Hi Planned Unit Development ?• 11Ar:: i
South 's ''
Lynnhaven Parkway "`
Single-family dwellings/PD-H1 Planned Unit ,.
Development _40 -
East �.
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Townhomes,gas station/PD H1 Planned Unit ,
Development -�w"_' ' �
West _ .
Fire station, cannal/PD-H1 Planned Unit * •. .. . .
Development
Robin Gauthier,CEO on behalf of Samaritan House, Inc.
Agenda Item 7
Page 1
Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home on the PD-H1 Planned Unit Development
zoned parcel, located within the Green Run Land Use Plan. Per Section 1110(b)of the Zoning Ordinance,
modifications to the land use plan by City Council shall be in the manner of a zoning change or Conditional Use
Permit. Based on this,the applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home,as it is a conditional
use within the PD-H1 District.
• The site is currently developed with a church.The church is not utilizing the entire site so the Samaritan House, Inc.
executed a purchase agreement with the church to purchase a 1.90-acre portion of the site.The property will be
subdivided to create two lots with the Group Home being constructed on one of the newly created lots.
• The applicant is proposing to build a 5,862 square foot,two-story dwelling with fiber cement panel vertical siding,
asphalt roof shingles,vinyl windows,and fiberglass doors,as depicted on pages seven and eight of this report.
• The Group Home will provide a safe and secure home for up to eight youths who have been victimized.The ages of
the youth will range from 9 years old to 17 years old.
• The first floor of the home will include two offices,an interview room,file/copy room,one classroom, an indoor
recreation room, kitchen, storage area,service hall, pantry, living room,and an ADA compatible bedroom and
bathroom.
• The second floor will consist of eight standard bedrooms,four bathrooms, laundry and linen room,and
housekeeping storage.
• The Group Home will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.There will be three to four staff members rotating
during normal business hours.According to the applicant,there will only be one to two staff members on site at any
given time,with only one staff member staying overnight. Operating shifts will be from 8:00 a.m.to 12:00 p.m. and
12:00 a.m.to 8:00 a.m.
x,•y Zoning History
utt`• 1 t .' # Request
Keelboat Circle L - 1 MOD(Green Run LUP—Automobile Service Station Fuel
II Sales)Approved 10/10/2000
MOD(Green Run LUP—Automobile Service Station)
1 =`— Approved 04/13/1999
AP
2 MOD(Green Run LUP-Self-Storage Facility)Approved
d 02/25/2014
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.'•„e• " .o; SVR(4.4(b))Approved 02/25/2014
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Application Types
CUP—Conditional Use Permit MOD—Modification of Conditions or Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance STR—Short Term Rental
CRZ—Conditional Rezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance
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Evaluation & Recommendation
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home, in Staff's Opinion, is acceptable.The applicant has
requested to care for youth who have been victimized. The Group Home will provide a much needed and valuable
service to the community. The scale and design of the proposed structure is compatible with surrounding residential and
institutional uses.Staff believes that this use will not change the character of the neighborhood and will not adversely
affect the surrounding properties.
While the City Zoning Ordinance does not specify a minimum number of parking spaces for a Group Home,in Staff's
opinion,the four parking spaces proposed for this use will adequately accommodate the employees and visitors, as the
residents will not have vehicles on site. According to Traffic Engineering Staff,there is no trip generation data available
for a Group Home.Traffic Engineering anticipates that this eight-bedroom home will generate less traffic than a typical
PD-H1 residential land use.
According to Permits and Inspections Staff,this Group Home meets the criteria to be classified under the Residential
Building Code. In order to utilize this portion of the Code,the facility must be limited to no more than eight residents
and one overnight resident counselor. Condition 5 is recommended to ensure that the occupancy load will not exceed
what is deemed appropriate by Permits and Inspections.
Based on these considerations stated above,Staff recommends approval of the request subject to the conditions below.
Recommended Conditions
1. When the site is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance within the submitted site layout exhibit entitled,
"CONCEPTUAL SITE LAYOUT PLAN—THE HALLOW SAMARITAN HOUSE", prepared by Draper Aden Associates,dated
12/22/2020,which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning
&Community Development.
2. The exterior of the proposed building shall substantially adhere in appearance,size and materials to the submitted
elevations entitled "THE HALLOWS DEVELOPED FOR THE SAMARITAN HOUSE", prepared by Cox Kliewer&Company,
P.C., dated January 2021, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the
Department of Planning&Community Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development Services Center Landscape Architect prior to
the final site plan approval.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the Department of Planning&Community
Development/Permits and Inspections Division.The applicant shall secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the
Building Official prior to the occupancy of the Group Home.
5. The applicant shall not exceed the occupancy load set by the Building Official's Office for this Group Home.
6. The applicant/owner shall submit a subdivision plat with the City of Virginia Beach Department of Planning&
Community Development. Said plat shall be subject to the review and approval of the Department of Planning&
Community Development, and plat shall be recorded with the City of Virginia Beach Circuit Court Clerk's Office
within 365 days from the date of the City Council action.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
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and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan identifies this site as being located within the Suburban Area. The general planning principles
for the Suburban Area focus on creating and maintaining great neighborhoods through stability and sustainability;
protecting and enhancing open spaces and places of cultural and historical significance;and creating and maintaining a
transportation system that provides connectivity and mobility. Achieving these goals requires that all land use activities
either maintain or enhance the existing neighborhood through compatibility with surroundings, quality and
attractiveness of site and buildings, improved mobility, environmental responsibility, livability, and effective buffering
with respect to type,size, intensity and relationship to the surrounding uses.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and there are no known significant cultural resources associated
with this site.
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Lynnhaven Parkway 33,700 ADT1 36,900 ADT (LOS 4"D") Existing Land Use 2—90 ADT
Proposed Land Use No Data Available
'Average Daily Trips 2 as defined by a 1.9 acre site in 3 No information available in the 4 LOS=Level of Service
the PD-H1 Zoning ITE Trip Generation Manual for
group homes
Master Transportation Plan (MTP) and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Lynnhaven Parkway, in the vicinity of this application, is a four lane major urban arterial roadway.There are currently no
planned improvements to this portion of Lynnhaven Parkway.
Windmill Point Crescent is a two lane local street.There are no traffic counts available for Windmill Point Crescent.
Public Utility Impacts
Water& Sewer
The site is currently connected to both City water and sanitary sewer services. The newly created parcel must connect to
City water and sanitary sewer services with an exclusive connection.
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Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• The applicant met with the Board of Directors of the Green Run Homeowners' Association on February 23, 2021
to discuss the details of the request and no objections were raised. A letter of support was provided to Staff by
the Green Run Homeowners'Association as a result of the meeting. The applicant also met with the adjacent
church who is also supportive of the request.The school to the north had concerns about the proximity of the
building to their school and is concerned that it could affect their business.
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance,the public notice sign(s) was placed on the property on March 15, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, March 28, 2021
and April 4, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on March 29, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting, was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on April 8, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code, this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code, the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021.
• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/Bookma rkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11, 2021.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement "\
C',y ofTwvi,m Beef,
Planning&Community
Development
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name Robin Gauthier,CEO on behalf of Samaritan House,Inc.
Does the applicant have a representative? ®Yes ❑ No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Tom Snyder,Inman and Strickler,PLC
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?i Yes ❑No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
Glen Huff-Presicent,Ellen Nacey-Vice President,Ali E.Gunbeyi-Treasurer,Susan Fulcher-Secretary,Dana Poole-Past President,
Davide Kenerson-Member,Sarah Golden-Member,Christina Hughes-Member,Jessica Bedenbaugh-Member,Nicole
Livas-Member,Mary Elizabeth Davis-Member,Ken Shewbridge-Member,Tim Harrel-Member,Kaylie Donahue-Member,Bryce
Baker-Member,Roo Broermann-Member.
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
N/A
"parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation cirectly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
"Affif.ated business entl y relationship"means"a relationsh p,other than parent-subsid•ary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the otter entity,or(ii)there Is shared management or control between the business entties. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the sane offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement NIC3
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Known Interest Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?❑Yes I®No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateraiization,etc(or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑Yes ®No
• If yes,identify the real estate broker/realtor.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?I Yes ❑No
• If yes,identify the firm or individual providing the service.
Andrew Basile,PBMares L.LC.
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?®Yes ❑No
• If yes,identify the firm or individual providing the service.
Lawrence(Duff)Kliewer,Cox,Kliewer and Company P.C.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?❑Yes ®No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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Planning&Community
Development
6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
:c be operated on:he property?®Yes ❑No
• If yes, dentify the construction contractor.
John Barnes,Chesapeake Homes
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating cr to be operated on the property?I®Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the engineer/surveyor/agent.
Joe Bushey,Draper Aden Associates
S. is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?®Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the name of the attorney or firm providing legal services.
Tom Snyder,Inman&Strickler P.L.C.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application Ras been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Applicant Signature
Robin Gauthier,CEO,on beha f of Samaritan House,Inc.
Print Name and Title
12/18/2020
Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? 0 Yes ®No
c if yes,you do not need to f out:he owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
Nochangesesof Date 5/25/2021 i signature
°r`"t"'"` Marchelle L. Coleman
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Disclosure Statement
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Owner Disclosure
Owner Name 13ishop of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond Virginia(one-half tenant-In-common
Applicant Name Robin Gauthier,CEO on behalf of Samaritan House,Inc.
Is the Owner a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?I]Yes • No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list If necessary)
Owner is a judicatory of the Roman Catholic Church. The Bishop,the Most Revererd Parry C.Knestout,holds title to and
Tnor .Three a,e nv hvsteea. MichaehhicSee h the EEO foe
the Owner and Charles Mikell is the Director of Real Estate for the Owner.
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity4 relationship with the Owner. (Attach a
list If necessary)
N/A
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest In the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?O Yes ■ No
• If yes,what Is the rime of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or Indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
°"Affiliated business entity relationship'means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(I)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(If)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner In the other entity,or(iii)there Is shared management or contra!between the business entitles, Factors that
should be considered In determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entitles share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entitles.' See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2,2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
Owner Services Disclosure
2. Does the Owner have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross•coiiateralization,etc)or are they considering any
financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes II No
• If ye;identify the fnanclal institutions,
2. Does the Owner have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑Yes MI No
• If yes,identify the real estate broker/realtor,
3. Does the Owner have services for accounting and/or preparation of tea returns provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes I No
• if yes,identify the firm or individual providing the service.
4. Does the Owner have services from en architect/landscape architect/land planner provided In connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes II No
• if yes,identify the firm or Individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?0 Yes NI No
• if yes,Identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
6. Does the Owner have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?Cl Yes ® No
• If yes,Identify the construction contractor.
7, Does the Owner have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating
or to be operated on the property?0 Yes II No
• If yes,Identify the engineer/surveyor/agent.
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Disclosure Statement
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8. Is the Owner receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?0 Yes I No
• If yes,identify the name of the attorney or firm providing legal services.
Owner Signature
I certify that all of the information contained In this Disclosure Statement Form Is complete,true,and accurate uncerstand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
Information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Owner Signature 4:11/ f j ,.�!�+� .
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure StatementV13
City of Vityinia Brach
Planning&Community
= Development
Owner Disclosure
Owner Name Catholic Diocese of Richmond Virginia,Episcopal Diocese of Southeastern Virginia
Applicant Name Robin Gauthier,CEO on behalf of Samaritan House,Inc.
Is the Owner a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?*Yes E No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
The Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia is an unincorporated association under the leadership of The Rt.Rev.Susan B.Haynes,
Bishop
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary3 or affiliated business entity"relationship with the Owner. (Attach a
list if necessary)
Not applicable to the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?D Yes le No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
3"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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Planning&Community
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Development
Owner Services Disclosure
I. Does the Owner have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering any
financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes ■ No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions.
2. Does the Owner have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑Yes ■ No
• If yes,identify the real estate broker/realtor,
3. Does the Owner have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes IN No
• If yes,identify the firm or individual providing the service.
4. Does the Owner have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes Ili No
• If yes,identify the firm or individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?❑Yes III No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
6. Does the Owner have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?0 Yes U No
• If yes,identify the construction contractor.
7. Does the Owner have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating
or to be operated on the property?0 Yes III No
• If yes,identify the engineer/surveyor/agent.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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Planning&Community
Development
8. Is the Owner receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or tc be
operated on the property?❑Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the name of the attorney or firm providing legal services.
Owner Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
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The Rt.Rev.Susan B.Haynes,Bishop,Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
Print Name and Title
January 29,2021
Date
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Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of Samaritan House, Inc.
Agenda Item 7
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy,are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of Samaritan House, Inc.
Agenda Item 7
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Item 7
Robin Gauthier, CEO on behalf of Samaritan House, Inc. [Applicant] Catholic Diocese of
Richmond Virginia, Episcopal Diocese of Southeastern Virginia [Property Owners]
Conditional Use Permit (Group Home)
1593 Lynnhaven Parkway
April 14, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Next item is Item number 7.
Madam Clerk: Agenda Item Number 7, Robin Gauthier, an application for a Conditional Use
Permit for a Group Home on property located at 1593 Lynnhaven Parkway located in the
Centerville District. I believe that we have the applicants' representative as a virtual speaker. I'm
calling Joe Buschi. If you would wait two to three seconds and then begin your comments.
Mr. Buschi: I was just available to address any questions that the Planning Commission may
have. I wasn't signed up to speak on behalf of this application.
Mr. Weiner: Hold on one second, sir. One second, please. That was the applicants'
representative?
Madam Clerk: Yeah. Let's call Tom Snyder, Thomas Snyder, who is also virtual, and Mr. Snyder,
if you would wait two to three seconds.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, sir. We thought you were virtual.
Mr. Snyder: I am.
Mr. Weiner: Part of a hologram, right?
Mr. Snyder: How are you? My name is Tom Snyder. I'm a local attorney in Virginia Beach. I'm
also a member of the Board of Directors of Samaritan House, who is the applicant for a
Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home on approximately two-acre parcel of land off of
Lynnhaven Parkway. My client is going to develop a group home for people who are subject to
human trafficking, to be servicing those people here in Virginia Beach. Samaritan House, as some
of you may know, also provides other kinds of services for people who are subject to domestic
violence and as a part of its mission, this mission creep, so to speak, occurred and the opportunity
was provided to us to provide this additional service.
Just so you know, this is a home for children who are subject to human trafficking and have unique
problems. It's a much more intensive issue to deal with and that requires a specialized facility.
This, there is, to our knowledge, there is only one group home which has been in the process of
being developed in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and this will probably be the second and the
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first to maybe become the first which will actually become operational. We have located the
property, the building on the property in a manner that we think will allow for potential expansion
of this facility as the need potentially grows. The property we are buying from the adjoining church,
which is a unique church because it's owned by both the Catholic Church and the Episcopal
Church, and both of them have enthusiastically supported the mission of what we are trying to
accomplish and recognize the need for it in the Commonwealth.
I do want you to see, if you look at the site plan which is on your e screen in front of me. You'll
see that we have recently discovered the adjoining property owner, which is a Montessori School
has raised some concerns. There are a couple of things you should notice about that. Number
one, the property line for the property that we are purchasing actually is on the Montessori School
property and has actually encroached on the property owned by the church, and that's about
3,500 square feet. But what we have done is, you'll see that there's actually a fence and
landscaping line that we have proposed that would provide both security and a screening from
the Montessori school. And so, we tried to address that issue proactively and put that into our
application, I think just yesterday.
So, I have Ms. Robin Gauthier here with me as well. She's the Executive Director of Samaritan
House. She is extremely knowledgeable about this entire project. If there would be any questions
that you would have concerning what we are going to be doing, she would be probably a better
person than myself. I will tell you this, most of the people who are going to be occupying this
facility; I think there's seven or eight bedrooms, it's about 5000 square feet, they are probably
almost all going to be young girls between the ages of something like 14 and 17 years of age.
There are on staff people 24/7 that will be there. Robin can give you really the nuts and bolts of
what the program would entail, and what the efforts are or what would be under what we would
be trying to do to help these people to be able to become functioning members of society, so to
speak, and to overcome whatever, most of them will have had a very serious history in terms of
to try to deal with. So, I know there's 3 minutes and I don't want to overspend my time.
Mr. Snyder: Pardon me?
Mr. Weiner: You get 10.
Mr. Snyder: Oh, I get 10. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I'm sitting here thinking I only have 3 minutes.
I'm waiting for some, for something to tell me.
Mr.Weiner: But I will tell you. Well,there is somebody, I believe there's one speaker in opposition.
Mr. Snyder: Yes.
Mr. Weiner: So, let them talk. And then let's see what they have to say and then if you want to
come back up to address anything that you have to say, we will let you come back up. Alright,
thank you.
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Mr. Snyder: Thank you.
Mr. Inman: How about Robin first?
Mr. Weiner: Do you want to, hold on one second. Do we want to?
Mr. Inman: Could we hear from the Executive Director first, about the details of the program?
Okay.
Mr. Weiner: Sure, okay. Okay, sure. Welcome.
Ms. Gauthier: Good afternoon. Thanks for having me.
Mr. Weiner: Can you state your name for the record.
Ms. Gauthier: Robin Gauthier, Executive Director of Samaritan House. The program will actually
serve five to eight youth ages 9 to 17. And so, we don't know if we'll have eight beds filled all the
time, but there's the potential to have eight youth to be served. And so, you know, the services
are going to be educational services, trauma informed counseling, case management, mental
health, substance abuse; anything that's needed for these girls. We've been rescuing victims of
human trafficking since 2016. In the Hampton Roads Human Trafficking Task Force, we were a
major part in bringing those funds to the Hampton Roads area. And so, what we did not realize in
2016, is we'd be finding so many youth, many of them in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake,
Hampton, Newport News in our region.
So unfortunately, because there's no facility for youth, oftentimes the law enforcement or
Homeland Security or FBI will have to bring them to juvenile detention, so at least they will have
a safe place to stay away from the trafficking and away from the streets. But we know what they
really need is a residential home like this with medical facilities,where they can get all the services
they need. There is a runaway youth shelter that's available, but it's a 90-day program, and there's
really not the services that they need. And so, at Samaritan House, we've seen about 18 kids this
year that we've been working with, as case managing them, but they are either at home in juvenile
detention in another type of group home or they were in foster care. So, we really need a facility
like this for our region and for our task force, because we're continuing to find children that need
to be rescued in a lot of hotel, motels in this area where we're finding them. And being that we're
a resort area we're finding a lot of youth that are trafficked.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, any questions? No? Okay, thank you, ma'am.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Weiner, we have a speaker signed up. They're supposed to be virtual,
however they have not signed on so I'm going to call them to see if they showed up in person.
Rolando and Judith Timm.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome ma'am. Please state your name for the record.
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Ms. Timm: Judith Timm. The proposed facility, Samaritan House to be built next door to
Courthouse Montessori School is a house that is going to house a group of young students 9
through 17 was what I was given on the telephone. These girls have been traumatically sexually
abused by sex traffickers. Although I appreciate the work that Samaritan House is planning to do
for these girls, I'm confident that that particular type of group home, being next door to a school
is extremely detrimental to our business and the school situation. We have been in operation for
27 years at this location. We cater to the military, to medical personnel and to the general public.
Our school is open daily from 6am to 6pm to accommodate these people. Our children range in
age from 16 months old through 12 years old. They're at a very impressionable, vulnerable and
inquisitive age; the dangers associated with this type of group home right next to Courthouse
Montessori School would cause concern to our parents for their children and for us for our
students. As a result, we would begin to lose families. Our school would end up not being
available. I'm responsible for keeping these children safe, and I don't feel comfortable with this
group home being built close to our school, and I'm certain the parents would share this concern.
I have not mentioned it to them. We are strongly opposed to this group home being built beside
our school, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my concerns.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Ma'am, hold on second, do you have a question? Okay.
Mr. Timm: My name is Rolando Timm. I came originally from Chile 58 years ago. One of my goals
with my wife was to participate in the education of children. My wife has several degrees in
Montessori, and it's a very unusual and very excellent system. We have generated literally
thousands of children that have come through our school, that when they go into the real world
do a positive job, in their personal morality and their personal standards. Now, I realize that there's
a need for a place like the Samaritan House, but to place it right in the middle of a family-oriented
place with a school right next to it poses all kinds of problems. I know there can be all kinds of
assurance that there will be people involved; I'm sure that the people associated with this
traumatized young people are not going to just say bye and let them go by. And the exposure that
we are being put into is the same exposure, like somebody will tell you you're safe in your house
but if you call 911, you may be put on hold for 15 minutes.
So,this is the sort of thing that is unpredictable, and we feel very upset about having this because
our children in a playground right next to this place, they hear all kinds of things that you and I
and other people cannot prevent from happening. So, my personal position, as much as I like to
support all kinds of charities and other many other good works for young people, I would not want
to see that next to us. What is going to probably happen if it does, I'm going to be forced to sell
the building and move to another location somewhere,which at this point. I don't know where that
would be. And we will be probably severely penalized in the selling of the property because of the
existence of this house right next door. Thank you very much. I appreciate your concern.
Mr. Weiner: And hold on one second, Sir. Ms. Oliver has a question for you.
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Ms. Oliver: Sir, as I appreciate your perspective on this, I'm just curious as to what impact that
you are anticipating from these young girls on to the school. What do you perceive happening?
Mr. Timm: Well, unfortunately it's not the young girls I'm concerned about; it's the girls that these
girls were associated with.We have in this country a horrific problem in that regard; it will not have
a handle of it. The trafficking and young woman's or whatnot is well known and yet, we haven't
controlled it. We don't have control over it. And so, the people associated with these girls in the
past probably never want to just sit back and let it go by, they're going to search for it, and we
have very little ways to defend ourselves for it.
Ms. Oliver: So, if I understand you correctly, then what you are concerned about is that the sex
traffickers coming to find the girls to get them back, and then possibly, there's your school.
Mr. Timm: We're dealing in an unknown. Nobody can give me any assurance, oh, that will never
happen. No, if you watch TV frequently enough, you'll see that horrific things like that can happen
and the police and the law enforcement agencies have very little power because you have to wait
for something to happen before they can do anything about it. And then the rest of the story, you
know what will take place.
Ms. Oliver: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, sir. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you.
Mr. Timm: Thank you very much. I want you to know that my wife and I in 27 years have put a
tremendous amount of effort into having the very best type of school for our young children. Thank
you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you very much, sir. We do appreciate it. Thank you.
Madam Clerk: There are no more speakers.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Do you want to come back up and address anything, please?
Ms. Gauthier: So, I do understand the fear of the unknown, and I talked to Mrs. Timm for quite
some time. I didn't know they were in opposition until yesterday; it was the first time I heard from
them. I thought they were calling because they wanted to support it actually. I do understand the
fear of the unknown, but to put it in perspective, these girls are so replaceable so quickly that
traffickers don't go after them. It's not personal; they are a commodity to them. They sell them
and they go get ten more. It's not like in domestic violence where they want that specific person
or that specific child because it's theirs, and they want ownership. In human trafficking, women
and children are a commodity; they're sold. When you go into a massage parlor and you arrest a
bunch of women in a massage parlor, there's ten more coming in on an airplane.
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So, traffickers don't want these specific children. It's not personal to them; they're a piece of
properly. So, I think it's little irrational to think these traffickers are going to be coming to the house
after these girls and disturbing the children at the school, or that these children that we have, they
are children,they're minors, are going to be disturbing the children. I was hoping Marchelle would
put up the picture. We added a privacy fence from the school looking over to the property. You
can't even see the facility. You can't even see the children, and our fence is going to be much
higher than theirs and it would divide the whole property line because who knows what else could
be built in that properly in the future, but there would be a privacy fence the whole way down. So,
you couldn't even see one facility to the next. Those children couldn't even see our children. Our
children couldn't see their children.
The facility will have security. There will be beeps on the doors. People can't come in without
being beeped in. There will be a foyer where people have to be beeped in. So, I understand the
concern, though I want to make sure it's more realistic. There's not going to be men out there or
traffickers out there going after these girls. With all 18 children that we have served this year, no
one has ever been taken back or pulled back and they weren't even in a secured facility. They
were either in foster care or in their home or places like that. I do understand the fear of what
someone thinks because it's a very scary thing. But law enforcement, I just have to say law
enforcement, Homeland Security, FBI, they do a great job. And they are at our beck and call, in
minutes. They bring someone to Samaritan House who's an adult and if we need them, we do
safety planning, and they're in the community and in homes. And they are at our beck and call
because we're helping them with a victim that they rescued, and they want that victim to help
prosecute in a case against a trafficker. So, they're very close by.
So, I just don't see the fear as deeply as they do. And I understand it's their school and their
properly and their children, they're trying to protect them. I told them; we would do everything we
could to work with them. So, we added that privacy fence. Could we move the properly over to
the left a little further towards the church, because the church doesn't mind at all? They wanted
to do this project; they want to give back to the community. So, could we move it over to the other
side? Absolutely, we want to be good neighbors, we know we're going to be neighbors for a long
time. So, whatever we can do to help accommodate with trees and shrubbery and fences and
moving of the building, it's going to be costly, but it's not so costly that we can't afford to do that
in the project. So, could we put the building closer to the other side?Absolutely, if that would help
assuage their fear, we're willing to do that.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, thank you, ma'am. Any questions? Yep. George?
Mr. Alcaraz: Okay. Ms. Gauthier, how many other safe havens or group homes do you have
currently now?
Ms. Gauthier: We have no group homes for children. That's why it's a gap. We have 14 homes
for adults. So, if it's a child, I think an 18-year-old is still a child. 18 and over, they can come into
any of our 14 safe shelters that we have in communities. But if they find a minor under the age of
18, you have to be in a licensed facility, and this will have oversight by Department of Behavioral
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Health. It'll have a licensing involved and staff will be 24/7,there will never be anyone there without
a staff member. So, they have to be there 24/7.
Mr. Alcaraz: And you've never had any problems before with any of those safe havens?
Ms. Gauthier: No.
Mr. Alcaraz: Okay, thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Will the children that you'll be aiding go to school, or will they be there all day?
Ms. Gauthier: Some will go to public school, and some will be homeschooled. It really depends
on the situation and how deeply they're affected and what their needs are. So, some children who
have not been in this situation fora long time and don't have the deeper level of trauma might just
go to school and be fine. Others may need to be homeschooled, and so we'll have a classroom
there and we have teachers and people to help with homework and things like that. So, we are
going either direction, and that has to be approved by your license.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Whitney? Mr. Graham? Turn your mic on, thank you.
Mr. Graham: Sorry about that. So, I was a little confused, because at one point I thought staff
said that the building couldn't be shifted to the south because maybe it was sewer/
Ms. Gauthier: It is going to be more costly to shift it, because they're going to have to tie into
sewer and water further away from the building. But like I told Mrs. Timm yesterday, if that would
make her feel more secure to have the building further over. I mean, I have our engineer on call
right now, he can answer those questions. It can be shifted; it's just going to be costly.
Mr. Graham: Was that because there's not enough fall with the sewer? Or is it because there's
more ..
Ms. Gauthier: It's further away.
Mr. Graham: Because it's further away, so it's just the distancing. So, it's just additional pipe.
Okay, so that's not as costly as if there wasn't enough depth or fall.
Ms. Gauthier: Correct. Yeah, and the way the building is positioned too I think, well, I'm not sure.
I would have to let the engineer speak. He did it in a way--they positioned the site plan in a way
to make it easy for building.
Mr. Graham: Okay, but you could move it to the south a little bit.
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Ms. Gauthier: Absolutely, and I told Mrs. Timm that we would work with her. If that would make
them feel better and feel safer, we would do that.
Mr. Graham: Is there any security? I understand from what you're saying that it's not personal.
These people that do the sex trafficking or trafficking of humans, they just go get new ones. I
guess there's an endless supply.
Ms. Gauthier: Unfortunately. Yeah, unfortunately that's true.
Mr. Graham: So, but do you have any security, will you have to have any kind of security there?
Ms. Gauthier: We don't feel like a security guard is necessary because the security guards aren't
armed. They really can't do much anyway. I mean, calling 911 is probably the best way to deal
with it. I guess it's a possibility someone could come to the house, but we don't anticipate that
being an issue. And we have so many staff going in and out and case managers and counselors
and people that are there and like Homeland Security, they come several days a week to our
office because they're interviewing clients, and they're there all the time. And they're very involved
with the case generally; either the perpetrator is in jail, or the perpetrator is on their radar, and
they're doing an investigation. So, when it comes to a minor being victimized, usually the
perpetrators in jail by the time they get rescued and they come to us. So that's another reason
why see less of a fear, you know.
Mr. Graham: If somebody is coming back, yeah.
Ms. Gauthier: Yeah, typically they're in jail. And if you've seen all the prosecutions we've gotten
in the last couple of years, since the task force has started,we've gotten many prosecutions where
people have gotten 15, 20, even 40 years prison time for the trafficking.
Mr. Graham: Gotcha. So where will the kids, the girls, where will they hang out outside? Is there
going to be an area where they can hang out?
Robin Gauthier: Yeah, with our licensing guidelines, we have to have a recreation room inside,
so we have a recreation room inside. And then in the back we have a porch, that's going to be
like a screened in sunroom type area. I suppose they'll go outside in the backyard sometimes,
but that's not typically going to be part of their day-to-day routine. We will take them on field trips;
they're not going to be locked up. They're not the criminals here, they're the victims. So, they're
not going to be locked up. We're not going to chase kids down and wrangle them. It's a voluntary
program, if they want to be there, they're welcome to stay there. We want to provide services. If
they don't want to be there, they can leave.
Mr. Graham: So, if they want to leave, they can leave?
Ms. Gauthier: They can leave. We're not chasing kids down. And if they're in a situation where
there's juvenile justice, then they're going to be in juvenile detention. So, if there's any criminal
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activity or things regarding them being a runaway or things like that, that's usually how they end
up in juvenile detention. So, these are the kids that really need to be rescued. They need a place
to go temporarily until Child Protective Services figures out what they're going to do with them or
if they're going to return to family or how the situation is going to resolve itself. Really depends
on each case. Each case is so very different.
Mr. Graham: Yeah. Okay, alright. Thank you very much.
Ms. Gauthier: Thank you for your question.
Mr. Wall: I've got just a couple. So, you mentioned plane, Is English a second language for some
of them?
Ms. Gauthier: Most of the sex trafficking that's happening in this area is domestic, only 5% of our
cases have been foreign nationals.
Mr. Wall: Okay. I'm looking at the site. It's kind of an interesting site because there's a trail, the
planned fence is only going to be on one side. Is that correct?
Ms. Gauthier: Well, we added that to totally block us from the school,we added that high privacy
fence.That's what I was hoping Marchelle would show the picture of what it looks like for a person.
They'll only see the very tip of the school;they won't see anything on the property and the children
can't see the children. It's a six-foot-high privacy fence along the whole property from the very
end.
Mr. Wall: Because it looks like there's a paved trail behind the property that parallels the creek in
the back. I'm not sure what the traffic is.
Ms. Gauthier: Yeah, I don't know.
Mr. Wall: Traffic is not the right word, but the pedestrian access back there that goes to the
community pool. It connects to the community pool. So, there's certainly public access on the
backside. I'm not sure what?
Ms. Gauthier: I thought that it was a creek back there.
Mr. Wall: There's a creek but you're just looking at the aerial and even on the survey, it shows a
paved trail on the backside.
Ms. Gauthier: Well, we have no problems putting up a fence there either. If that will make people
feel better, we're happy to put up a fence.
Mr. Wall: Right, and that's not my point. My point is that the no matter what, there's going to be
public access. There's public access right now and there's going to be pedestrians. I'm just
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pointing that out and I'm sure that the school already is aware of the access back there. There is
probably heavier than any kind of activity that's going to be around the school. What about the
entrance? Have you talked to the engineer about the location of your driveway?You know, maybe
the building might be centered in the property but possibly the entrance on the other side towards
the church as opposed to towards the school. Is that a possibility that you've considered?
Ms. Gauthier: Yeah, Can they open his mic so that he can answer that? He's on? Joe Buschi?
Madam Clerk: Mr. Buschi, if you would wait two to three seconds and then begin your comments.
Mr. Buschi: Okay, yes, that is a possibility. We can put the parking lot on the other side of the
building. We don't see any problem with that. Typically, when you're locating a parking lot, you
want to put it on the side of the building where you're not approaching the building. But there's no
problem with doing it on the other side as well.
Mr. Wall: Okay, thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Any other questions? Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Mr. Buschi, can the building shift 25 feet to the south? Let's say you kept the parking
on the same side of the building, could you shift the building to the south 25 feet and shift the
driveway to the south 25 feet creating a larger buffer between the Montessori School and this
project, this building?
Mr. Buschi: Yes, we can do that. There's no issue with doing that, like Robin had pointed out, it's
just going to be some additional sanitary sewer because where we have to tie in the existing
sanitary sewer manhole is near where the property line is being proposed on the north end of the
property. But it shouldn't be a problem being able to run the sanitary the additional length to get
to that point.
Mr. Graham: There's enough room. The depth is okay? The depth? Is he gone?
Mr. Buschi: We still have to confirm the depth and we'll do that when we get into the actual design.
So, we'll have to confirm that it is deep enough. That hasn't been done yet.
Mr. Graham: Alright, thank you.
Mr. Snyder: Mr. Graham? Only point that I would like to make?
Mr. Weiner: Come up to the microphone, please sir.
Mr. Snyder: Excuse me. Yeah, the only point that I would like to say is that when you do shift the
building, and if you just move it over 25 feet. I mean, there is one point almost, well, it's actually
a little bit less than two acres now, because the Montessori School has actually encroached on
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the property that we're buying by 3,500 square feet. And so, as a result of that, We are looking
for this to potentially be other uses there. And so, this was not I mean, we are starting off with a
5000 square foot facility and it could be a larger facility at some point in time in the future. So, we
do want to preserve as much flexibility as possible for potential further utilization of the property.
That's all.
Mr. Graham: No problem.Thank you,sir. I was just thinking of trying to get the Montessori School
comfortable as well.
Ms. Gauthier: Yeah, I mean, we could put administrative offices back there, you know, in the
future there may not be more client services, the future maybe administrative offices back there.
So, we even have more oversight. So, we could potentially have three buildings there. But if we
center that and put it in a location that we can't build other buildings, that would restrict us from
being able to use the full 1.9 acres. So
Mr. Weiner: Thank you ma'am. Thank you. Alright, any more speakers?
Madam Clerk: No more speakers.
Mr. Weiner: Ma'am, I'm sorry. We have a procedure, and we all had our time to talk. Okay. Mrs.
Klein?Well, hold on a second, Mr. Inman over here wants to start off here if you don't mind. Okay.
We're going to close this out and open up to us for discussion. Mr. Inman?
Mr. Inman: Thank you, Mr.Weiner. I just want to say I come to this with an interesting perspective,
having served 30 years on the Board of Seton Youth Shelters, which is the facility I think Robin
was referring to probably, that has some experience with sex trafficking situations. Seton Youth
Shelters for those of you don't know, is a home for runaway and throw away children. So, I'm
familiar with the fact that we have in that facility have housed girls that have been subject to sex
trafficking. Not only that, we have two shelters: one's a boy's shelter, one's a girl shelter.
So, the history of this is really, I think, very telling in terms of how this goes. When Seton Youth
Shelters was started,we had just girls and we were on a site of a church,the St. Nicholas Catholic
Church in Kings Grant. And frankly, that went very well. We didn't have any trouble with the
neighbors or neighborhood or children going to Sunday school being interfered with by our
residents. Again, we are a licensed facility. We all have staff there 24/7. And then came a time
when we wanted to allowed the first shelter established for girls. The second shelter was
established in the late 90s for boys, and we were blessed by having a site at the St. Aidans
Episcopal Church that had offered us a site similar to this situation. It was a parcel on their church
site, which they really weren't using, didn't have any plans for and they allowed us to build a
shelter there, on the corner of Kings Grant road and Edinburgh Drive. It's there now.
Due to objections from neighbors, I was persuaded at that time by a city council person to please
move the girls to that new shelter, because that might alleviate the concerns of the neighbors
about having such a shelter close to them. We did that. And the interesting thing was a lot of the
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people that were objecting, when they were told that there was a boy's shelter a half a mile up
the road, they had no idea; never heard anything bad about that. So, we now have been there
since 1998. And truly of course, in recent years, the sex trafficking problem has grown and we
didn't have that much sex trafficking victims in our facility until maybe four or five years ago. But
we have and we've not experienced anything where we had people, certainly in the building,trying
to make contact with these young people that were being housed for us. Now we're only 90-day
facility, so we need this. We need this.
It's a great opportunity that Samaritan House is offering to do this. I don't think it poses any risk
that the fears that people have, we actually had people come to a hearing on the girl's shelter
asking if we were going to put bars on the windows to keep them in. We said no, they want to be
there. They came here, they want help. If they want to leave, they can leave but they really need
help. They want help and they're not going to need having any bars on the windows. So, that's
what we have going here, you know, we have victims that want help and are thankful for it, I'm
sure. And moving this building over 25-50 feet, I don't think that's going to do a thing to alleviate
the concern that these folks have, they've expressed an extraordinary concern about their
property.
I'm hoping that I'm telling the story is helping them to understand that the risk that they fear is not,
in my experience, real. The impact on their property values and so forth. But I would hate to see
you having to sacrifice any money to moving the house for purposes of a buffer even, a greater
buffer, bearing in mind that the offer that has been made and will be committed to I'm sure by
Samaritan House to put up a fence, the shrubbery and so forth to create as much of a barrier and
visual barrier and physical barrier, as could be desired. So, I don't see anything wrong with the
application.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Mrs. Klein?
Ms. Klein: I have to read something first. Pursuant to the State and Local Government Conflicts
of Interest Act I make the following declaration. I am executing this written disclosure regarding
the Planning Commission's discussion on Vote Number 7; Robin Gauthier and the Catholic
Diocese of Virginia, 1593 Lynnhaven Parkway, Virginia Beach, Virginia. This property is located
in the Green Run Homes community. I also reside in the Green Run Homes community and am
on the Homeowner's Association Board for the community located at 1248 Green Garden Circle,
Virginia Beach, Virginia. I've been informed by the City Attorney's Office that I have no personal
or financial conflict and can vote on this application. Therefore, I will participate in the vote or
discussion of this matter at today's meeting.
So that being said, the bulk of my career has been spent in family violence and child abuse. I can
tell you that those are the hardest facilities to get into from a security standpoint with their locked
doors when they don't have a security officer. I can't even pick up my son from childcare without
a photo ID and they know me. So, I believe the Samaritan House team when they say that this is
going to be a secure facility and that only known people will be able to be led in. Through my work
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with the Child Advocacy Center at CHKD and in family violence, I can't stress the importance of
having this in the community.
I have worked at community-based facilities such as this, and so I absolutely appreciate the
concerns of Courthouse Montessori. In my experience, they are typically unfounded. And like
Mike said, most people don't even know that they exist if they're in a row -- in like a set of row
homes. I'm grateful to the Samaritan House for taking the responsibility. Robin came to a board
meeting and answered any questions that came up among the Green Run Board because we will
be working in tandem with them. And they have the board's full support moving forward, and so I
will absolutely be voting in favor of this application.
Mr. Weiner: Alright. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: During my service in the fire department, I had the pleasure of inspecting the two
places that Mr. Inman spoke of as well as the Judeo-Christian Outreach over on 13th or 14th
Street, another place on Lynnhaven Parkway, all over the City and I've never seen any of those
types of problems that we are fearing here today. They're all well run by professional staff. Even
when the kids were wayward, the staff was adequate for the situations that they had to deal with.
So, I'll be supporting that as well.
Mr. Weiner: Good. Jack?
Mr. Wall: I feel this is very low intensity use. There's low risk due to impacts, the neighbors fully
are further mitigated by landscaping and fence, so I'm going to be in support of this application
also.
Mr. Weiner: Alright. Anyone else? No motion? Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: I move to approve the application for Robin Gauthier and the Catholic Diocese of
Richmond.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mrs. Klein, do we have a second? Seconded by Mr. Inman,
we are ready to vote.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
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Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley?
Mr. Horsley: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Inman?
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond is absent, Vice-Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Weiner?
Mr. Weiner: By a recorded vote of nine in favor, zero against, Agenda Item Number 7 has been
approved.
AYE 9 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 2
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley AYE
Inman AYE •
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. When the site is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance within the submitted site
layout exhibit entitled, "CONCEPTUAL SITE LAYOUT PLAN —THE HALLOW SAMARITAN
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HOUSE", prepared by Draper Aden Associates, dated 12/22/2020, which has been
exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning &
Community Development.
2. The exterior of the proposed building shall substantially adhere in appearance, size and
materials to the submitted elevations entitled "THE HALLOWS DEVELOPED FOR THE
SAMARITAN HOUSE", prepared by Cox Kliewer& Company, P.C., dated January 2021,
which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department
of Planning & Community Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development Services Center
Landscape Architect prior to the final site plan approval.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the Department of
Planning & Community Development/Permits and Inspections Division. The applicant shall
secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the Building Official prior to the occupancy of the
Group Home.
5. The applicant shall not exceed the occupancy load set by the Building Official's Office for
this Group Home.
6. The applicant/owner shall submit a subdivision plat with the City of Virginia Beach
Department of Planning & Community Development. Said plat shall be subject to the review
and approval of the Department of Planning & Community Development, and plat shall be
recorded with the City of Virginia Beach Circuit Court Clerk's Office within 365 days from the
date of the City Council action.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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HOMES ASSOCIATION
April 6, 2021
Robin Gauthier
2620 Southern Blvd
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Dear Ms. Gauthier,
At the February 23, 2021 meeting of the Green Run Board of Directors the Board voted
to approve your request for the new Samaritan House project the Hallows. Please note,
the property is subject to recorded restrictive covenants to which affects all property
owners in Green Run which should be reviewed by you prior to you acquisition of the
property.
We appreciate your informative presentation and we are excited about this project and
look forward to it it's completion.
If you have any questions, please contact Heidi Daniels, Association Manager for Green
Run at 757-427-2600 or via email at hdanielsgreenrun.orc.
Sincerely,
Dean Densmore, President
For the Board of Directors
March 24, 2021
To the Virginia Beach Planning Commission,
This letter is intended to be a Letter of Support for the sale of a portion of the Church of
the Holy Apostles' property for the intended use of building a residential home to support
victims of human trafficking in the Hampton Roads area.
When the church's Executive Committee received its first briefing on the project in
September 2019, the committee was fully onboard. This briefing was followed with
presentations to our Vestry Council in October 2019 and to our entire community in early
November 2019. In each case, the proposal received unanimous approval.
Because the Holy Apostles' property is actually jointly owned by the Catholic Diocese of
Richmond and the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, Holy Apostles' support was
forwarded to each diocese and has received their approval. The mission of this program is in
keeping with the Christian message each denomination attempts to live by—support of the
victims of oppression.
Our Holy Apostles' community remains committed to doing what it can to have this
important project become a reality. It is our hope the Planning Commission will see fit to
approve this essential effort for our greater Hampton Roads community.
Sincerely,
Rev. Mr. Gary Harmeyer
Senior Pastoral Associate
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ITEM: BPMS CASCADES 2, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner] Conditional Use
Permit (Mini-Warehouse) for the property located at 2121 Centerville
Turnpike (GPIN 1454985427). COUNCIL DISTRICT — CENTERVILLE
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Mini-Warehouse on this
B-4 Mixed Use District zoned parcel. The climate-controlled facility is designed to
appear more like an office building rather than a traditional mini warehouse The
proposed 76,290 square foot, three-story building will have an exterior of a mix of
manufactured stone veneer, brick veneer, smooth finished insulated metal panel
veneer, and a standing seam metal roof in a neutral color palette.
• Considerations:
In Staff's view and the Planning Commission concurred, the development is in
keeping with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the
Suburban Area as the use is compatible with surrounding uses and will provide a
service to the surrounding businesses and residences.
The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35-foot front yard setback to
15 feet. This reduced setback will align the proposed development with the
adjacent buildings and will create a desirable streetscape along this portion of
Centerville Turnpike. In addition, the setback will not affect the future Centerville
Turnpike alignment as planned with the Phase 3 CIP roadway project.
The preliminary stormwater analysis that was submitted to the Development
Services Center was determined to have the potential to successfully comply with
the stormwater regulations for this site.
Further details pertaining to the application, as well as Staff's evaluation, are
provided in the attached Staff Report. There is no known opposition to this request.
• Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021, the Planning Commission placed this application on the Consent
Agenda, recommending approval by a recorded vote of 8-0.
1. When the property is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance with the
concept plan entitled "STORAGE BUILDING — CASCADES OUTPARCEL —
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
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Virginia Beach, VA", prepared by Timmons Group, dated March 25, 2021,
which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in
the Department of Planning & Community Development.
2. A 15-foot front yard setback is proposed for this site. This is a deviation to the
35-foot front yard setback required by the City Zoning Ordinance.
3. The exterior of the proposed buildings shall substantially adhere in appearance,
size, materials to the submitted elevations entitled "CASCADES SELF
STORAGE", prepared by GMF + Associates, dated 4/13/2020, which has been
exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and are on file in the Department of
Planning & Community Development.
4. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Development Services Center of
the Department of Planning & Community Development for review and ultimate
approval prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy.
5. All signage on the site shall meet the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. A
separate sign permit shall be obtained from the Department of Planning &
Community Development for the installation of any signage.
6. All outdoor lighting shall be shielded to direct light and glare onto the premises;
said lighting and glare shall be deflected, shaded, and focused away from all
adjoining property. Any new outdoor lighting fixtures shall not be erected any
higher than fourteen (14) feet.
• Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department
City Manager:(
Applicant& Property Owner BPMS Cascades 2, LLC Agenda Item
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Agenda Item 4
Page 1
Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Mini-Warehouse in order to construct a 76,290 square
foot indoor self-storage facility on this B-4 Mixed Use District zoned parcel.A portion of the property contains a
parking lot and undeveloped area.
• The proposed building will be a climate controlled building within a 25,430 square foot print.The three-story mini-
warehouse building will have a total floor area of 76,290 square feet with a height of 43 feet.The facade will consist
of a neutral color palette with a mix of manufactured stone veneer, brick veneer,smooth finished insulated metal
panel veneer, and a standing seam metal roof.
• Per the Zoning Ordinance,one space per employee on the maximum working shift is required.This on-site parking
requirement is met, providing the required three parking spaces.
• The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35-foot front yard setback.A 15-foot front yard setback is
proposed that will align the proposed developed with the adjacent buildings along Centerville Turnpike.The
applicant is requesting that this deficiency be addressed through the provisions of Section 221(i)of the Zoning
ordinance,which allows City Council to grant deviations from required setbacks if"for good caused shown upon a
finding that there will be no significant detrimental effects on surrounding properties.
• Customer access into the building will be between the hours of 6:00 a.m.to 9:00 p.m.,and the office operating
hours will be from 9:00 a.m.to 6:00 p.m., seven days a week,with up to three employees on site.
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Application Types
CUP—Conditional Use Permit MOD—Modification of Conditions or Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance STR—Short Term Rental
CRZ—Conditional Rezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance
Evaluation & Recommendation
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Mini-Warehouse, in Staff's opinion, is acceptable.The request is in
keeping with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the Suburban Area, as it pertains to infill
development.The development of this site is compatible to the existing development around it.The proposed storage
facility is surrounded by both commercial and residential uses and provides a service to the surrounding businesses and
residences. It is anticipated that the development of this site will have minimal impacts on the adjacent properties.
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
Page 2
As required by the City Zoning Ordinance,the front yard setback in this zoning district is 35-feet from the property line.
However, in order to provide an urban style of development consistent with the existing development,the developer
designed the project to be closer to the street and aligned with the adjacent building to the south. Staff is supportive of
the reduced setback as the proposed building will be setback 15 feet from the future Centerville Turnpike alignment as
planned with the Phase 3 CIP roadway project.The setback requirements were also discussed with Dominion Energy
who determined that the proposed 15-foot setback from the proposed right-of-way will provide sufficient area for a
future distribution line.Staff believes that the request to deviate from the 35-foot front yard setback to a 15-foot front
yard setback is warranted,as it aligns with the adjacent building,contributes to the continuation of the pedestrian-scale
for development along this portion of Centerville Turnpike, and will not interfere with the Centerville Turnpike Phase 3
roadway project or Dominion Energy's utilities.
There is shared parking between the existing apartment, retail,and the proposed self-storage.The site is currently over-
parked with 531 parking spaces. With the construction of the Mini-Warehouse building,the parking will be eliminated
by 34 parking spaces, providing a total of 497 parking spaces. The site will still meet the required 497 parking spaces,
based on the following breakdown of parking on site: existing retail (21,305 sq.ft) requires 86 parking spaces, residential
parking(first 50) requires 100 parking spaces,the additional residential parking(176) requires 308 parking spaces, and
the maximum number of employee's on the peak shift for the self-storage will require three parking spaces.
While both Lynnhaven Parkway and Centerville Turnpike in the vicinity of this application are under capacity,the
development of this site with a self-storage facility will result in a decrease in traffic generation as compared to a typical
mixed use development that contains both commercial/office and residential uses.
As recommended by Staff,the applicant has submitted a preliminary stormwater management analysis to the
Development Services Center(DSC)outlining the proposed stormwater strategy for this site.The DSC has reviewed the
preliminary stormwater analysis and finds that the submitted stormwater strategy has the potential to successfully
comply with stormwater regulations for this site. More detailed information can be found in the Stormwater Impacts
section of this report.
Based on these considerations,Staff recommends approval of the application,subject to the conditions listed below.
Recommended Conditions
1. When the property is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance with the concept plan entitled "STORAGE
BUILDING—CASCADES OUTPARCEL—Virginia Beach,VA", prepared by Timmons Group, dated March 25, 2021,
which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning&
Community Development.
2. A 15-foot front yard setback is proposed for this site.This is a deviation to the 35-foot front yard setback required by
the City Zoning Ordinance.
3. The exterior of the proposed buildings shall substantially adhere in appearance,size, materials to the submitted
elevations entitled "CASCADES SELF STORAGE", prepared by GMF+Associates,dated 4/13/2020,which has been
exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and are on file in the Department of Planning&Community
Development.
4. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Development Services Center of the Department of Planning&
Community Development for review and ultimate approval prior to the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy.
5. All signage on the site shall meet the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance.A separate sign permit shall be
obtained from the Department of Planning&Community Development for the installation of any signage.
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
Page 3
6. All outdoor lighting shall be shielded to direct light and glare onto the premises;said lighting and glare shall be
deflected,shaded,and focused away from all adjoining property. Any new outdoor lighting fixtures shall not be
erected any higher than fourteen (14)feet.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Stormwater Impacts
Project Stormwater Design Staff Summary
The project site is divided into two(2) main drainage areas with the majority of the proposed self-storage project
designed to convey stormwater runoff to a proposed stormwater management facility(SWMF) before flowing to the
existing drainage system for the Cascades Apartments.The proposed system will tie into the existing apartment
stormwater drainage infrastructure with no changes proposed or needed to the existing storm sewer(public or private).
The 0.3 acres of the site that currently directs drainage directly toward the right-of-way in the predevelopment
condition has been reduced to 0.13 acres post development.
The SWMF proposed is an underground storage system to be installed under the proposed parking area.The SWMF will
be installed about 4 feet below the existing grade and will allow for adequate space to install the parking pavement
section above the system without the need to elevate or increase the final grade of the site.
The provided preliminary stormwater management design demonstrates conveyance of the runoff from the proposed
development for storms up to and including the 100-year event plus 1.5'of sea-level rise(SLR)as required.
Based on the information provided by Timmons Group Services in the Preliminary Stormwater Analysis,the DSC agrees
that the proposed conceptual stormwater management strategy has the potential to successfully comply with the
stormwater requirements for this site. Final design and detailed updates will be made during site plan submittal.
Additional detailed project stormwater information is listed below.
Project Information
Total project area: 1.24 Acres
Pre-Development impervious area:0.59 Acres
Post-Development impervious area:0.91 Acres
Does the analysis utilize the City of Virginia Beach Master Drainage Model:Yes
Does the analysis incorporate into design increased rainfall amounts(NOAA plus 20%)and account for 1.5'SLR:Yes
Stormwater Management Facility Design Information
Type of facility proposed: Underground storage system
Total storage volume provided in proposed stormwater management facility: 10,436 cubic feet
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
Page 4
Description of outfall: Runoff leaves the site in two directions. Stormwater from the underground storage system will
connect into the existing drainage system for the Cascades Apartments, which then connects to the Centerville Turnpike
storm sewer system. A small area will continue to sheet flow directly to the Centerville Turnpike right-of-way storm
sewer system.
Downstream conveyance path:The Centerville Turnpike storm sewer system drains south across the Chesapeake
border into Stumpy Lake, and then to the North Landing River.
Stormwater Quality Compliance Design Information
Pounds of phosphorus removal per year(Ib/yr) required: 0.86 lb/yr
Method of treatment proposed:All water quality treatment is proposed to be provided through the purchase of
nutrient credits from offsite nutrient banks.
Stormwater Quantity Compliance Design Information
Channel protection: Provided stormwater model demonstrates non-erosive velocities of stormwater discharge.
Flood protection: Attenuation of peak flow rates with reduction in hydraulic grade line (water surface elevation)for 10-
year and 100-year storms (including 1.5' SLR) in evaluated structures downstream of project site.
100-Year storm evaluation:Stormwater modeling demonstrates project meets requirement of no increase (0.00'
increase) in water surface elevation to any existing flooded areas.
Sea-Level Rise: Project evaluated, and stormwater modeling demonstrates proposed structures will not be inundated
with stormwater during 100-year(including 1.5' SLR) storm event.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan designates the subject property as Suburban Area. Guiding principles have been established in
the Comprehensive Plan to guard against possible threats to the stability of the Suburban Area and to provide a
framework for neighborhoods and places that are increasingly vibrant and distinctive. The Plan's primary guiding
principle for the Suburban Area is to create "Great Neighborhoods," and to support those neighborhoods with
complementary non-residential uses in such a way that working together the stability and sustainability of the Suburban
Area is ensured for now and the future.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Southern Rivers Watershed. Drainage in the Southern Rivers watershed is highly impacted by
the presence of high ground water, poorly draining soils, and high-water surface elevations in downstream receiving
waters. There are no known natural or cultural resources on the site.
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Lynnhaven Parkway 18,500 ADT1 22,800 ADT 1(LOS a"D")
Existing Land Use 2—770 ADT
1 1 a Proposed Land Use 3-115 ADT
Centerville Turnpike 17,500 ADT 15,000 ADT (LOS D")
1 Average Daily Trips 2 as defined by a B-4 Mixed Use 3 as defined by a self-storage a LOS=Level of Service
District use facility
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
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Master Transportation Plan (MTP) and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Lynnhaven Parkway, in the vicinity of this application, is considered a four-lane divided minor urban arterial. The MTP
proposes a four-lane facility within a 110-foot right-of-way.
Centerville Turnpike, in the vicinity of this application, is considered a two-lane undivided minor suburban arterial. The
MTP proposes a six-lane facility within a 150-foot right-of-way.
A CIP project is slated for this area. Centerville Parkway Phase III (CIP 2.419) is for construction of a four-lane divided
highway within a 145-foot right-of-way from Kempsville Road to Chesapeake City line. The project will also include full
improvements along Centerville Turnpike at the Lynnhaven Parkway intersection. Currently,this project is fully funded
and is scheduled to begin construction in late 2023.
Public Utility Impacts
Water
The site must connect to City water. There is an existing 16-inch City water transmission main along Centerville Turnpike.
Sewer
City gravity sewer is not directly available. In 2008, Public Utilities approved sharing of private sanitary sewer between
the subject parcel and the adjacent parcel to the west addressed 5705 Lynnhaven Parkway(GPIN 1454-98-1390).
Connection to city gravity sewer in Monument Drive can be made via connection to the private sewer system currently
serving the adjacent development.
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance,the public notice sign(s)was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, April 25, 2021 and
May 2, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting, was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021.
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
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• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/BookmarkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11, 2021.
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Disclosure Statement
APPLICANT'S NAME BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT FORM
The completion and submission of this form is required for all applications
that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of
property in the City of Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or
a board, commission, or other body appointed by the City Council. Such
applications and matters include, but are not limited to,the following:
Acquisition of Property Disposition of City Modification of
by City Property Conditions or Proffers
Alternative Economic Development Nonconforming Use
Compliance,Special Investment Program Changes
Exception for (EDIP)
Board of Zoning Encroachment Request Rezoning
Appeals
Certificate of Floodplain Variance
Appropriateness Street Closure
(Historic Review Board) Franchise Agreement
Chesapeake Bay
Preservation Area Lease of City Property Subdivision Variance
Board
Conditional Use Permit License Agreement Wetlands Board
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform
public officials who may vote on the application as to whether
they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law.
SECTION 1 / APPLICANT DISCLOSURE
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CHANGES AS of 5/26/2021 MLC✓/i�G �
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BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
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Disclosure Statement
Virginia Reach
nCheck here if the APPLICANT IS NOT a corporation, partnership, firm,
business,or other unincorporated organization.
ZCheck here if the APPLICANT IS a corporation, partnership, firm, business, or
other unincorporated organization.
(A) List the Applicant's name:BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
If an LLC, list all member's names:
Members: Lillel Farms, Inc.; BWF Cascades,LLC
If a CORPORATION, list the the names of all officers, directors, members,
trustees, etc. below: (Attach list if necessary)
(B) List the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary 1 or affiliated business entity 2
relationship with the Applicant (Attach list if necessary)
Lillel Farms, Inc.; BWF Cascades, LLC
See next page for information pertaining to footnotes1 and 2
SECTION 2 / PROPERTY OWNER DISCLOSURE
Complete Section 2 only if property owner is different from Applicant.
Check here if the PROPERTY OWNER IS NOT a corporation, partnership,firm,
business,or other unincorporated organization.
Check here if the PROPERTY OWNER IS a corporation, partnership,firm,
business,or other unincorporated organization, AND THEN,complete the
following.
(A) List the Property Owner's name:Same as Applicant.
If an LLC, list the member's
names:
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BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
Page 15
Disclosure Statement
Virginia Beach
If a Corporation, list the names ofall officers, directors, members, trustees,
etc. below: (Attach list if necessary)
(B) List the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary 1 or affiliated business entity
2 relationship with the Property Owner: (Attach list if necessary)
1 "Parent-subsidiary relationship" means `a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or
indirectly owns shares possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation."
See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va. Code§2.2-3101.
2 "Affiliated business entityrelationship" means "a relationship, other than
p, parent-subsidiary
relationship,that exists when(i)one business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other
business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a controlling owner in the other entity,or
(iii) there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that should be
considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the
same person or substantially the same person own or manage the two entities:there are common or
commingled funds or assets:the business entities share the use of the same offices or employees or
otherwise share activities, resources or personnel on a regular basis: or there is otherwise a close
working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,
Va.Code§ 2.2-3101.
SECTION 3. SERVICES DISCLOSURE
Are any of the following services being provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the Property. If the answer
to any item is YES, please identify the firm or individual providing the service: IF THE
OWNER AND APPLICANT ARE DIFFERENT, EACH MUST COMPLETE THE SECTION
SEPERATELY
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BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
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Disclosure Statement
APPLICANT Virginia Beach
PROVIDER(use additional sheets if
YES NO SERVICE needed)
Accounting and/or preparer of
your tax return
Architect/Landscape Architect/ GMF+ASSOCIATES
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Contract Purchaser(if other than
the Applicant)-identify purchaser
and purchaser's service providers
Any other pending or proposed
purchaser of the subject property
(identify purchaser(s)and
purchaser's service providers)
Construction Contractors
nEngineers/Surveyors/Agents Timmons Group
Financing(include current
Ig mortgage holders and lenders
selected or being considered to
provide financing for acquisition
or construction of the property)
X ❑ Legal Services Troutman Sanders LLP
Real Estate Brokers/
— Agents/Realtors for current and
anticipated future sales of the
subject property
SECTION 4. KNOWN INTEREST BY PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR
EMPLOYEE
YES NO Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have
an interest in the subject land or any proposed development ,
contingent on the subject public action?
If yes, what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the
interest?
N/A
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Agenda Item 4
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Disclosure Statement
Virginia Beach
CERTIFICATION:
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is
complete,true,and accurate.
I understand that, upon receipt of notification that the application has been
scheduled for public hearing, I am responsible for updating the information
provided herein two weeks prior to the Planning Commission, Council, VBDA
meeting, or meeting of any public body or committee in connection with this
Appl icattiory
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Disclosure Statement
Conditional Use Permit Application of BPMS Cascades 2,LLC
Supplemental Ow ner/Applicant disclosure Information
Owner/Applicant: BPMS Cascades 2,LLC
Members of BPMS Cascades 2,1,LC: Lille)Farms.Inc.
BWF Cascades.LLC.
Manager of BPMS Cascades 2.LLC: Bonaventure Advisors.LLC
Managing(and Sole)Member of Bonaventure Advisors.LLC: Bonaventure Realty
Group.TIC
Managing(and Sole)Member of Bonaventure Realty Group. I.I.C: Dwight D. Dunton.Ill
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Agenda Item 4
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/ Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC
Agenda Item 4
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Item #4
BPMS Cascades 2, LLC [Applicant & Property Owner]
Conditional Use Permit (Mini-Warehouse)
2121 Centerville Turnpike
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL- CONSENT
Mr.Wall: Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are applications that are recommended
for approval by Staff and the Planning Commission concurred. There are no
speakers signed up in opposition. We have four items on the consent agenda
today. The first item is agenda item number one by which is going to be presented
by city staff.
Mr. Kemp: Good afternoon Chairman, Commission. For the record, my name is Kevin Kemp;
I am the Zoning Administrator here in Virginia Beach. Item one is an ordinance
amendment which modifies the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the sign
regulations, particularly making them content neutral and in line with some current
court decisions that have been made. What this ordinance does is first changes
the regulations for billboards; our current ordinance regulates billboards based on
their content.And what I mean by content is a billboard is an offsite sign advertising
something not on that site. Well to know if you're advertising something on the site
or off the site, you have to read the billboard therefore making it content based. So
what this ordinance does is, it makes all outdoor advertising signs,takes billboards
out, and any sign is permitted on the site as a free standing sign, but that sign is
held to the dimensional standards of what is normally allowed in that Zoning District
for freestanding signs. So billboards are not their own use. The second thing that
this ordinance does is it removes the Zoning Administrators ability to modify non-
conforming signs where in the past if an applicant wished to take non-conforming
sign and alter it to make it better, there was an administrative process through my
office that that could be done. This now puts that process only by City Council
approval. The last thing in the ordinance is in regards to electronic signs and these
would only be permitted in two instances. The first are for major entertainment
venues. These are venues such as The Aquarium that require City Council
approval and therefore City Council would dictate the number of electronic signs
and the size and the second instance is for fuel prices.And these would be allowed
only on properties that dispense fuel and they would be limited to one sign. Are
there any questions?
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Mr. Kemp: Thank you Commission.
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Mr. Wall: Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent agenda? Okay.
The next item on the consent agenda is item number - agenda item number four.
Is there a representative for this item?
Mr. Beaman: Mr. Vice Chair, Members of the Commission for the record, my name is Rob
Beaman. I'm a local land use attorney at the Troutman Pepper Law Firm here today
on behalf of the applicant for agenda item number four, we've had a chance to
read the conditions, they are acceptable and we appreciate being on the consent
agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent
agenda? Hearing none, we've asked Ms. Klein to read this into the record.
Ms. Klein: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a mini warehouse in order
to construct a 25,000 square foot indoor self storage facility on this B4 mixed
district zoned parcel. A portion of the property contains a parking lot and
undeveloped area. The proposed building will be a climate controlled three story
mini warehouse building with the total height of 43 feet and it matches the
surrounding area. The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35 foot front
yard setback which staff approves. Based on the consideration staff recommends
approval of the application subject to the conditions and the Planning Commission
concurs.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number nine. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay, seeing none. Is there any opposition for this
item to be on the consent agenda? Hearing none. We've asked Mr. Redmond to
read this into the record.
Mr. Redmond: Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Wall. This is an application for a Conditional Use
Permit for a family daycare home at 1105 Voss Court. The applicant is requesting
the CUP for a daycare facility of up to 12 children within this single family dwelling.
It's a 7500 square foot parcel and seems to be very well organized and laid out for
this particular use. The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children.
Staff sees no reason why it should be denied. Planning Commission sees no
reason why it should be denied and we therefore place it on consent. Thank you,
Mr. Wall.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number 10. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Wall there is, she had signed, Diana Buhrmann had signed up virtually, but
she is not online. So is Diana Buhrmann here?
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Mr. Wall: Okay. Is there any opposition for this to be on the consent agenda? Okay, hearing
none, we've asked Mr. Graham to read this into the record.
Mr. Graham: Thank you, Mr. Wall. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a
family daycare home to care for up to 12 children within a single family dwelling.
The 5401 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 planned unit development and is
located in the Magic Hollow neighborhood at 998 Boughton Way in the Rose Hall
District. This request for a Conditional Use Permit in staffs opinion is consistent
with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the suburban
area. Staff finds the property to be well organized and well kept; successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. For these reasons, staff recommends approval and Planning
Commission agrees with this recommendation. Therefore we have placed it on the
consent agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you, Mr. Graham. So that ends the regular consent agenda. The Planning
Commission also places the following applications for Conditional Use Permit for
Short-Term Rental on the consent agenda as they meet the applicable
requirements for section 241.2 of the Zoning Ordinance. Staff and the Planning
Commission supports the applications and there are no speakers signed up in
opposition and that includes agenda items number 15, 17 and 20.Those were the
last items on the consent agenda. I move for approval of agenda items 1, 4, 9, 10,
15, 17, and 20. We have a motion. Do we have a second?
Ms. Klein: Second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Wall, second by Ms. Klein.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Weiner: I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's right.
Mr. Redmond: Number one, I am abstaining on agenda item number 8, for the same reason as
before, there's work colleague of mine who is a member of the partnership that
owns this property and so that's just too close for comfort. I also am abstaining on
all of the short-term rental applications. I have a letter on file with the City Attorney's
Office, I have a client who's in the travel industry, and that too, is too close for
comfort. So I do not vote on short-term rental applications or ordinances. Thank
you.
Ms. Wilson: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Weiner: Anybody else?
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Ms. Wilson: You have a letter on file saying that you will abstain from all short-term rental
applications, has that changed?
Mr. Graham: Yes, ma'am that has been withdrawn.
Ms. Wilson: Okay. And you will now vote on those applications?
Mr. Graham: That is correct. I do not have a conflict.
Ms. Wilson: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Ready to vote?
Madam Clerk: Yes, sir. Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond:Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
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Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of eight in favor and zero against agenda items 1, 4, 9, and 10
have been approved. Agenda items 15, 17 and 20 by recorded vote of seven in
favor, zero against with one abstention have been approved by consent.
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Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond AYE
Wall AYE
Weiner ! AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. When the property is developed, it shall be in substantial conformance with the concept plan
entitled "STORAGE BUILDING — CASCADES OUTPARCEL —Virginia Beach, VA",
prepared by Timmons Group, dated March 25, 2021, which has been exhibited to the
Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning & Community
Development.
2. A 15-foot front yard setback is proposed for this site. This is a deviation to the 35-foot front
yard setback required by the City Zoning Ordinance.
3. The exterior of the proposed buildings shall substantially adhere in appearance, size,
materials to the submitted elevations entitled "CASCADES SELF STORAGE", prepared by
GMF + Associates, dated 4/13/2020, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City
Council and are on file in the Department of Planning & Community Development.
4. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted to the Development Services Center of the
Department of Planning & Community Development for review and ultimate approval prior to
the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy.
5. All signage on the site shall meet the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. A separate
sign permit shall be obtained from the Department of Planning & Community Development
for the installation of any signage.
6. All outdoor lighting shall be shielded to direct light and glare onto the premises; said lighting
and glare shall be deflected, shaded, and focused away from all adjoining property. Any
new outdoor lighting fixtures shall not be erected any higher than fourteen (14) feet.
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the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division. and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
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ITEM: SH CAMPUS, LLC [Applicant] ST. LUKE'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
[Property Owner] Conditional Use Permit(Group Home for up to 20 children)
for the property located at 3396 Stoneshore Road (GPIN 1486822513).
COUNCIL DISTRICT — ROSE HALL
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
The applicant seeks to relocate the Group Home, Seton House, from the Kings
Grant Neighborhood to this 3.91-acre parcel for a centralized campus location. For
the past 36 years, Seton House has provided mentoring, counseling, education
programs, and a safe and secure home for youth between the ages of 9 and 18
years old that are homeless, runaway, trafficked, disconnected, and at-risk. in
Virginia Beach. The Group Home will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week
to provide care for up to 20 children with up to 12 staff members rotating during
normal business hours and with two to four staff members staying overnight.
The subject property is zoned A-12 Apartment District and B-2 Community
Business District. The existing church building will provide temporary shelter for
the boys while the two new 6,000 square foot shelters and 5,000 square foot
administration building are being constructed. The proposed buildings and parking
area are located within property zoned A-12 Apartment District while the proposed
stormwater management facility will be located within property zoned B-2
Community Business District.
• Considerations:
The Group Home will provide much needed and valuable service to the
community. The scale and design of the proposed buildings are compatible with
surrounding residential and commercial uses. The proposed privacy fence and
landscape buffer along the eastern property line will screen the use from abutting
residentially zoned properties. The proposed 35 parking spaces exceed the need
for this use with 12 employees and limited visitors.
The property falls within the 65-70 dB DNL and Sub-Area 3 of the Air Installations
Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ). As a matter of right, on the portion of the property
zoned A-12 Apartment District, up to 34 multi-family dwelling units could be
constructed. The Joint City-Navy Review Process Group (JRP) met on March 17,
2021 , to review the request and found the proposal for a Group Home with up to
24 beds to be an acceptable density for this property.
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In Staff's view, and the Planning Commission concurs, the Group Home will not
change the character of the neighborhood and will not adversely affect the
surrounding properties. Further details pertaining to the application, as well as
Staff's evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff Report.
The applicant provided letters to the adjacent property owners informing them their
project proposal. At the Planning Commission public hearing, one of the adjacent
property owners spoke in opposition, noting concern with introducing troubled
youth into their neighborhood.
• Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021, the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend
approval of this request by a vote of 8 to 0.
1 . When the site is redeveloped, it shall be in substantial conformance within the
submitted conceptual site layout exhibit entitled, "Conceptual Site Layout Plan
of Seton House", prepared by Orbis Landscape Architecture, dated April 7,
2021 , which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file
in the Department of Planning & Community Development.
2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior of the proposed buildings shall
substantially adhere in appearance, size and materials to the submitted
elevations entitled "Seton House Addition", prepared by DA, dated April 21,
2021, which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file
in the Department of Planning & Community Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development
Services Center Landscape Architect prior to the final site plan approval.
Plantings along the property line adjacent to residentially zoned properties shall
be allowed to grow and shall be maintained at a height of no less than eight (8)
feet.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the
Department of Planning & Community Development/Permits and Inspections
Division. The applicant shall secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the Building
Official prior to the occupancy of the Group Home.
5. The number of beds utilizes for the Group Home shall not exceed twenty-four
(24) and the number of children shall not exceed twenty (20).
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• Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department 0
City Manager: ,-)
Applicant SH Campus, LLC Agenda Item
Property Owner St. Luke's United Methodist Church
Planning Commission Public Hearing May 12, 2021 7
c.,(4 City Council Election District Rose Hall
Virginia Beach
Request
Conditional Use Permit (Group Home)
Staff Recommendation ' '
Approval
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Agenda Item 7
Page 1
Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home for up to 20 children on a 3.91-acre parcel
along Holland Road that is zoned both A-12 Apartment and B-2 Community Business Districts.
• The Group Home (Seton House) is a non-profit organization that currently operates out of three rented properties in
the Kings Grant neighborhood of Virginia Beach. For 36 years Seton House has provided mentoring, counseling,
education programs, and a safe and secure home for youth between the ages of 9 to 18 years old that are homeless,
runaway, trafficked, disconnected, and at-risk. The applicant proposes to relocate to this site and construct a
centralized campus location for the boy and girl shelters and administrative office.
• The Group Home will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There will be 10 to 12 staff members rotating during
normal business hours and two to four staff members will be on-site overnight.
• The proposed Group Home buildings and associated parking lot will be located on property zoned A-12 Apartment.
No residential component of the project is proposed, nor permitted, on the portion of the property zoned B-2
Community Business District.
• The site is currently developed with a church. The existing building will be demolished in order to construct three
new buildings -two 6,000 square foot residential buildings for up to 20 at-risk children and one 5,000 square foot
building for administrative use. Each residential building contains six rooms, each with two beds.
• The submitted elevations depict two,two-story residential buildings with a brick water table, vinyl siding and
windows, and an asphalt shingle roof.The proposed single-story administration building will be constructed of
similar materials and appearance as the residential buildings.
• The conceptual site layout depicts the required Category IV landscape buffer with a six-foot tall privacy fence along
the eastern property line that abuts residentially zoned properties. A four-foot tall aluminum fence is proposed
along the property street frontage,which meets the setback requirements for fencing.
• The property falls within the 65-70 dB DNL and Sub-Area 3 of the Air Installations Compatible Use Zones (AICUZ). As
a matter of right, on the portion of the property zoned A-12 Apartment District up to 34 multi-family dwelling units
could be constructed.
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Agenda Item 7
Page 2
Zoning History
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�1' �/�� 'V, '\�' CUP(Religious Use)Approved 11/23/2004
op yoi Q �i � �� /:a, •-.,,A. �};tif-1� •1N CUP(Religious Use)Approved 11/27/2001
'w,+r'gi 1. t : CUP(Religious Use)Approved 10/10/2000
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L ,E $� CUP(Religious Use)Approved 11/22/1994
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4 CUP(Vehicle Rental)Approved 09/18/2012
5 s w `� _I\ Y CUP(Vehicle Rental)Approved 09/18/2012
a _ 5 MOD(Auto Repairs&Services)Approved 02/28/1995
6 LUP(Oak Springs)Approved 1984
Application Types
CUP—Conditional Use Permit MOD—Modification of Conditions or Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance STR—Short Term Rental
CRZ—ConditionalRezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance
Evaluation & Recommendation
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Group Home, in Staff's opinion, is acceptable.The Group Home(Seton
House)will provide care and service to children that are in great need and has been operating in the Kings Grant
neighborhood for the past 36 years without incident or complaint from the neighbors. With the current lease of the
boy's shelter set to expires by the end of August of this year,there is an urgent need to get this new location up and
operational.The applicant's intent to renovate the existing church building to provide temporary shelter for the boys
while the new shelters and administration building are being constructed. Once construction is completed,this site will
serve as a centralized campus for the Seton House's operation to provide care and service for up to 20 children. During
the weekdays,the children will be attending schools and visitation hours are limited to daylight time throughout the
week.
The scale and design of the proposed buildings are compatible with surrounding residential and commercial uses.The
proposed privacy fence and landscape buffer along the eastern property line will delineate the outdoor passive
recreational area for the residents and add additional plantings and fencing between the properties. In Staffs view,this
use will not change the character of the neighborhood and will not adversely affect the surrounding properties.
While the City Zoning Ordinance does not specify a minimum number of parking spaces for a Group Home, in Staff's
opinion,the proposed 35 parking spaces exceed the parking need for this use with 12 employees and limited visitors.
According to Traffic Engineering Staff,there is no trip generation data available for a Group Home; however,the
anticipated traffic volume for a Group Home is less traffic than a typical A-12 residential land use and B-2 business land
use.The Joint City-Navy Review Process Group(JRP) met on March 17, 2021,to review the request and found the
proposal for a Group Home with up to 24 beds to be an acceptable density for this property.
Based on these considerations stated above,Staff recommends approval of the request subject to the conditions listed
below.
SH Campus, LLC
Agenda Item 7
Page 3
Recommended Conditions
1. When the site is redeveloped, it shall be in substantial conformance within the submitted conceptual site layout
exhibit entitled, "Conceptual Site Layout Plan of Seton House", prepared by Orbis Landscape Architecture, dated
April 7, 2021,which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of
Planning&Community Development.
2. When the site is redeveloped,the exterior of the proposed buildings shall substantially adhere in appearance, size
and materials to the submitted elevations entitled"Seton House Addition", prepared by DA,dated April 21,2021,
which has been exhibited to the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning&
Community Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development Services Center Landscape Architect prior to
the final site plan approval. Plantings along the property line adjacent to residentially zoned properties shall be
allowed to grow and shall be maintained at a height of no less than eight(8)feet.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the Department of Planning&Community
Development/Permits and Inspections Division.The applicant shall secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the
Building Official prior to the occupancy of the Group Home.
5. The number of beds utilizes for the Group Home shall not exceed twenty-four(24)and the number of children shall
not exceed twenty(20).
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan recognizes this property as being within the"Suburban Area."Guiding principles have been
established in the Comprehensive Plan to guard again possible threats to the stability of the Suburban Area and to
provide a framework for neighbors and places that are increasingly vibrant and distinctive.The Plan's primary guiding
principle for the Suburban Area is to create"Great Neighborhoods," and to support those neighborhoods with
complementary non-residential uses in such a way that working together the stability and sustainability of the Suburban
Area is ensured for now and the future.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and there are no known significant cultural resources associated
with this site.
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Agenda Item 7
Page 4
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Holland Road 32,700 ADT1 32,990 ADT 1(LOS°"D") Existing Land Use 2—43 ADT on Weekday
Existing Land Use 2—171 ADT on Weekend
Existing Zoning 2—285 ADT
Stoneshore Road No Data Available 9,900 ADT 1(LOS""D") Proposed Land Use 3—No Data Available
,Average Daily Trips 2as defined by a 6,200 square 3 No information available in the °LOS=Level of Service
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Master Transportation Plan (MTP) and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Holland Road, in the vicinity of this application, is considered a four-lane divided minor urban arterial. This existing
infrastructure currently resides in a variable width right-of-way. The MTP proposes a six-lane facility within a 165 foot
right-of-way. There are currently no roadway CIP projects slated for this segment of the roadway.
Stoneshore Road, in the vicinity of this site, is a two lane divided local street and there are currently no CIP projects
scheduled for segment of Stoneshore Road.
Public Utility Impacts
Water & Sewer
The subject site is connected to City water and sanitary sewer services.
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance,the public notice sign(s)was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, April 25, 2021 and
May 2, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting, was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021.
SH Campus, LLC
Agenda Item 7
Page 5
• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/BookmarkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11,2021.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement Mr3
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The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name SH Campus LLC
Does the applicant have a representative? I Yes ❑ No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Lawis S.Holland and Julie Griffin
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?0 Yes E No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below, (Attach a list if necessary)
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity"relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
'"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Page 12
Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?❑Yes III No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
Sharon Prescott with Beach South Realty
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?C'! Yes • No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?I Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Dills Architects 1432 N.Great Neck Road;Suite 204;Virginia Beach,VA 23454
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?Ili Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
SHCampus,LLC is the pending purchaser.Settlement Attorney is Temple Law Group 291 Independence Blvd;Virginia Beach 23462
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement \33
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Planning&Community
Development
6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?❑Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property?in Yes D No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
DKT Associates Land Surveyors 1100 Granby Street;Suite 100;Norfolk,VA 23510
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?❑Yes U No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Applicant Signature /
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Print Name and Title
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Date --Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? ❑Yes III No
• It yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
No changes as of Date 06.03.2021 Signature
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Disclosure Statement
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Owner Disclosure
Owner Name St Luke's United Methodist Church
Applicant Name SH Campus LLC
Is the Owner a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?®Yes ❑ No
• if yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
Thomas Rogers,Trustee Merlin Hadenfeldt,Trustee
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the Owner. (Attach a
list if necessary)
None
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?❑Yes I No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
'"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
'"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
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Owner Services Disclosure
1. Does the Owner have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering any
financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the Owner have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
®Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
Keller Williams Town Center,Bob Williams
3. Does the Owner have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes ® No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the Owner have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes I No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?®Yes 0 No
• If yes,identity the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
SH Campus LLC
6. Does the Owner have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?❑Yes I No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7. Does the Owner have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating
or to be operated on the property?0 Yes I No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
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Disclosure Statement
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operated on the property?r*Yes 0 No
If yes,iderrtify the firm and indivlduai providing legal the service.
Virginia Beach Law Group,David Johnsun
Owner Si&natltre
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPt,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/ Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
SH Campus, LLC
Agenda Item 7
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Item # 7
SH Campus, LLC [Applicant] St. Luke's United Methodist Church [Property Owner]
Conditional Use Permit (Group Home)
3396 Stoneshore Road
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL - HEARD
Madam Clerk: Our next item is agenda item seven SH Campus LLC. An application for a
Conditional Use Permit group home on property located at 3396 Stoneshore Drive
in the Rose Hall District. Would the applicant or the applicant's representative,
please step to the podium.
Mr. Weiner: Good afternoon. Please state your name for the record.
Ms. Sieracki: Good afternoon, members of the Commission, I am Jennifer Sieracki, Executive
Director of Seton Youth Shelters in Virginia Beach.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Just tell us a little bit about what you're doing?
Ms. Sieracki: We are very excited to have the opportunity for the first time in our 38 year history
to bring together our boys and girls house, our mentoring and our outreach
programs together on one centralized campus. We know that this will enable us to
better serve the families in the Virginia Beach community and beyond. And at this
point, we've served and saved just a little over 350,000 lives. The majority of our
boys and girls do come to us from the City of Virginia Beach. And this opportunity,
of course, allows us to serve those families. It also enables us to, as an
organization provide a better workplace for the wonderful people who are
committed to the work that we do on behalf of youth in our community. And we
also are looking forward with this piece of property to be able to do some green
space restoration for both educational and aesthetic purposes in Virginia Beach.
Mr. Weiner: Any questions?
Ms. Sieracki: Yes, ma'am. Sorry, too tall, I need to.
Mr. Klein: No, that's okay. Um, I don't think you guys were here this morning. Could you
please provide a brief overview of the kids, of the population that you serve?
Ms. Sieracki: Certainly, so the children that we serve come from all families and backgrounds.
They come to us because they may be having problems with their family
relationships, arguing with mom and dad. We are at this point in our history, almost
38 years. We're microcosm of the community At-Large; we're seeing more children
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who are in homeless situations, many of those short-term homeless but homeless
nonetheless. Unfortunately again, as a reflection of the community, we are seeing
some traffic children. This is a wide pervasive, widespread pervasive problem in
Hampton Roads and beyond. And those are the children that we do serve through
our boys house and girls house and then also our mentoring and our outreach
programs. Average length of stay in the shelter situation is typically three weeks
average age, our kids range in our boys and girls house from 9 through 17, if that
helps give a little bit better picture of who we are.
Ms. Weiner: Thank you. Any other questions?Any questions?
Mr. Wall: I see you said three weeks, that's the average stay.
Ms. Sieracki: Yes, sir.
Mr. Wall: Okay. It's not very long, it's...
Ms. Sieracki: We're considered an emergency setting for a child who needs a safe haven, a place
to, to go.When you talked about the children we serve, also, if I can say, we serve
youth who are in need of shelter and our support services, we're not in anyway,
detention setting or setting for a child or youth who may have substance abuse
issues, those children need more of a clinical or more supportive setting in those
areas. We're not a therapeutic type setting. Yes sir.
Mr. Wall: So can you describe the like how it's going to be constructed?
Ms. Sieracki:Yes. So the project as its planned out now is going to be constructed in three phases.
Phase one will be our, our boys house, some folks in the community may have
heard about the end of our, our 38 year lease at our boys house due to some
priority changes with our landlord and wishes to use that property for their own
programming. So that is our top priority is to construct our boys house, followed by
the girls house. And finally, phase three will be the administration community
education building.
Mr. Wall: Which one's the boys houses'?
Ms. Sieracki: So in looking at the layout that we have in front of us on this property, the boys
house would be that building closest to the Southwest corner, followed by the girls
house, kind of in the center, and then admin on the kind of the North, the North
building at the layout drawing I'm looking at in front of me.
Mr. Wall: Okay, so the church building is going to stay until?
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Ms. Sieracki: The church building fortunately, we've determined can be used short term for our
boys. We'll have to do some renovations as it is a bit dilapidated.
Mr. Wall: Okay, all right. Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: So, are y'all are moving from St. Nicholas and St. Aidans, is that where y'all are
now?
Ms. Sieracki: Yes, sir. For 38-year history, we've had to shuttle between three buildings for
administration and mentoring and then shelters and outreach. So we will be leaving
a St. Nicholas location first. We do anticipate that it'll be several years. you know,
unless a miracle occurs. And you know, a huge donation comes in probably as it
will be in phases, probably a couple of years, two three years for the girls house
and then admin.
Mr. Coston: I applaud the work that you do.
Ms. Sieracki: Thank you so much, you know, we are here because of all of you. So thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Mr. Graham.
Mr. Graham: I just have a comment. I grew up on Little Neck Road, right down the street from
there. Never knew you guys were there, until just recently, really had, you know,
it's quiet use. I mean, nobody knows it's there.
Ms. Sieracki: And thank you for bringing that up. Because of the nature of what we do and
confidentiality reasons, we can't really shout from the rooftops about what we do,
but we are very excited about again, being able to bring together our programs to
better serve Virginia Beach and surrounding communities. And as I mentioned
earlier, to also have some wonderful green space to both restore and educate the
children that we serve.
Mr. Graham: Yeah, that's great.
Mr. Weiner: Dave any question, any other questions, okay Dave?
Mr. Redmond: No, I just want to miracle already came and that is namely that you all are doing
what you do. I was tearing up listening to you describe your mission. I've been
familiar with it in the past anyway; you provide just an extraordinary service to
some of the most vulnerable people in our community and not enough to do it. The
world just doesn't have enough really good people doing these kinds of things. And
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I genuinely appreciate what you're doing and the fact that you want to expand it
and do it in a better way, I can't tell you how good that it is.
Ms. Sieracki: Now, you are making me tear up, thank you so much for that, we are quiet. We're
one of the more quiet nonprofits but again; appreciate the chance to be considered
and we are hopeful. Thank you so much.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Thank you. Any speakers?
Madam Clerk: Yes, sir. We have two, the first one being Julie Griffin, to be followed by James
Seeger.
Ms. Griffin: I am in here representing both Seton House as well as the purchaser of the
property.
Mr. Weiner: State your name for the record.
Ms. Griffin: Julie Griffin.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Ms. Griffin: So obviously, we're in support of it. The owners of Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group,
which is a great, you know, local company, I'm sure you guys know, Brian Holland,
are the main backers in this project and are in great support and hope that we can
also have your support.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Mr. Griffin: Thank you.
Madam Clerk: James Seeger.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome sir, please state your name for the record.
Mr. Seeger: Thank you. My name is James Seeger, I happen to be a resident of that area. I
feel at a disadvantage, because what I just heard, however, if you guys would be
kind enough to bring up that picture that church. That church sits on the corner of
Holland Rolling Stone Shore Road, I happen to own a house there. That area is
very crowded and very busy and lots of traffic, so I feel like if you put a home there
with these youth, you're gonna have a problem with traffic and some of the kids
dealing with the traffic down Holland Road. My own child has had plenty accidents
done is just dangerous area. Second of all, in that area, it's already saturated with
youth that, you know, they get together and they do mischievous thing, we have
Green Lakes in that area and we also have Magic Hollow not far away from there.
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So now you're talking about bringing in a bunch of other children and the police in
that area and the problems in that area, if you check the police reports, you'll find
that that's a very problematic area. So my concern is that if we bring in more than
I've spent the last 25 years trying to pay for my house in that area, then the value
of that house is going to go, so that's basically my concern I hope you guys take
that into consideration.
Mr. Weiner: Okay sir. Any questions? Thank you. Ma'am, would you come back up for a
rebuttal?
Ms. Sieracki: I certainly do understand the gentleman's concerns. I do just want to clarify a little
bit about how our children stay with us. We have a maximum occupancy in our
shelters of 10 boys and 10 girls, those children are in Virginia Beach City Public
Schools during the day through our long standing relationship with them are
unsupervised at no time. And also our new location will be completely fenced in
for the children's protection. I mean, our children are never outside or in any
situation where they're unsupervised by our professional case management and
counseling staff. And I certainly do understand and appreciate his concerns and
appreciate the fact that he's thinking about the children's safety. But again, this will
be an enclosed area. These children are always supervised. We have never had
an incident of any kind in our 38-year history, because of our incredible staff and
their dedication to the care of these children. I hope that clarifies a little bit. Thank
you so much.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. No more speakers?
Madam Clerk: No more speakers.
Mr. Weiner: I will close it and open up for discussion. Jack.
Mr. Wall: I mean, I really appreciate Mr. Seeger's comments, you know, I think he's probably
been there for a long time, knows the area, you know, the traffic, the density,
maybe some existing problems out there, you know, with some mischievous youth
and. you know. I certainly appreciate his insight into the wanting to and maintaining
value of the properties, you know, in the area. But I think that we've heard quite a
bit, you know, that it's very, very low key, not very dense. the individuals that are
there, but are not there very long. And, you know, we just heard that they're
supervised for the most part the entire time that they're there. So I hope that
alleviates some of Mr. Seeger's, your concerns and yeah, I am going to be in
support of it.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Mr. Redmond?
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Mr. Redmond: Just real fast I want to say, I'm really impressed by the notion that you want to
involve some of this green space that you'll have at your disposal and get these
kids outside some and give them some, you know, some education and some
interest in some things. You know, the children spent too much time enclosed by
four walls. And I think that's, I think that's going to be a real benefit to them, I think
is a real credit to this project. So I can't wait to support it.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: I agree with Mr. Redmond. I've had the pleasure of inspecting both of those, the
former facilities. And I've never seen or heard any problems there. I don't even
think the kids get out to play much really. I mean, they don't have much time
outdoors into two present locations and that's a great advantage to where they're
moving to. I'd like to tell Mr. Seeger that your family will be really safe here from
what I've seen of how they run their business.
Mr. Weiner: Anybody else? We have a motion?
Mr. Wall: I make a motion that we approve agenda item number seven.
Mr. Klein: I will second.
Mr. Weiner: Motion by Mr. Wall and second by Ms Klein for approval.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Absolutely.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
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Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond: I am going to say an enthusiastic Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of eight in favor and zero against agenda item number seven has
been recommended for approval.
AYE 8 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond AYE
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. When the site is redeveloped, it shall be in substantial conformance within the submitted
conceptual site layout exhibit entitled, "Conceptual Site Layout Plan of Seton House",
prepared by Orbis Landscape Architecture, dated April 7, 2021. which has been exhibited to
the Virginia Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning & Community
Development.
2. When the site is redeveloped, the exterior of the proposed buildings shall substantially
adhere in appearance, size and materials to the submitted elevations entitled "Seton House
Addition", prepared by DA. dated April 21, 2021, which has been exhibited to the Virginia
Beach City Council and is on file in the Department of Planning & Community Development.
3. A Landscape Plan shall be submitted and approved by the Development Services Center
Landscape Architect prior to the final site plan approval. Plantings along the property line
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adjacent to residentially zoned properties shall be allowed to grow and shall be maintained
at a height of no less than eight (8) feet.
4. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the Department of
Planning & Community Development/Permits and Inspections Division. The applicant shall
secure a Certificate of Occupancy from the Building Official prior to the occupancy of the
Group Home.
5. The number of beds utilizes for the Group Home shall not exceed twenty-four (24) and the
number of children shall not exceed twenty (20).
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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ITEM: DIANA BUHRMANN [Applicant] MICHAEL KORNOELJE [Property Owner]
Conditional Use Permit (Family Day-Care Home) for the property located at
998 Boughton Way (GPIN 1496416400). COUNCIL DISTRICT — ROSE HALL
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
■ Background:
The applicant seeks a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home to care
for up to 12 children within a single-family dwelling in the Magic Hollow
neighborhood. The applicant has 25 years of experience caring for children. The
side and rear yards of the property are enclosed by a six-foot tall privacy fence
where the children will have outdoor activities. The typical hours of operation are
6:15 a.m. through 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
■ Considerations:
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home is
consistent with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the
Suburban Area. The property appears to be organized and well kept, successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. In Staff's view, and the Planning Commission concurs,
Family Day-Care Homes provide a needed and valuable service to the community
and will not be detrimental to any adjacent land uses.
■ Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021 , the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend this
item on the Consent Agenda by a recorded vote of 8-0, to recommend approval of
this request.
1 . Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to the total of twelve (12) children,
other than children living in the home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social
Services for childcare.
4. No more than one (1) person, other than the applicant, shall assist with the
operation of the Family Day-Care Home at any one time.
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5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more
than one (1) square foot in area and mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City
of Virginia Beach. Prior to operation, the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of
Occupancy from the Building Official's Office for use of the house as a Family
Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the
perimeter of the rear yard for the duration of the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation, the Family Day-Care Home,
operating on the property associated with this Conditional Use Permit.
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Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department 0
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Agenda Item 10
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Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home to care for up to 12 children within
a single-family dwelling. The 5,401 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 Planned Unit Development and is located in
the Magic Hollow neighborhood.
• The applicant has 25 years of experience caring for children.
• The designated outdoor play area is located in the backyard enclosed by a six-foot tall privacy fence.
• The typical hours of operation are 6:15 a.m.through 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance LUP—Land Use Plan
CRZ—Conditional Rezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance STR—Short Term Rental
Evaluation & Recommendation
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home, in Staff's opinion, is consistent with the policies
and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the Suburban Area. Staff finds the property to be organized and well
kept, successfully promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of great neighborhoods.
The applicant has requested to provide day-care services for up to 12 children and has over 25 years of experience. A
Family Day-Care Home with four or less children is allowed by-right in residential zoning districts. When the number of
children cared for increases to five or more children, excluding the provider's own children and those who reside in the
home, both state licensure and a Conditional Use Permit are required.
Staff recommends conditions that pick-up and drop-off times be staggered and to allow only one Home Occupation
operating on the property at any one time to alleviate the potential for congestion in the right-of-way.
In Staff's view, Family Day-Care Homes provide a needed and valuable service to the community and will not be
detrimental to any adjacent land uses. Based on these considerations, Staff recommends approval of this request
subject to the conditions listed below.
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
Page 2
Recommended Conditions
1. Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to the total of twelve (12) children, other than children living in the
home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social Services for childcare.
4. No more than one (1) person, other than the applicant, shall assist with the operation of the Family Day-Care Home
at any one time.
5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more than one (1) square foot in area and
mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City of Virginia Beach. Prior to operation,
the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of Occupancy from the Building Official's Office for use of the house as a
Family Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the perimeter of the rear yard for the duration of
the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation,the Family Day-Care Home, operating on the property associated with
this Conditional Use Permit.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards. Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards. All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan identifies this site as being located within the Suburban Area. The general planning principles
for the Suburban Area focus on creating and maintaining great neighborhoods through stability and sustainability;
protecting and enhancing open spaces and places of cultural and historical significance; and creating and maintaining a
transportation system that provides connectivity and mobility. Achieving these goals requires that all land use activities
either maintain or enhance the existing neighborhood through compatibility with surroundings, quality and
attractiveness of site and buildings, improved mobility, environmental responsibility, livability, and effective buffering
with respect to type, size, intensity and relationship to the surrounding uses.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and there are no known significant cultural resources associated
with this site.
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
Page 3
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Boughton Way No Data Available Existing Land Use 2=10 ADT
Proposed Land Use 58 ADT
1 as defined by a single-family 2as defined by a single-family
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Master Transportation Plan (MTP)and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Boughton Way, in the vicinity of this application, is considered a two-lane undivided local street. It is not included in the
MTP and there are no roadway CIP projects planned for this area.
Public Utility Impacts
Water and Sewer
The site is currently connected to both City water and sanitary sewer services.
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• The applicant reported that they met with the surrounding property owners, and no objections were raised.
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance,the public notice sign(s)was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays,April 25, 2021 and
May 2, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26,2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting,was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28, 2021
• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/BookmarkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11,2021.
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosu re
Applicant Name Diana Bu h rmci n(1
Does the applicant have a representative? ❑Yes tikNo
• tf yes,list the name of the representative.
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?❑Yes to
• if yes.-'s;the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
'Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101,
:"Affiliated business entity relationship"means'a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act.Va.
Code 42.23101
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Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
Planning&Community
Develcipment
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beads have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
���y
contingent on the subject public action?0 Yes No
• if yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest'
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,crosstollaterallration,etc)or are they considering
any financing in correction with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes si No
• if yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the appucant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for cL rren!a nd anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑Yes pkNo
• if yes,identify the company and individual providing the service
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes VNo
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to oe operated on the property?0 Yes jEkNo
• if yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?0 Yes No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
Page 8
Disclosure Statement
Disclosure StatementVB
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6. Does the applicant have a Construction contractor In connection wrth the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?0 Yes No
• tf yes,identify the company and individual providing the service
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application c'any business
operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service-
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?0 Yes No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that+he application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA.Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application_
1Yn1141r1r
Signature
Diana Buhrmanto lmily_I y.._1 one�cev ide.[
Print Name any Me
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Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? ❑Yes SjVO
• if yes,you do not need to Ida cut the owner eisclosure statement
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
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Owner Disclosure Michael+ �j
Owner Name Michael kornoele J .
Applicant Name Dianei Buhrmann
Is the Owner a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? Yes 'No
• It yes the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc.below. (Attach a list if necessary)
• if yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity'relationship with the Owner.(Attach a
list if necessary)
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest to the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?L0 Yeso
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relatonship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
°'Affiliated business entity relationship'means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entty,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business enttles. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities.' See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
Page 10
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Owner Services Disclosure
1. Does the Owner have any existing financing)mortgage,deeds of trust,cross•collateralization,etc)or are they considering any
finandng in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑Yes )4No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service
2. Does the Ow •have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑Yes PNo
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the Owner have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes ANo
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service
4. Does the Owner have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑Yes X.No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?0 Yes t
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers
6. Does the Owner have a construction contractor in conrection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?❑Yes X.No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7. Does the Owner have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the applicator or any business operating
or to be operated or the property?0 Yes X.No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
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8. Is the Owner receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating o'to be
operated on the property?❑Yes ✓' o
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing legal the service.
Owner Signature
I certify that all of the nformaton contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
Information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Owner Signature
Mic4ute I Kor-noei a Jr
Print Name and Ude
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Date
Next Steps
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
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• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division,and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
Diana Buhrmann
Agenda Item 10
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The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body.
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name
Su hrn'laflr7
Does the applicant have a representative? 0 Yes a_No
▪ If yes,list the name of the representative
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? 0 Yes IbiNelo
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc below (Attach a list if necessary)
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity`relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
'"Parent subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
`"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2 3101
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Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or ary proposed development
contingent on the subject public action? ❑ Yes /No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑ Yes $.No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑ Yes 74,,No
• tf yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes I(No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes XNO
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property? 0 Yeso
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchasers service providers
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6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property? 0 Yes No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the sennce
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection� with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes j NO
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property? 0 Yes X1 No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
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Print Name and Title
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Date
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? ❑ Yes
• it yes,you do not need to fill out the owner aisciosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
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Owner Name M LC GI d ko r n oe t o J .
Applicant Name i a IICI Bu h rrna nn
Is the Owner a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? ❑ Yes co.
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees, et: below. (Attach a list if necessary)
• if yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity`relationship with the Owner. (Attach a
list If necessary)
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?❑ Yes flo
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2.2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(I)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities:there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Owner Services Disclosure
1. Does the Owner have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering any
financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑ Yes 4No
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service
2. Does the Ow r have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
O Yes No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the Owner have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of the
application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes ANo
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the Owner have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes )No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?❑ Yes
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
6. Does the Owner have a construction contractor in conrection with the subject of the application-or any business operating or
to be operated on the property? 0 Yes No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7. Does the Owner have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the applicator or any business operating
or to be operated on the property?❑Yes ;,No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
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8. Is the Owner receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property? ❑ Yes
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing legal the service.
Owner Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Owner Signature V "
Micive I leornoetde Jr.
Print Name and Title
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Item # 10
Diana Buhrmann [Applicant] Michael Kornoelje Jr. [Property Owner]
Conditional Use Permit (Family Day-Care Home)
998 Boughton Way
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL- CONSENT
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are applications that are
recommended for approval by staff, the Planning Commission concurred. And
there are no speakers signed up in opposition. We have four items on the consent
agenda today. The first item is agenda item number one by which is going to be
presented by city staff.
Mr. Kemp: Good afternoon Chairman, Commission. For the record, my name is Kevin Kemp;
I am the Zoning Administrator here in Virginia Beach. Item one is an ordinance
amendment which modifies the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the sign
regulations, particularly making them content neutral and in line with some current
court decisions that have been made. What this ordinance does is first changes
the regulations for billboards; our current ordinance regulates billboards based on
their content.And what I mean by content is a billboard is an offsite sign advertising
something not on that site. Well to know if you're advertising something on the site
or off the site, you have to read the billboard therefore making it content based. So
what this ordinance does is, it makes all outdoor advertising signs,takes billboards
out, and any sign is permitted on the site as a free standing sign, but that sign is
held to the dimensional standards of what is normally allowed in that Zoning District
for freestanding signs. So billboards are not their own use. The second thing that
this ordinance does is it removes the Zoning Administrators ability to modify non-
conforming signs where in the past if an applicant wished to take non-conforming
sign and alter it to make it better, there was an administrative process through my
office that that could be done. This now puts that process only by City Council
approval. The last thing in the ordinance is in regards to electronic signs and these
would only be permitted in two instances. The first are for major entertainment
venues. These are venues such as The Aquarium that require City Council
approval and therefore City Council would dictate the number of electronic signs
and the size and the second instance is for fuel prices.And these would be allowed
only on properties that dispense fuel and they would be limited to one sign. Are
there any questions?
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Mr. Kemp: Thank you Commission.
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Mr. Wall: Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent agenda? Okay.
The next item on the consent agenda is item number- agenda item number four.
Is there a representative for this item?
Mr. Beaman: Mr. Vice Chair, Members of the Commission for the record, my name is Rob
Beaman. I'm a local land use attorney at the Troutman Pepper Law Firm here today
on behalf of the applicant for agenda item number four, we've had a chance to
read the conditions, they are acceptable and we appreciate being on the consent
agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent
agenda? Hearing none, we've asked Ms. Klein to read this into the record.
Ms. Klein: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a mini warehouse in order
to construct a 25,000 square foot indoor self storage facility on this B4 mixed
district zoned parcel. A portion of the property contains a parking lot and
undeveloped area. The proposed building will be a climate controlled three story
mini warehouse building with the total height of 43 feet and it matches the
surrounding area. The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35 foot front
yard setback which staff approves. Based on the consideration staff recommends
approval of the application subject to the conditions and the Planning Commission
concurs.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number nine. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay, seeing none. Is there any opposition for this
item to be on the consent agenda? Hearing none. We've asked Mr. Redmond to
read this into the record.
Mr. Redmond: Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Wall. This is an application for a Conditional Use
Permit for a family daycare home at 1105 Voss Court. The applicant is requesting
the CUP for a daycare facility of up to 12 children within this single family dwelling.
It's a 7500 square foot parcel and seems to be very well organized and laid out for
this particular use. The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children.
Staff sees no reason why it should be denied. Planning Commission sees no
reason why it should be denied and we therefore place it on consent. Thank you,
Mr. Wall.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number 10. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Wall there is, she had signed, Diana Buhrmann had signed up virtually, but
she is not online. So is Diana Buhrmann here?
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Mr. Wall: Okay. Is there any opposition for this to be on the consent agenda? Okay, hearing
none, we've asked Mr. Graham to read this into the record.
Mr. Graham: Thank you, Mr. Wall. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a
family daycare home to care for up to 12 children within a single family dwelling.
The 5401 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 planned unit development and is
located in the Magic Hollow neighborhood at 998 Boughton Way in the Rose Hall
District. This request for a Conditional Use Permit in staffs opinion is consistent
with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the suburban
area. Staff finds the property to be well organized and well kept; successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. For these reasons, staff recommends approval and Planning
Commission agrees with this recommendation. Therefore we have placed it on the
consent agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you, Mr. Graham. So that ends the regular consent agenda. The Planning
Commission also places the following applications for Conditional Use Permit for
Short-Term Rental on the consent agenda as they meet the applicable
requirements for section 241.2 of the Zoning Ordinance. Staff and the Planning
Commission supports the applications and there are no speakers signed up in
opposition and that includes agenda items number 15, 17 and 20. Those were the
last items on the consent agenda. I move for approval of agenda items 1, 4, 9, 10,
15, 17, and 20. We have a motion. Do we have a second?
Ms. Klein: Second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Wall, second by Ms. Klein.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Weiner: I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's right.
Mr. Redmond: Number one, I am abstaining on agenda item number 8, for the same reason as
before, there's work colleague of mine who is a member of the partnership that
owns this property and so that's just too close for comfort. I also am abstaining on
all of the short-term rental applications. I have a letter on file with the City Attorney's
Office, I have a client who's in the travel industry, and that too, is too close for
comfort. So I do not vote on short-term rental applications or ordinances. Thank
you.
Ms. Wilson: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Weiner: Anybody else?
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Ms. Wilson: You have a letter on file saying that you will abstain from all short-term rental
applications, has that changed?
Mr. Graham: Yes, ma'am that has been withdrawn.
Ms. Wilson: Okay. And you will now vote on those applications?
Mr. Graham: That is correct. I do not have a conflict.
Ms. Wilson: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Ready to vote?
Madam Clerk: Yes, sir. Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond:Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
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Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of eight in favor and zero against agenda items 1, 4, 9, and 10
have been approved. Agenda items 15, 17 and 20 by recorded vote of seven in
favor, zero against with one abstention have been approved by consent.
AYE 8 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond AYE
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to the total of twelve (12) children, other than
children living in the home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social Services for
childcare.
4. No more than one (1) person, other than the applicant, shall assist with the operation of the
Family Day-Care Home at any one time.
5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more than one (1)
square foot in area and mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City of Virginia
Beach. Prior to operation, the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of Occupancy from the
Building Official's Office for use of the house as a Family Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the perimeter of the rear
yard for the duration of the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation, the Family Day-Care Home, operating on the
property associated with this Conditional Use Permit.
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Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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AGENDA ITEM
ITEM: MISTIE WOOD [Applicant& Property Owner] Conditional Use Permit(Family
Day-Care Home) for the property located at 1105 Voss Court (GPIN
2415329877). COUNCIL DISTRICT — PRINCESS ANNE
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
■ Background:
The applicant seeks a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home to care
for up to 12 children within a single-family dwelling in the Dam Neck Estates
neighborhood. The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children. The
side and rear yards of the property are enclosed by a six-foot tall privacy fence
where the children will have outdoor activities. The typical hours of operation are
6:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
• Considerations:
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home is
consistent with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the
Suburban Area. The property appears to be organized and well kept, successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. In Staff's view, and the Planning Commission concurs,
Family Day-Care Homes provide a needed and valuable service to the community
and will not be detrimental to any adjacent land uses. Further details pertaining to
the application, as well as Staff's evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff
Report. Staff received ten letters in support of the request from adjacent property
owners. There is no known opposition to this request.
• Recommendation:
On May 12, 2021 , the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend this
item on the Consent Agenda, passing a motion by a recorded vote of 8-0, to
recommend approval of this request.
1. Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to a total of twelve (12) children,
other than children living in the home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social
Services for childcare.
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4. No more than one (1) person, other than the applicant, shall assist with the
operation of the Family Day-Care Home at any one time.
5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more
than one (1) square foot in area and mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City
of Virginia Beach. Prior to operation, the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of
Occupancy from the Building Official's Office for use of the house as a Family
Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the
perimeter of the rear yard for the duration of the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation, the Family Day-Care Home,
operating on the property associated with this Conditional Use Permit.
■ Attachments:
Staff Report and Disclosure Statements
Location Map
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Letters of Support (10)
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department 0
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City Manager:
Applicant Mistie Wood Property Owners Justin & Mistie Wood
Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing May 12, 2021
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Request
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Background & Summary of Proposal
• The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home to care for up to 12 children within
a single-family dwelling. The 7,521 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 Planned Unit Development and is located in
the Dam Neck Estates neighborhood.
• The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children.
• The designated outdoor play area is located in the side yard enclosed by a six-foot tall privacy fence.
• The typical hours of operation are 6:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Application Types
CUP—Conditional Use Permit MOD—Modification of Conditions or Proffers FVR—Floodplain Variance LUP—Land Use Plan
REZ—Rezoning NON—Nonconforming Use ALT—Alternative Compliance
CRZ—ConditionalRezoning STC—Street Closure SVR—Subdivision Variance STR—Short Term Rental
Evaluation & Recommendation
This request for a Conditional Use Permit for a Family Day-Care Home, in Staff's opinion, is consistent with the policies
and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the Suburban Area. Staff finds the property to be organized and well
kept, successfully promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of great neighborhoods.
The applicant has requested to provide day-care services for up to 12 children and has over 22 years of experience. A
Family Day-Care Home with four or less children is allowed by-right in residential zoning districts. When the number of
children cared for increases to five or more children, excluding the provider's own children and those who reside in the
home, both state licensure and a Conditional Use Permit are required.
Staff recommends conditions that pick-up and drop-off times be staggered and to allow only one Home Occupation
operating on the property at any one time to alleviate the potential for congestion in the right-of-way.
In Staff's view, Family Day-Care Homes provide a needed and valuable service to the community and will not be
detrimental to any adjacent land uses. Based on these considerations, Staff recommends approval of this request
subject to the conditions listed below.
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Agenda Item 9
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Recommended Conditions
1. Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to the total of twelve (12)children, other than children living in the
home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social Services for childcare.
4. No more than one(1) person,other than the applicant,shall assist with the operation of the Family Day-Care Home
at any one time.
5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more than one(1)square foot in area and
mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City of Virginia Beach. Prior to operation,
the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of Occupancy from the Building Official's Office for use of the house as a
Family Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the perimeter of the rear yard for the duration of
the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation,the Family Day-Care Home,operating on the property associated with
this Conditional Use Permit.
Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and Standards.Any site plan
submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to meet all applicable City Codes
and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those administered by the Department of
Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the issuance
of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department for crime
prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design(CPTED)concepts and strategies as they
pertain to this site.
Comprehensive Plan Recommendations
The Comprehensive Plan identifies this site as being located within the Suburban Area.The general planning principles
for the Suburban Area focus on creating and maintaining great neighborhoods through stability and sustainability;
protecting and enhancing open spaces and places of cultural and historical significance;and creating and maintaining a
transportation system that provides connectivity and mobility. Achieving these goals requires that all land use activities
either maintain or enhance the existing neighborhood through compatibility with surroundings, quality and
attractiveness of site and buildings, improved mobility, environmental responsibility, livability,and effective buffering
with respect to type,size, intensity and relationship to the surrounding uses.
Natural & Cultural Resources Impacts
The site is located in the Southern Rivers watershed. Drainage in the Southern Rivers watershed is highly impacted by the
presence of high ground water, poorly draining soils, and high water surface elevations in downstream receiving
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Agenda Item 9
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waters.There does not appear to be any significant natural or cultural resources associated with this site.
Traffic Impacts
Street Name Present Volume Present Capacity Generated Traffic
Voss Court No Data Available Existing Land Use 1-10 ADT
Proposed Land Use 2—58 ADT
1 as defined by a single-family 2 as defined by a single-family
dwelling dwelling with a Family Day-Care
Home
Master Transportation Plan (MTP)and Capital Improvement Program (CIP)
Voss Court, in the vicinity of this application, is considered a two-lane undivided local street. It is not included in the MTP
and there are no roadway CIP projects planned for this area.
Public Utility Impacts
Water and Sewer
The site is currently connected to both City water and sanitary sewer services.
Public Outreach Information
Planning Commission
• The applicant reported that they met with the surrounding property owners, and no objections were raised.Ten
letters of support have been received by Staff.There is no known opposition to the application.
• As required by the Zoning Ordinance,the public notice sign(s)was placed on the property on April 12, 2021.
• As required by State Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays,April 25, 2021 and
May 2,2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding the request and the date of the
Planning Commission public hearing on April 26, 2021.
• This Staff report, as well as all reports for this Planning Commission's meeting,was posted on the Commission's
webpage of www.vbgov.com/pc on May 6, 2021.
City Council
• As required by City Code,this item was advertised in the Virginian-Pilot Beacon on Sundays, May 30, 2021 and
June 6, 2021.
• As required by City Code,the adjacent property owners were notified regarding both the request and the date
of the City Council's public hearing on May 28,2021
• The City Clerk's Office posted the materials associated with the application on the City Council website of
https://www.vbgov.com/government/departments/city-clerk/city-council/Documents/BookmarkedAgenda.pdf
on June 11,2021.
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Disclosure Statement
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The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name
Does the applicant have a representative? ❑Yes 0 No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business?El Yes 0 No
• If yes,list the names of all officers,directors,members,trustees,etc below. (Attach a list if necessary)
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary'or affiliated business entity relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation" See State and local Government Conflict of Interests
Act,VA.Code§2,2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means'a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iiii there is shared management or control between the business entities. factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities." See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Agenda Item 9
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement
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Planning&Community
nity
Development
Known Interest b_y Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action?❑Yes El No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateraluation,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
El Yes PiNo
• If yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the applicant have a reel estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property
❑Yes CO No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes Q No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
S. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property?❑Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers
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Agenda Item 9
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Disclosure Statement
Disclosure Statement NiTi3
Planning&Cotrununity
Development
6. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property?❑Yes el No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7. Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent in connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property?0 Yes 0 No
▪ if yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. !s the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property?0 Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBOA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Applicant Signature
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Print Name and Titfe
Date �t
Is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? ry Yes 0 No
• if yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement
FOR CITY USE ONLY!AD disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
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Agenda Item 9
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Next Steps
• Upon receiving a recommendation from Planning Commission,this request will be scheduled for a City Council
public hearing. Staff will inform the applicant and/or their representative of the date of the hearing in the
upcoming days.
• Following City Council's decision,the applicant will receive a decision letter from Staff.
• Once the conditions of approval are in place and/or completed,the applicant must contact the Zoning Division
of the Planning Department to obtain verification that the conditions have been met. Contact the Zoning
Division at 757-385-8074.
• If the request requires land disturbance and/or a subdivision of property, please contact the Development
Services Center(DSC)to discuss next steps for site plan/plat review. Contact the DSC at 757-385-4621 or the
Development Liaison Team at 757-385-8610.
• Please note that further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards.Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site plan review to
meet all applicable City Codes and Standards.All applicable permits required by the City Code, including those
administered by the Department of Planning/Development Services Center and Department of Planning/
Permits and Inspections Division,and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy,are required before any
approvals allowed by this application are valid.
• The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the Police Department
for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)concepts and
strategies as they pertain to this site.
Mistie Wood
Agenda Item 9
Page 10
Disclosure Statement
x Manning&Community'
„ Development
The disclosures contained in this form are necessary to inform public officials who may vote on the application as to
whether they have a conflict of interest under Virginia law. The completion and submission of this form is required for
all applications that pertain to City real estate matters or to the development and/or use of property in the City of
Virginia Beach requiring action by the City Council or a City board,commission or other body
Applicant Disclosure
Applicant Name
Does the applicant have a representative? 0 Yes IS:1 No
• If yes,list the name of the representative.
Is the applicant a corporation,partnership,firm,business,trust or an unincorporated business? 0 Yes ❑ No
• if yes, list the names of all officers,directors, members,trustees,etc below. (Attach a list if necessary)
• If yes,list the businesses that have a parent-subsidiary` or affiliated business entity relationship with the applicant. (Attach
a list if necessary)
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1"Parent-subsidiary relationship"means"a relationship that exists when one corporation directly or indirectly owns shares
possessing more than 50 percent of the voting power of another corporation " See State and Local Government Conflict of interests
Act,VA,Code§2.2-3101.
"Affiliated business entity relationship"means"a relationship,other than parent-subsidiary relationship,that exists when(i)one
business entity has a controlling ownership interest in the other business entity,(ii)a controlling owner in one entity is also a
controlling owner in the other entity,or(iii)there is shared management or control between the business entities. Factors that
should be considered in determining the existence of an affiliated business entity relationship include that the same person or
substantially the same person own or manage the two entities;there are common or commingled funds or assets;the business
entities share the use of the same offices or employees or otherwise share activities,resources or personnel on a regular basis;or
there is otherwise a close working relationship between the entities,"" See State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act,Va.
Code§2.2-3101.
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Disclosure Statement
Planning&Community
Development
Known Interest by Public Official or Employee
Does an official or employee of the City of Virginia Beach have an interest in the subject land or any proposed development
contingent on the subject public action? ❑ Yes ❑ No
• If yes,what is the name of the official or employee and what is the nature of the interest?
Applicant Services Disclosure
1. Does the applicant have any existing financing(mortgage,deeds of trust,cross-collateralization,etc)or are they considering
any financing in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• if yes,identify the financial institutions providing the service.
2. Does the applicant have a real estate broker/agent/realtor for current and anticipated future sales of the subject property?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
3. Does the applicant have services for accounting and/or preparation of tax returns provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes L No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
4. Does the applicant have services from an architect/landscape architect/land planner provided in connection with the subject of
the application or any business operating or to be operated on the property?❑ Yes Q No
• if yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
5. Is there any other pending or proposed purchaser of the subject property? ❑ Yes No
• If yes,identify the purchaser and purchaser's service providers.
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Disclosure StatementNB
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Planning &r Conununity
Development
b. Does the applicant have a construction contractor in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or
to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes Cl] No
• If yes,identify the company and individual providing the service.
7 Does the applicant have an engineer/surveyor/agent In connection with the subject of the application or any business
operating or to be operated on the property? ❑ Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
8. Is the applicant receiving legal services in connection with the subject of the application or any business operating or to be
operated on the property? 0 Yes 0 No
• If yes,identify the firm and individual providing the service.
Applicant Signature
I certify that all of the information contained in this Disclosure Statement Form is complete,true,and accurate. I understand that,
upon receipt of notification that the application has been scheduled for public hearing,I am responsible for updating the
information provided herein two weeks prior to the meeting of Planning Commission,City Council,VBDA,CBPA,Wetlands Board
or any public body or committee in connection with this application.
Appattt Signature
Print Name and Title
Date
is the applicant also the owner of the subject property? D Yes 0 No
• If yes,you do not need to fill out the owner disclosure statement.
FOR CITY USE ONLY/All disclosures must be updated two(2)weeks prior to any Planning Commission and City Council meeting
that pertains to the applications
No changes as of Date Si nature
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Item #9
Mistie Wood [Applicant & Property Owner]
Conditional Use Permit (Family Day-Care Home)
1105 Voss Court
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL - CONSENT
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are applications that are
recommended for approval by staff, the Planning Commission concurred. And
there are no speakers signed up in opposition. We have four items on the consent
agenda today. The first item is agenda item number one by which is going to be
presented by city staff.
Mr. Kemp: Good afternoon Chairman, Commission. For the record, my name is Kevin Kemp;
I am the Zoning Administrator here in Virginia Beach. Item one is an ordinance
amendment which modifies the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the sign
regulations, particularly making them content neutral and in line with some current
court decisions that have been made. What this ordinance does is first changes
the regulations for billboards; our current ordinance regulates billboards based on
their content.And what I mean by content is a billboard is an offsite sign advertising
something not on that site. Well to know if you're advertising something on the site
or off the site, you have to read the billboard therefore making it content based. So
what this ordinance does is, it makes all outdoor advertising signs,takes billboards
out, and any sign is permitted on the site as a free standing sign, but that sign is
held to the dimensional standards of what is normally allowed in that Zoning District
for freestanding signs. So billboards are not their own use. The second thing that
this ordinance does is it removes the Zoning Administrators ability to modify non-
conforming signs where in the past if an applicant wished to take non-conforming
sign and alter it to make it better, there was an administrative process through my
office that that could be done. This now puts that process only by City Council
approval. The last thing in the ordinance is in regards to electronic signs and these
would only be permitted in two instances. The first are for major entertainment
venues. These are venues such as The Aquarium that require City Council
approval and therefore City Council would dictate the number of electronic signs
and the size and the second instance is for fuel prices.And these would be allowed
only on properties that dispense fuel and they would be limited to one sign. Are
there any questions?
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Mr. Kemp: Thank you Commission.
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Mr. Wall: Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent agenda? Okay.
The next item on the consent agenda is item number - agenda item number four.
Is there a representative for this item?
Mr. Beaman: Mr. Vice Chair, Members of the Commission for the record, my name is Rob
Beaman. I'm a local land use attorney at the Troutman Pepper Law Firm here today
on behalf of the applicant for agenda item number four, we've had a chance to
read the conditions, they are acceptable and we appreciate being on the consent
agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent
agenda? Hearing none, we've asked Ms. Klein to read this into the record.
Ms. Klein: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a mini warehouse in order
to construct a 25,000 square foot indoor self storage facility on this B4 mixed
district zoned parcel. A portion of the property contains a parking lot and
undeveloped area. The proposed building will be a climate controlled three story
mini warehouse building with the total height of 43 feet and it matches the
surrounding area. The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35 foot front
yard setback which staff approves. Based on the consideration staff recommends
approval of the application subject to the conditions and the Planning Commission
concurs.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number nine. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay, seeing none. Is there any opposition for this
item to be on the consent agenda? Hearing none. We've asked Mr. Redmond to
read this into the record.
Mr. Redmond: Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Wall. This is an application for a Conditional Use
Permit for a family daycare home at 1105 Voss Court. The applicant is requesting
the CUP for a daycare facility of up to 12 children within this single family dwelling.
It's a 7500 square foot parcel and seems to be very well organized and laid out for
this particular use. The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children.
Staff sees no reason why it should be denied. Planning Commission sees no
reason why it should be denied and we therefore place it on consent. Thank you,
Mr. Wall.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number 10. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Wall there is, she had signed, Diana Buhrmann had signed up virtually, but
she is not online. So is Diana Buhrmann here?
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Mr. Wall: Okay. Is there any opposition for this to be on the consent agenda? Okay, hearing
none, we've asked Mr. Graham to read this into the record.
Mr. Graham: Thank you, Mr. Wall. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a
family daycare home to care for up to 12 children within a single family dwelling.
The 5401 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 planned unit development and is
located in the Magic Hollow neighborhood at 998 Boughton Way in the Rose Hall
District. This request for a Conditional Use Permit in staffs opinion is consistent
with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the suburban
area. Staff finds the property to be well organized and well kept; successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. For these reasons, staff recommends approval and Planning
Commission agrees with this recommendation. Therefore we have placed it on the
consent agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you, Mr. Graham. So that ends the regular consent agenda. The Planning
Commission also places the following applications for Conditional Use Permit for
Short-Term Rental on the consent agenda as they meet the applicable
requirements for section 241.2 of the Zoning Ordinance. Staff and the Planning
Commission supports the applications and there are no speakers signed up in
opposition and that includes agenda items number 15, 17 and 20. Those were the
last items on the consent agenda. I move for approval of agenda items 1, 4, 9, 10,
15, 17, and 20. We have a motion. Do we have a second?
Ms. Klein: Second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Wall, second by Ms. Klein.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Weiner: I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's right.
Mr. Redmond: Number one, I am abstaining on agenda item number 8, for the same reason as
before, there's work colleague of mine who is a member of the partnership that
owns this property and so that's just too close for comfort. I also am abstaining on
all of the short-term rental applications. I have a letter on file with the City Attorney's
Office, I have a client who's in the travel industry, and that too, is too close for
comfort. So I do not vote on short-term rental applications or ordinances. Thank
you.
Ms. Wilson: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Weiner: Anybody else?
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Ms. Wilson: You have a letter on file saying that you will abstain from all short-term rental
applications, has that changed?
Mr. Graham: Yes, ma'am that has been withdrawn.
Ms. Wilson: Okay. And you will now vote on those applications?
Mr. Graham: That is correct. I do not have a conflict.
Ms. Wilson: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Ready to vote?
Madam Clerk: Yes, sir. Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond:Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
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Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of eight in favor and zero against agenda items 1, 4, 9, and 10
have been approved. Agenda items 15, 17 and 20 by recorded vote of seven in
favor, zero against with one abstention have been approved by consent.
AYE 8 NAY 0 ABS 0 ` ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond AYE
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
CONDITIONS:
1. Arrival and departure times shall be staggered to avoid vehicular congestion.
2. The Family Day-Care Home shall be limited to the total of twelve (12) children, other than
children living in the home.
3. The applicant shall maintain a license with the Virginia Department of Social Services for
childcare.
4. No more than one (1) person, other than the applicant, shall assist with the operation of the
Family Day-Care Home at any one time.
5. Any sign identifying the home occupation shall be non-illuminated, not more than one (1)
square foot in area and mounted flat against the residence.
6. The applicant shall obtain all necessary permits and inspections from the City of Virginia
Beach. Prior to operation, the applicant shall obtain a Certificate of Occupancy from the
Building Official's Office for use of the house as a Family Day-Care Home.
7. The applicant/owner shall maintain a six-foot privacy fence around the perimeter of the rear
yard for the duration of the use.
8. There shall be only one Home Occupation, the Family Day-Care Home, operating on the
property associated with this Conditional Use Permit.
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Further conditions may be required during the administration of applicable City Ordinances and
Standards. Any site plan submitted with this application may require revision during detailed site
plan review to meet all applicable City Codes and Standards. All applicable permits required by
the City Code, including those administered by the Department of Planning/Development
Services Center and Department of Planning/Permits and Inspections Division, and the
issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, are required before any approvals allowed by this
application are valid.
The applicant is encouraged to contact and work with the Crime Prevention Office within the
Police Department for crime prevention techniques and Crime Prevention Through
Environmental Design (CPTED) concepts and strategies as they pertain to this site.
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4/5/2021
To My Neighbor:
I, Mistie Wood, residing at 1105 Voss Court, have submitted a proposal to the City of Virginia Beach
requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for mare than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you,
Mistie Wood
If you are in support of my proposal and my use of a Conditional Use Permit, please sign below and include your
name and address.
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requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State license with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request.You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
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but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent.You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12,notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you,
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I, Mistie Wood, residing at 1105 Voss Court, have submitted a proposal to the City of Virginia Beach
requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
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requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
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I, Mistie Wood, residing at 1105 Voss Court, have submitted a proposal to the City of Virginia Beach
requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you.
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I, Mistie Wood, residing at 1105 Vass Court, have submitted a proposal to the City of Virginia Beach
requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent.You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
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but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you,
Mistie Wood
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requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State License with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you,
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requesting a Conditional Use Permit. The request is to continue to use my residence as a Family Home Daycare
but to increase the number of children allowed in my care. I am applying for a State license with the Department
of Social Services to provide care for up to 12 children and have requested a Conditional Use Permit to use my
residence for more than 4 children and up to 12 children. This letter is to notify you of my request. You may also
receive a certified letter from the city stating my intent. You will also see an orange notice placed in my yard by
April 12, notifying you of my intent. Thank you for your time and I hope to receive your support.
Thank you,
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ITEM: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 210.2, 212, 215, 216, AND 217 OF
THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
The purpose of this Ordinance is to modify the City Zoning Ordinance to make the
sign regulations content neutral and consistent with recent court decisions. In
summary, the content of the sign cannot be used to regulate the signage permitted
on a piece of property. This proposed ordinance will make three modifications.
First, the current ordinance prohibits outdoor advertising signs (billboards) due to
their content. This ordinance now allows any signage (regardless of on or off-
premise content), provided they meet the dimensional requirements for a
freestanding sing in the zoning district in which the property is located. Secondly,
the ordinance removes the Zoning Administrator's ability to approve alterations to
nonconforming signs so long as the nonconformity is reduced. This will now only
be authorized by City Council. Lastly, this ordinance limits electronic signs to two
specific situations: the first situation is at Major Entertainment Venues requiring a
Conditional Use Permit, and second situation is at establishments where fuel is
dispensed.
• Considerations:
This ordinance will make the Zoning Ordinance consistent with recent court
decisions regarding making sign regulations content neutral. Further details
pertaining to the ordinance, as well as Staff's evaluation, are provided in the
attached Staff Report. There is no known opposition to this request.
Recommendations:
The Planning Commission placed this item on the Consent Agenda, passing a
motion by a recorded vote of 8-0, to recommend approval of this request.
• Attachments:
Staff Report
Ordinance
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
City of Virginia Beach — Sign Regulations
Page 2 of 2
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval. ��
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department '���
City Manager:
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 210.2,
2 212, 215, 216, AND 217 OF THE CITY ZONING
3 ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO SIGNS AND
4 BILLBOARDS
5
6 Sections Amended: City Zoning Ordinance
7 Sections
8
9 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
10 practice so require;
11
12 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA
13 BEACH, VIRGINIA:
14
15 That Sections 210.2, 212, 215, 216, and 217 of the City Zoning Ordinance are
16 hereby amended and reordained to read as follows:
17
18 Sec. 210. Purpose and intent; findings.
19
20 (a) Purpose and intent. The purpose and intent of this part B of Article 2 is to regulate
21 the size, number, color, illumination, movement, materials, location, height, condition
22 and other physical characteristics, but not the content, of signs, thus promoting the
23 protection of property values, the character of the various neighborhoods within the
24 city, the creation ana maintenance of a convenient, attractive and harmonious
25 community and the safety and welfare of pedestrians and wheeled traffic, in a manner
26 consistent with the constitutional guarantee of free speech. These regulations
27 attempt to achieve the proper balance among the commercial needs of businesses,
28 the needs of residents and visitors to be able to locate a business and find a desired
29 product, the rights of persons to exercise their First Amendment rights and the need
30 to create and preserve a visual environment that is conducive to the public health,
31 safety and welfare.
32
33 (b) Findings. The city council finds that:
34
35 (1) Signs have a strong visual impact on the character and quality of a community.
36 They are an integral part of the cityscape and, as such, can enhance or detract
37 from the city's image and character. As a prominent part of the cityscape, they
38 can attract or repel the viewer, affect the safety of pedestrian and vehicular
39 traffic. Their suitability or appropriateness helps to define the way in which a
40 community is perceived;
41 (2) The appearance of a community is an important factor in its economic well-
42 being, as aesthetic considerations influence economic value. Communities in
43 which signage is orderly and attractive and adequately serves the needs of
44 businesses are generally perceived as orderly and attractive;
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45 (3) The primary function of a commercial sign is to provide identification for a
46 business. By helping consumers recognize that they have arrived at their
47 intended destination or by triggering an impulse to make a purchase, signs help
48 facilitate consumer transactions that allow businesses to be successful.
49 Successful businesses make for vital local economies and a stable tax base;
50 and
51 (4) As the United States Supreme Court has noted, signs "take up space and may
52 obstruct views, distract motorists, displace alternative uses for land, and pose
53 other problems that legitimately call for regulation." It is therefore important that
54 the city regulate signage in a manner that minimizes the adverse impacts of
55 signage while at the same time allowing signs to perform their primary functions.
56
57 Sec. 210.01. General regulations.
58
59 (a) The regulations set forth in this part shall apply to signs in all zoning districts,
60 including zoning districts listed in section 102(a)(13).
61
62 (b) Any permitted sign may display any lawful noncommercial message in lieu of any
63 other message; provided, however, that any such sign shall conform to all applicable
64 requirements pertaining to such sign, including, but not limited to, size, height,
65 duration, location, movement, materials and illumination.
66
67 (c) For purposes of determining the number of signs on a lot or zoning lot, one (1) sign
68 shall be considered to be a display or device containing elements organized, related,
69 and composed to form a single unit. Double-faced signs shall be considered a single
70 sign, provided that the faces are parallel or are not separated by an angle greater
71 than fifteen (15) degrees and are part of the same structure.
72
73 (d) The area of a sign shall be deemed to include the entire surface area within a
74 parallelogram, triangle, circle, semicircle or other regular geometric figure, including
75 all of the elements of the matter displayed, and other information, including
76 changeable copy and graphic displays, but not including blank masking, frames or
77 structural elements outside the sign surface and bearing no advertising matter or
78 other message. The area of each face of a double-faced sign shall be included in
79 determining the area of such sign.
80
81 (e) Except for marquee signs on buildings occupied by theaters, cinemas, performing
82 arts facilities or similar venues, or as may be allowed by section 218 (major
83 entertainment venues), no sign shall consist of or contain more than two (2) faces.
84
85 (f) Where the regulations of a zoning district prescribe signage allowances or permitted
86 sign types within the district, such signage shall be deemed to be in addition to
87 signage allowed by the provisions of section 211 and signage allowed on public
88 property by applicable provisions of Chapter 3 or Chapter 33.
89
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90 (g) Where an individual establishment not on a separate lot directly adjoining a street is
91 located in a shopping center within a district in which sign area allowances are
92 determined by the linear distance of street frontage or lot line adjoining a street but
93 not constituting frontage, the sign area allowances of such establishment shall be
94 calculated on the basis of its occupancy frontage, which shall be treated for such
95 purposes as if it were street frontage.
96
97 Sec. 210.1. Sign permits.
98
99 Except as otherwise provided, no sign shall be erected, constructed, replaced,
100 repaired, repainted or otherwise displayed, unless a permit authorizing the same has
101 been issued by the zoning administrator. Fees for such permits shall be as set forth in
102 section 8-31 of the City Code. Applications for sign permits shall be made to the zoning
103 administrator, who may require such plans, diagrams and other information as may be
104 necessary to determine whether a proposed sign complies with the provisions of this
105 ordinance, the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code and any other applicable
106 ordinance or regulation.
107
108 The zoning administrator shall approve or deny an application within thirty (30)
109 days of its submittal; provided, however, that if the application or accompanying
110 information is insufficient to allow a determination of compliance, he shall notify the
111 applicant and shall, in such case, approve or deny an application within thirty (30) days
112 of the date of submittal of all required information. Any application meeting the
113 requirements of this ordinance and other applicable provisions shall be approved, and
114 any application not meeting all applicable requirements shall be denied with a statement
115 of reasons for such denial.
116
117 Sec. 210.2. Definitions.
118
119 The following definitions shall apply to all regulations pertaining to signs in this
120 ordinance, including regulations governing signs in zoning districts listed in section
121 102(a)(13):
122
123 Awning sign. A sign painted, sewn or otherwise affixed to the surface of an awning.
124 For purposes of this definition, an awning is a sheet of canvas or other material stretched
125 on a frame affixed to and projecting from a building or structure and used to keep the sun
126 or rain off of a storefront, window, doorway or deck.
127
128 Banner sign. A sign consisting of cloth displaying a message.
129
130 , ' supporting sign structure, that advcrtiscs or directs
131 the attention of the general public to an establishment, business, product or service that
132 is located on a separate site from the billboard, but not including roadside guide signs,
133
134
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135 Building crown sign. A wall sign mounted at least three-fourths (3/4) of the distance
136 from ground level to the top of a building no less than thirty-two (32) feet in height.
137
138 Building frontage means the exterior length of that portion of a building occupied
139 exclusively by a single establishment.
140
141 Cabinet sign or box sign. A sign that has one or more plastic, acrylic, or similar
142 material panels that may or may not be internally illuminated. The sign panels may be
143 either flat or shaped (pan face) and are attached to a metal frame (cabinet).
144
145 Canopy sign. A sign permanently affixed to a building canopy. For purposes of this
146 definition, a canopy is a rigid structure projecting from a building or structure and used to
147 keep the sun or rain off of a storefront, window, doorway or deck.
148
149 Changeable copy. Informational content, such as removable lettering, that can be
150 readily altered by manual means. Changeable copy does not include electronic displays.
151
152 Channel lettering. A component of a sign consisting of letters and symbols
153 constructed and assembled as individual pieces, whether such pieces are individually
154 mounted or grouped together.
155
156 Electronic displays. A component of a sign containing light emitting diodes (LEDs),
157 fiber optics, light bulbs, plasma display screens or other illumination devices, or a series
158 of vertical or horizontal slats or cylinders that are capable of being rotated at intervals,
159 that are used to change the messages, intensity of light or colors displayed by such sign.
160 The term shall not include signs on which lights or other illumination devices display only
161 the temperature or time of day in alternating cycles of not less than five (5) seconds.
162
163 Freestanding sign. A sign supported by structures or supports that are independent
164 of any building or other structure.
165
166 Hanging sign. A sign that hangs from a soffit or other architectural feature of a
167 building or permanent structure or from a bracket affixed to a building wall.
168
169 Information board sign. A sign mounted within a display cabinet located in close
170 proximity to the entrance to a building.
171
172 Major tenant. A single establishment that occupies the space in a building with a
173 building wall height of at least thirty-five (35) feet and with at least one (1) continuous wall
174 containing at least eighty (80) feet of building frontage.
175
176 Marquee sign. Any sign attached to or hung from a marquee. For the purpose of this
177 article, a marquee is a covered structure projecting from and supported by the building
178 with independent roof and drainage provisions and which is erected over a doorway or
179 doorways.
180
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181 Monument sign. A freestanding sign supported primarily by internal structural
182 framework or integrated into landscaping or other solid structural features other than
183 support poles, the base of which is at least seventy-five (75) percent of the total width of
184 the sign. Monument signs have the following additional characteristics:
185
186 (a) The width of the base does not exceed twice the height of the total sign structure
187 and does not extend more than one (1) foot beyond either outside edge of the
188 face of the sign;
189 (b) The height of the base is between eighteen (18) inches and four (4) feet; and
190 (c) The maximum height of the sign, as measured from ground level, does not
191 exceed eight (8) feet.
192
193 Neon sign. An illuminated sign containing a glass tube or tubes filled with neon, other
194 noble gases or phosphors, bent to form letters, symbols or other shapes.
195
196 Outdoor Advertising Sign. A sign and siqn structure existing prior to February 9,
197 1987 providing displays or display space for general advertising. Such signs, commonly
198 referred to as "billboards," are generally designed so that the copy or poster on the sign
199 can be changed frequently and the advertising space is for lease.
200
201 Occupancy frontage. The exterior length of that portion of a building occupied by a
202 retail, office or other nonresidential use having at least one (1) exterior public entrance.
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204 Projecting or blade sign. A sign that projects from and is supported by a wall or
205 parapet of a building with the display surface of the sign in a plane perpendicular to the
206 wall surface to which it is affixed.
207
208 Sandwich board or A-frame sign. A two-sided portable sign, hinged or attached at
209 the top of the sign panels.
210
211 Sign. Any structure, display, device or other object or thing, visible from any public
212 street or right-of-way, any area open to use by the general public, or any navigable body
213 of water, including, but not limited to, any word, letter, series of words or letters, painting,
214 mural, logo, insignia, emblem, service mark or other graphic or pictorial representation,
215 that: (i) identifies or advertises, or directs or attracts attention to, any product,
216 merchandise, service, business or establishment, (ii) suggests the identity or nature of
217 any business or establishment, (iii) invites or proposes a commercial transaction, or (iv)
218 communicates a message of a noncommercial nature. The term does not include
219 architectural elements incorporated into the style or function of a building, numerals
220 signifying a property address, dates of erection, monumental citations, commemorative
221 tablets and the like when carved into stone, concrete or similar material or made of
222 bronze, aluminum or other permanent type construction and made an integral part of the
223 structure.
224
225 Table umbrella sign. A sign that is part of the fabric, or affixed to the pole, of a table
226 umbrella.
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227
228 Temporary sign. A sign constructed of cloth, canvas, vinyl, paper, plywood, fabric, or
229 other lightweight material designed to be displayed and removed within a limited period
230 of time and neither permanently installed in the ground nor permanently affixed to a
231 building or structure permanently installed in the ground.
232
233 Traffic direction sign. A sign, whether temporary or permanent, oriented primarily so
234 as to be visible to vehicles entering the premises on which such sign is located.
235
236 Wall sign. A sign attached to or painted on the wall of a building or structure in a
237 plane parallel or approximately parallel to the plane of said wall.
238
239 Window sign. A sign posted, painted, placed, or affixed in or on a window exposed
240 to public view. An interior sign that faces a window exposed to public view and that is
241 located within three (3) feet of the window shall be considered a window sign.
242
243 Sec. 211. Signs permitted in all districts.
244
245 The following types of signs are exempted from all of the provisions of this
246 ordinance, except for illumination, construction, and safety regulations and the following
247 standards:
248
249 (a) Reserved.
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251 (b) Temporary signs.
252
253 (1) Temporary signs at the site of any public, charitable, educational, religious
254 or other noncommercial event or function, located entirely upon the property
255 on which such event or function is held. Such signs shall be (i) set back no
256 less than seven (7) feet from the property line; (ii) no greater than thirty-two
257 (32) square feet in area; (iii) allowed no more than thirty (30) days prior to
258 the event or function and (iv) removed within seven (7) days after the
259 conclusion of the event or function. Such signs may be illuminated in
260 accordance with the restrictions set forth in section 213 hereof. If building-
261 mounted, such signs shall be flat wall signs and shall not project above the
262 roofline of the building to which they are affixed. If freestanding, the height
263 of any such sign shall be no more than twelve (12) feet above ground level.
264 (2) Temporary signs of a commercial nature at the site of any business
265 establishment holding a grand opening or other special event or promotion,
266 subject to the limitations set forth in subdivision (1) hereof. Such signs shall
267 not be displayed more than three (3) times per year at any business
268 establishment, or for any period in excess of seven (7) days.
269 (3) Temporary signs displayed upon balloons, subject to the requirements of
270 subdivision (2) hereof, provided, however, that balloons displaying such
271 signs may, if affixed to the roof of a building or structure, project no more
272 than thirty (30) feet above the roofline or, if affixed to the ground, have a
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273 height not exceeding thirty (30) feet from ground level. Such signs shall not
274 exceed seventy-five (75) square feet in surface area.
275 (4) Temporary signs erected by civic leagues or property owners' associations
276 that are holding or have scheduled a meeting or event, provided that such
277 signs shall be located on property owned by the civic league or property
278 owners' association holding the meeting or event. Such signs shall be no
279 greater than thirty-two (32) square feet in area. No more than one (1) such
280 sign shall be permitted at each entrance to the neighborhood or subdivision
281 represented by the civic league or property owners' association. Such signs
282 shall be in place for no more than fourteen (14) days before the meeting or
283 event or three (3) days after the meeting or event has been held. Such signs
284 may be illuminated in accordance with the restrictions set forth in section
285 213.
286 (5) Temporary signs other than those allowed by the provisions of subdivisions
287 (1) through (4), subject to the following provisions:
288
289 a. Within a Preservation, Agricultural, Residential, Apartment, or Historic
290 and Cultural District, or a noncommercial area of a PD-H1 or PD-H2
291 Planned Development District, a total of sixteen (16) square feet of
292 temporary signage shall be allowed on a lot. Within all other districts, a
293 total of thirty-two (32) square feet of temporary signage shall be allowed
294 on a lot. No such sign shall be higher than eight (8) feet above grade
295 directly below such sign.
296
297 (c) Reserved.
298
299 (d) Private traffic direction signs not exceeding four(4) square feet in area. One (1) such
300 sign shall be permitted at each entrance or exit and at drive-through lanes.
301
302 (e) Reserved.
303
304 (f) Reserved.
305
306 (g) Construction signs. One (1) sign not exceeding thirty-two (32) square feet in area on
307 each roadway frontage adjoining an active construction site during the time
308 construction at such site or is actively under way. Such signs shall set back no less
309 than ten (10) feet from any property line.
310
311 (h) Reserved.
312
313 (i) Reserved.
314
315 (j) Signs for public schools or private schools having curriculums similar to public
316 schools:The following signs shall be permitted for public schools and private schools
317 having curriculums similar to public schools:
318
319 (1) Wall signs. A maximum of two (2)wall signs for each building wall facing a public
320 street, as prescribed below:
321 a. One (1) square foot of wall signage for every two (2) linear feet of each
322 building wall facing a public street, not to exceed one hundred (100) square
323 feet for each such wall, provided that signage on any building wall located
324 five hundred (500) feet or more from a public street shall not exceed two
325 hundred fifty (250) square feet.
326
327 (2) Freestanding monument signs, as prescribed below:
328 a. For schools located on lots less than fifteen (15) acres in area, one (1)
329 freestanding monument sign with a maximum of two (2) faces of forty (40)
330 square feet per face.
331 b. For schools located on lots fifteen (15) acres or more in area, a maximum
332 of one (1) freestanding monument sign no greater than forty (40) feet per
333 face in area per abutting street, located at the principal vehicular entrance
334 from each street.
335 c. No freestanding monument sign shall be installed within fifty (50) feet of a
336 residential use.
337
338 (k) Reserved.
339
340 (I) Construction fence signs. Signs on temporary protective fencing erected around a
341 site at which demolition or construction is being carried on shall be allowed, subject
342 to the following ;c:-.;u;; .- nts:
343
344 (1) Signs consisting of banners, wraps or similar material shall be securely affixed
345 to the fence on which they are located, and any portions of a sign that become
346 partially detached shall be promptly re-affixed to the fence; and
347 (2) Signs and the fencing to which they are affixed shall be maintained in good
348 condition at all times and graffiti or other forms of defacement shall be removed
349 or repaired promptly.
350
351 (m) Signs for city-owned parks and recreation centers. The following signs shall be
352 permitted for city-owned parks and recreation centers:
353
354 (1) Wall Signs. City-owned parks and recreation centers may have a maximum of
355 two (2) wall signs for each building wall facing a public street, as prescribed
356 below:
357
358 a. One (1) square foot of wall signage for every two (2) linear feet of each
359 building wall facing a public street. Said signage shall not exceed a
360 maximum of one hundred (100) square feet for each such wall.
361 b. Any building wall located five hundred (500)feet or more from a public street
362 shall not exceed a maximum of two hundred and fifty (250) square feet of
363 signage for each such wall.
364
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365 (2) Freestanding Signs. City-owned parks and recreation centers may have
366 freestanding monument signs as prescribed below:
367
368 a. Any city-owned park or recreation center located on a lot with an area less
369 than fifteen (15) acres shall be permitted one (1) freestanding monument
370 sign with a maximum of two (2) faces of forty (40) square feet per face.
371 b. Any city-owned park or recreation center located on a lot with an area of
372 fifteen (15) acres or more in size shall be permitted one (1) freestanding
373 monument sign per street, located at the principal vehicular entrance of
374 each street. In no case, shall there be more than one (1) freestanding
375 monument sign on each street. Each sign shall not exceed a maximum of
376 two (2) faces of forty (40) square feet per face.
377
378 c. No freestanding monument sign shall be installed within fifty (50) feet of a
379 residential use.
380
381 Sec. 212. Prohibited signs.
382
383 Except as otherwise provided, the following signs are prohibited:
384
385 (a) Signs that imitate an official traffic sign or signal or contain the words "stop," "go
386 slow," "caution," "danger," "warning," or words of similar import, except as
387 provided in section 211(d).
388
389 (b) Signs that, by reason of their size, location, movement, content, coloring, or
390 manner of illumination, are likely to be confused with or construed as a traffic-
391 control device, or that obscure any traffic or street sign or signal or obstruct the
392 view in any direction at a street intersection.
393
394 (c) Signs on any public property in any zoning district, except as otherwise expressly
395 allowed.
396
397
398
399
400 Reserved.
401
402 (e) Signs that contain or consist of pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners, strings
403 of light bulbs, or other similar moving devices. Such devices, when not part of
404 any sign, are also prohibited when intended to attract attention to the
405 establishment on which they are located.
406
407 (f) Signs posted on or otherwise affixed to utility poles, trees, or fences, or in an
408 unauthorized manner to walls or other signs.
409
410 (g) Signs advertising activities that are illegal.
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411
412 (h) Reserved.
413
414 (i) All portable or nonstructural signs, except as temporary signs as may be
415 expressly allowed. For purposes of this ordinance, a sign shall be considered as
416 portable or nonstructural if it has no permanently mounted, self-supporting
417 structure or is not an integral part of a building to which it is accessory.
418
419 (j) Reserved.
420
421 (k) Except as otherwise provided, signs projecting above the roofline or to a height
422 greater than three-fourths (%) of the vertical distance between the eaveline and
423 ridgeline of the roof of the building or structure on which they are located;
424 provided, however, that signs mounted on parapet walls may extend to a height
425 equal to, but no greater than, the height of the parapet wall.
426
427 (I) Reserved.
428
429 (m) Electronic display signs, except as expressly allowed by the city council in
430 conjunction with major entertainment venues or as otherwise provided in ccction
431 217 this ordinance.
432
433 (n) Any sign that emits sound, smoke, vapor, particles, or odors.
434
435 (o) Any sign larger in any respect than allowed in the zoning district in which the
436 sign is located.
437
438 Sec. 213. Illumination.
439
440 (a) The light from any illuminated sign shall be so shaded, shielded or directed that the
441 light intensity or brightness shall not adversely affect surrounding or facing premises
442 nor adversely affect safe vision of operators of vehicles moving on public or private
443 roads, highways, or parking areas. Light shall not shine or reflect in an offensive
444 manner on or into residential structures, including motels.
445
446 (b) No exposed reflective type bulbs or incandescent lamps shall be used on the exterior
447 surface of any sign in such a manner that will cause offensive glare on adjacent
448 property or create a traffic hazard.
449
450 (c) No sign shall contain or consist of blinking, flashing or intermittent lights or similar
451 illuminating devices, whether or not such devices constitute a public safety or traffic
452 hazard.
453
454 Sec. 214. Sign height, setback and landscaping.
455
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456 (a) No freestanding sign shall exceed twelve (12) feet in height from ground level at the
457 base of such sign.
458
459 (b) No freestanding sign shall be set back less than seven (7) feet from any existing
460 public right-of-way; provided, however, that a freestanding sign having a height of
461 eight (8) feet or less may be set back five (5) feet from any such right-of-way. The
462 minimum sign setback from interstate roadways and expressways designated by the
463 city council shall be one hundred (100) feet.
464
465 (c) A minimum of seventy-five (75) square feet of planted area shall be provided around
466 any freestanding sign, in accordance with the following requirements:
467
468 (1) Planting materials shall include a combination of grass, ground cover and low
469 shrubs not exceeding a height of three (3) feet at maturity or design elements
470 used in conjunction with the sign, not exceeding the three (3) foot height limit;
471 (2) All plant materials shall be placed in a defined planting area, which shall be a
472 minimum of six (6)feet in width and shall be maintained so as not to obstruct the
473 view of the sign face on either side;
474 (3) All plant materials shall be subject to the approval of the planning director or his
475 designee in accordance with established industry standards;
476 (4) Landscaping shall be compatible with parking lot plantings in order to help
477 achieve the goal of a unified project design; and
478 (5) Landscaping shall be included as a credit in the calculation of any required
479 parking lot landscaping as specified in Section 5^, of the ;te Plan Ordinance
480 (Parking Lot and Foundation Landscaping).
481
482 (d) Freestanding signs, including replacements of sign faces, shall display the street
483 number of the property upon which the sign is located. Such display shall consist of
484 numerals no larger than twelve (12) inches and no less than six (6) inches in height
485 and shall be located within, but not extended above, the top portion of the face of the
486 sign, unless impractical. The portion of the sign displaying the street number shall
487 not be deemed a part of the sign for purposes of measuring the surface area of such.
488
489 Sec. 215. Nonconforming signs.
490
491 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 105(f) of this ordinance, no nonconforming
492 sign shall be structurally altered, enlarged, moved or replaced, whether voluntarily or
493 by reason of involuntary damage to or destruction of such sign, unless such sign is
494 brought into compliance with the provisions of this ordinance or is specifically allowed
495 by City Council in accordance with the provisions of section 105.. Except as provided
496 in section 216, no nonconforming sign shall be repaired at a cost in excess of fifty
497 (50) percent of its original cost unless such sign is caused to comply with the
498 provisions of this ordinance. Any nonconforming sign in an unsafe condition shall be
499 removed.
500
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501 (b) Any nonconforming sign that has been abandoned for a period of two years or longer
502 shall be removed by the owner of the property on which the sign is located, after
503 notification by the zoning administrator. If, following such two-year period, the zoning
504 administrator has made a reasonable attempt to notify the property owner, the city
505 through its own agents or employees may enter the property upon which the sign is
506 located and removed any such sign wherever the owner has refused to do so. The
507 cost of such removal shall be chargeable to the owner of the property. Nothing herein
508 shall prevent the city from applying to a court of competent jurisdiction for an order
509 requiring the removal of such abandoned nonconforming sign by the owner by means
510 of injunction or other appropriated remedy. For purposes of this section, a sign shall
511 be deemed to be abandoned if the business for which the sign was erected has not
512 been in operation for a period of at least two (2) years.
513
514 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) fhereofrvf,t e zoning administrator
515 may, at his discretion and with the concurrence of the director of planning, City
516 Council may vary the requirements of this ordinance pertaining to the allowed number
517 of signs, total sign area, individual sign area, number of freestanding signs and height
518 of freestanding signs in cases in which the owner of a sign or other proper party
519 desires to repair, replace, relocate or structurally alter an existing nonconforming sign
520 or combination of signs and such repair, replacement, relocation or structural
521 alteration is not required, or has not been made necessary, by reason of damage,
522 destruction, deterioration, disrepair or noncompliance with applicable building code
523 standards or any of the provisions of this ordinance.
524
525 (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or otherwise impair the right of any
526 proper party to apply to the board of zoning appeals for a variance from any of the
,27 sign regulations set forth in this ordinance.
528
529 (e) The repair of nonconforming outdoor advertising signs visible from the main traveled
530 way of any interstate highway, federal-aid primary highway, as that system existed
531 on June 1, 1991, or national highway system highway shall be governed by the
532 provisions of Code of Virginia, § 33.2-1219, the regulations promulgated thereunder
533 or any successor statute or regulation. No building permit authorizing the repair of
534 any such outdoor advertising sign shall be issued unless the owner of the outdoor
535 advertising sign provides to the building codes administrator a letter from the
536 commonwealth transportation commissioner approving the proposed repairs. In the
537 event the building codes administrator determines that the cost of the proposed
538 repairs exceeds fifty (50) percent of the replacement cost of the outdoor advertising
539 sign, he shall, within thirty (30) days of the filing of the building permit application,
540 submit an objection to the determination of the commissioner, together with
541 documentation supporting such objection. A copy of such objection and
542 documentation shall be provided to the outdoor advertising sign owner. The
543 determination of the commissioner upon reconsideration shall be binding.
544
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545 Sec. 216. Outdoor advertising structures, billboards, signboards and poster
546 panels.
547
548 (a)
549
550 billboard heretofore erected shall be located, in whole or in part, upon improved
551 property. All outdoor advertising signs shall comply with the dimensional regulations
552 and setbacks of this ordinance that are applicable for freestanding signs in the zoning
553 district in which the sign is located, with the addition of the requirements listed below.
554
555 (b) No billboard outdoor advertising sign shall be located within five hundred (500) feet
556 of an interchange, or intersection at grade, on any highway, interstate or city council
557 designated expressway (measured along the highway, interstate or expressway to
558 the nearest point of the beginning or ending of pavement widening at the exit from or
559 entrance to the main traveled way). On all other streets, no billboard shall be located
560 within two hundred (200) feet of any right-of-way of any underpass, overpass, bridge
561 or tunnel or a plaza serving such facility.
562
563 (c) No billboard outdoor advertising sign shall be located within: (i) fifty (50) feet of any
564 property line; (ii) six hundred sixty (660) feet of the right-of-way line of any interstate
565 or expressway designated by city council; (iii) twenty-five (25) feet of the right-of-way
566 of any other street; or (iv) two hundred (200) feet of any residential or apartment
567 zoning district. No billboard shall be located upon any lot having a street frontage of
568 less than two hundred (200) feet and an area of less than ten thousand (10,000)
569 square feet.
570
571 (d) The repair of lawfully nonconforming billboards visible from the main traveled way of
572
573 1, 1991, or national highway system highway shall be governed by the provisions of
574 Code of Virginia, § 33.2 1219, the regulations promulgated thereunder or any
575
576 billboard shall be-issued unleos the owner of the billboard provides to the building
577
578 approving the proposed repairs. In the event the building codes administrator
579 determines that the cost of the proposed repairs exceeds fifty (50) percent of the
580 replacement cost of the billboard, he shall, within thirty (30) days of the filing of the
581 building nr rmit application sf,hmit nn nhin nn to the det rmination otee vurTaTR9���-rrn-r-aPFTTca-�vrr�a c vr,--cv�rr��r �.
582 commiosioner, together with documentation supporting such objection. A copy of
583 such objection and documentation shall be provided to the billboard owner. The
584 determination of the commi°sioner upon reconsideration shall be binding.
585
586 Sec. 217. Electronic displays of motor vehicle fuel prices by automobile service
587 stations.
588
589 Motor vehicle fuel prices may be displayed on an electronic display sign Any parcel
590 operated as an automobile service station and is engaged in the sale of motor vehicle
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591 fuel shall be permitted electronic display on the allowable freestanding signage, subject
592 to the following requirements:
593
594 (a) Such signs shall be allowed only pursuant to a conditional use permit authorizing
595 an automobile service station at which motor vehicle fuels are offered for sale or at
596 establishments for which a conditional use permit allowing such fuel sales has previously
597 been granted and remains in effect.
598
599 (b) Such signs shall conform to the following requirements:
600
601 (1) No more than one such sign shall be permitted on any zoning lot;
602 (2) Such signs shall be monument-style, as defined in section 210.2, and no
603 such sign, including the base, shall exceed a height of eight (8) feet;
604 (3) No such sign shall have more than three (3) separate panels capable of
605 displaying information electronically_, and each such panel shall be limited
606 to the display of a single grade of fuel. The total area of the portion of that
607 sign that is capable of electronic displays shall not exceed twelve (12)
608 square feet in area;
609 (4) The pixel pitch of the electronic display portion of such signs shall be
610 nineteen (19) millimeters or smaller;
611 (5) Fuel pricc: Electronic displays shall not be changed more often than two
612 (2)times in any twenty-four(24) hour period, and scrolling, flashing, blinking
613 or any other type of intermittent movement or illumination of elements of the
614 electronic display shall be prohibited. Change sequences shall be
615 accomplished by means of instantaneous re-pixelization;
616 (6) Electronic displays shall consist of no more than two (2) colors;
617 (7) Audio speakers on, or electronically connected to, such signs shall not be
618 permitted;
619 (8) Such signs shall not exceed a maximum illumination of five thousand
620 (5,000) candelas per square meter from sunrise to sunset or five hundred
621 (500) candelas per square meter between sunset and sunrise, as measured
622 from the sign face at maximum brightness, and shall be equipped with a
623 working dimmer control device capable of automatically reducing the
624 illumination to the required sunset-to-sunrise level. Prior to the issuance of
625 a sign permit, the applicant shall provide written certification from the sign
626 manufacturer that the light intensity has been factory pre-set not to exceed
627 the maximum intensity level; and
628 (9) The electrical service lines providing power to such signs shall be
629 underground.
630
631 Sec. 218. Major entertainment venue and major retail signs.
632
633 Signage for major entertainment venues and major retail venues, other than
634 signage otherwise allowed, shall be allowed only with the approval of the City Council
635 and shall be subject to the following requirements:
636
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637 (a) An application for such signage shall be submitted to the Planning Director by
638 the property owner, contract purchaser with the written consent of the property
639 owner, or the duly authorized agent for the property owner. Applications shall
640 include a fee in the amount of eight hundred dollars ($800.00), and the required
641 plan as described in subsection (b), along with any other information required by
642 the Planning Director. Applications shall be heard by the Planning Commission
643 and the City Council in accordance with the procedures prescribed in
644 subsections (d) and (e) of section 221 of the City Zoning Ordinance.
645
646 (b) The sign plan shall show, in the form and manner specified by the Planning
647 Director, the type, location, setback, size, dimensions and height of all signs,
648 and any other characteristics of or information pertaining to such signage
649 deemed necessary by the Planning Director in order to adequately evaluate the
650 proposed sign plan according to the criteria set forth in subsection (d). Individual
651 banners intended to display special or recurring events or activities shall not be
652 required to be approved separately, but it shall be sufficient that the sign plan
653 show the number, size and location of banners generally.
654
655 (c) Where a sign plan for a major entertainment venue includes electronic display
656 signage, the following additional information shall be provided:
657
658 (1) The pixel pitch of the proposed electronic display signs;
659 (2) Whether such signs will display static or animated text or images, and the
660 dwell time for each display;
661 (3) The maximum and minimum illumination level in candelas per square meter,
662 and the times during which such illumination levels will be used; and
663 (4) In no case shall any electronic display sign contain, or be connected to,
664 audio speakers, and all electrical service lines providing power to such signs
665 shall be underground.
666 (5) Major retail venues shall not be permitted to have electronic display
667 signage.
668
669 (d) The City Council shall consider the following criteria in acting upon an
670 application:
671
672 (1) The extent to which the proposed signage is consistent with applicable sign
673 regulations and Sign Design Guidelines, if any, of the district;
674 (2) The extent to which the proposed signage is consistent with the
675 recommendations of the Comprehensive Plan;
676 (3) The extent to which the scale, color, materials, shape, illumination and
677 landscaping of the proposed signage, considered as a whole, is compatible
678 with surrounding properties;
679 (4) The impact of the proposed signage on traffic safety, taking into
680 consideration the degree to which view obstructions are created or
681 improved, avoidance of confusion with or obstruction of traffic control signs
682 and devices, and other safety-related factors; and
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683 (5) The degree to which the proposed signage is integrated into a unified
684 development concept, considering the building design, other signs,
685 landscaping, traffic circulation, and other development features of the
686 property.
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Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing May 12, 2021
Sign Ordinance Amendments
Virginia Beach
Request
An Ordinance to amend Sections 210.2, 212, 215, 216,and 217 of the City Zoning Ordinance pertaining to signs and
billboards.
Summary of Referred Ordinances
The purpose of this Ordinance is to modify the City Zoning Ordinance regulating the requirements for signage.The goal
of this ordinance is to make the sign regulations content neutral and consistent with recent court decisions. In summary,
content of a sign cannot be utilized to regulate the signage permitted on a property.The current ordinance prohibits
outdoor door advertising signs (billboards) due to their content.This ordinance adjusts the requirements for all "outdoor
advertising signs," as well as limiting all signage on properties to the dimensional requirements for a freestanding sign in
the zoning district in which the property is located.Additionally,this proposed ordinance removes the Zoning
Administrator's ability to approve alterations of a nonconfrming sign so long as the nonconformities are reduced.This
provision will now only be approved by City Council. Lastly,this proposed ordinance changes the requirements for
electronic signs. Electronic signs would only be permitted in two situations.The first is at major entertainment venues,
to which the size is dictated by City Council approval.The second situation is at establishments that dispense fuel. In this
case,the site is restricted to one sign.
Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of this proposed amendment.This amendment will make the City Zoning Ordinance
consistent with recent case law by making our Ordinance content neutral with regard to signage.
City of Virginia Beach
Agenda Item 1
Page 1
Item # 1
City of Virginia Beach—Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment to amend Article 2, Section
B-Sign Regulations to comply with recent court decisions regarding the constitutionality
of sign regulations.
May 12, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL—CONSENT
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. These are applications that are
recommended for approval by staff, the Planning Commission concurred. And
there are no speakers signed up in opposition. We have four items on the consent
agenda today. The first item is agenda item number one by which is going to be
presented by city staff.
Mr. Kemp: Good afternoon Chairman, Commission. For the record, my name is Kevin Kemp;
I am the Zoning Administrator here in Virginia Beach. Item one is an ordinance
amendment which modifies the Zoning Ordinance in regards to the sign
regulations, particularly making them content neutral and in line with some current
court decisions that have been made. What this ordinance does is first changes
the regulations for billboards; our current ordinance regulates billboards based on
their content.And what I mean by content is a billboard is an offsite sign advertising
something not on that site. Well to know if you're advertising something on the site
or off the site, you have to read the billboard therefore making it content based. So
what this ordinance does is, it makes all outdoor advertising signs, takes billboards
out, and any sign is permitted on the site as a free standing sign, but that sign is
held to the dimensional standards of what is normally allowed in that Zoning District
for freestanding signs. So billboards are not their own use. The second thing that
this ordinance does is it removes the Zoning Administrators ability to modify non-
conforming signs where in the past if an applicant wished to take non-conforming
sign and alter it to make it better, there was an administrative process through my
office that that could be done. This now puts that process only by City Council
approval. The last thing in the ordinance is in regards to electronic signs and these
would only be permitted in two instances. The first are for major entertainment
venues. These are venues such as The Aquarium that require City Council
approval and therefore City Council would dictate the number of electronic signs
and the size and the second instance is for fuel prices.And these would be allowed
only on properties that dispense fuel and they would be limited to one sign. Are
there any questions?
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Mr. Kemp: Thank you Commission.
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Mr. Wall: Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent agenda? Okay.
The next item on the consent agenda is item number - agenda item number four.
Is there a representative for this item?
Mr. Beaman: Mr. Vice Chair, Members of the Commission for the record, my name is Rob
Beaman. I'm a local land use attorney at the Troutman Pepper Law Firm here today
on behalf of the applicant for agenda item number four, we've had a chance to
read the conditions, they are acceptable and we appreciate being on the consent
agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. Is there any opposition for this item to be placed on the consent
agenda? Hearing none, we've asked Ms. Klein to read this into the record.
Ms. Klein: The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a mini warehouse in order
to construct a 25,000 square foot indoor self storage facility on this B4 mixed
district zoned parcel. A portion of the property contains a parking lot and
undeveloped area. The proposed building will be a climate controlled three story
mini warehouse building with the total height of 43 feet and it matches the
surrounding area. The applicant is seeking a deviation to the required 35 foot front
yard setback which staff approves. Based on the consideration staff recommends
approval of the application subject to the conditions and the Planning Commission
concurs.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number nine. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay, seeing none. Is there any opposition for this
item to be on the consent agenda? Hearing none. We've asked Mr. Redmond to
read this into the record.
Mr. Redmond: Excuse me. Thank you, Mr. Wall. This is an application for a Conditional Use
Permit for a family daycare home at 1105 Voss Court. The applicant is requesting
the CUP for a daycare facility of up to 12 children within this single family dwelling.
It's a 7500 square foot parcel and seems to be very well organized and laid out for
this particular use. The applicant has 22 years of experience caring for children.
Staff sees no reason why it should be denied. Planning Commission sees no
reason why it should be denied and we therefore place it on consent. Thank you,
Mr. Wall.
Mr. Wall: Thank you. The next item on the consent agenda is item number 10. Is there a
representative for this item? Okay.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Wall there is, she had signed, Diana Buhrmann had signed up virtually, but
she is not online. So is Diana Buhrmann here?
2
Mr. Wall: Okay. Is there any opposition for this to be on the consent agenda? Okay, hearing
none, we've asked Mr. Graham to read this into the record.
Mr. Graham: Thank you, Mr. Wall. The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use Permit for a
family daycare home to care for up to 12 children within a single family dwelling.
The 5401 square foot parcel is zoned PD-H1 planned unit development and is
located in the Magic Hollow neighborhood at 998 Boughton Way in the Rose Hall
District. This request for a Conditional Use Permit in staffs opinion is consistent
with the policies and goals set forth in the Comprehensive Plan for the suburban
area. Staff finds the property to be well organized and well kept; successfully
promoting the policies intended to ensure the maintenance and sustainability of
great neighborhoods. For these reasons, staff recommends approval and Planning
Commission agrees with this recommendation. Therefore we have placed it on the
consent agenda.
Mr. Wall: Thank you, Mr. Graham. So that ends the regular consent agenda. The Planning
Commission also places the following applications for Conditional Use Permit for
Short-Term Rental on the consent agenda as they meet the applicable
requirements for section 241.2 of the Zoning Ordinance. Staff and the Planning
Commission supports the applications and there are no speakers signed up in
opposition and that includes agenda items number 15, 17 and 20. Those were the
last items on the consent agenda. I move for approval of agenda items 1, 4, 9, 10,
15, 17, and 20. We have a motion. Do we have a second?
Ms. Klein: Second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Wall, second by Ms. Klein.
Mr. Redmond: Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Weiner: I'm sorry. Go ahead. That's right.
Mr. Redmond: Number one, I am abstaining on agenda item number 8. for the same reason as
before, there's work colleague of mine who is a member of the partnership that
owns this property and so that's just too close for comfort. I also am abstaining on
all of the short-term rental applications. I have a letter on file with the City Attorney's
Office, I have a client who's in the travel industry, and that too, is too close for
comfort. So I do not vote on short-term rental applications or ordinances. Thank
you.
Ms. Wilson: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Weiner: Anybody else?
3
Ms. Wilson: You have a letter on file saying that you will abstain from all short-term rental
applications, has that changed?
Mr. Graham: Yes, ma'am that has been withdrawn.
Ms. Wilson: Okay. And you will now vote on those applications?
Mr. Graham: That is correct. I do not have a conflict.
Ms. Wilson: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Ready to vote?
Madam Clerk: Yes, sir. Mr. Alcaraz?
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston?
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Graham?
Mr. Graham: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Horsley is absent Mr. Inman is absent. Ms. Klein?
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Ms. Oliver?
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Mr. Redmond?
Mr. Redmond:Aye.
Madam Clerk: Vice Chair Wall?
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Madam Clerk: Chairman Wiener?
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
4
Madam Clerk: By recorded vote of eight in favor and zero against agenda items 1, 4, 9, and 10
have been approved. Agenda items 15, 17 and 20 by recorded vote of seven in
favor, zero against with one abstention have been approved by consent.
AYE 8 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 3
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham AYE
Horsley ABSENT
Inman ABSENT
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond AYE
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
AGENDA ITEM i
ITEM: AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 102 OF THE CITY ZONING
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY DISTRICTS-
NORTH END AND OCENFRONT RESORT; AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE
OFFICIAL ZONING MAP BY THE DESIGNATION AND INCORPORATION OF
PROPERTY INTO SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY DISTRICT OR
DISTRICT; TO AMEND SECTIONS 401, 501, 601,901, 1110, 1125, 1521 AND
2203 OF THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE AND SECTION 5.2 OF THE
OCEANFRONT RESORT DISTRICT FORM-BASED CODE PERTAINING TO
THE REQUIREMENTS AND USE OF SHORT TERM RENTALS AND
OVERLAYS; AND AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 241.2 OF THE CITY
ZONING ORDINANCE, PERTAINING TO SHORT TERM RENTALS AND
ESTABLISHING ADDITIONAL SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; AN ORDINANCE
TO ADD ARTICLE 23, CONSISTING OF SECTIONS 2300 THROUGH 2303,
(SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY DISTRICTS) TO THE CITY ZONING
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
PERTAINING TO SHORT TERM RENTALS IN EACH OVERLAY DISTRICT;
ESTABLISHING TRANSITION RULES FOR THE REVIEW OF CONDITIONAL
USE PERMITS FOR SHROT TERM RENTALS IN THE SHORT TERM RENTAL
OVERLAYS.
MEETING DATE: June 15, 2021
• Background:
City Council adopted an Ordinance regulating Short Term Rental Use on January
15, 2019. This proposed Ordinance amends the existing regulations to incorporate
certain Short Term Rental Overlay Districts, and modifies rules within those
specific areas. Additionally, stronger regulations regarding safety requirements are
proposed. Six specific amendments are proposed:
1 . Create two overlay districts where Short Term Rental use is permitted; the
North End Overlay (Short Term Rentals permitted by Conditional Use Permit)
and the Oceanfront Resort Overlay District (Short Term Rentals permitted as a
matter of right).
2. Incorporate the Short Term Rental Overlay Districts into the official zoning map
(North End - existing area of North End Overlay, without Pirates Cove
neighborhood or area west of Holly Road and the entire Oceanfront Resort
District as it exists).
3. Amend the zoning land use tables in all applicable zoning districts.
City of Virginia Beach — Short Term Rental Overlay Districts
Page 2 of 2
4. Add additional safety regulations for all short term rentals.
5. Rules and regulations for Short Term Rentals located within the Overlay
Districts.
6. Transition rules for the review of Short Term Rental conditional use permit
applications.
• Considerations:
This Ordinance was referred to the Planning Commission by City Council for
consideration on October 20, 2020. The Planning Commission held numerous
workshops and public outreach opportunities. The Ordinance was considered on
the March Planning Commission agenda, where it was recommended for approval
with several modifications from City Council's initial draft. Following a City Council
workshop, City Council modified the proposed Ordinance to eliminate the inclusion
of overlays in the Shore Drive area, the Hollies neighborhood, and properties
zoned Resort Tourist (RT) District. The sponsoring City Council members also
revised the rentals to one per seven-day period in the Oceanfront Resort Overlay
and requested that on-site inspections as well as rental ledgers reflecting days
rented with no identifying information be provided to staff during the Zoning permit
process. No changes to the number of rentals per week or occupant load for Short
Term Rentals in Sandbridge are proposed. Further details pertaining to the
ordinance, as well as Staff's evaluation, are provided in the attached Staff Report.
There is no known opposition to this request.
Recommendations:
On March 10, 2021 , the Planning Commission passed a motion to recommend
approval of this request by a vote of 7-0
• Attachments:
Staff Report and STR Workshops Summary
Ordinance
Minutes of Planning Commission Hearing
Recommended Action: Staff recommends Approval. Planning Commission
recommends Approval.
Submitting Department/Agency: Planning Department
City Manager:
REQUESTED BY VICE-MAYOR WOOD AND COUNCILMEMBERS JONES AND
TOWER
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 102
2 OF THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE
3 ESTABLISHING SHORT TERM RENTAL
4 OVERLAY DISTRICTS — EAST SHORE
5 DRIVE, NORTH END AND OCEANFRONT
6 RESORT
7
8 Section Amended: § 102 of the City Zoning
9 Ordinance
10
11 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
12 practice so require;
13
14 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA
15 BEACH, VIRGINIA:
16
17 That Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended and
18 reordained to read as follows:
19
20 Sec. 102. - Establishment of districts and official zoning maps.
21
22 . . . .
23
24 (al) There are hereby established the following overlay districts:
25
26 (1) Shore Drive Corridor Overlay District("SD");
27
28 (2) North End Overlay District ("NE");
29
30 (3) Old Beach Overlay District("OB");
31
32 (4) Historic Kempsville Area Overlay District ("HK");
33
34 (5) Workforce Housing Overlay District ("WF"); and
35
36 (6) Short Term Rental Overlay District("STR").
37
38 a. East Shore Drive ("STR-E"
39 b. North End ("STR-NE")
40 c. Oceanfront Resort ("STR-OR")
41
42 Such districts shall be designated on the official zoning map by an appropriate notation
43 following the designation of the underlying zoning district. As an illustration, property in
44 the Shore Drive Corridor Overlay District and in the B-4 Mixed Use District shall be
45 designated on the official zoning map as having the classification "B-4(SD)."
46
47 . . . .
48
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
Planning epart ent City Attomey's Office
CA15136
R-5
March 12,2021
PLANNING COMMISSION VERSION
1 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE OFFICIAL
2 ZONING MAP BY THE DESIGNATION AND
3 INCORPORATION OF PROPERTY INTO
4 SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY
5 DISTRICTS—EAST SHORE DRIVE, NORTH
6 END; AND OR DISTRICT
7
8 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
9 practice so require;
10
11 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
12 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
13
14 That the official zoning map of the City of Virginia Beach be, and hereby is,
15 amended by the designation and incorporation of the areas described below:
16
17 1) That property located in the Shore Drive Overlay District on the east side of the
18 Lesner Bridge and bounded as follows:from the centerline of Shore Drive Gape
19 He -Drive
20 (-6124 1016980000), to tho
21 , then its
22 continuation north along eastern property line of the property addressed 2800
23 Shore Drive (GPIN: 15903180160000) to the Chesapeake Bay; then its
24 continuation east along the Chesapeake Bay to the western property line of
25 First Landing State Park;then its continuation south along the western property
26 line of First Landing State Park; then it's continuation east along the centerline
27 Shore Drive Gape-Henry Drive and depicted by the attached map labeled,
28 "Short Term Rental Overlay-East Shore Drive."
29
30 2) That property located in the North End Overlay and depicted as such on the
31 Official City Zoning Map, and the area from 49th Street east of Atlantic Avenue
32 and 49 1/2 west of Atlantic Avenue to 45th Street (the Hollies except for that
33 area located west of the intersection of Holly Road and 58th Street; south to
34 45th Street as shown by the attached map labeled "Short Term Rental
35 Overlay—North End;"
36
37 3) That property located in the City of Virginia Beach, zoned as Oceanfront Resort
38 District and Resort Tourist Districts RT-1 RT-3 and RT 4) depicted as such
39 on the Official City Zoning Map as shown on the attached map labeled "Short
40 Term Rental Overlay—OR District;
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
Planning epartr nt City Attorney's Office
CA15117
R-7
March 27,2021
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34 ARTICLE 5. RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.
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38 Sec. 501. Use regulations.
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40 (a) Principal and conditional uses. The following chart lists those uses permitted
41 within the R-40 through R-2.5 Residential Districts. Those uses and structures in the
42 respective residential districts shall be permitted as either principal uses indicated by a
43 "P" or as conditional uses indicated by a "C." Uses and structures indicated by an "X"
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54 Sec. 601. -Use regulations.
55
56 (a) Principal and conditional uses. The following chart lists those uses permitted
57 within the A-12 through A-36 Apartment Districts. Those uses and structures in the
58 respective apartment districts shall be permitted as either principal uses indicated by a
59 "P" or as conditional uses indicated by a "C." Uses and structures indicated by an "X"
60 shall be prohibited in the respective districts. No uses or structures other than as
61 specified shall be permitted.
62
Use A- A- A- A-
12 18 24 , 36
Short term rental GCCC
X X X X
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meeting all of the requirements of Section 241.2
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requirements of Section 241.2 and, where applicable. Section 2303 i C C C C
63
64
65 ARTICLE 9. -BUSINESS DISTRICTS
66
67 . . . .
68
69 Sec. 901. -Use regulations.
70
71 (a) Principal and conditional uses. The following chart lists those uses permitted
72 within the B-1 through B-4K Business Districts. Those uses and structures in the
73 respective business districts shall be permitted as either principal uses indicated by a
74 "P" or as conditional uses indicated by a "C." Uses and structures indicated by an "X"
75 shall be prohibited in the respective districts. No uses or structures other than as
76 specified shall be permitted.
77
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1 1A 2 3 4 4C 4K
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198 (a) The following chart lists those uses permitted within the RT-3 Resort Tourist District
199 as either principal uses, as indicated by a "P" or as conditional uses, as indicated by a
200 "C." Conditional uses shall be subject to the provisions of Part C of Article 2 (section
201 220 et seq.). Except for single-family, duplex, semidetached and attached dwellings,
202 buildings within the RT-3 District may Include any principal or conditional uses in
203 combination with any other principal or conditional use. No uses or structures other than
204 those specified shall be permitted. All uses, whether principal or conditional, should to
205 the greatest extent possible adhere to the provisions of the Special Area Design
206 Guidelines (Urban Areas) set forth in the Reference Handbook of the Comprehensive
207 Plan.
Use RT-3
Short term rental 6-X
Short term rental within an STR Overlay District, meetina all of
the re: uirements of Section 241.2 and where a licable. Section 2303
208
209 . . . .
210
1 C. RT-4 RESORT TOURIST DISTRICT
212 . . . .
213
214 Sec. 1531. Use regulations.
215
216 (a)Principal uses and structure:
217 . . ..
218
219 _5, Short term rental within an STR Overlay District meeting all of the
220 recuirements of Section 241.2 and. where applicable, Section 2303
221
222 . . . .
223 ARTICLE 22. - CENTRAL BUSINESS CORE DISTRICT
224
225 . . . .
226
227 B. - DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
228
229 . . . .
230
231 Sec. 2203. -Use regulations.
7
232
233 (a) The following chart lists those uses permitted within the Central Business Core
234 District. Uses and structures shall be allowed either as principal uses, indicated by a
235 "P", or as conditional uses, indicated by a "C." Uses and structures indicated by an "X"
236 shall be prohibited, unless allowed by special exception for Alternative Compliance
237 pursuant to Section 2205. No uses or structures other than as specified herein or as
238 allowed pursuant to subsection (b) shall be permitted.
239
Use District
CBC
Short term rental T G X
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requirements of Section 241.2 and, where applicable, Section 2303
240
241 APPENDIX 1. -OCEANFRONT RESORT DISTRICT FORM-BASED CODE
242
243 . . . .
244
245 Sec. 5.2. Permitted Use Table.
246
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Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
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APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
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Planning Department City Attorneys Office
CA15115
R-6
March 30, 2021
9
1 PLANNING COMMISSION VERSION
2
3 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 241.2 OF
4 THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE, PERTAINING TO
5 SHORT TERM RENTALS AND ESTABLISHING
6 ADDITIONAL SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
7
8 Section Amended: City Zoning Ordinance Section
9 241.2
10
11 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
12 practice so require;
13
14 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
15 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
16
17 Sec. 241.2. - Short term rental.
18 Short term rentals shall be subject to the following conditions unless specifically
19 modified by action of the city council in granting a conditional use permit or creating a
20 short term rental overlay district:
21
22 (1) Any property utilized as a short term rental shall provide adequate off street parking
23 for its guests. A minimum of one parking space per bedroom Is required. If such parking
24 cannot be provided on-site, the owner must submit a parking plan indicating how the
25 parking requirement will be met. Such plan shall be reviewed and approved by the
26 zoning administrator. Stacking of vehicles shall be allowed and no on-street parking
27 shall be part of the plan;
28
29 (2) No events with more than fifty (50) people present, shall be held absent a special
30 events permit. Events with more than fifty (50) people are limited to no more than three
31 (3) events in a calendar year. No more than one hundred (100) people shall be present
32 at any event held on the property;
33
34 (3) The owner or operator must provide the name and telephone number of a
35 responsible person, who may be the owner, operator or an agent of the owner or
36 operator, who is available to be contacted and to address conditions occurring at the
37 short term rental within thirty (30) minutes. Physical response to the site of the short
38 term rental is not required;
39
40 (4) No signage shall be on site, except that each short term rental shall have one (1),
41 four-square foot si n osted on the building, or other permanent structure approved by
42 the zoning administrator, visible from the public street, that whislti-identifies the property
43 as a short term rental and provides the telephone number for the responsible person in
44 text large enouhto be read from the ublic street. Architectural signs naming the
45 structure are excluded; ;
48
47 (5) To the extent permitted by state law, each short term rental must maintain
48 registration with the Commissioner of Revenue's office and pay all applicable taxes;
49
50 (6) There shall be posted in a conspicuous place within the dwelling a summary
51 provided by the zoning administrator of City Code sections 23-69 through 23-71 (noise),
52 31-26, 31-27 and 31-28 (solid waste collection), 12-5 (fires on the beach), 12-43.2
53 (fireworks), and a copy of any approved parking plan;
54
55 (7) All refuse shall be placed in automated refuse receptacles, where provided, and
56 comply with the requirements of City Code sections 31-26, 31-27 and 31-28;
57
58 (8) A short term rental shall have no more than two (2) rental contracts during any
59 consecutive seven (7)day period;
60
61 (9) The owner or operator shall provide proof of liability insurance applicable to the
62 rental activity at registration and renewal of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000.00)
63 underwritten by insurers acceptable to the city;
64
65 (10)There shall be no outdoor amplified sound after 10:00 p.m. or before 10:00 a.m.;
66
67 (11) The maximum number of persons on the property after 11:00 p.m. and before 7:00
68 a.m. ("Overnight Lodgers") shall be three (3)individuals per bedroom;
69
70 (12) Any short term rental that has registered and paid transient occupancy taxes to the
71 Commissioner of the Revenue prior to July 1, 2018 shall be considered grandfathered
72 and shall not be required to obtain a conditional use permit, but must meet the
73 conditions of section 241.2. Any expansion of the footprint of the dwelling housing the
74 short term rental that expands the overall square footage by more than twenty-five (25)
75 percent or one thousand (1,000) square feet, whichever is less, shall have its
76 grandfathered status revoked and must immediately come into compliance with the
77 Zoning Ordinance to continue such use. Grandfathered
78 status shall run with the land;
79
80 (12.1) Any short term rental that received a conditional use permit between November
81 1, 2019 and , 2021 and that is located within a zoning district where
82 short term rentals are not a permitted or conditional use, shall be considered
83 grandfathered and shall be permitted to continue subject to the conditions of section
84 241.2 (1)through (15) and (17) as modified by the terms of the conditional use permit;
85
86 (13)
87 ,
88 ; The property
89 owner or their representative shall provide to the City Planning Department annually an
90 affidavit statina or affirming the following: 1) at least one fire extinguisher has been
91 installed inside the unit, in_plain sight and where it is located 2) ail smoke alarms and
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PLANNING COMMISSION VERSION
1 AN ORDINANCE TO ADD ARTICLE 23,
2 CONSISTING OF SECTIONS 2300 THROUGH 2303,
3 (SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY DISTRICTS) TO
4 THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING
5 REGULATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
6 PERTAINING TO SHORT TERM RENTALS IN EACH
7 OVERLAY DISTRICT
8
9 Sections Added: City Zoning Ordinance Sections
10 2300 -2303
11
12 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
13 practice so require;
14
15 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA
16 BEACH, VIRGINIA:
17
18 That Article 23 of the City Zoning Ordinance, consisting of Sections 2300 through
19 2303, is hereby added and ordained to read as follows:
20
21 ARTICLE 23. SHORT TERM RENTAL OVERLAY DISTRICTS
22
23 Sac.2300. Findinus: Intent.
24
25 The Virginia Genera! Assembly has directed that short term rentals shall be
26 permitted as a principal use in the area defined as the Sandbridge Special Service
27 District. In addition,the City Council hereby finds that there are certain areas of the City
28 in which residential dwellings are, and historically have been, rented to vacationers or
29 others on a short term basis. In these areas, the City Council finds that such use, when
30 appropriately regulated. may be carried on without adversely affecting the adjacent
31 residential neighborhoods. In other areas of the City, short term rentals are not
32 compatible with the residential use of the surrounding properties and are often the
33 cause of excessive noise, illegal or Improper parking, traffic violations, corrpestlon and
34 litter, thereby interfering with the quiet enjoyment of the residential neighborhood in
35 Which they occur The provisions of this Article allow short term rentals, with appropriate
36 restrictions, only in those areas directed by the General Assembly and/or in such other
37 areas in which short term rentals may be carried on without adversely affecting the quiet
38 enjoyment of neighboring properties.
39 The East Shore Drive SIR Overlay is an
40 area where multi-family dwellings are common and are located very close to the
41 Chesapeake Bay, and where vacation rentals rentals have been long existed. Other
42 areas of the Shore Drive Overlay contain more single-family dwellings and are less
43 compatible with the activities of a short term rental. Although the short term rental use
44 is generally compatible within the East Shore Drive STR Overlay, the City Council finds
45 that a.continuing proliferation of the use will fundamentally change the character of the
46 community, negatively impact property values and diminish the quality of life for year
47 round residents. Therefore this use should be limited within the East Shore Drive STR
48 Overlay to the percentage of short term rentals currently existing as of November 2,
49 2020.
50 The North End STR Overlay is an area on the Atlantic Ocean that has seen a
51 proliferation of short term rentals for many years, and where rental of property during
52 the summer Is a common experience that has not generated significant negative Impact
53 to the community. Although the short term rental use is generally compatible within the
54 North End STR Overlay, the City Council finds that a continuing proliferation of the use
55 will fundamentally change the character of the community negatively impact property
56 values and diminish the quality of life for year round residents. Therefore this use
57 should be limited within the North End STR Overlay to the percentage of short term
58 rentals currently ently existing as of November 2, 2020.
59 The OR STR Overirr.. is an area of the City that is more urbanized than other
60 areas. The area includes the Atlantic Ocean and the Virginia Beach Boardwalk.
61 Lodging accommodations and other commercial activity supporting the resort area and
62 tourism are prevalent in this area. Accordingly, short term rental density limitations are
63 unnecessary in this overlay.
64
65 Sec,2301. District boundaries.
66
67 al The Short Term Rental Overlay Districts boundaries shall be as
68 designated on the official zoning map of the city (STR).
69
70 f Other identified areas of the City may petition the City Council for an
71 overla to be created if the identified community is able to gather the signatures of sixty
72 (601 percent of the owners of the properties in the community. Such communities shall
73 be pre-existing, and any new community boundaries may not be created for the purpose
74 of meeting the requirements of this section for creation of a short term rental overlay.
75
76 Sec. 2302. Application of regulations.
77
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REQUESTED BY VICE-,,AYOR WOOD AND COUNCILMEMBER JONES AND
TOWER
1 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING TRANSITION RULES
2 FOR THE REVIEW OF CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS FOR
3 SHORT TERM RENTALS IN THE SHORT TERM RENTAL
4 OVERLAYS
5
6 WHEREAS, the public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning
7 practice so require;
8
9 WHEREAS, the City Council has referred to the Planning Commission ordinances
10 creating the East Shore Drive Short Term Rental Overlay, North End Short Term Rental
11 Overlay and Oceanfront Resort Short Term Rental Overlay and providing new regulations
12 that would be applicable to a short term rental use within those overlays; and
13
14 WHEREAS, the referred ordinances would allow the short term rental use only in
15 those areas mandated by the General Assembly and in Short Term Rental Overlays;
16
17 WHEREAS, the short term rental use would no longer be authorized through the
18 granting of a conditional use permit if the referred ordinances are adopted; and
19
20 WHEREAS, it is the sense of the City Council that special transition rules should
21 be adopted to govern applications for conditional use permits for short term rentals that
22 are filed but not approved prior to the referral date of the ordinances.
23
24 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
25 VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA:
26
27 Any application for a conditional use permit for a short term rental accepted prior
28 to the date of referral shall be processed based upon the law existing at the time of
29 submission. Any application accepted after the date of referral shall be considered based
30 upon the law applicable at the time of City Council consideration. No application shall be
31 unnecessarily delayed.
32
33 BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VIRGINIA
34 BEACH, VIRGINIA:
35
36 That nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to affect any vested rights which
37 existed as of the effective date of the ordinance.
38
Adopted by the Council of the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the day
of , 2021.
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
Planning D partm'nt City Attorney's Office
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021 (Deffered at the
February 10, 2021 public meeting) 2
Short Term Rental Overlay District Amendment
Virginia Beach
Request
A resolution referring to the Planning Commission ordinances to amends the City Zoning Ordinance, pertaining to Short
Term Rentals: to amend Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance establishing Short Term Rental Overlay Districts-West
Shore Drive (removed by City Council during the hearing), East Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort; to add
Article 23, consisting of Sections 2300 through 2303 (Short Term Rental Overlay Districts), to the City Zoning Ordinance
establishing regulations and requirements pertaining to Short Term Rentals in each Overlay District; to amend the
official zoning map through the designation and incorporation of property into Short Term Rental Overlay Districts -
West Shore Drive (removed by City Council during the hearing), East Shore Drive, North End and OR District; to amend
Sections 401, 501, 506, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521 and 2203 of the City Zoning Ordinance and Section 5.2 of the
Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code pertaining to the requirements and use of Short Term Rentals and Overlays;
establishing transition rules for the review of Conditional Use Permits for Short Term Rentals in the Short Term Rental
Overlays.
Summary of Referred Ordinances
City Council adopted the Short Term Rental Ordinance on January 15, 2019. Presently, amendments to the Ordinance, in
combination with newly added Articles, Sections, and Subsections of the City Zoning Ordinance relating to Short Term
Rentals, are being considered.
The following amendments to the City Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Short Term Rentals are noted below. Each of
these five (5) proposals are itemized through the use of a lower case letter (a through e). These letters match the related
summary sheets on the following pages (upper right corner of the page):
a) Add three (3) additional Short Term Rental Overlay Districts; (West Shore Drive Overlay was removed at the City
Council formal hearing) and
b) Amend the official zoning map with three (3) proposed overlay districts; and
c) Establish conditions for each overlay district; and
d) Amend the Short Term Rental requirements in each zoning district (use tables); and
e) Add transition rules.
This referral was requested by Vice-Mayor Wood and Councilman Jones.
This item was referred to the Planning Commission at City Council's October 20, 2020 formal public hearing.
Recommendation
In advance of their February public hearing, the Planning Commission held two virtual workshops on January 28, 2021
and Febraury 23, 2021 with the purpose of considering these proposed Ordinance revisions and additions during this
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Agenda Item 2
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workshop.The Planning Commission discussed the proposed overlay districts and regulations to be set forth there
within. A summary of those discussions are detailed in the following pages of this report.
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Agenda Item 2
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021 (Deffered at the
February 10, 2021 meeting) 2a
c•,c,,,,, Establish Three (3) Short Term Rental Overlay Districts
Virginia Beach
Request
An Ordinance to amend Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance establishing Short Term Rental Overlay Districts- East
Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort.
Summary of Referred Ordinance
This Ordinance amends Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance to establish three (3) Short Term Rental Overlay
Districts.The proposed Short Term Overlay Districts are: (1) East Shore Drive, (2) North End, and (3)Oceanfront Resort
District (West Shore Drive Overlay was removed from consideration at the City Council formal hearing). Further
descriptions of the metes and bounds of these areas are provided in the proposed ordinance amendment to the official
zoning map.
Recommendation
At the Planning Commission workshop held on January 28, 2021, the Planning Commission discussed the areas of the
City in which they felt Short Term Rental overlay districts were appropriate.These opinions were solidified further at the
workshop held on February 23, 2021. It should be noted that no vote was taken;the purpose of the workshop was for
discussion only.The information listed below reflects the discussions that occurred during the workshop and are not a
formal recommendation by the Planning Commission.
Following in-depth discussions, the Planning Commission felt that a Short Term Rental overlay district is appropriate in
the Oceanfront Resort (OR) District, as well as the remaining Resort Tourist(RT) zoned properties in the City. In these
overlay districts, Short Term Rentals would be permitted by-right, provided they meet the requirements of Section 241.2
of the Zoning Ordinance.
Discussions regarding the proposed East Shore Drive overlay involved moving the southern boundary of the overlay
from the Cape Henry Bike Trail to Shore Drive.All other boundaries would remain the same.Short Term Rentals would
be permitted in this area by Conditional Use Permit only.There was also discussion about capping the density of Short
Term Rentals in the area to ten-percent of the dwelling units in the overlay district.
Discussions regarding the proposed North End overlay included extending the coundary to also encompass"The Hollies"
neighborhood, located between 45th and 49th Streets. Short Term Rentals would be permitted in this area by Conditional
Use Permit only.There was also discussion about capping the density of Short Term Rentals in the area to 15-percent of
the dwelling units in the overlay district.
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Agenda Item 2
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021(Deferred at the
Febraury 10, 2021 meeting)
<;r„ , Ordinance to Amend the Official Zoning Map
2b
Virginia Beach
Request
An Ordinance to amend the official zoning map by the designation and incorporation of property into Short Term Rental
Overlay Districts- East Shore Drive, North End, and Oceanfront Resort District.
Summary of Referred Ordinance
This Ordinance amends the official zoning map to incorporate three (3) proposed Short Term Rental Overlay Districts. A
brief description of the area encompassed by each of the proposed overlay districts are listed below.
1. East Shore Drive- East of the Lesner Bridge; Northern boundary is the Chesapeake Bay;Southern boundary is
the Cape Henry bike trail; Eastern boundary First Landing State Park; and the Western boundary is the shopping
center located at 2817 Shore Drive to the centerline of Shore Drive,then traveling west down centerline of
Shore Drive to the eastern property line of the property located at 2800 Shore Drive and then north to the
Chesapeake Bay.
2. North End - Entire existing North End Overlay District(Zoned R-5R (NE))with the exception of the area located
west of Holly Road from the intersection of Holly Road and 58th Street and the Pirate's Hill subdivision. Northern
boundary is Fort Story; Southern boundary is 49%Street; Eastern boundary is the Atlantic Ocean; and the
Western boundary is First Landing State Park,then Holly Road south of 58th Street.
3. Oceanfront Resort-Overlay included the entire area currently zoned Oceanfront Resort(OR).
• West Shore Drive Overlay removed from consideration at the formal City Council hearing on October 20,
2020.
Recommendation
The boundaries and inclusion of certain neighborhoods in the Short Term Rental overlay districts was discussed at the
Planning Commission workshops held on January 28, 2021 and Febraury 23, 2021.At these workshops, the proposed
overlay districts considered were the Oceanfront Resort, East Shore Drive, and North End overlay districts; each
reflecting the boundaries as referred by City Council.The Planning Commission discussed amending the southern
boundary of the East Shore Drive District to be Shore Drive, rather than the Cape Henry Bike Trail. Additionally, the
Planning Commission suggested the area known as"the Hollies," and the remaining properties in the City zoned Resort
Tourist(RT), be included in proposed overlay districts.
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Agenda Item 2
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021 (Deferred at the
February 10, 2021 meeting) 2c
c;,,,,,, Amend Regulations and Requirements for Short Term
Virginia Beach Rentals in Overlay Districts
Request
An Ordinance to add Article 23, consisting of Sections 2300 through 2303 (Short Term Rental Overlay Districts),to the
City Zoning Ordinance establishing regulations and requirements pertaining to Short Term Rentals in each overlay
district.
Summary of Referred Ordinance
The establishment of Short Term Rental overlay districts would make Short Term Rentals a permitted use within the
overlay districts, provided they meet the requirements of the City Zoning Ordinance.The existing regulations found in
Section 241.2 of the City Zoning Ordinance remain in place.Article 23 is proposed to be added and specifically applies to
Short Term Rental Overlay Districts as follows:
i. Add to Condition (1)—Any parking spaces added to the site to meet the required parking shall not add
impervious surface. One required space within a garage may be counted, provided it meets the dimensional
requirements of a parking space. Driveway areas within the City right-of-way may be counted provided
pedestrian or vehicular traffic is not impacted.
ii. Replace Condition (2)—No events associated with the Short Term Rental are permitted with more persons than
can stay overnight. No Special event Permits may be requested.
iii. Replace Condition (3)—Name and contact of owner or representative must be provided that can respond and
be capable of being physically at the site within 30 minutes to address an issue.
iv. Replace Condition (8)—No more than fifty-two (52) rental contracts permitted per year.
v. Replace Condition (11)—Maximum occupancy between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. shall be the number of
bedrooms times two. Minors, sixteen years or younger are not counted; however, in no case shall occupancy
be greater than three times the number of bedrooms.
vi. New Condition—If a Short Term Rental is located within the boundary of the Residential Parking Permit
Program (RPPP),only two residential passes are permitted while Short Term Rental is in use. No temporary or
guest RPPP passes are permitted.
An area not located in a Short Term Rental overlay district may petition City Council to create an overlay district,
provided the area is a pre-established boundary and that the identified community is able to gather signatures in favor
of the request from sixty(60) percent of the property owners within the community.
These amendments do not pertain to properties located within the Sandbridge Special Service District, as per legislation
from the General Assembly.
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If a property previously obtained a Conditional Use Permit for Short Term Rental use, that property could operate under
the conditions of the use permit,or the homeowner may choose to relinquish the use permit and operate under the above
listed regulations.Should these amendments be approved,a conditional use permit will not be able to be administratively
renewed following its five year duration, and the property must meet the above requirements or will not be able to
operate a Short Term Rental.
Recommendation
At the Planning Commission workshops held on January 28, 2021, each of these proposed amendments were discussed.
There were no changes to the items listed below from the discussions at the first workshop at the Planning
Commission's second workshop on February 23, 2021. Below is a description of the items discussed during the
workshop.
i. Parkin —No change to the required number of off-street parking spaces, one space per bedroom was
suggested.The Planning Commission agreed that any space added to the site to meet this requirement should
be a permeable material, but suggested that the language be changed to be consistent with the definition for
impervious cover listed in the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Ordinance.The amendment referred to
Planning Commission allowed only one parking space within a garage to be counted toward the minimum
number of off-street parking spaces required; however,the Planning Commission felt that garages large enough
to accommodate more than one vehicle, should be allowed to do so.
ii. Special Events—The Planning Commission agrees with the requirement in the ordinance referred to them by
City Council.
iii. Responsible Party—The Planning Commission agreed that the name and contact information of a responsible
party must be provided and kept on file. In addition,the responsible party should be able to respond to any
issue that arises within 30 minutes.The Planning Commission did not agree that the responsible party must be
on-site within 30 minutes, instead,they suggested this time limitation be changed to one (1) hour.
iv. Number of Rental Contracts-The Planning Commission felt that the number of rental contracts should be
different depending on which overlay district the property is in. If a property is located in the proposed
Oceanfront Resort or Resort Tourist overlay district,the Short Term Rental owner would be permitted two
rental contracts per week. If the property is located within the proposed East Shore Drive, North End, or the
Hollies overlay districts,the Short Term Rental owner would be permitted one rental contract per week.
v. Occupancy-The Planning Commission agrees with the requirement in the ordinance referred to them by City
Council.
vi. Residential Parking Permit Program—The Planning Commission supports the addition of this requirement since
it mirrors the condition already imposed on all properties within the boundaries of the Residential Parking
Program Permit program, which limits the property to two residential passes when used as a Short Term Rental
and no guest or temporary passes..
Additionally,the Planning Commission discussed two other amendments involving life safety requirements, as referred
to them by Councilwoman Henley. This ordinance was not advertised for the February Planning Commission meeting, so
it will not be voted on; however, it will be considered at the March public hearing.These proposed amendments are
listed below and are accompanied by the Planning Commission's suggestions.These proposed changes will also apply to
Sandbridge.
1. Life Safety—The referred Ordinance requires that an affidavit, signed by the property owner or representative,
be submitted to the Planning Department annually.This affidavit must state that the smoke alarms and carbon
monoxide detectors are in good working order,that they have been inspected in the past year, and that there is
a fire extinguisher on-site and in plain sight.The Planning Commission suggested this ordinance move forward as
referred.
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2. Deck Safety—The ordinance referred by City Council requires a safety inspection to be done annually by a
construction professional or engineer.A report must be submitted and maintained with the zoning office.The
report must indicate that all exterior decks, stairs and patios are safe for occupancy. In addition, a placard
identifying the number of occupants permitted on all exterior decks and patios must be posted on each level of
the structure.The Planning Commission supported this ordinance; however,they suggested that a report be
submitted every five years instead of annually.The Planning Commission also noted that Commonwealth of
Virginia Registered Design Professional's(architects and engineers) are qualified to generate and certify such a
safety report. Furthermore,the Planning Commissioners felt that a Commonwealth of Virginia Class A
Contractor could also generate and certify the safety report.
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021(Deferred at the
February 10, 2021 meeting) 2d
Amend the Use Tables for Short Term Rental use
Virginia Beach
Request
An Ordinance to amend Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521 and 2203 of the City Zoning Ordinance and
Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code pertaining to the requirements and use of Short Term
Rentals and overlays.
Summary of Referred Ordinance
This Ordinance amends the use tables in the City Zoning Ordinance pertaining to Short Term Rentals. In all districts
where Short Term Rentals require a Conditional Use Permit,such designation is removed. In these districts, Short Term
Rental is replaced with a new use identifying them as permitted by-right, provided all requirements of Section 241.2,
and where applicable Section 2303, are met.
Recommendation
At the Planning Commission workshops held on January 28, 2021 and February 23, 2021,the boundaries and
requirements of potential Short Term Rental overlay districts were discussed.The Planning Commission felt the
requirement for a Conditional Use Permit should depend on what potential overlay district the property is in. If a
property is in the Oceanfront Resort or Resort Tourist districts, Planning Commission felt that Short Term Rentals should
be permitted as a matter of right, provided they meet the requirements of Section 241.2 and the proposed section 2303
of the Zoning Ordinance.They felt that properties located in the other proposed overlay districts, East Shore Drive,
North End and the Hollies, should require a Conditional Use Permit for Short Term Rental uses. Any property located
outside a proposed overlay district, should not be permitted to operate a Short Term Rental unless grandfathered. No
new Conditional Use Permits may be applied for outside of the overlay districts.
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Agenda Item 2
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Applicant City of Virginia Beach Agenda Item
Planning Commission Public Hearing March 10, 2021(Deferred at the
February 10, 2021 meeting) 2e
coot Transition Rules for Short Term Rental Overlays
Virginia Beach
Request
An Ordinance establishing transition rules for the review of Short Term Rental Conditional Use Permit applications
submitted before and after the City Council date of referral.
Summary of Referred Ordinance
This Ordinance establishes transition rules for conditional use permit applications that are submitted and considered
prior to the adoption of this amendment.The transition rules are as follows:
Any application for a conditional use permit for a Short Term Rental accepted prior to the date of referral shall
be processed based upon the law existing at the time of submission.Any application accepted after the date of
referral shall be considered based upon the law applicable at the time of City Council consideration. No
application shall be unnecessarily delayed.
The date of referral referenced above is October 20, 2020.
Recommendation
At the Planning Commission workshops held on January 28, 2021 and February 23, 2021,the Planning Commission
suggested no changes to this proposed ordinance referred to them by City Council.
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bedroom. • Space within garage • Allow all parking that is
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parking plan may count. requirements to count
needs to be • Any spaces added towards parking
approved by the on-site shall be including spaces inside
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safety are present in to the zoning office every 5 years to the discussion
the existing • Must indicate all zoning office
ordinance exterior stairs,decks, • Must indicate all
porches and balconies exterior stairs,
are safe. decks,porches and
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licensed engineer or • Inspection done by
construction licensed design
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Agenda Item 2
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Item #2A(Divide 2A into Three Separate Voting Actions, (2A-1) E. Shore Drive, (2A-2) North
End and (2A-3) Oceanfront Resort)
City of Virginia Beach —A Resolution to Amend the City Zoning Ordinance Pertaining to
Short Term Rentals: To Amend Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance Establishing
Short Term Rental Overlay Districts, East Shore Drive, North End, and Oceanfront
Resort; To Add Article 23, Consisting of Sections 2300 to 2303, (Short Term Rental
Overlay Districts) to The City Zoning Ordinance Establishing Regulations and
Requirements Pertaining to Short Term Rentals in Each Overlay District, To Amend The
Official Zoning Map by the Designation and Incorporation of Property Into Short Term
Rental Overlay Districts — East Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort District; To
Amend Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521 and 2203 of the City Zoning
Ordinance and Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code Pertaining
to the Requirements and Use of Short Term Rentals and Overlays; Establishing
Transitions Rules for the Review of Conditional Use Permits for Short Term Rentals in
the Short Term Rental Overlays; To Amend Section 241.2 of the City Zoning Ordinance
pertaining to Short Term Rentals and Establishing Additional Safety Requirements.
March 10, 2021
APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY
Mr. Weiner: That is all the speakers. Alright that is all the speakers, we are going to close this
and open this up for discussion, we want to start with 2A, Mr. Kemp, we are going
to call on you to walk us through this like we did, think I know what we are going
to do here, but I am 2A consist of establish three short-term rental overlay districts,
East Shore Drive, North End, and Oceanfront Resort. Do you just want to read
through it real quick in this give us all right percentages for, if we want to do.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, I think that is the best way I will just give a brief summary
and then control the slideshow depending on what your speaking, take notes of
where the discussion goes so we have an idea, and a clear understanding when
the votes taken. So, agenda item 2A is the Ordinance to create the short-term
rental overlays, you have heard speakers talk about them. The three overlays are
East Shore Drive and as I mentioned earlier, as shown is what Council referred
you had, had the discussion of moving that southern boundary up to Shore Drive
from the Cape Henry bike trail. The second overlay district is the North End
overlay. If you will remember from this morning, you have discussed, including
The Hollies into the North End.
Mr. Weiner: Let us go back real quick my were on the Shore Drive, what was the total
percentage of the Shore Drive overlay, was it 8% from Shore Drive north, not
including to the trail. Well I think we might talk about percentages real quick.
Mr. Kemp: Bobby has given me the one second, I think he has that information.
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Mr. Weiner: At least that is what we talked about in our workshop, so I wanted to bring that up
now. So, if we want to go that direction we know what direction we are going to
go in
Mr. Kemp: Right and in the workshop the Bobby will hopefully get those numbers.
Mr. Tajan: Mr. Chair, there are just residential properties when again I was counting it this
morning just trying to eyeball, we are doing it by address points. I believe there is
165 now in that area. That is the new area that you have identified which is north
of Shore Drive to the Chesapeake Bay in the same boundaries.
Mr. Weiner: So, there is a 165 residential property, what is the percentage of STRs in that do
we do we know that number.
Mr. Tajan: I wrote it down I just do not know where. Give me one second. And, again this is
based on the information that was pulled in November, when we started the
process from the Host Compliance information. When I counted those that were
listed that Host Compliance had pulled down there were 19 properties there so 19,
it is 11.5%. Let me double check that. Give me one second.
Mr. Kemp: That sounds about right, 10% would be 190. So, 11.5% and then the density CAP
figures that were discussed at the workshop was 10%.
Mr. Weiner: It is already over that 10%. Okay. Alright, I am not doing that one. Okay, go
ahead.
Mr. Kemp: And, a short-term rental you had discussed where Council had referred it as a by
right you had discussed it as a Conditional Use Permit correct. The North End
overlay, you had discussed, including The Hollies area between 49-and-a-half to
42nd Street, including that area into the overlay district, again short-term rental
allowed by Conditional Use Permit with a density CAP of 15%.
Mr. Inman: I think we did 15%, because we were already past 11 or 12 or something.
Mr. Kemp: We were close to 15%, I forget the exact figure.
Mr. Inman: There was really never any kind of consensus about 15%.
Mr. Coston: It was just a plug number, something over 10.
Mr. Kemp: Okay. So, with a density of North End of 10.5% approximately is where we stand
right now.
Mr. Weiner: I have another question. I know you are going to hate me after today. I think I
asked this question at our workshop, how many short-term rentals do we have. I
think Summer if I am not mistaken said there is two coming up in the future for the
North End area that are coming up for Conditional Use Permit. Do you all know
that number, by chance, there is still just two coming up right now. Maybe because
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I think, Summer took a minute, was like 18 coming up in the next two or three
months, two of them were in the North End.
Mr. Kemp: I am not aware. I do not know if Bobby's checking that, I am not aware of any
additional ones that have come in from the North End. And, that stems us through
the next couple of agendas.
Mr. Weiner: Okay.
Mr. Tajan: I think the number that you were referring to Chairman Weiner is the question about
the number of short-term rentals that were coming up in The Hollies area, I think
that was Mr. Inman's question that come up. And there were no pending
applications at that point in time. Let me see if I can find the other one, if there
was one for the North End. Mr. Chairman, it is three.
Mr. Weiner: It is three in the North End coming up.
Mr. Wall: Yeah, let us recognize them and Will Miller, also have some information he would
like to share so if it is okay with you, we would like to recognize him.
Mr. Weiner: Sure definitely all information to help out.
Mr. Miller: Atlantic Avenue is one duplex, so that is two of the applications and then there is
one more in the North End, so, three in the next coming hearings.
Mr. Kemp: Okay, Will could you repeat that from the start, I think you were cut off at the
beginning.
Mr. Miller: Okay, like you said there are three in the North End coming up. However, one of
those applications is a duplex and the same owner owns both units at 8809
Atlantic.
Mr. Kemp: Okay, thank you Will. And the last overlay that was referred down to you as the
Oceanfront Resort you had discussed, including the remaining RT properties into
this, though there are few remaining. They are in the Oceanfront Resort area and
you felt that short-term rental is appropriate. This overlay you did agree that it
would be by right, you suggested that two rentals per week was appropriate for
this overlay with no density requirement. And, those are the three overlay districts
that were referred to you and included in item 2A.
Mr. Weiner: What about the RT District are we not doing that, is that going into this 2A.
Mr. Kemp: Yes that would be included in the Oceanfront Resort Overlay. And, that would be
included in the 2A.
Mr. Weiner: That is all of 2A, so, we have to make a determination on 2A. Comments. Yes
ma'am, Robyn.
Ms. Klein: I would prefer to vote on the overlays independently.
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Mr. Weiner: We cannot, we have to do 2A.
Ms. Klein: We have to do 2A. Okay, in that regard, I can support the Oceanfront Overlay, I
am having a much harder time reconciling the North End and East Shore Drive,
especially, and this will come up later on at the exclusion of the rest of the city I
think like you move to the Oceanfront you understand you are in a resort district,
but the North End and the Shore Drive favor the wealthy, and so that excludes the
rest of us in the city who may be able to take advantage of short-term rentals. So
I will be voting against 2A.
Mr. Weiner: Well, not unless we reword it.
Ms. Klein: As it is currently written.
Mr. Weiner: As it currently written, I mean personally, we could make it.
Ms. Wilson: We have looked at it again, and again, and again, and again. And I think if you
want to do it, and divide the question, what you need to do is just do East Shore
Drive, North End, Oceanfront. Do not do The Hollies we are going to put The
Hollies, that would be discussed when you do North End.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, let us go back to Shore Drive, then we go to North End, we decide if we
want to put The Hollies in North End.
Ms. Wilson: Then we can do RT in ORD. If you want to split them up that way I think we can
do that. Somebody has to move to divide the question. Okay, and then you have
to have a second and then you have to vote to do that, but that would be fine. I
think that will catch everything.
Mr. Weiner: Can we eliminate The Hollies completely, or do we have to vote on the North End
to eliminate The Hollies.
Ms. Wilson: Yeah, when you vote on the North End you will decide whether the Hollies are in
or out. Yes, but it is something they have talked about putting in, so I think you
have to decide in or out for The Hollies.
Mr. Weiner: How about if I said no more short term rentals in the North End, Shore Drive area,
only Oceanfront OT RT district, bottom line.
Ms. Wilson: That's fine. Then you wouldn't have to vote on them individually.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, we can just do 2A and I think that is where Mrs. Klein was going.
Ms. Wilson: Okay, and then, if we do that, then Ms. Oliver will need to abstain on that one.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, let's hear some comments first before we go that direction.
Mr. Coston: So, are we saying only, to cut North End and Shore Drive, cut those out of the
overlays.
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Mr. Weiner: No, cut them out completely. No short term rentals at all. Only short term rentals
in the Resort District, in the RT OR district.
Ms. Klein: Oh, I don't know that I agree with that.
Mr. Coston: I don't either.
Mr. Weiner: So, you are saying you still want short term rentals in the North End.
Ms. Klein: So, I am saying that I agree, excuse me John, for talking over you. I agree with
Oceanfront RT by right. I don't think that that should exclude other parts of the city
from being able to either by registration or by permit. This was more just a "I don't
support the by right in the Shore Drive and the North End."
Mr. Weiner: Okay, I don't think it was worded like that anyway, you know what I mean? Jack.
Mr. Wall: I was just going to make a motion. First, to split.
Mr. Weiner: I was trying not to but I think we are going to have to. But if anybody wants to
make a motion to split them up, please do.
Ms. Klein: I would like to make a motion to divide 2A into three separate votes. 2A one, two
and three, so that we vote individually on each of the overlay districts.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, do we have a second?
Mr. Coston: Second
Ms. Klein: Kay, I have a question. Voting on these districts, in the requirements for short term
rentals in the overlay districts zoning, so like if I say I vote in favor of the Oceanfront
Resort district, does that mean that I am also voting in favor of excluding the rest
of the city, or is that a separate?
Mr. Tajan: So that's why we are having trouble here right. So, if you divide the question you
are essentially saying that you want to determine that you are okay with these
overlays. If you are not okay with the overlays at all and you just want to, it sounds
like Ms. Klein, that you are talking about Conditional Use Permit everywhere in the
City, but by right in the OR and the RT district. That sounds like what you are
looking for.
Ms. Klein: Yes.
Ms. Wilson: But we are not going to do those in this section. What you have to do is probably.
Ms. Wilson: That is kind of like a completely different than what is already on the table, so you
may need, you need to take the whole question together if that makes sense.
Mr. Weiner: That is not really even in this ordinance, that is completely different. We are just
talking about the overlay in this ordinance.
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Ms. Wilson: What I will say is this is the only place the ordinance will say where STRs may be
allowed. So every place else it will not be allowed, it will be an X, not anything else.
Mr. Weiner: Right, that would be something we would have to bring up differently in the future,
bring it back, wouldn't it? The rest of the city anyway. That would be something
that Council would have to bring back to us.
Mr. Tajan: Technically, so you can take it, and Kay, you can fuss at me how you want, but
you can technically vote on whether you support or not support City Council's
proposal, right? But what you are doing is you are bringing forward your own
recommendation, ok? And so you need to have consensus on your own
recommendation moving forward. So, you can vote either up or down, thumbs up
thumbs down on what City Council sent you, or you can say in place of that, we
recommend this. And so, the key is when you recommend this, you should
probably have a consensus on what you want to do, probably determine if there is
any support for any alternatives, which is what is kind of what's on the table at this
point. Kay, I think that is the easiest way to kind of explain it?
Ms. Wilson: Okay, so if you want to have a discussion about everybody else, about the rest of
the City, make it a discussion and then you can divide that question too. Okay Ms.
Klein?
Ms. Oliver: So I just want to be clear, because I thought during workshops we had pretty much
clarified this. The way it's presented to us, handled down from Council, as this
Ordinance is written,we had discussed in the workshops, specific things according
to the overlays.And one of those was that if the overlay was chosen to be removed
from these two or three areas, which, let's take out OR and RT, but Shore Drive
and North End, that there would not be any short-term rentals permitted at all. Just
like Council has asked for the rest of the city.
Mr. Weiner: That's what I was understanding.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, and while Kay is talking, let me explain a little because this got all muddied
together. Because you have item 2 and then it's broken up. What 2A is, is the
boundaries of any overlay district, so you are dealing with the area included in the
overlay. What B deals with is amending the zoning map, then you have C which is
the requirements.
Mr. Weiner: Back up a minute. So, A & B, let's think about this a minute. If we break up A, we
may have to break up B.
Mr. Kemp: Well, B, whatever is voted on in A and approved in A, B just goes and coincides
with that to update the official zoning map.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, so let us go this route. Let us get this route we got a motion on the table to
break them up. Okay, and a second. Let us vote on that,then we can break these
up, and then we can determine we can talk about each individual one. Does
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sounds good everybody? All right, so we have a motion by Ms. Klein, and a second
by Mr. Coston, to break these up and vote them on individually.
Ms. Sandloop:Okay, Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of seven in favor zero against you have agreed to divide 2A into
three different questions.
Mr. Weiner: Real quick, for the record, Mr. Horsley has left the meeting.
Ms. Sandloop:Thank you. So, noted.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item #2A - 1
City of Virginia Beach — East Shore Drive Overlay District
March 10, 2021
RECCOMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: Okay. So, now we are voting on now we need to go to 2A-1, East Shore Drive.
Mr. Kemp: And 2A-1 just to be clear, we have talked about density, whether it is a Conditional
Use Permit or not, that those are addressed in 2C and 2D. What 2A is, is just the
boundary. I know it's muddied the waters a little when we have discussed them
along with the boundary but what 2A is, is the boundary and the area included in
any short-term rental overlay.
Mr. Weiner: But we still have to determine if we want to let this keep going, or do we want to
put a cap on it.
Mr. Kemp: Correct. And that is a discussion,
Mr. Weiner: Right, it is only 165 houses residential houses in that area. So, what do we want
to do about that.
Mr. Inman: Well is one legitimate issue that we do not want an overlay?
Mr. Coston: I thought it is where we were kind of headed to, no overlay.
Mr. Weiner: That is what I wanted to do and do it all at one time, we are going to be breaking
them up. So, somebody make a motion or discussion.
Ms. Klein: I move that there be no overlay on East Shore Drive.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion for no overlay.
Ms. Oliver: I will second that.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Ms. Klein and second by Ms. Oliver. We are ready for vote.
Mr. Tajan: Do you want to have any further discussion?
Mr. Weiner: No, we are just saying no overlay at all, it's no overlay whatsoever.
Ms. Oliver: And just to clarify that means no more STRs in that area, is that correct?
Mr. Weiner: That is not correct.
Ms. Oliver: No, that's not correct?
Mr. Inman: Not necessarily. It's a start.
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Mr. Tajan: So just to understand and this is where we get into the complicatedness of a
zoning. So, this is the actual zoning district that is being created. There are rules
that go into the zoning district right, or can be globally changed for the city. So,
those rules that are globally changed, as Kevin noted is going to come up in 2C
and 2D, so right now if we just want to say we are not going to have the overlay
and then you will look through those zoning regulations without overlay, without
this overlay in place. Does that make sense.
Mr. Kemp: Yeah, so you would not be putting special conditions that did not apply elsewhere
onto this one specific area.
Mr. Wall: Just before we do vote, let us do have a brief discussion on the reasons why and
not, not why to support this overlay district.
Ms. Klein: I'll start since I kind of started it. So, I based on what we have heard from the
community, it does not sound like that as a whole, the East Shore Drive residents
are amenable to the idea of having a by right short-term rental overlay, not that
they want to exclude short-term rentals entirely, but they do not want to allow a by
right overlay. And so my motion is to say that we do not have a by right overlay
on East Shore Drive. Right, that's what I said?
Mr. Weiner: Was it worded like that to begin with?
Mr. Inman: An overlay does not have to be by-right.
Mr. Weiner: It can be an overlay with Conditional Use Permits, which that is the way it was
supposed to be. So,this was an overlay with Conditional Use Permits, that is what
we are trying to do. So, if we say no overlay, now people can actually still come
back in with a Conditional Use Permit for this area and try and get a short-term
rental in this area.
Ms. Klein: Yeah, I am okay with that.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, but just not in this overlay so that means we are going to go back to what
we were doing from day one, six years ago and we are going to listen to each one
individually in the future.
Ms. Klein: So, I am not saying that I agree with that, I apologize I could not have been at the
last workshop, I also was not here six years ago. I am saying that, aside from the
Oceanfront Resort, I do not think certain parts of the city should have special
privileges over others and I apologize that that was unclear and I did not say that
properly.
Mr. Weiner: I understood what you were saying, I understood exactly what you were saying.
Ms. Oliver: Wait, I just had to ask Robyn a question. So, when you said special privileges over
the rest of the city. What does that mean, I'm just curious because now all of a
sudden I am thinking.
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Ms. Klein: Sure. So the way I read this right now, and based on Kevin's wonderful
presentation earlier today, East Shore Drive and North End overlays would be
permitted short-term rentals under certain conditions, and the Oceanfront Resort
overlay would be permitted short-term rentals by right. That is my understanding.
What my ultimate point opinion is, is that I think that the Oceanfront Resort should
receive short-term rentals by right. Okay, so that one I agree with, I think the rest
of the city should have the opportunity to run a short-term rental, not that I agree
with the method that we have right now to go about it, but I do not think that
residents in Centerville or Kempsville should be excluded.
Ms. Oliver: So, okay so that is what I am trying to. Yeah, but I do not know and I have just
thrown this back out to you, Kevin. That is not the discussion at hand for this
particular ordinance.
Mr. Kemp: Well, it all ties in, because if you wanted to have the Oceanfront Resort overlay,
and then treat the rest of the city in a different way, you would have to remove this
overlay from the ordinance going forward.
Mr. Weiner: So actually,there is a North End overlay we are just not going to permit your short-
term rental.
Mr. Kemp: It was going to be an overlay on an overlay.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. So, let us get back to this, go back to the East Shore Drive real quick. So
we have a motion on table to take the overlay off and a second, to take the overlay
out, okay. If we vote on that and that goes, somebody can still go back in there
with a Conditional Use Permit, next month.
Mr. Tajan: So, we have not gotten to that discussion yet right. We need to get there so the
key is, is that I am going to try to, I am trying to summarize, in an easy way it is not
easy because it is all in pieces right. So the overlays were used to say when they
were referred to you the overlays were used to say this is where short-term rental
should be, and it should not be anywhere else. That is the general concept, so if
you say that you do not want this overlay here, that's the saying that, that in that
general thought you are not distinguishing this as someplace that is different, that
should be treated differently either for or against short-term rental. Does that make
sense. So, if you remove this, if you choose to remove this or if you and you
choose to remove the North End, short-term overlay district,then the questions for
the regulations become a different discussion if that makes sense.
Mr. Inman: Okay. It seems to me that we once talked about putting these limits on and using
the overlay to do so. Limits in those. So if we eliminate the overlay, then we now
have lost the ability to put a cap on short-term rentals in those areas.
Mr. Weiner: And it gets deeper from that. That means some because I understand where we
are coming from, you do not want to see the whole city not be able to have short-
term rentals. That's basically what you're getting at. And I think there's uhm, so I
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guess we are just going to have to have a consensus on us between us. We agree
with that. Somebody needs to speak up.
Mr. Coston: I agree with that.
Mr. Weiner: So, you agree to having short-term rentals in the whole city. Okay,to for the whole
city. I personally do not, I do not, okay to say no to Mike does not. Jack.
Mr. Wall: I think that we also have the grandfathering aspect of it, which is going to come up
2C. So that to me that kind of plays into it also.
Mr. Weiner: It does and it doesn't but not in this particular one it is going to come in 2C I think
that's something 2C.
Mr. Wall: Right and I did hear from the residents,from a fairly large percentage of those who
lived in the Shore Drive East Shore Drive area that they were, they were opposed
to this, being treated differently. You know, having an overlay on them that treats
them differently than the rest of the city. So then, that kind of weighs was on me.
It wasn't just those who spoke today it was quite a bit of correspondence that we
did receive, so that that does weigh on me in this aspect.
Ms. Oliver: Well, the way I, the way I read and heard them was with this particular overlay,
was that, yes,they did not like being singled out as far as this was where the short-
term rentals were supposed to be. And from what I gathered, they did not want
them, or did not want any more. They do not want any more, no more to this
neighborhood. It's a neighborhood and they did not, they were like cap it, stop it.
Mr. Inman: Absolutely right.
Ms. Oliver: Yeah, and to the point where Whitney had even said, you know, we will take the
southern side of the overlay out to protect it, to keep them from having any more
but they were saturated enough, and there were enough letters to, I thought to
warrant that. So that's where I was coming from and taking the overlay out was,
because the rest of the city was out of that, and not and I totally get where you're
coming from, but I was looking at this particular concentrated area.And so in order
to take it out of the overlay I was trying to stop the addition of STRs that were
already there. Not that the ones that were there could not operate but more of
them, because it is such a high density area.
Mr. Weiner: Ms. Wilson. To get around this, because I think this has changed. Can we look at
a substitute motion, or do we have to vote on this.
Ms. Wilson: You can substitute Ms. Klein's motion, but you are just making this even more
complicated.
Mr. Weiner: I know, but now that we understand where we are at, I think I think there's a lot of
us here who do not want to follow through with that motion.
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Ms. Wilson: Okay the motion was that we would remove the East Shore Drive overlay, as a by
right use of STRs.
Mr. Weiner: Slash no short-term rentals at all?
Ms. Wilson: No, that is not what that says.
Mr. Weiner: Alright. So, how do you all feel about that, I'm not on board with that. Somebody
needs to make a motion.
Ms. Wilson: So we need to vote on that, somebody needs to make a substitute motion.
Mr. Weiner: Somebody. Do you understand what the substitute motion would be? The
substitute motion would be that we actually had to go back to an overlay and just
have the caps, stop, no more short-term rentals there. Have an overlay, yes, there
is an overlay there, with no more short-term rentals allowed. We can do that.
Mr. Wall: I do not think that would be the right, I think it would just be not having an overlay
period. And not treat it any differently than the rest of the city.
Mr. Inman: How does that helps stop the flow. I do not know,
Mr. Weiner: Let us try to figure it out how to stop the flow.
Mr. Tajan: So, the question still has to be asked whether, if you take this out of overlay so
remember, you are the overlay is identifying something specific about this area
that means it should be treated differently. Okay, if you are removing the overlay,
and you plan on treating it like the rest of the city, we still need to get back to the
discussion. The rest of the city is it not permitted? Which is what, which is what
the consensus is right, that is what we took down as the consensus, was that the
short-term rentals were no longer permitted outside of any of the overlay districts.
So that is where staff is sitting right now, because that's the information we have.
Mr. Weiner: So if we get at this vote on this then, we go to the North End, we vote on the North
End and keep the overlay there and cap, do a percentage there and that will take
away everything from the city, the rest of the city.
Mr. Coston: I did not hear the same thing from the North End that I heard from Shore Drive.
Mr. Inman: That because you did not read the 625 pages.
Mr. Coston: We are not short-term enthusiast you say it. Well, we know short-term rentals are
here to stay. We just want to make sure they're monitored better, even, and there
are a lot more people who say they wanted them that we heard from today, than
not, but the ones who did not want them, said, let us monitor them better and make
sure they are safer for us.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, let us get through East Shore Drive, because I think we know that we don't
want an overlay.
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Ms. Klein: So we have the question as to whether or not we will allow short-term rentals in
the rest of the city, that is a part of 2C.
Mr. Kemp: That will ultimately be resolved, I mean that is a decision that has to be made it
would ultimately be resolved in 2D, which is where we update the use permit or
the use tables and each section where short-term rentals are permitted. So you
could have short-term rentals in OR district, a "P"- permitted short-term rentals in
North End, a "C"conditional short-term rentals everywhere else in the city, and "X"
for prohibited, "P"for permitted you could do it through that with the use table.
Ms. Klein: Okay, so I understand what Mike is saying, regarding if there's no overlay we
cannot cap it. Right. Okay. And that the question of whether or not we allow it,
other places in the city is a different question that we can answer farther down.
Mr. Kemp: Correct, yes that is addressed in our use tables.
Ms. Klein: Okay, so I would like to revise my own motion.
Mr. Weiner: Can we do that.
Ms. Klein: Okay. I would like to revise my motion to approve the East Shore Drive overlay
with a cap of 11.5%. Okay, so I move that we approve the East Shore Drive
overlay within an 11.5% density cap.
Ms. Wilson: What do you mean by East Shore Drive overlay, is that all the way - all of it or just
Shore Drive? I guess that is whatever that is.
Mr. Kemp: Is it what Council referred down, which is what you are seeing on the map, or did
you want to move that southern boundary up?
Mr. Weiner: What does that do to the houses, north, south of the Shore Drive to the trail.
Mr. Kemp: If you move the boundary up to Shore Drive the houses of south of the trail would
no longer be in the overlay, so if you prohibited short-term rentals elsewhere in the
city they would be prohibited in that area.
Mr. Weiner: Perfect for me.
Mr. Inman: So we want to modify the definition of the overlay in your motion.
Ms. Klein: I am modifying it to stop at Shore Drive?
Mr. Inman: Correct.
Mr. Weiner: North of Shore Drive
Ms. Wilson: I guess the next question is, in the overlay, let's get them all done, let's not parcel
them out for the next six hours.What is, do you want, okay, you are going to do an
overlay, is that they are going to be permitted by right?
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Ms. Klein: No.
Ms. Wilson: Permitted with a CUP?
Ms. Klein: Yes.
Ms. Wilson: Let's go ahead and get that here. Because all you are really doing here is getting
it so that I can write it.
Ms. Klein: So if there is a 10% cap or 11.5% cap, does it matter if there is?
Mr. Inman: Yes, because they could go away. It could go down to 8%
Ms. Klein: But does it matter if we do the permits verses the registration?
Mr. Weiner: What do you mean?
Ms. Klein: So, if it's a, can we do an 11.5% by right.
Mr. lnman: No.
Ms. Klein: You have to do a CUP?
Mr. Kemp: You could but it sounds like the discussion is more that, the desire would be that if
this area dropped under that percentage and there was still density left, that any
property that wish to do it would require a CUP. That Council still would want, you
know, you would still want to see those properties.
Ms. Klein: Okay
Ms. Wilson: Okay, so where we are is you have made a motion for the East Shore Drive overlay
that would be bounded by Shore Drive. That any short-term rentals in the overlay
would require a CUP, and that you want a cap for density of 11.5%.
Ms. Oliver: No.
Mr. Weiner: Yes, that's it.
Ms. Oliver: No, don't panic. Are we at 11.5 there or 10? I thought we were at 10.5 on Shore
Drive. That is, I am just checking the numbers.
Mr. Kemp: The earlier number we had calculated was 11.5.
Ms. Oliver: Just on the north side?
Mr. Kemp: That is 19 short term rentals of 165 properties.
Ms. Oliver: On the north side of Shore Drive?
Mr. Kemp: On the north side of Shore Drive.
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Ms. Oliver: Okay
Mr. Weiner: So, we have a motion by Ms. Klein, we need a second.
Ms. Wilson: Well actually this was an amendment to her motion. So we need the second to
agree with her motion.
Mr. Coston: I agree for the second.
Ms. Klein: Which was the original motion?
Mr. Weiner: So, we have an amendment to Ms. Klein motion and second by Mr. Coston.
Ms. Sandloop:The original second was by Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: I second.
Ms. Wilson: Okay, before the vote Ms. Oliver needs to disclose.
Ms. Oliver: Ms. Oliver, needs to disclose that she owns a piece of property in The Hollies. The
address of it is 4500 Oceanfront Avenue. And so,with that I will abstain from voting
on the addition or the exclusion of The Hollies when we go to vote on that. But
that all other short term rentals
Ms. Wilson: Where is your short term rental located?
Mr. Weiner: What street?
Ms. Oliver: It is located in The Hollies, 45th Street. That is the address is 4500 Oceanfront. I
said.
Ms. Wilson: 4500 Oceanfront is there. However, for all the other STRs you are only disclosing
this fact, because you feel you are a member of a group, and you can
independently, objectively, and in the public interest, be unbiased for those votes.
Ms. Oliver: Yes, I do. I can be unbiased and all the rest of the votes. Thank you.
Ms. Wilson: Okay, then we are going to put that in all of them. Wherever she abstains, when
she's going to abstain on one and then she is going to disclose on the others. And
what we will put is disclosure and I will give you a letter tomorrow.
Ms. Oliver: Yes, ma'am.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, we are ready for the vote.
Ms. Sandloop:Okay, so it is an amended motion by Ms. Klein to approve the East Shore Drive
overlay with a density cap of 11.5% and the boundaries modified to stop north of
Shore Drive.
Mr. Weiner: Yes ma'am, with Conditional Use Permits
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Ms. Sandloop:With Conditional Use Permits. Thank you very much. Okay, Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop: Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By a vote of seven in favor zero against you have approved the motion to approve
the East Shore Drive overlay with modifications as described.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2A - 2
City of Virginia Beach — North End Overlay District to include The Hollies
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: Okay, on to the North End. So, we really kind of know what we just did. So, the
North End should be a little bit easier.
Mr. Coston: So you want to do the same thing?
Mr. Inman: Should be easier.
Mr. Weiner: So, we know we are going to do. We are at the North End, we are at a 10.6%.
And, of what's in there now, and we can do it. I do not see why we can't keep it at
10.6% Yes.
Ms. Oliver: So, Kay, I have one legal question for you. When we talk about these percentages
to cap them, so that there are no additional STRs in these overlays, does that hold
up. I mean, how.
Ms. Wilson: What would happen is now when another one comes before Planning as an
application, they will have to figure out if it is below the percentage that is in the
ordinance. If it is above the ordinance, they can still go forward with, that would
be the main part of the staff report and the staff report should probably say and it
needs to be denied.
Ms. Oliver: So, how do we, if the objective here is to stop the addition of them. How does that
how do we implement that, with, is there an additional, something that we can add
to that, so that we if we say 10.6% is the saturation point of which this particular
area can handle STRs. That the ones that already existing can obviously exist and
should there be no more, should it go below that then we can add into it but, how
do we protect these particular delicate areas from that happening.
Mr. Inman: I think what Kay just said, keep statistics and then they have to calculate it when
an application comes in, and say I'm sorry, this area is saturated.
Ms. Oliver: But you said it would still come forward.
Mr. Inman: They can't process that application.
Ms. Wilson: It would still come forward.
Ms. Oliver: It would still come forward to Planning
Mr. Weiner: Then we deny it.
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Mr. Inman: But my question is, what goes into that statistic to determine the 10.6% Is it
permitted, by CUPs, is it grandfathered?
Mr. Weiner: I think the overall STRs, whether the grandfathered, and they are legal, that would
be the percent.
Mr. Inman: So, we got to list the grandfathered, the CUPs.
Mr. Weiner: Yes, I would say yes, he's shaking his head.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, the methodology would be, we are going to have a number of dwelling units
in that area, and that's our base number to go off of. We will also have and we do
not have it yet, because we do have to go through applications and registrations,
but in the relative near future we are going to establish how many grandfathered
we have, how many Conditional Use Permits. Basically how many short-term
rentals are in that area, because we have that number,there might be some illegal
ones that we will regulate, because if they are not legal, of course, you know they
cannot. But that is how the regulatory method. We will have the total number of
units and when an application comes in or registration comes in, if it is a new
property, we will compare it to and see if there is room in that overlay district for
that short-term rental to operate.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, we good?
Ms. Wilson: We've gotta decide if we are going to modify this a little bit. We are all gathering
we are trying to make sure we can do the best thing, okay. So I am sorry it is not
all done and we cannot do this. But what we can do is, in when somebody comes
in to get an STR in the North End or in the East Shore Drive, what would happen
is, Mister Zoning Administrator would make a determination whether or not they
could apply whether or not it could not be done. And then the route of appeal is
through the BZA, just like any other determination by Mr. Kemp. Okay, then it
would not come to you unless the BZA says, you know, disagrees with him.
Mr. Weiner: Sounds good.
Mr. Inman: Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Weiner: Yes sir.
Mr. Inman: But before we move on to the next topic, I just want to say for the record of about
why I am having a sort of a change of mind not since our last discussion really, but
just having thought about what we are going through with short-term rentals. The
reasons that you know we are seeing increasing public resistance. It is building
and building every time we have a consideration of this, and it is become clearer
that it is not a very popular idea with the most of the people. Number two,we have
enforcement problems, not because they do not want to enforce it, it is just a
question of, of manpower and detection, and all kinds of issues with trying to
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enforce our rules. And we do not need to have more problems with enforcement
than we've already got. And we need to recognize the impact of internet business
and entrepreneurial activity, that we have so many people entering into this
business, that never really thought about doing it, and maybe, you know COVID
has had an impact on escalation of that but I think it is going to be permanent. And
I think it is time to recognize it, but we are in a new dimension of resort rental
property ownership.
Mr. Weiner: Very well said.
Mr. Coston: Mr. Inman. I think that there is a proposal to hire people based on revenues raised
from this business. My understanding is they got cut last year because of COVID
not being sure what the income was going to be like, but there will be some
enhancement in that enforcement power.
Mr. Inman: That would be great.
Ms. Oliver: And, to be honest with you on that note, and, and I have got to go along, if I can
get my internet backup, but with Mike on that. What was concerning was they had
talked about the short-term rentals,with a real estate management companies, but
we have zoning for a specific reason.And we have residential areas to differentiate
against the industrial areas and our businesses and what is concerning. One was
the,what happened this past weekend, because the neighbors sent me the videos,
and I sent them to Bobby and passed them on and to see and hear the activity that
was going on and, granted it was an illegal STR. But, had it been one that we had
approved it, I do not think it would not have changed the behavior. He just
happened he just didn't happen to register it. But to hear the gunshots,to hear the
screaming, to watch the police to see that this group, it didn't bother them. They
were selling tickets, they was a shoot out at 3am on Friday morning or Saturday
morning and they came back and they did it again the following night. It was
difficult for them to get it under, under control. So, at one point, we are standing
there and we are listening to both sides, and what you hear is, this is our
neighborhood, the proximity of it just happens to be near the ocean, it is a public
beach. They deal with the public all the time, and these people pay an enormous
amount of real estate taxes on this property so I have, I kind of have this thing
where it is these STRs where we bring all this revenue to the city. Well, the real
estate taxes alone is large on these small pieces of property, which is revenue for
the city. Along with that you had all these people kept saying, Well, it is my right,
it is my property, it is a, I bought this to start a business. Well if you bought it to
start a business, then you need to be in an area that zoned for that, not in an area
that's zoned as a neighborhood, to protect this particular, these are us, we are
because we are all residents of the city we all live. For the most part we do not
live in an industrially zoned area or a business area. We live in a residentially
zoned areas so that we know that we have consistent neighbors throughout. You
buy one or two houses in your life and that's where you live and you grow up and
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you raise your kids and you have dogs and you do all those things. And all of a
sudden, it's become a right or it appears to, from one person after another to buy
property in a residential area and start to conduct a business. And, I am not sure
that is exactly where we are intending for our city to go. I am not against short-
term rentals or long term rentals or anything like that, but I am not in favor of this
changing or morphing into what it's become. And it is become a burden to the city
and its residents, and to Planning Staff and to Zoning, because they cannot
possibly monitor or chase this, they just cannot, and so now we have we have we
have introduced a different type of entity into an area that was never designed to
handle something like that and I just have a difficult time with it. I am sorry.
Mr. Inman: And to add to that, our zoning code, when it talks about residential districts it sets
the tone for residential districts, it talks about certain accessory uses that are
harmonious with a residential community living. And I do not think this is a large
number of quasi-commercial if you want to call it, that enterprise is then
harmonious with residential living.
Mr. Weiner: So, I do not want to bring more into this but I think we have been the City of Virginia
Beach, has been very lenient with short-term rentals, through this process we have
been dealing with this for the past five, six years, compared to other cities. So, I
mean, where we are at now we have a lot. The map that Mike sent out to us the
other day if you clicked on the amount of short-terminals that are in cities, there is
quite a few, so I have no problem with what direction we are going in right now.
Saying that, good segue into North End unless y'all have something. Okay, North
End. Right now at North End we are at 10.6%. And we put, we just put a cap on
the Shore Drive area, how do we want to work the North End.
Ms. Klein: Where does the 15% cap come from,.
Mr. Weiner: We just made it up the other night.
Ms. Klein: Okay, we really do not need to be there.
Ms. Klein: Okay, the 10.6, does that include the Hollies or is that excluding the ones that are
in The Hollies.
Mr. Tajan: That includes The Hollies.
Ms. Klein: So, I would support a motion with a 10.6% cap.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Do you want to make the motion.
Ms. Klein: I move to accept the North End overlay to include The Hollies, and to cap short-
term rentals by Conditional Use Permit to 10.6%.
Mr. Kemp: And just to be clear, it is the boundaries as shown as what is referred to Council
plus The Hollies.
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Mr. Weiner: That is correct. I do have a motion. Do we have a second.
Mr. Coston: Second.
Mr. Weiner: I have motion by Ms. Klein and a second by Mr. Coston, comments.
Ms. Sandloop:This is a vote on the North End Overlay District to approve the North End Overlay
District with a density cap of 10.6% and with the addition of The Hollies. Mr.
Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver is abstaining. Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of six in favor of and zero against with one abstention. You have
approved the North End Overlay District as modified.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
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Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2A - 3
City of Virginia Beach — Oceanfront Resort (to include properties zoned RT Districts)
Overlay District
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: Okay, now we go to OR district, Oceanfront Resort district, which is going to
include the RT district, we will include the RT, and we will also we are going to
change it to, is this where we change it the two rentals per week, allowed and also
this will be by right.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, I think we included all that and we are just knocking this out.
Mr. Weiner: I like to have that in motion.
Mr. Alcaraz: I was ready to make that motion, it is going to be easy one. I like to make a motion
that we create the overlay district for the oceanfront, adding the RT zoning districts,
STRs permitted by right, two rental contracts permitted per seven day period.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Alcaraz.
Ms. Klein: I will second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a second by Ms. Klein. Mr. Inman did you have a comment.
Mr. Inman: I just wanted to clarify that the territory shown on the overlay, is it the pink on the
map?
Mr. Kemp: On which map, on the far left, it is the orange and in the middle map the pink are
actually streets or property, so it is really there is very few properties. There is one
RT4 in the middle of Old Beach, the RT3 property the blue you see, that is only a
few properties down by Winston Salem, a majority of that blue area is water. And
as you can see there is some scattered RT3 properties but, I mean we are talking
a handful of properties in the city. And I do not believe any of them are north of
the one RT4 property left in Old Beach, they are all south of that.
Mr. Inman: Alright.
Mr. Weiner: That is correct.
Mr. Alcaraz: Mr. Weiner let me amend that include OR district and what I just said to. I just said
RT3, it is OR district.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, yeah, OR district, okay. We are ready for vote.
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Ms. Sandloop:Okay, so the motion made by Mr. Alcaraz is for the Oceanfront Resort District to
include the RT, by right, with two rentals per seven day period. Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of seven in favor zero against the North End Overlay District has
been recommended for approval as modified.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2B
City of Virginia Beach —An Ordinance to amend the Official Zoning Map by the
designation and incorporation of property into Short Term Rental Overlay Districts — East
Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort District
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL — HEARD
Mr. Weiner: No problem. Okay. We are on the 2B, let's rock and roll.
Mr. Kemp: So, 2B just to remind you is, now that you have voted on proposed overlays, it
would be taking the areas you voted on and putting those onto our official zoning
map, which is kept in in the Zoning Office. That is what you're voting on.
Mr. Weiner: I need a motion.
Ms. Klein: I would like to a motion to amend the official zoning map by the designation and
incorporation of property into short-term rental overlay districts, East Shore Drive,
North End, and Oceanfront Resort District.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion, do we have a second.
Mr. Alcaraz: Second.
Mr. Weiner: We have a second my Mr. Alcaraz.
Ms. Sandloop:Okay, calling for the vote. Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop: Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
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Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of seven in favor and zero against you have approved an
ordinance to amend the official zoning map by the.
Mr. Kemp: Just to be on the record, just to be clear, that was amend the zoning map to the
areas that were discussed and approved in 2A
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 2
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSEBT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2C
City of Virginia Beach —An Ordinance to add Article 23, consisting of Sections 2300
through 2303 (Short Term Rental Overlay Districts), to the City Zoning Ordinance
establishing regulations and requirements pertaining to Short Term Rentals in each
Overlay District
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL — HEARD
Mr. Kemp: Now 2C we start to get to the meat and potatoes. These are the requirements that
City Council referred down, to be in the overlay districts. So, Mr. Chair, however
you would like to go through this, would you just like to.
Mr. Weiner: We went through it this morning. Does anybody have any changes. Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: So I do, now that I have a better understanding. I would like to amend the
established overlay districts. For this, the parts of the city that are outside of these
three new overlays, that we permit STRs with Conditional Use Permit it is at a cap
of, 10-15% that encompasses the entire rest of the city. And or allowing STRs by
right for those who use the home as their primary residence, so that would allow
like military that goes overseas or families that travel or whatever.
Mr. Inman: Is not that home sharing.
Mr. Weiner: Not they are not there. You mean if they leave and want to rent their house.
Ms. Klein: Right, If I own a house and then I deploy for six months, I want to be able to rent
my home out well I am gone, but it is still my primary residence.
Mr. Weiner: Not by right though. It would still have to be a Conditional Use Permit. I don't know
if I am 100% on board with that.
Ms. Wilson: I have a second to discuss it.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Discussion. I think Mike Inman and Dee Oliver have already voiced their
opinion on that particular the rest of the city, and I feel the same way as in I believe
we have enough short-term rentals outside the area. I do not feel like we need
more short-term rentals inside neighborhoods, they are not businesses like that so
I cannot be, I got to say no to that. George.
Mr. Wall: Well, so, what was the motion was for primary residence to allow short-term rentals
and also to provide a cap on the rest of the city, at some undetermined percentage
5-10% of them like that okay, yeah. I think that is the point of the overlay districts
is to limit that and limit the additional short-term rentals. And then, the ability to use
the home, if it is a principal residence, I think that includes less than six months. I
think that is how it would be defined, I think there are other communities that do
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that but I do not think that is really, since we have not necessarily approached that
at this point, I mean I am not necessarily on board with that.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, so, we have a motion and we have a second. So, we need to vote on that
the motion. Can you go through that motion one more time please.
Ms. Klein: The motion is to permit STRs outside the overlay district at a cap of, whatever they
are as of this date, which would not allow more, and to allow residents to use their
homes and STR as their principal residence.
Mr. Weiner: You wanted that by right or Conditional Use Permit?
Ms. Klein: By Conditional Use Permit.
Ms. Sandloop:Okay. So, I have a motion by Ms. Klein and a second by Mr. Coston. Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Nay.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Nay.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Nay.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: No.
Ms. Sandloop:We have a vote of three in favor and four against, therefore the motion has failed.
Mr. Weiner: So, now it will stay the same, moving forward. Anybody have anything else?
Mr. Wall: So, the grandfathering aspect of, is that in the one once if we move for
grandfathering of the existing STRs. Where is that place.
Mr. Weiner: I think the terminology grandfathering is not correct, in this particular aspect. What
it needs to say, is actually on the existing Conditional Use Permit, after five years
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it will be administratively reviewed at five years. Because grandfathered is
grandfathered, that is they are not going to come back.
Mr. Wall: I thought the point of the overlay districts was. I mean, that once it reaches that
administrative review five years then it terminates.
Mr. Weiner: It does but we said it in our workshop that we do not want that. We want that to
be five years to be administratively reviewed.
Mr. Wall: Administrative really reviewed, and I am on board with that, but I just want to make
sure that that is that that's clarified, because I am not on board with that.
Mr. Kemp: So for grandfathering as its referred down and as the discussion has been a
grandfathered STR. That was grandfathered, not one that got a Conditional Use
Permit but a grandfathered STR, has that grandfathering status. It does not lose
that status. I know staff had brought up the fact that we may want to have a time
period where that would be taken away but that did not move forward. So as it
stands, a grandfathered property would keep their grandfathered status.
Mr. Kemp: Now they can, okay so then that brings up the Conditional Use Permit for the
administrative review, and five years. So now, where does that stand.
Mr. Weiner: That is going to be in this particular 2C, when we vote on this we are going to have
to. Actually it is not in here so we are going to have to add it in on whoever makes
the motion, we will need to add that into this 2C, if we are all on board with that.
We all on board with that? To add that into 2C. And the other, the only other issue
that I was thinking, which is item number eight, where it says, oh, I'm sorry, that is
what Council sent us, we changed it around and kept it as one rental per week.
Correct. And is that still in here one rental per week?
Mr. Kemp: Except in the OR district.
Mr. Weiner: I am talking yes exactly yeah this is the rest of the city and the overlay districts.
That is one rental per week, and on the Conditional Use Permits, after five years
will be administratively reviewed, not denied.
Mr. Wall: So, how does that affect. So these are, these conditions just for the, these
conditions affecting our city or do they affect.
Mr. Tajan: So, these conditions as are drafted will affect the specific overlays. So the one
rental per week is specific and effects then what you would propose is the North
End overlay and the East Shore Drive Overlay. For everyone else is limited by the,
by what they were approved under, if that makes sense. So the grandfathered
ones technically can do, concurrently still do two rentals per 7-day period, that
Conditional Use Permits will be based on whatever their conditions are at the time
of their approval. But moving forward,this is what,this is what everyone that would
get a Conditional Use Permit would be limited to.
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Mr. Wall: Okay what about Sandbridge.
Mr. Tajan: This does not impact Sandbridge. The only amendments in any of this proposal
that affects Sandbridge are the life safety requirements for the deck inspections,
and the fire extinguishers and other things like that.
Mr. Weiner: How do we make this notion.
Mr. Kemp: Chairman, if you want
Mr. Weiner: You want to make a motion?
Mr. Kemp: No, I cannot make a motion. I can briefly clarify the things that I understand as
varying from what Council referred to you, and just make sure that we are all on
the same page. One rental per week, rather than Council's 52 per year, CUP
administratively approved, that was added on. You wanted to add on that a sign
be posted on the outside of the short-term rental with contact information visible
from the right of way. Parking, a minor change from one garage space to all
available garage spaces, so if you had more than one you could use more than
one towards your parking requirement. Responsible party to be able to be on site
in one hour rather than 30 minutes. And that is what I have for what I varied from
what Council referred to you.
Mr. Weiner: Okay.
Ms. Klein: The thing that we already voted on, whether or not to have the overlay districts is
that excluded from this new motion because we already voted on it.
Mr. Wall: Yes, what you voted on. Yes, we will have to go through because some of what
you voted on may land in 2C, but we will have to vet that out, such as density
requirements, because as I said 2A was just the boundaries, but those will be
specific.
Ms. Klein: We are voting on the changes for 2C. We already had a vote on a city, the rest of
the city, overlay district. We just like before.
Mr. Wall: Right, you have already voted not to allow short-term rentals in the entire city by
Conditional Use Permit.
Ms. Klein: So, will the next vote exclude that section of 2C.
Mr. Kemp: The next vote, these regulations will only pertain to the overlay districts. It will not
pertain to the rest of the city. In the rest of the city, they will be prohibited.
Ms. Klein: So, if I vote in favor am, I saying that I agree with no STRs and the rest of the city.
Mr. Tajan: No, you are just agreeing with these regulations. If you vote yes, you are agreeing
with these regulations that you are proposing the, the number of parking spaces
no special events, responsible party must respond within 30 minutes and
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physically be present in one hour. Number of rental contracts, you are agreeing,
you are saying that those are appropriate, those rules.
Ms. Klein: Right, but I do not agree when we get down like to violations, I agree with that one.
I do not agree with the established overlay districts where it says new STRs
prohibited outside of overlay districts.
Mr. Kemp: Right and that is where this worksheet, blended if you have already voted on a few
that are included in there. So really, if you look at the staff report under the
recommendation section that's what you're voting on. In this, with the additions I
made.
Mr. Weiner: I understand where Robin is coming from. Once we vote on this for the overlay
districts, yes that means that these can't happen outside of the overlay districts,
short term rentals.
Ms. Klein: Right, because I agree with all of the rest of them. I do not agree with that one.
And so, I want to make sure that it is clear.
Mr. Weiner: The only way that you could do is say no to the whole thing.
Ms. Klein: Okay.
Mr. Weiner: Okay.
Ms. Klein: That was my question, thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, so who remember what we had to make a motion.
Mr. Coston: Before we vote I've got to ask one more thing. Originally when Council sent this to
us there was a provision for short-term rentals within a given distance from city
venues or a main venue, city sportsplex or whatever. It was like within a mile or
something, and then it kind of disappeared. Is that still available or on the table.
Mr. Weiner: It is not on the table in this ordinance.
Mr. Coston: Can't get it in either, huh?
Mr. Weiner: Not right now. Well, I assuming no, because we are voting on this ordinance now
because what is in this ordinance. I mean, we would have to have to come up with
some type of overlay to do that, wouldn't we, to say a mile from a sporting event
or the amphitheater. It would have to be some type of overlay.
Mr. Tajan: It could be a performance criteria, but it is not something that has been discussed
nor advertised. So, maybe if that's something that may be discussed in the future
you may, it may be something you want to bring forward after this.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, I need a motion.
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Mr. Wall: Can I run through it one more time? Not necessarily because I want to rehash it
but just because I want to make sure that we get it right on the motion. So we are
making a motion to approve 2C with changes. And those changes include, based
on what I am reading here, because I did not necessarily capture it when you were
going through it, but new STRs are prohibited outside of overlay districts, I think
that is covered in here, is that right, or is that, that is not covered.
Mr. Kemp: You have already voted on that with the last vote.
Mr. Wall: Okay, we have already covered that. The parking is definitely part of this which is
the allowed parking that meets,available dimension requirements to count towards
parking inside. Is that part of this, the parking?
Mr. Kemp: Yes, the garage.
Mr. Weiner: Council sent it to us as one parking space in the garage, and we turned it around
to say if there was two places in the garage they could use them.
Mr. Wall: And the same thing about the impervious part.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, the impervious part was a change in language.
Mr. Weiner: Added parking to be impervious.
Mr. Wall: Added parking be impervious, the responsible party must also physically respond
within one hour to complaints as opposed to 30 minutes. But they must be able to
respond to complaints within 30 minutes and then physically respond within one
hour. Okay.
Mr. Weiner: One rental per seven days.
Mr. Wall: One rental per seven days. Okay.
Mr. Tajan: Just to clarify, that is one rental per seven days in the North End and East Shore
Drive overlay, with two rentals per seven day period in the RT3 and 4.
Mr. Weiner: And then big one is the Conditional Use Permit to be administratively reviewed
after five years.
Mr. Wall: Allow administrative approval and review every five years, is how it is.
Mr. Kemp: Correct and then the last thing was the sign with the contact information posted on
the exterior of the home visible from the right of way.
Mr. Wall: Require posting of contact phone number of operator representative visible from
the street, including Sandbridge.
Mr. Weiner: Does it say Sandbridge?
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Mr. Wall: It does.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, sounds like you are ready to make motion.
Mr. Wall: Okay, I am ready. I make a motion that we approve 2C of the short-term rental
agenda item with noted changes that include, number one required posting of
contact phone number of operator representative visible from the street, including
Sandbridge. That we allow administrative approval and review every five years of
existing Conditional Use Permits. In terms of parking, that we allow all parking that
that is available and meets dimension requirements to count towards parking,
including spaces inside garages. Parking added shall not be impervious.
Responsible party must respond to complaints within 30 minutes, responsible party
must also physically respond within one hour to complaints. Within the RT and
OR zoning districts two rentals for seven day period are allowed. Outside in the
other two overlay districts, one rental per seven day period will be allowed only.
Mr. Weiner: Did that catch everything?
Ms. Sandloop:No special events.
Mr. Kemp: Yes, as I was checking them off.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, think we caught everything. We have a motion by Mr. Wall, do we have a
second.
Mr. Inman: Second.
Mr. Weiner: Second by Mr. Inman.
Mr. Tajan: I am sorry I just want to make sure we capture this, I want to make sure this does
not lost anywhere. It also includes the no special events on the property, the
occupancy calculation, and the RPP permit that you are not allowed to have the
additional parking permits. You are aware of those, I want to make sure for the
record is clear that those are there.
Mr. Weiner: Madam clerk did you catch that, we have a motion by Mr. Wall and a second by
Mr. Inman.
Ms. Sandloop:Yes sir, Okay. I am calling for the vote, the vote is on the agenda item 2C. Mr.
Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
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Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop: By recorded vote of seven in favor and zero against agenda item 2C has been
recommended for approval with the following modifications; one rental per seven
days in the North End and Shore Drive overlays and two in the OR and RT districts,
a Conditional Use Permit Administrative Approval after five years, a sign posted
with contact information visible from the right of way, parking to include all available
garage spaces, responsible party be within contact within 30 minutes and
physically on site within one hour. Parking added shall not be impervious, no
special events, occupancy calculated and RPP no additional permits.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2D
City of Virginia Beach —An Ordinance to amend Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125,
1521 and 2203 of the City Zoning Ordinance and Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort
District Form-Based Code pertaining to the requirements and use of Short Term Rentals
and Overlays
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Tajan: Mr. Chair, we are good to go if you want to begin.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, 2D.
Mr. Kemp: 2D, to summarize what this ordinance amendment does is put into the use tables
in our zoning code, so everywhere that short-term rental use is permitted in the
use table, it will amend the use table to reflect what you have voted for approval
today. So, it will reflect where it is permitted by right in the OR,where it is permitted
by Conditional Use Permit in the overlays and where it is not permitted elsewhere
in the city. These will all be reflected in the use tables and that is what this vote is
for.
Mr. Weiner: Okay, so, we know where we are. I mean that is pretty much lined up with what
we have now, what we have already voted on. Right?
Mr. Kemp: Correct. I guess you could call it somewhat of a housekeeping item the same way
as amending the official zoning map, we have to amend the official zoning
ordinance to reflect these changes and that is what 2D does.
Mr. Weiner: Comments.
Ms. Klein: So, I think this is where I was confusing, you and everyone else before. This is
where I will be voting nay because this use table will say that new STRs are
permitted the rest of the city.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Anyone else. Do we have a motion. We are going to wait for George to get
back.
Mr. Coston: I was getting ready to ask those existing outside of the overlay districts would not
be covered in this chart, right. You all just going to keep track of those in the office.
Mr. Kemp: Correct, yes, the ones that have the additional or have an existing Conditional Use
Permit, we will have a record of that with the Administrative Approval those that
are grandfathered have their grandfathered status.
Mr. Weiner: Alright. We need a motion.
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Mr. Wall: I make a motion that we approve, agenda item 2D, an ordinance to amend sections
401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521, and 2203 of the city's zoning ordinance and
section 502 of the oceanfront resort district four base code pertaining to the
requirements and use of the short-term rentals overlays.
Mr. Weiner: I have motion by Mr. Wall, do we have a second.
Ms. Oliver: I second that.
Mr. Weiner: I have a second by Ms. Oliver. We are ready to vote.
Ms. Sandloop: Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Nay.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By vote of six in favor and one against agenda item number 2D has been
recommended for approval.
AYE 6 NAY 1 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein NAY
Oliver AYE
2
Redmond _ ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2E
City of Virginia Beach —An Ordinance establishing transition rules for the review of Short
Term Rental Conditional Use Permit applications submitted before and after the City
Council date of referral
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: 2E.
Mr. Kemp: This ordinance, as I discussed this morning are the transition rules, saying that
after any application filed prior to the date of the referral to you by City Council
October 21, 2020, subject to whatever rules when it goes through Council. This is
a standard ordinance of how we treat those applications that come in in that flex
time between when we are considering an ordinance change, and when it goes
into effect. Any application that goes through City Council once any new
regulations are passed will be subject to the new regulations.
Mr. Weiner: Pretty simple. We agree with that?
Ms. Klein: I make a motion to for an ordinance establishing transition rules for the review of
short-term rental Conditional Use Permit applications submitted before and after
City Council date of referral.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Ms. Klein, do we have a second.
Ms. Oliver: Second.
Mr. Weiner: Second by Ms. Oliver, ready to vote.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. Inman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
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Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop: Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of seven in favor and zero against agenda item 2E has been
approved.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT 4
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item #2F
City of Virginia Beach —An Ordinance to amend Section 241.2 of the City Zoning
Ordinance pertaining to Short Term Rentals and Establishing Additional Safety
Requirements
March 10, 2021
RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL— HEARD
Mr. Weiner: Alright, gentlemen hang in there we got one more. Okay, we will be done. 2F,
which I should have said this a while ago, because that was actually in 2C.
Mr. Kemp: 2F in the staff report was included in 2C, because it is its own ordinance after the
staff report went to print, we pulled it from 2C and created 2F. As I said it is its
own ordinance and it warrants being voted on separately. So, 2F will include the
two life safety conditions that were regulations that were listed in 2C originally.
Mr. Weiner: George you have comments on this one.
Mr. Alcaraz: Yeah, I just want to make sure that as far as the deck safety inspection be done
by a licensed design professional or licensed architect or what I am sorry Bobby
gave me another licensed design professionals. And again, I do not want to
include Class A or B contractors. That is all I have.
Mr. Weiner: Is that okay with everybody.
Mr. Tajan: And that they are required every five years, right, that was the consensus of the
Commission.
Mr. Alcaraz: Yeah, everything that you had listed here was fine except for that, as I was kind of
referencing that.
Mr. Inman: So, are we going with licensed professional engineer or architect.
Mr. Alcaraz: Both.
Mr. Tajan: Licensed design professional.
Mr. Inman: Licensed design.
Mr. Tajan: DPOR is very particular.
Mr. Inman: So, is that a term of art with that.
Mr. Tajan: It is a term per DPOR, anyone that that has a seal that has knowledge in that field
is that they are called a design professional.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, Mr. Alcaraz, I think you can make this motion.
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Mr. Alcaraz: I would like to make a motion that the ordinance to amend section 241.2 of the city
zoning ordinance pertaining to short-term rentals establishing additional safety
requirements with the amendment of licensed design professional.
Mr. Kemp: And every five years.
Mr. Alcaraz: It is on there already, right.
Mr. Kemp: It was referred to you as every year. So, we would need to alter that.
Mr. Alcaraz: Structure report must be submitted every five years to the Zoning Office.
Mr. Kemp: Okay, perfect. Just wanted to make sure it is on record.
Mr. Weiner: We have a motion by Mr. Alcaraz. Do we have a second.
Ms. Klein: Second.
Mr. Weiner: Second by Ms. Klein. We are ready to vote.
Ms. Sandloop: Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Barnes is absent. Mr. Coston.
Mr. Coston: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Graham is absent. Mr. Horsley is absent. Mr. Inman.
Mr. lnman: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Klein.
Ms. Klein: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Ms. Oliver.
Ms. Oliver: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Mr. Redmond is absent. Vice Chair Wall.
Mr. Wall: Aye.
Ms. Sandloop:Chairman Weiner.
Mr. Weiner: Aye.
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Ms. Sandloop:By recorded vote of seven in favor and zero against agenda item 2F has been
recommended for approval and modified to add deck safety inspections will be
done by a licensed design professional and inspections will be completed every
five years.
AYE 7 NAY 0 ABS 0 ABSENT
Alcaraz AYE
Barnes ABSENT
Coston AYE
Graham ABSENT
Horsley ABSENT
Inman AYE
Klein AYE
Oliver AYE
Redmond ABSENT
Wall AYE
Weiner AYE
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Item # 2 - Speakers
City of Virginia Beach —A Resolution to Amend the City Zoning Ordinance Pertaining to
Short Term Rentals: To Amend Section 102 of the City Zoning Ordinance Establishing
Short Term Rental Overlay Districts, East Shore Drive, North End, and Oceanfront
Resort; To Add Article 23, consisting of Sections 2300 to 2303, (Short Term Rental
Overlay Districts) to The City Zoning Ordinance Establishing Regulations and
Requirements Pertaining to Short Term Rentals in Each Overlay District; To Amend the
Official Zoning Map by the Designation and Incorporation of Property Into Short Term
Rental Overlay Districts — East Shore Drive, North End and Oceanfront Resort District; To
Amend Sections 401, 501, 601, 901, 1110, 1125, 1521 and 2203 of the City Zoning
Ordinance and Section 5.2 of the Oceanfront Resort District Form-Based Code Pertaining
to the Requirements and Use of Short Term Rentals and Overlays; Establishing
Transitions Rules for the Review of Conditional Use Permits for Short-Term Rentals in
the Short Term Rental Overlays; To Amend Section 241.2 of the City Zoning Ordinance
pertaining to Short Term Rentals and Establishing Additional Safety Requirements.
March 10, 2021
Mr. Weiner: Right, on to number two.
Ms. Sandloop:Our last agenda item is agenda item number two. City of Virginia Beach, a
resolution to amend the city zoning ordinance pertaining to short-term rentals.
Mr. Weiner: Alright, first speaker.
Mr. Dao: I will begin calling speakers in order of three just a reminder once you make your
comments please make your way back to suite four to listen for the remaining
public hearing. The first speaker is John David followed by Douglas Rudley,
followed by Steven Bishard. Mr. John David you can please come to suite four.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. On the way, guys I will make a point hopefully everybody can hear me that
everybody will get three minutes to speak. We have a lot of speakers so just to
make it fair to everybody and we want to make sure everybody knows they will
have three minutes to speak. Thank you. Welcome, sir, please state your name
for the record.
Mr. David: My name is John David, I am the current president of the North Virginia Beach
Civic League. I like to thank you all for inviting me to speak today. The North
Virginia Beach Civic League and when I say we or I, am speaking for the Civic
League and not for myself. The North Virginia Beach Civic League is charged to
protect the character and the community in the North End. We are there to protect
the tranquility. We firmly believe in short-term rentals as you may have seen in the
news, if you listened to the news and Andy Fox last night, effect that tranquility.
We are very concerned about this and we have some valid points. First off, we do
not want short-term rentals added to the current North End Overlay, the R5R-NE
that is there as you know, for dwellings. We do not want short-term rentals added
to that overlay. We also do not want The Hollies added to an overlay of any type.
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I am going to briefly discuss and not to take up your time, the points that we would
like, if in fact short-term rentals are going to be in the North End. First off,we would
like short-term rentals to be approved by CUP. That we feel is the only process
which guarantees our neighborhood. We are in neighborhood and we need to
CUP process to guarantee that we are not overrun with short-term rentals. We
would like a rental frequency of one per seven day period. It is one rental per
week, any more than that, you are starting to become a commercial enterprise,
you are ruining our neighbor. We would like a current physical survey for every
CUP application with a detailed site plan showing the parking. The Civic League
President and the member of our Zoning Committee, I am uninitiated with parking
problems for CUPs, I know that staff goes out and reviews CUP applications but I
can show you emails,where we have parking problems from the CUP. I have seen
applications coming forward to this Commission, where it is drawn on a piece of
paper and hand drawn it does not reflect the parking when I have gone out there
and looked at it, it was supposed to be there to support that CUP. We would like
to have additional inspectors funded and hired for the city. Right now,there simply
are not enough inspectors to enforce the program. They do not have short-term
rental ordinances and if you do not have inspectors it is an un-enforceable
program, and again, I have it that. You are going to degrade our quality. Finally,
density is a big issue for us, that was brought up in your workshop and I do not
know that we ever came to a consensus. I have sent numerous emails out to
Planning Department. I have sent emails to the City Attorney asking for
clarification, and I did not have any answers. We believe, if the City Attorney is
correct, that short-term rentals cannot be reduced by more than the current
density. We believe that short-term rental density should be the number of current
legal short-term rentals to the ratio of dwellings in the North End. Illegal short-term
rentals should not be continued, they do not follow the rules, they do not deserve
to be in the process of consideration for that density number. We prefer the density
be done by street. But City Attorney has said that in your workshop that was not
possible and I have reached out twice and not had a reason for that. But, if you
are going to do it by neighborhood we would like it to be no more than the current
density of legal short-term rentals to number of dwellings in the North End. The
R5R-NE zoning, R stands for residential, it does not stand for rental. This is the
neighborhood, this is where my children play in the street, they ride their bikes
here. My wife and I go for walks here, we meet our fellow citizens in the streets in
North End. Bringing the short-term rails turns it into a commercial area. It is not,
it is my neighborhood. This is where we live, you got to think about that when you
think about turning short-term rentals loose into established neighborhoods of
caring citizens, putting individuals in that neighborhood who do not care about me,
do not care about my kids, and do not care about my family and my neighbors.
Thank you for your consideration.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, sir. Any questions? Thank you.
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Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Douglas Rudley, followed by Steven Bishard, followed by Dr.
Carl Ashman.
Mr. Weiner: Mr. Alcaraz.
Mr. Alcaraz: Mr. Tajan,just a quick question. R5-S residential 5000 single family, R5D duplex,
R5R means.
Mr. Kemp: R5R permits single family duplex dwellings. And, in the North End Overlay it does
permit two single family homes on one lot. The size standards are 5000 square
feet for a single family home, 10,000 for a duplex or two single family homes.
However, if a lot was legally created and is nonconforming, it still holds the full
development potential.
Mr. Alcaraz: What I was asking is R mean resort. R5R means resort.
Mr. Tajan: Yes.
Mr. Alcaraz: Thank you.
Mr. Tajan: Yes, it is.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Welcome, sir. Please state your name for the record.
Mr. Rudley: My name is Doug Rudley. I am a homeowner in the North End and I have listened
in all the meetings in the workshops that the Planning Commission has held, so, I
appreciate the time and attention you guys have given to this matter. And, I will
be brief. My wife and I moved to Virginia Beach three years ago to retire and fell
in love with the North End. We purchased a home on the East Side of Atlantic
Avenue, and are full-time residents, year around residents as our most of our
neighbors. We were drawn to the North End,well because it is a real neighborhood
because we can go out on the feeder road and walk our dog and see our neighbors
jogging or walking or riding their bikes or we can go on the beach and see our
neighbors, and we can do that year around unlike many beachfront communities,
it is not merely a seasonal community and we love the fact that we see our
neighbors year around and we enjoy a sense of neighborhood year around. As
you know it is primarily a residential community of homeowners. It has a relatively
high-density and many attached homes, given the fact that it is close to the ocean,
land is at a premium, Given that it is a neighborhood of single family homes of
owner occupied homes that density is tight. My wife and I really do not understand
why STRs are being even allowed in our neighborhood when the city proposes to
ban them in most of the city. I guess I would ask as a homeowner, I would ask the
Members of the Commission and the Members of the City Council for that matter,
how would you feel about it, if next to your own home assuming you are
homeowners that someone proposed to operate a weekly rental business for three
months during the summertime every summer. I don't think that you would think
that that enhances the quality of the desirability of your neighborhood or your own
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quality of life. Common sense says that it does not. This really has the potential
to do great harm to our neighborhood. So, I guess I would echo the sentiments of
Mr. David who spoke before me, that if you must allow this, which I hope that you
do not, but if you must please keep the density to an absolute minimum. Because
this really does have the ability to do substantial harm to what is really a charming
and cherished residential community. Thank you very much.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, sir. Any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Steven Bishard, followed by Dr. Carson Ashman, followed
Morgan Brooke-Devlin.
Mr. Dao: Mr. Chairman, it looks like Mr. Steven Bishard signed up to speak virtually. So, we
are going to circle back to him. The next speaker is Dr. Carson Ashman, followed
by Morgan Brooke-Devlin, followed by Polly Street.
Mr. Weiner: Dao, are they allowed to line up in the hallway.
Mr. Dao: Yes, sir.
Mr. Weiner: Okay. Welcome, please state your name for the record.
Ms. Ashman: I am Carol Ashman. I own 207 and 209E 88th Street and live at the latter. I am
here to request the resort designation of the North End be repealed. And, second,
to oppose the city's attempt to rezone the North End by creating the North End
Overlay,which would extend the oceanfront resort area north through 89th Streets,
devastating our greater than 100-year-old residential neighborhood. The overlay
would allow the city to create regulations,tax revenue, and land use decisions that
favor the hospitality industry over residents. It would allow any property owner to
operate a short-term rental by right without having to seek a Conditional Use
Permit as is required now. Year around resident's peaceful enjoyment of their
properties would end. And property values decrease due to greater density and
more short-term tourist rental activity with its unending problems, including
increased noise,traffic, garbage,crime, and the destruction of the community from
the constant influx of tourists in the summer and the creation of a ghost town in the
winter. We bought our home in this neighborhood precisely because it was in a
quiet residential neighborhood. This neighborhood cannot be rezoned now to
permit commercial enterprise without the citizens voting on this matter, talk about
undemocratic. I also oppose the overlay because it would allow a greater number
of homes per unit of land, for example, two large homes could be squeezed onto
7500 square foot lot increasing density and creating more concrete, pavement,
and buildings on the same amount of land, ripping out yards and trees in the
process, the very things that make this area beautiful and livable. Green space
and trees are vitally important to help reduce the sweltering heat in the summer.
We also need to preserve some un-built land rather than building on every square
inch. This is crucial to helping absorb stormwater and prevent or reduce flooding.
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I oppose the cookie cutter models to which the new homes must conform because
they are utterly devoid of character, and we make our 100-year-old neighborhood
look like a condominium complex. I urge everyone here to email Governor
Northam and ask him to veto Senate Bill 1298, which would allow the city to use
taxpayer money to manage or buy properties in the North End to create a highly
desirable home inventory to rent out as short-term rentals that will generate real
estate profit and taxes for the city at our expense. Senate Bill 1298, could serve
as an intermediary step toward creation of a Tourism Authority. If the North End
Overlay becomes official by City Council vote, it would be governed by that
authority, converting our over 100-year-old residential neighborhood into a money
making commercial real estate enterprise that benefits the city to our detriment.
Surprisingly, none of this has been voted on through a referendum.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments.
Ms. Ashman: Please voice your opposition to the City Council.
Mr. Weiner: We have a question for you.
Ms. Ashman: Thank you.
Ms. Oliver: Ma'am. Would you repeat the last two sentences that you just read.
Ms. Ashman: Sure. Surprisingly, none of this has been voted on through a referendum. Please
voice your opposition to the City Council.
Ms. Oliver: Go further back about the tourist overlay.
Ms. Ashman: Yeah, if the North End Overlay becomes official by City Council vote, it would be
governed by that authority converting our 100-year-old residential neighborhood
into a money making commercial real estate enterprise that benefits the city to our
detriment.
Ms. Oliver: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, ma'am.
Ms. Ashman: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Morgan Brooke-Devlin, followed by Polly Street, followed by Gail
Mottola.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome ma'am, please say your name for the record.
Ms. Devlin: My name is Morgan Brooke-Devlin. I reside on 88th Street in Virginia Beach. First
of all, I want you all to know that we have been told that there has not been much
reaction to the proposed overlay in the North End. This is absolutely not true, the
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problem is, most people do not know what is being proposed and certainly do not
understand the ramifications. I have reviewed carefully the amendment to the
zoning ordinance that was entered in 2015, and what it proposed. One of the main
things I noticed in this is that you all are to be guided by public necessity,
convenience, general welfare, and good zoning practices. We do not believe that
this has been done. First of all, we do not want this proposed 2015 Zoning
Ordinance Overlay to be continued and we certainly do not want it to be made
permanent. As you all know, we believe that this is a violation of the Dillon rule
and that is a very serious thing here. We do not believe the citizens have been
consulted in this, we certainly do not believe that people on the North End are
aware of what is being done and we are angry. We are very upset and we are
angry. We live in a very, very tight community, our neighbors are close to us, we
are responsible to each other. Each of the houses on my street only have two
parking spaces, no one parks in someone else's parking space, unless there is an
emergency or unless you ask in advance. We pull each other's garbage cans in if
someone's out. We look out for each other. Across the street for me, you have
allowed to be put four new houses where two small houses used to be. Each has
five bedrooms, 20 bedrooms in those houses are technically available under what
you are proposing for short-term rental. Where are those cars going to park.
Where is that garbage going to go. I have reviewed what has been proposed
regarding what will happen if there is a problem. A landlord has to be called and
available in 20 minutes. There is nothing that says what happens if the landlord is
not there or if the landlord does not remedy the situation. There is nothing there
about to take off the short-term rental authority, because it is by right. We do not
want this, and we are looking to all of you to stop this. We should not be sacrificed
in the North End for additional revenue for Virginia Beach. Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, ma'am. Any questions.
Ms. Devlin: One other thing, we have got numerous, numerous petitions like this, signed up
and down our street, we do not want this.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you.
Ms. Devlin: You are welcome.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Polly Street followed by Gail Mottola, followed by Leslie
Richards.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome. Please state your name for the record.
Ms. Street: My name is Polly Street, and I live in the old beach cottage, at the end of 88th
Street on the land side. This house was built in 1946 and is presently still largely
in the same condition as the day it was built, having been lovingly maintained by
numerous owners, including myself. My remarks today will be about the
neighborhood that I live in called the North End in Virginia Beach. I will give you
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my personal opinion on things that I am in support of that I believe will maintain the
neighborhood that I live in, and things that I vehemently oppose those being the
things that I believe will threaten and measurably change my neighborhood. First
of all, I love the beach and I believe that it should remain a public beach for all to
enjoy, including people from Virginia Beach from Norfolk, and for wherever else
they come from. I really like that part of it. I love the natural and historical
environment of my immediate neighborhood including the maritime forest at the
end of the street. The house is even older than mine, and the canopy of huge live
oaks that covers the street. What do I oppose I am opposed to the changes to the
short-term rental ordinance that would allow for operation of short-term rentals,
without needing a Conditional Use Permit. It is not lost on me that the last 45
minutes was spent approving and disapproving and reviewing those Conditional
Use Permits that would go away with short-term rental by right. I am aware of
some recent major safety issues that occurred at short-term rentals on other North
End streets, think about it, those problems that exist with the Conditional Use
Permit process in place, imagine what it would be like if there were no Conditional
Use Permits required. I oppose the proposed designation of the area of 49th Street
to 89th Street becoming an official overlay. I oppose the move to rezone the area
and designate it as a residential resort district. I demand the word resort be
removed from the description of the North End residential neighborhood, and the
previous zoning of R5R be restored. I strongly oppose recently proposed state
legislations SB1298 that would allow for tourism and improvement districts to be
created, this would be an unelected board appointed by the City Council not
directly accountable to voters. Taxpayer money could be used to buy or build
properties or rent out a short-term rentals that would generate real estate profit
and taxes for the city at the expense of homeowners like myself in the North End
neighborhood. We cannot have a neighborhood if the properties are owned by
developers and real estate companies who rent the home it says short-term
rentals.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments ma'am. Any questions. Thank you, ma'am. Next
speaker.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Gail Mottola, followed by Leslie Richards, followed by Erica
Atkins.
Mr. Weiner: Ma'am, please state your name for the record.
Ms. Mottola: Good afternoon. I am Gail Mottola I live at one 115 88th Street. While they are
passing those around the first item is the where a person can go online to Virginia
Beach.com to find out a property search. When we do that in the North End, what
we see is unofficial zoning district. R5R (M) it is incomplete. It is not finished. It
is not an official overlay, but it looks like it when you read the Ordinance 3431 of
2015, for a long time, we were not paying attention. That is our fault as citizens.
But what we have found is that that North End Overlay is a fabrication, it is
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nonexistent. It is a paper that essentially is going to put us under regulations, by
the City that we have never been before. We are used to one-week rentals, in our
area, but not what is happening now. The North End is treaty land goes back to
1607. Treaty land is private land. The land described is the Cape Henry Syndicate
Treaty Land Private Land of the early 1900s. The State of Virginia is a federal
territory and unfortunately, when one goes to the Dunn and Bradstreet we find and
is all over our website we are a municipal corporation. The corporation is not the
same as government. The Tourism Bill HS-243, would have placed all of our
properties that date back to Cape Henry Syndicate of 1898, and Virginia Beach
Parks and Land Company of 1890, both private land corporations, under an
unelected City Council appointed board tax exempt, property tax funded
organizations.
Mr. Weiner: Ma'am thank you for your comments, appreciate that. Does anyone have any
questions. Thank you, ma'am.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Leslie Richards, followed by Erica Atkins, followed by Lee
Atkins.
Mr. Dao: It looks like Ms. Leslie Richards is a virtual speaker, so, we are going to move on
to Erica Atkins, followed by Lee Atkins, followed by Brent Montello.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, please state your name for the record.
M. Atkins: Hi, my name is Erica Atkins. I am a citizen of Virginia Beach, a short-term rental
owner and member of the Virginia Beach Short-Term Rental Alliance. I am
speaking today in approval of short-term rentals for Virginia Beach. I am
advocating for a fair and sustainable compromise of regulations for both owners of
short-term rentals and members of the community. After researching other short-
term rental communities around the country,we have found balanced policies that
we could use as a model for Virginia Beach to follow. I believe we need an advisory
board or committee that meets every other month to provide guidance and
recommendations on administration, enforcement, and other policies pertaining to
short-term rental permitting. Members should consist of short-term rental hosts,
non-hosts, industry stakeholders, and Virginia Beach elected officials. I think
overlays should be by right. I think the OR and RT zoned properties should be in
an overlay, and operate by right as they were zoned to do. Remove the other
overlays instead of imposing regulations that call for cumbersome enforcement.
For properties outside of an overlay choosing to operate as a short-term rental, we
should implement a simplified registration process, more of a streamlined checklist
to be submitted to the Planning Department for inspection before the owner is
allowed to operate a short-term rental. To ensure the city is not oversaturated with
short-term rental properties, use a density cap that cannot exceed 1% of the total
number of housing units within Virginia Beach. Once all requirements are met,
submit the information to Planning, register with the Commissioner and at that
point, the owner may start operating. As far as violations, use the three strike rule.
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After three valid complaints, the Planning Department could recommend removal
of a short-term rental registration and its ability to operate. Property owners should
have the right to rent their property how they choose. If they choose to operate a
short-term rental, the owner should be allowed to operate on an innocent until
proven guilty principle. We need a collaborative solution for our community that is
not only manageable, but enforceable. One that allows for a higher rates of
compliance and alleviates the cumbersome CUP process that is draining city
resources and time. Let us find a solution that works for everyone. Thank you for
your time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, ma'am. Any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Lee Atkins, followed by Brent Montello, followed by Dana
Sampson.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, please state your name for the record.
Mr. Atkins: Lee Atkins, I would like to start by thanking you guys for the last six months of
taking my emails and phone calls and so it has been a pleasure of speaking with
each of you. Good afternoon, my name is Lee Atkins I am a citizen of Virginia
Beach, and a short-term rental owner. I would like to say that short-term rentals
have been going on for decades in Virginia Beach. I would also like to speak in
approval of the short-term rentals at this point, Virginia Beach has always been
looking to drive towards revenue. This proposal will do the exact opposite. Believe
it or not, I would say the majority of people especially now with the pandemic would
rather stay in a short-term than a hotel. For some reason short-term rentals are
being bashed repeatedly on how terrible they are, so, terrible that in over 88,000
calls made to 311, in 2020, only 14 of those nuisances pertain to short-term rentals.
Property rentals have been all over Virginia Beach, hotels, do not get shut down
after a guest checking in, is behaving badly during their stay. As with any kind of
rental, short or long-term, you can have a really great tenant or you can have a
really bad tenant. The difference is bad tenants in short-term rentals are only there
for a few days, maybe a week and then they go home. A bad long term tenant is
there for the entirety of their lease. If there are valid complaints, punish those that
are not properly managed, not all of us. I have also heard conversations of how
STR negatively affect property values that is totally false. A realtor friend of mine
that specializes in selling properties along the oceanfront resort area confidently
said, the ability to rent properties as an STR versus not being able to rent them as
an STR absolutely affects the property values. Properties allowed to rent as a STR
would definitely have higher value than those not to be allowed. Creating overlays
negatively affects the value of one person's property. While positively affecting the
value of another person's property at the same time. When properties sell at higher
prices to short-term rentals properties like short-term rental properties do, it can
and will boost the value of the entirety neighborhood. On the other hand, if you
restrict how these properties can be used in certain neighborhoods like Croatan
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for example, you absolutely see the neighborhood values decline in his
professional opinion. Many homes in Croatan along the oceanfront have sold to
investors and second homes, who intend to use them as STR properties when
they are not being occupied by them themselves. Croatan was always one of the
most desirable and highest rented areas out of all the STR properties that this
gentleman managed. If you cut off certain property owners ability to do that.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments sir, I appreciated that. Any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Brent Montello,followed by Dana Sampson,followed by Jason
Sampson.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, sir. Please state your name for the record.
Mr. Montello: Good afternoon. I am Brent Montello. I am a local realtor also, so, I really
appreciate the things that the last two people said, very positive things about
Airbnb. We have been operating since 2017, as an Airbnb at the oceanfront, the
beach bureau, earlier caller you have from California, where he is trying to explain
his driveway, basically we are on the same street. We have registered with the
city, we pay the taxes, it is been almost four years. They have talked about
driveways over everything at our home, it sets up to all the minimum requirements
that we have seen so far. I believe the overlay seems to be an issue I have seen
a couple difference I do not know where we are exactly. I wanted to come here
today to support Airbnb. I have travelled all around the country, staying in Airbnbs
from California, Texas, North Carolina. Owners, always, always rehab these
properties to another level. I had to rent this home rented since 2003,for 12 years.
When we turn it to an Airbnb, we had it, we took it up another level, because of the
type of people that are actually wanting to rent it, because it is mostly families, not
parties, but mostly families. I have had more problems with the tenants next door
that are on a yearly lease parking in the front yards in the grass, and that is for an
entire year that we have had to deal with. So, as far as my support for Airbnb, one
I would like to know if people will be grandfathered that have been actually doing
this for four years or have had it permanent rental on a yearly lease for the last 17
years, which we have, and that the overlays would change if we are not in that
section. So,just to conclude, I believe that the owner personal ownership that the
owners take as an Airbnb, because they treat it as a bed and breakfast is going to
end up being a lot better than even the yearly lease owners that are renting it
usually at a lower price. So,we are getting better tenants, better guests with short-
term rentals, then you are in the yearly lease, permanent tenants that are coming
in, and they take better care of the properties during that time, I appreciate your
time. Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you sir, any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Dana Sampson, followed by Jason Sampson, followed by Marjorie Chapman.
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Mr. Weiner: Welcome. Please say your name for the record.
Ms. Sampson:Dana Sampson. Good afternoon. I am a member of the Virginia Beach short-term
rental Alliance. My husband and I are a middle class family that supplements our
income with short-term rentals. I do not see the new proposals regarding short-
term rentals as much of a compromise, tourism is our main industry paid for, by all
Virginia Beach tax dollars and it seems like the latest proposals are not for the
interest of us. Virginia Beach as a whole but mainly for affluent homeowners in the
hotel industry. The new regulations essentially shutter our small middle class STR
business in the strongest area of opportunity in Virginia Beach. This is all being
proposed during a very tough time for small businesses. Short-term rentals are a
needed accommodation option for those who cannot stay in hotels and are the
only true social distancing lodging options, especially for those with existing health
issues. We are told that the proposed changes have been brought up because
short-term rentals are disruptive to neighborhoods. All the short-term rental hosts
that I know including myself rent mainly to families and have a new party's
description and requirement in our listing. If disregarded, which we have never
had happen, the guests would need to immediately vacate the property, and lose
all the monies they paid for their stay. We have never had a single complaint or
issue and our grandfathered STR has been running now for four years. We bought
our short-term rental properties with intentions on bringing families to Virginia
Beach to experience our City, spend money at our local restaurants, shop, and
have fun. We made sure to go to the sessions and council meetings as the
ordinance was being put together. We were in agreement with the original
ordinance and the sense of fairness brought forth with the original conditions. We
are now confused that all the work is being threatened by unnecessary changes
for reasons were unclear about, as they previously pointed out,we have never had
an issue and we do not know any other local host that has. If there are real
concerns this proposal does not seem to address them. I am sure that any
homeowner would be happy to work within reasonable short-term rental rules that
actually address the problems, leaving the ordinance as is. Making it illegal to rent
our property or set extremely strict restrictions does not seem to be any sort of
compromise. Property ownership is one of the few resources that many of us can
leverage to work hard and make a better life for ourselves. In addition, many of us
feel that this is an infringement on our rights as property owners. I would
understand if there were restrictions in the property covenants, by laws, HOA,
condo rules when purchased but when there is not this seems to be an extreme
overreach. We understand that the CUP process is a burden to the city, but rather
than eliminating it, instituting overlays and banning the opportunity for a future host
to apply for the CUP outside of the proposed overlays,we ask that the city consider
making the process easier and more efficient. We would just ask that you please
do not make our small business illegal. Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, any questions. Thank you, next speaker.
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Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Jason Sampson, followed by Marjorie Chapman, followed by Kim
Davenport.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, please state your name for the record.
Mr. Sampson: Sure. My name is Jason Sampson. Good afternoon by the way, I live in Virginia
Beach and I am a member of the short-term rental Alliance. I am a 38-year resident
and real estate investor that owns a multitude of property types which include a
handful of short-term rentals in Virginia Beach, and I am in favor of short-term
rentals throughout the city. I am here to voice my discontent how City Planning
and Council have been aggressively,without cause,trying to change the ordinance
for short-term rentals approved in past several years ago. , I can say that any
person I have spoken to that also does short-term rentals is more concerned with
having the approval and support of their neighbors, as well as maintaining better
care of our properties than most of the surrounding neighbors. Remember, our
goal is to bring people to Virginia Beach and give them an experience that makes
them return. So you heard me, I want to say this again, the reason why we do this
is to bring people to Virginia Beach, and to have them come back. It upsets me
that both Planning and Council continually talk about the alleged complaints from
other citizens but will not and cannot provide proof. I understand that the hotels
do not like STRs and have someone lobbying on their behalf because STRs are a
threat to their business. As I have owned several businesses throughout the years,
it is known that when your business model changes, you have to learn to adapt,
rather than lobbyists trying to limit STRs, they should advise your clients to adapt
to short-term rentals, have been here as long as they have and to further
understand technology like Airbnb has threatened their business model. Sorry
guys it is obvious by looking at the numbers that people want to travel and feel
local versus being trapped in a small hotel. Furthermore, the fact that a City
Planning Member reached out to an abundance of short-term rental owners,
including myself and threatened us over an emailed petition, some of who were
not part of it, is uncalled for and proof that changes need to happen at our city
level. Additionally, City Planning should not be strong arming CUP applicants into
agreeing to ordinances not approved by City Council in order to get CUPs
approved. It is clear by attending these meetings over the last year that Planning
and Council have as they are making up ordinances, bully their constituents in a
direction has a prominent influencers best interests in mind. One final point, be
very leery of what you are trying to accomplish as you are infringing on the property
rights of all citizens of Virginia Beach with everything you are trying to push here
today. I am a longtime real estate investor and prefer my money to stay local, but
the behavior, actions, and uncertain path Virginia Beach is portraying has me
taking my investments to other cities, and I know I am not alone. I volunteer myself
in front of you. If desired, as a person to give feedback and opinions in an
influential and positive win, win direction so that it fits the desired outcome and
objective of not only Planning, Council but the citizens and owners of property in
the City of Virginia Beach. Thank you.
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Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Marjorie Chapman, followed by Kim Davenport, followed by
Kendall Maynard.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome. Please state your name for the record.
Ms. Chapman:Marjorie Chapman and I am a property manager with Berkshire Hathaway Property
Management, and I have been managing Vacation Rentals in Virginia Beach for
30 years and I currently have an inventory of 20 vacation rentals. And, our success
with assisting our guests shows year after year what the percentage of returning
guests and no negative reports ever reported to the city. Short-term rentals were
never considered a major problem until just recently when it seems that a lot of
individual homeowners have decided to become landlords. We want to help you
figure out a solution to this problem and not be considered the problem. Some
suggestions, lots of professional property managers handle the STRs. We know
the rules, we follow them. Our history is proof of this, eliminate the resource
consuming CUP process and implement a simple registration process with the
Planning Department that includes the safety inspection. A previous speaker
mentioned have the three strike rule with three verified complaints, the Planning
Department could recommend the removal of STRs and the ability to operate.
Allow STR by right in oceanfront resort overlay in RT zone with no density CAPs
and remove the overlays in the North End, East Shore Drive and determine a
density CAP percentage of the total housing units with concrete facts, excluding
the grandfathered STRs. For all STR registration holders perhaps set the following
rules, no annual zoning permit fee required, this can be self-funded with the STR
tax revenue. Allow 52 contracts per year with two contracts per week throughout
the year. One parking space for the first two bedrooms, one space for each
additional bedroom. We all know how hard it is to accommodate what you have
now, especially when they are oceanfront condos. Occupancy limit, keep it at
three per bedroom, having an age limit would be difficult to monitor for us.
Respond to a complaint verbally within 30 minutes and be onsite within two hours
of notification if needed. Balcony and deck inspections every five years for a
second level decks or higher. And of course continuing to allow the grandfather
properties to rent indefinitely providing a follow the guidelines. Thank you for your
time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you, ma'am. Any questions. Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Kim Devonport, followed by Kendall Maynard, followed by Paige
Mijares.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, sir. Please state your name for the record.
Mr. Davenport: My name is Kim Davenport. I own a small duplex in the North Beach area, which
I bought with the intention of renting it as a short-term rental. I bought it in 2019,
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and in hindsight, my timing on buying the property was not very good because I
was not aware of all the regulations and unsettled requirements and the issues
that are going about at this time. When I bought the property, I bought it as a short-
term rental, and I spent the year updating it and furnishing it and it needed a lot of
work. Like everyone else who has spoken before the Commission, my wife and I
were very enchanted with the area, appreciate its history and its beauty and
wanted to share it with others. We want to ultimately live in the area, but this was
a means for us to financially pay for the property and ultimately become permanent
residents. So, I think we can all agree that everybody who speaks here
appreciates the area, wants to maintain the integrity of it and the beauty of it. It is
a very special place. I was late in applying for the Conditional Use Permit, because
I was not as aware of it as I should have been which was my fault. I signed up,
and paid business taxes, which I thought was all requirements that were necessary
to do a short-term rental. When I found out I started to do the application process
and of course it is difficult to keep up with all the changing conditions. There was
delays caused by the COVID virus and the administration of getting things done,
understanding the process. I had further delays by having to work on the surveying
of the property. It was an old property, the parking wasn't where it should have
been so I had to have it surveyed and finally got that settled. So, I am at the point
now where I am applying, I've got a hearing next month before this Commission to
go over the process and then hopefully the following month go to the Council for a
vote. At the last meeting, there was discussion of limitations of properties applying
and there was discussion that permits would only be issued to those properties
who are currently existing as short-term rentals legally. And, I'd just like to say I
think it would be very unfair to pull the rug out from people like myself who were in
the process, earnestly trying to comply with the law and go through the process
and get the Conditional Use Permit to legally be able.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments sir. I appreciate that. Any questions. Thank you,
sir.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Kendall Maynard, followed by Paige Mijares, followed by Brendan
Beaver.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, ma'am.
Ms. Maynard: Good afternoon, my name is Kendall Maynard. Dear Chairman, Planning
Commissioner members, thank you to those who have responded to some of our
emails, and thank you for your time and service to our great City of Virginia Beach.
I have managed trust in property in different states for over 35 years. I am a
member of the same Virginia Beach Short-Term Rental Alliance, we are working
hard together to help with some of these issues. Today I would like to touch on
what these overreaching proposed ordinance amendments may mean to our
military families and contractors. As a former military wife I see that by banning
STRs in all of Virginia Beach except these overlays that are proposed, in the OR
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and RT areas you are cutting off military families options who may need to STR
for a short period of time if they get deployed and one, cannot long term rent or
two, cannot sell their homes in time,they have taken orders and they have to leave,
or three do not want to sell since they will be hopefully returning to our great city.
We serve a greater area and community and I want you to think about that. I have
personally hosted both military personnel and contractors in my home under short-
term rental status, I am grandfathered in. Virginia Beach has a long and proud
relationship with the military and I want us to keep it. Not only is Virginia Beach
home to several military facilities and the Department of Defense, actually I have
found out spends $14.8 billion annually in the region. Let that sink in for a second,
we have to help our military families as well, and let them do short-term rentals.
Naval Station Norfolk is the world's largest Naval Station, which I am sure you
already know. I looked up the population for the military in this area,we are ranked
11th in the state with 9% population that are military or over 421,000 people. So,
I request that you look before you leap, this proposal is overreach of government
and putting the cart before the horse way before even the simplest things are
implemented like the weekend personnel to take calls for disruptions in
neighborhoods that we are being blamed for all the time, and or the current
ordinances or even being enforced. The actual numbers do not support a ban on
all Virginia Beach outside of their proposed overlays of the OR and RT areas. This
will hurt our tourism and economy when we need to grow the economy, I thought
we are here to help grow after this horrible pandemic. And, this will also hurt our
fine military families and contractors. We want everyone to have options and not
be stripped of these options by this proposal, which will affect all of Virginia Beach
for forever. Do not go through with it, STRs represent income,tourism, options for
military families and contractors, and charm for the families and vacationers, as
we have probably all agreed on both sides no overlays.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments, ma'am. Any questions.
Ms. Maynard: Thank you. I really appreciate your time. Have a good afternoon.
Mr. Weiner: Next speaker please.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Paige Mijares, followed by Brendan Beavers followed by Joanne
Fox.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome.
Mr. Mijares: Good afternoon Commissioners, my name is Paige Mijares I am the principal
broker of Atkinson Realty. And, in the 80 years my brokerage has operated in the
North End and we have never seen the problems we hear from some that Airbnb
produces. The rogue parties, unsightly trash, shootings, which is a quite low bar to
say that we have not had these problems. But why have not we, because we are
professionals, we know what we are doing. We respect and preserve our
neighborhoods, we have been following the city rules for decades, and the rules
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of decent decorum. Look Airbnb is a market disrupter, it is not going away. It
sparked the entrepreneurial spirit and homeowners but more importantly it is
changed the way people think about travel. So use us as part of the solution. The
city requires people who have sprinkler systems hooked up to the city water supply
to produce backflow prevention tests on an annual basis. The city provides a list
of contractors to their citizens here you need a professional. Here is a list of them
how much more important is it to have professionals involved in this endeavor.
Create incentives for proper management, such as waiving the CUP requirement
for people who are registered with Virginia Beach deep or licensed brokerages,
that will end 95% of your problems. This new proposal is clumsy, it will only hurt
the good actors. These maps, yes, they will diminish your docket, but they are
completely arbitrary. Neighborhoods cut up by Council Districts, in that respect I
agree with Aaron Rouse on that point, that neighborhoods that have a history in
this space should have a path forward. All of them should share equally or
eliminate the overlays completely. There is a lot of other tinkering in this proposal
and others folks speaking today will give you good suggestions that you should
seriously consider, but if you are going to redo the ordinance, you should provide
a comprehensive solution, something the public can trust and that will last. Include
things like fixing the parking in the high rise condos, this firm sunset provision for
current CUP holders whether there are problems or not is disturbing. And now you
want to talk about density measures which could be a viable conversation but they
need to be grounded in facts, such as the North End is made up of 44% second
homes, 44% of the homes in the North End are not owner occupied, that is a
significant fact. A few months ago the Planning Department sent postcards out as
a notice to all of the proposed overlay districts, to inform them of their proposed by
right use for short-term rentals, effectively lobbying a lot of the anti-property rights
folks to a fever. So, if you change this proposal, new postcards need to go out and
where are the postcards to the rest of the city letting them know that their rights
are being eliminated. Where is that notice. For those of you who would like to
shut down vacation rentals, I would encourage you to proceed with caution on what
you're willing to hand over to your government, they will gladly take it. Property
rights are at the foundation of our democracy.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments. Any questions, please.
Ms. Oliver: Paige, I have got a question to you about. I wrote it down in all this scribble, 44%
of the homes in the North End are not owner occupied, where is that number from.
Ms. Mijares: Access to the tax records.
Ms. Oliver: Okay. And are they rentals or are they just second homes.
Ms. Mijares: About 20% of those are short-term rentals,
Ms. Oliver: Short-term rentals, old short-term rentals.
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Ms. Mijares: Actually, I do not know, I would say that probably maybe half of those are
grandfathered but I do not know, most of mine are grandfathered but I have access
to see a lot of what this city can see as far as that goes.
Ms. Oliver: So there is a difference between what the city can see and then what you are able
to say is that correct.
Ms. Mijares: I have a program that where I can see where the Airbnb is and Vrbos are operating,
which is important to me and my business. I am sure we have the same
information actually, I do not think we have different ways.
Ms. Oliver: Can you say just for your company how many short-term rentals that you operate,
let us just take this because Virginia Beach is huge and so is Sandbridge so let us
just take the North End Overlay for instance.
Ms. Mijares: We probably operate 50 grandfathered properties and obviously we do not
manage them unless, if they have to get CUP we do not take them in our portfolio
until that process is complete. So, we have a handful of CUPs but most of ours
are grandfathered.
Ms. Oliver: Grandfathered they have been there for a long time.
Ms. Mijares: 50 out of 60, out of our whole portfolio.
Ms. Oliver: Okay.
Ms. Mijares: But, we only operate along the coast.
Ms. Oliver: Right, but I am just specifically sort of laser beamed right into the North End. Does
that include, I just want to make sure we are cleared on the North End and not
including The Hollies or Cavalier Shore.
Ms. Mijares: That is correct. Yeah.
Ms. Oliver: Okay. Great, thanks
Ms. Mijares: Yeah, you are welcome. Anything else?
Mr. Weiner: Do we have any questions. Thank you.
Ms. Mijares: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Brandon Beavers, followed by Seth Lindale, followed by Lynn
Simon.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, sir. Please state your name for the record.
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Mr. Beavers: Good afternoon everyone. I have been running an Airbnb. Brandon Beavers here.
I have been doing a Vrbo since 2015, in 16th Street. We are very engaged with
our with our tenants, our short-term rental occupants, everybody I have to talk to
before they rent my home. I am on the phone with them. I am interacting, I am
finding out who are you, are you coming to my house or is this a 17-year-old kid
wanting to have a you know a high school party when school's out. So we have
vetted everybody who comes through our place we have never had any
complaints. My house was a foreclosed home when I bought it in early 15, and I
can guarantee you if you drive by it looks nothing like it did when I bought it. I
would say the horror stories that you hear about short-term rentals would be the
exception not the rule. I would say out of the 150 almost members of the Short-
Term Alliance the shirts that we are wearing, we are all like me. We are engaged
on our rentals. I am right down the street if there is a problem I am going to be
there. I have got a doorbell camera I can see what's going on, decibel readers in
the home. You know I think adding more regulation on to what we already have on
the books is the wrong way to go. I feel like we are kind of changing the rules of
the game midway through the game. I mean how does that work right? I mean take
away these CUPs for folks that have gone through the process, I do not think that
is fair. I am grandfathered in, I do not have a dog in this fight other than to say I
have been doing it a long time and I know the folks that are operating now and
have gone through these CUP rules, they should not be negatively affected in my
opinion. Some of the notes I wrote down, enforce the rules that are on the books
I mean, most recently our buddy you know that was on the news last night. If there
was a raging party going on whether it was owner occupied or short-term rental
why where not there the Police there to shut this thing down. I think we should
enforce the rules, whether it is a short-term rental or my home that I live in full time.
If I am being loud and got cars parked all over the driveway, then then enforce the
rules that are on the books. I think short-term rentals are someone said earlier,
laser focused right we are honing in on the short-term rentals. But what I am doing
is not a detriment to the neighborhood I would think that I brought up my, my home
from what it was in 2015. I think, short-term rentals should be by right. I am pretty
sure the Constitution says that my home is my castle and I can do with it as such,
you know, and I would like the Commission to consider that. You know I am all for
certain regulations and making sure that folks are not abusing the system but I
would like to think that most of short-term operators like myself are doing the right
thing and making sure that we are good stewards to the neighborhood, and to the
City of Virginia Beach. Come, people come to our town because of that oceanfront
and I want to share my home that I have lived my entire life with folks that do not
get to see it every day, the way that I do. Thank you for your time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you sir. Any questions. Thank you, next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Seth Bloomingdale,followed by Lynn Simons, followed by Kristina
Chastain. Seth is not here in person, so,we will move on to Lynn Simons,followed
by Kristina Chastain, and followed by Todd Solomon.
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Mr. Weiner: Welcome, ma'am. Please say your name for the record.
Ms. Simons: Good day I am Lynn Simons. Hello, everybody. Thank you for your time. I am
Lynn Simons I reside here in Virginia Beach, I am an owner on Baltic Avenue of
one of the newer units, so I am actually an owner and I reside in the home. One
of the things that just disturbs me about this whole thing is that there is so much
blame being placed on the short-term rentals for the high crime disruptions etc. It
is just unfair and unjust. The number of calls that the number of calls against have
come out to the City for any disturbances and things, are really not excessive and
have not put any type of strain on our city resources. The numbers are probably
really minimal so we need to take a look at that, but instead the short-term rentals
are really bringing in opportunities for small businesses, for women and minority
owned businesses, people who have cleaning companies or landscapers the
handyman, all of those things are all those companies are being utilized, also for
large businesses even. So when you start looking at the contracts that the Airbnbs
do use to help such as for companies like to maids and a mop is one that I have
used before for quarterly or yearly linens and cleaning services. So we are putting
in as well even appliance companies, furniture stores all those types of things are
now seeing benefits from having Airbnbs. Another thing is that in terms of positive,
is that we do have additional revenue and income coming into the city, once again
for the small and large businesses. I am in the Vibe District, so many of the small
businesses there are thriving because we have a lot of Airbnb owners, I mean,
Airbnb renters coming in and are going to the restaurants, the shops, to the
museums all those types of things. Tourism has been hurt drastically by this whole
pandemic but the Airbnbs are also helping. Another one of the main things as well
is that I have a lot of families that come in, families that are looking for the
opportunity to be able to have the full kitchens for a home,just to have actual home
like setting versus just being crammed up into a small hotel, so it is very important
that we find ways to be able to accommodate all types of visitors to Virginia Beach.
So that's one of the main things that I think is important here, so we need to allow
people to live and fully experience Virginia Beach in any way that they, you know,
want to. We need to provide them with different types of options available. We
need to find a way to not punish those who are doing and conducting business
properly, and those who are abiding by the rules that had been set forth in that
place. A lot of us have done exactly what we need to do, followed all the rules, but
here we are getting over and over it looks like things are just going to be taken
away, and we need to look at small businesses and small owners who are just
trying to do their best to make it.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments. Any questions. All right, thank you.
Ms. Simons: Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Next speaker.
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Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Kristina Chastain, followed by Todd Solomon, followed by Nancy
Parker. (2:22:49)
Mr. Weiner: Welcome. Please say your name for the record.
Ms. Chastain: Good afternoon commissioners Kristina Chastain. I am coming to you today as
the spokesperson of the Virginia Beach Short-Term Rental Alliance I should be
allowed at the 10 minutes as we discussed, I promise I will not take all that.
Mr. Weiner: You would not have 10 minutes because we have had other people from Short-
Term Rental Alliance have been here also.
Mr. Chastain: No, I am the speaker for the Short-Term Rental Alliance, I am the official speaker
for that group I have already cleared it up with them out here and with the young
lady yesterday that I emailed with.
Mr. Weiner: Yes. Okay, that is fine.
Ms. Chastain: Thank you. As I mentioned, I am the spokesperson for the Virginia Beach Short-
Term Rental Alliance. My name is Kristina Chastain. I am also a lifelong Virginia
Beach resident and North End dweller, a Virginia Beach small business owner and
a short-term rental operator whose property is on 17th Street. The Virginia Beach
Short-Term Rental Alliance which I shall refer to as the STRA is comprised of
multiple short-term rental operators dispersed all throughout our city. These
operators host wonderful families to Virginia Beach for athletic competitions at the
Convention Center, in the Sports Center. These operators host tourists and
travelers that come to our fine city for the beach, the ARE, the aquarium and
everything in between. These operators host business people and military families
and out of towners celebrating special times, that will always endear them to the
City of Virginia Beach. These operators collect a great deal of lodging and transient
occupancy taxes for the City of Virginia Beach, as I am sure you know. These
operators are able to host an alternative to the traditional hotel experience, which
has proven to be a considerable market, while hotels still thrive in the meanwhile.
We recognize the enormity of this issue and we appreciate the time it has taken to
consider what is best for both property rights and neighbors. We the residents and
property owners of the City of Virginia Beach are petitioning for a fair forward
thinking short-term rental ordinance based on data and not anecdotes. The details
of the current proposal under the city's consideration we feel does not do not meet
the standards of quality. As property owners, we should have the right to rent our
property for any length of stay. It is unfair to grant certain areas of the city, the
privilege of by right short-term rental while effectively banning it elsewhere. Here
are some facts to consider. According to City Staff of Virginia Beach 88,270 calls
were made to 311 in 2020, only .01 percent of these calls, just 14, are related to
STR nuisances. Similarly only 7% of zoning complaints in 2020 were related to
STRs. While STRs are not the problem they are made out to be, the city has
nuisance mitigation mechanisms in place for all properties. Whole home STRs
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makeup . 5% of all housing in Virginia Beach. The tourism investment program
fund is expected to take a $10.5 million reduction to its annual budget in the wake
of COVID-19. 56% of travelers approximately in 2021, will want a beach vacation
they have stated this, and with the city's recent requests for more tourism funds
from the state now is not the time just limit safe lodging options for travelers. Still,
of course, we believe in well thought out solutions that empower the respectful law
abiding operators and weed out those who do not. Responsible hosts exhibit the
best of Virginia Beach hospitality to visiting families and our neighbors. If we rent
to problematic guests, it is our properties and livelihoods that are on the line. We
work hard to be a part of the solution, not the problem. And we should not be
punished for a few bad apples or subject to the whims of those who seek to dictate
the use of other people's properties. We propose to the City of Virginia Beach
short-term rentals within any overlays should be allowed by right. Recent city
discussions have suggested the idea of using the overlays to define where CUP
applications will be accepted. It will be accepted instead of by right use. We do not
support this as it goes against our shared goal of reducing the cumbersome CUP
process for all involved.Those outside of any STR overlays within an existing CUP
have earned the right to keep it. The city should honor this commitment and allow
those CUPs to review. We, the law abiding citizens, taxpayers, business owners,
property owners and residents of Virginia Beach ardently oppose the proposed
sunset of the permits, we have earned if our property falls outside of an arbitrary
boundary that has not existed until now. We ask you to consider a manageable
system to allow future responsible hosts outside of overlays to short-term rent.
Virginia Beach needs tourism and tourism needs STRs, now and in the future. In
addition to contributing to lodging taxes, STRs bring revenue for our entire
economy, from property care specialists we hire to the local businesses we
recommend to our guests. This revenue and the jobs that rely on it stay in Virginia
Beach. Should new permits not be allowed the attrition of short-term rentals will
hurt the entire local tourism economy. We ask the city to work together with the
short-term rental community to leverage proven solutions that are already
employed within Virginia Beach and other beach destinations. The short-term
rental community can and does implement technological solutions, standards and
best practices faster and more effectively than any municipal government ever
could. The city can use this to its own advantage by employing the professional
solutions already in place in Virginia Beach and other destinations to fast track the
implementation of high standards, successful compliance and effective
enforcement. This can only be achieved through open conversation and
collaboration with the exemplary short-term rental operators in our very
community. We ask our elected officials to take this valued and appointed officials
to take this valuable opportunity to create a reasonable open minded and forward
thinking approach to an ordinance that works for all today and tomorrow. The
Leadership Committee of the VBSTRA has also spent many hours these last few
months crafting fair and effective short-term rental policies. We believe these
policies are achieved through compromise and collaboration, not with bans or
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onerous restrictions. We believe this policy framework that I will be laying out can
serve as a foundation for a comprehensive and enforceable solution, thereby
alleviating the resource consuming CUP process. I know you all were here for that
meeting in July when I think it went till maybe 1:30 in the morning. The VBSTRA
remains committed to an open dialogue with the City of Virginia Beach and
community members in the weeks and months ahead. The following is our
proposal. Item one for the oceanfront resort overlay in the RT zone as STR be
allowed by right with no density CAPs, those are the only overlays. Item two
remove North End and East Shore Drive overlays. Item three for all areas outside
of the oceanfront resort overlay in RT zone, excluding Sandbridge, of course, a
density CAP of 1%. 1% of total housing units, excluding grandfathered STRs and
Sandbridge. Currently this equates to about 1800 STRs total throughout the city.
Eliminate resource consuming CUP process. Implement a simple registration
process with the Planning Department with a safety inspection. A three strike rule
should be implemented with three verified complaints, the Planning Department
could recommend the removal of an STRs registration and ability to operate. For
all STR registration holders, Sandbridge exempt, of course, is item four, no annual
zoning permit requirement. Zoning enforcement to be self-funded via STR tax
revenue. Fifty-two contracts per year, allowing two contracts per week for flexibility
across peak, shoulder and off season. One parking space for the first two
bedrooms, one space for each bedroom thereafter. Occupancy limit of two people
per bedroom excluding children under 16. Safety inspection, a $75 fee inspection
required for new registration, and that renew every three to five years. A
responsible party able to respond to a call within 30 minutes and be on site within
two hours of notifications, and of course fines for noncompliance. Item five
community engagement and continued review of an STR program. We suggest
advisory board that would meet every other month to provide guidance and
recommendations on administration, enforcement and other policies pertaining to
STR permitting. Members should consist of STR hosts, non-hosts, industry
stakeholders and Virginia Beach elected officials. If I may just shed a little light on
this past weekend, we all absolutely agree that what happened was unacceptable
absolutely unacceptable. Responsible and compliant operators like those in the
VBSTRA do not stand for this behavior. As we propose we'd like to see the City
find a way to get all STRs registered properly, so that they have enforcement
mechanisms in place, so the bad actors can be weeded out immediately. The
VBSTRA is dedicated to compliant, responsible hosting and STR operation. I thank
you all Planning Commission so much for your consideration and collaboration.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments. Any questions. Thank you. Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Todd Solomon,followed by Nancy Parker, followed by Holly Elliot.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome, sir. [2:32:47]
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Mr. Solomon: Good afternoon, Chairman Weiner and Commission Members, my name is Todd
Solomon. I live in Cape Story by the Sea, one of the proposed ordinance districts,
and I am also the current President of the Shore Drive Community Coalition. The
STCC, along with the city sponsored Bayfront Advisory Commission and the Cape
Story by the Sea Civic Association have all voted to oppose the overlay the East
Shore Drive overlay, which is basically Cape Story Overlay District. We ask that
you reconsider what your shrunken version of, but you still have as a district, we
ask that you reconsider that and have that request be removed. This district was
created by Councilman Wood as part of the proposal, ordinance change to you.
He has since decided that he will go on record he is going to recommend the
removal of this district when it comes back to him. So,we would suggest that you
do the same likewise, take the initiative to have that removed. We feel like we are
being for some reason, you know identified as, there is only three in the whole city
and we are being targeted out in this neighborhood. And we do not understand
why. The Comprehensive Plan and the Shore Drive Corridor Plan both
recommended mentioned that this area should be first and foremost a resort
community, and not a resort destination. So it shouldn't be continued in perpetuity
after all this is done as a district where we want to keep having short-term rentals
turn over and turn over and add more and maintain that. So I mean, if that's the
purpose, you need to explain to us why Cape Story is so much different than the
rest of the City, especially the rest of Shore Drive. What's listed in the ordinance
change as a reason to have Cape Story is that we have multifamily dwellings.Well,
you obviously know there is more multifamily dwellings in the rest of the city, not
just Cape Story. And I would go further to say that having a duplex as a short-term
rental is probably one of the worst things to have especially if you're the one who's
living in it. Next door and somebody changing that over twice a week, that would
be crazy. Close to the Chesapeake Bay, well I cannot argue that. Cape Story is
close to the Chesapeake Bay, but so is Ocean Park, so this Chicks Beach. Croatan
is close to the Atlantic Ocean and it is not in an overlay, so that does not make any
sense either. And then as far as rentals being established in our area. I have yet
to see data that shows that according to Director Tajan, we have the potential to
have 32 units registered already that are grandfathered. Your recommendation
here is to have 200 homes at 10% so that's 20. So you're already above that. So,
just removing us as a district. We'll cap it at the potential grandfathered 32 forever
so I mean, it makes the most sense to remove us. We are first and foremost a
community.We have had the longest Fourth of July parade, it is older than the city
is. We have fireworks. We used to have fireworks, sorry we got regulated. Fourth
of July parade, we have got, you know it is first and foremost and having turn over
after turnover just seems it does not fit well into our community. And we have also
emailed you not only the Oceanfront, the North End with their issues with the
shooting but Chicks Beach short-term rental had a shooting, which is being
investigated by the detective.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments sir. Any questions to Mr. Solomon. Thank you.
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Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Nancy Parker, followed by Holly Elliot, followed by Ben Aber.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome Mrs. Parker. [2:36:34]
Ms. Parker: Thank you. Long day for you all again thank you for being here. Chairman Weiner
and Members of the Planning Commission, my name is Nancy Parker, a 55 plus
year resident. I live in the 500 block of 23rd Street and I am opposed to short-term
rentals as they are game changers for residential communities and require to
contend with the multiple impacts of these business entities. I recognize there is
some that are already here. Number one, there is been a plethora of STR
approvals throughout the city, and we have not experienced a full season with all
the festivals to fully appreciate the impacts on the residential neighborhoods. Most
of these festivals are less than a week. The rental of an STR for less than a week
has already exposed neighbors to behavior that is totally unacceptable resulting
from house parties. Honestly, while owners sleep with visions of dollar signs
dancing in their dreams, the neighbors are dealing with the nightmares. Number
two, the issue of parking is not resolved with the requirement of one parking space
per bedroom. This is only effective at night, if there are parking restrictions on the
street. Overflow parking from daytime activities and guests impact the residential
streets. Including the RT1, RT3, and RT4 and the STR process may seem
innocuous until examined on a granular level. Several of RT3 sites contain multiple
acres with one being on the edge of the Shadowlawn community. Several other
RT3 sites are adjacent to residents who might have something to say if one of the
orange Conditional Use Permit signs for an STR were in the front yard. And
additionally, the only RT4 is at 2216A and B on Baltic Avenue, which was denied
by the Planning and City Council, less than a year ago. This is a strange and
perplexing addition to the process. The ability to change a neighborhood to an
STR overlay district section 2301 B should be adjusted to a higher percentage than
the present 60%. If an investor, who usually lives outside of the neighborhood
owns multiple units, they have a weighted advantage in the process. The city
requirement for the creation of a special service district is 80%of affected property
owners, and traffic calming programs requires 75% of the affected street
neighbors. The bar to move the community to an STR overlay should be much
higher. But the only person on your body that is experienced firsthand the issues
of short-term rental is George Alcaraz. Listening to his experience expressed
during your deliberations should give you pause. Remember, do overs are usually
too late. Stable residential communities are the backbone of any successful city.
Why do STRs get precedent over your long standing residents. The bottom line,
do you want an STR next to you. Would you buy your forever home next door to
an STR. I do not think so and neither would. Thank you all for your time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Next speakers Holly Elliot, followed by Ben Abar, followed by Steven Bishard.
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Ms. Elliot: Good afternoon, thank you so much for your time. My name is Holly Malilis Elliot
and I am a lifelong resident of the City of Virginia Beach oceanfront. When I was
born we lived on 26th Street and when I was six months old, my parents moved to
Shadowlawn where I grew up, and they lived there until 2006. My father also
owned and operated Around the World Mini Golf, which was located on the corner
of 16th Street at Pacific Avenue so I guess you could say, I grew up there as well.
I absolutely love our City. The only time I have ever lived away from the oceanfront
was when I went to college. I currently live in the 800 block of 12th Street where I
assist in hosting a short-term rental across the street. Our street is a mixture of
owner occupants and long-term renters. My experience has not at all been the
experience that some of the other people have talked about in the North End and
wherever, and I am really here just to share that with you. We are renting to
families, people seeing the ocean for the first time in their life. People coming to
visit family, military who are stationed in Norfolk and taking leave, moms with their
daughters here for a cheer competition, three girls who are nurses who were here
taking some training classes at EVMS, and most recently, a travelling ER nurse
who was here for almost a month working in the area, and a lawyer from New
Orleans, working from home and just needed a change of scenery. Who would
not want to host these folks. Some of our guests have thanked us for the
alternative option because they are not able to afford a hotel at the beach. A lot of
them need a full kitchen because while maybe they can afford a hotel, they cannot
afford to eat every single meal out at a restaurant. Some of them just want the
luxury of being close to the oceanfront, but still have that neighborhood
environment. I have now managed both short-term rentals and long term rentals.
And I can tell you that the difference is significant. I am so sorry about what
happened in the North End and it is awful, and it is unacceptable. But I believe
that part of the blame for that falls on management and the owners. You do not
have to accept every booking request. Ask questions if something strikes you, ask
more questions and that may lead you to realize that you don't need to rent to
these people and reject it. I believe we need regulations; we need enforcement.
But I also think we need a chance to make this work. I think it is beneficial to all of
us. And I think that short-term rentals should be permitted and if they cannot
operate properly and effectively and follow the rules, revoke that permit so that the
ones of us that do manage them properly, effectively and follow the rules can
continue to operate. Thank you so much for your time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Any questions. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Ben Abar, followed by Steven Bishard, followed by Leslie
Richards.
Mr. Weiner: Welcome.
Mr. Abar: My name is Ben Abar. Disabled veteran, spent 24 years serving our country. And
one of the things I wanted to do when I came home was live in the Chesapeake
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Beach Area. As housing prices have risen that became an option that was not
affordable to me until I found an old dilapidated duplex. I was able to purchase it
for pennies on the dollar because it was an eyesore to the neighborhood. I then
spent $300,000 renovating it to where now it is one of the nicest houses on the
street. From everything I have heard from everyone today one of the biggest
issues is, it is not so much to have STRs or not have STRs, it is does not seem
like there is a blanket statement that one size fits all. Everyone here is either in
support of STR or more regulations on STR, but what I am hearing is an overlay
all it is going to do is take away the individual rights of all these people either inside
the overlay or outside of the overlay. So I think the problem is it is the one size fits
all, mentality that we are trying to apply to the City of Virginia Beach, instead of
looking at each individual property, and each individual situation. And in light of
that, a lot of this has been talked about so I am going to fly through it. It is known
that there is positive economic impacts on consumers and the tourism industry
which Virginia Beach comprises itself of. There's positive impacts on
neighborhoods and local businesses, and the local economy. Chesapeake Beach
or Chicks Beach as you guys know, we have HK, Zia Marias, Buoy 44,
Commonwealth Brewery, all businesses that thrive on the local economy they are
inside that neighborhood. Allowing STRs in that neighborhood, STRs, yes stay 2.1
times longer and spend 1.8 more times money in the local economy, which helps
support those businesses inside those smaller neighborhoods. Some of the
impacts that have not been talked about yet that I was actually kind of surprised of
is the environmental impacts. Studies have shown that energy efficient STRs and
North American guests use up to 63% less energy when staying at a STR. That's
our water levels and that's our energy consumption. That is something as a nation
we should be concerned about and strive to do better with. The other one is the
effect on the coronavirus and the community, which is obviously impacted all of us
over the past year. STRs have been a mainstay for stranded travelers that either
are dealing with flight cancellations, border closings, or have had their chances of
cutting off return and can afford to stay in hotel long term. It is also been used as
shelters for emergency personnel, and those that are vulnerable to the sick. A lot
of police officers and first responders have stayed in STRs to avoid exposing their
family members, their children and their loved ones, to the potential risk of
coronavirus. The other issue that I have heard risen is crime and noise. We have
within the City of Virginia Beach and as a nation the ways to deal with those things.
I would simply suggest that we utilize the things we already have in place. Thank
you very much for your time.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for comments sir. [2:46:35]
Mr. Dao: Mr. Chair. That was the last in person speaker, we will now move to virtual
speakers. The first virtual speaker is Steven Bishard, followed by Leslie Richards,
followed by Seth Bloomdale. Mr. Bishard, if you can please hold for three seconds
before making your comments. Thank you.
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Mr. Bishard: Thank you for letting us speak today. I just want to echo primarily what the
supporters of the STRs are sharing today. We are a family that's from Virginia
Beach. We have several year round rentals and recently, have brought into
business some short-term rentals. One point, we have more issues with our long
term, yearly rentals than of short-term rental properties that we have. I just want to
mention too that the key to this that we have found is really to have an active, even
a proactive, swift, capable and professional management company. For example,
our manager and management company lives in the Old Beach area, kind of
central to where most of our short term rental holdings are, is usually able to be at
site within 10 minutes when there's an issue. So that is proven very, very effective
for us. Also, it does turn out that if there are any changes to the ordinance that
anyone that is grandfathered in any way will be protected in all respects. As the
current ordinance stand today, I think that would be a wise and fair way to handle
things. There certainly is a place in Virginia Beach, and even internationally we
are seeing, for Airbnb. It seems to be the preferred way for people to stay in
places, are another different kind of uses. And so I think we need to preserve that
in some respect. I appreciated Ms. Chastain's way of looking at it. I know there
are various people with various views, ideas and opinions that there has to be a
way to preserve the free market or somewhat of a free market approach. Some of
these families that we heard from, it sounds like it is their sole income. Their
livelihood is based on their ability to maintain a short-term rental business. Lastly,
it seems like that problems associated with short-term rentals are fairly minimal
and when it is looked at in the large lens. All of our rentals, for example, we have
some things and some situations, maybe we have some tenants have parties, but
I can say so far, at least with our short-term rentals, have had no problems, no
situations and no issues come up and so appreciate you hearing it. Thank you for
the opportunity.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Leslie Richards, followed by Seth Bloomdale, followed by
Andrea D'Angelo. Ms. Richard, if you can please hold for three seconds before
beginning your comments.
Ms. Richards: Hi, thank you for letting me speak today. My name is Leslie Richards, and I live in
the North End. Both my husband and I are opposed to allowing short-term rentals
without a CUP process and meaningful enforcement and penalties. STRs
endanger our safety and enjoyment of our home and life for our family and pets.
We are year around residents and love our community and the North End family.
The behavior of those renting STRs has progressively gotten worse each year.
The new renters are less respectful and per their own comments they are entitled
because they paid for it. They aren't concerned about having to face their
neighbors for their actions because they are gone in a couple of days. I was not
aware of the 311 hotline, so now that I am aware I will make sure to make my
complaints known, but that may be why you do not have a lot of records for people
who have issues because they do not know about that outlet. My experience with
short-term renters includes them peeing off balconies, bottles thrown on our decks,
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trash in the streets, them wanting to fight, and excessive nonstop noise and
partying at each turnover. They are confrontational and aggressive. I can't enjoy
my home because of the fear and anxiety of the next one. Will the next one be
worse than the last one. This year has already started with a bang as we all I am
sure aware of the two flash parties that just occurred down the street from me.
There were gunshots, drag racing, trash, including shell casings, and excessive
noise and screaming. I am afraid to walk my dog at night or sit on my porch for
fear of being hit by a stray bullet. Is this the Virginia Beach we want. There are
more than enough hotels in the area, who have the proper infrastructure and
security to ensure no one gets out of hand. Renters choose STRs because the
cost per person is so low and they can get away with a lot more than if they were
in a hotel. Neighbors are left to fend for themselves with little assistance from the
police, at least that is my experience. In regards to the North End Overlay and
STRs I am against the overlay for the North End. If STRs are to be allowed they
should require approval via CUP. Limit the frequency to one rental per week. In
regard to the North End density calculation that should be based on current legal
STRs and capped at no more than 5%. No new CUPs should be approved until a
density is below 5%, the proposed 15% is excessive especially since there are no
shortage of hotel options. Additional Zoning Inspectors and Enforcement Teams
should be in place prior to granting more CUPs to handle complaints rather than
the homeowner having to contact the responsible party due to fear of retaliation.
Safety of our Virginia Beach residents should be our top concern. Why should
enjoyment of my home be reduced due to a for-profit business in a neighborhood.
By allowing STRs that endanger our community, family friendly environment, and
disrupting our neighborhood and happiness. As I said STRs be limited with strict
enforcement, penalties for violations, and CUP requirements for our own safety.
Thank you very much.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you. Next speaker.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Seth Bloomdale, followed by Andrea D'Angelo, followed by John
Mannarino. Mr. Bloomdale, if you please pause for three seconds before starting
your comments. We move on to the next speaker Andrea D'Angelo, followed by
John Mannarino, followed by William Duke. Mrs. D'Angelo please start your
comments.
Ms. D'Angelo: This is Andrea D'Angelo. Thank you for your time today and the ability to speak.
I am a new homeowner in Croatan and I knew that the STRs were available here
because I myself had rented with my family for several years before actually
coming to purchase a home. It seems to me that I was not aware of the conflict by
any means going on between renters and owners. It seems to me that the voices
of few of those should not be able to regulate the rights of everyone else. There is
a public beach and a parking lot in our neighborhood that some feel that renters
are much less desirable. These families spend money here in our restaurants, the
aquariums,and attractions, and they add to the neighborhood with their excitement
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and pleasure of beach life for a short time, especially after a year of being locked
up for COVID,which seems more important than ever. I think for some people this
income allows the opportunity to make improvements on their properties, which
adds to the values of the neighborhood in general. And the opportunity to share
this place with families who cannot afford to buy here is very rewarding. I know
my family enjoyed this privilege for years making wonderful memories. I would ask
that we allow STRs to continue to exist while maintaining rules to keep these visits
safe and positive for everyone. There are regulations in place, and we should do
our best to ensure a good experience for everyone, but we need to be good
neighbors not combatants. The beach is for everyone, let us find an equitable
resolution. Thank you.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is John Mannarino, followed by William Duke, followed by Robert
Goodman. Mr. Mannarino, if you can please pause for three second before
starting your comments.
Mr. Mannarino: Hi this is John Mannarino, can you hear me. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: You can start your comments, sir.
Mr. Mannarino: Hi. I only have a couple of questions because Croatan is not in an overlay district
and we hope that Croatan would not be in an overlay district. The concern I have
is the sun setting of CUPs that already exists and the definition of grandfathering.
To me it is a bit hazy and I am not sure whether or not we fully understand and
appreciate that some of the properties in Croatan, which may be grandfathered
have thus far been long-term rentals and not short-term rentals, or short-term
rentals which are in possession of CUPs. I understand that those will sunset, so
that we can retain the character of the neighborhood, without having to go through
the struggles that we are seeing in the North End. And as to the previous
comments about the accessibility of the beach and what it means to residents that
are here, it does not seem that the individuals are looking at the fact that
homeowners have a sizable investment in their properties as well. And just
because an individual is looking to make a short-term investment in a short-term
rental, does not mean it is going to be beneficial to me as a long-term renter. So,
once again, please, if we can just have some more qualification on what it means
to sunset a CUP after five years and what it means to be grandfathered it would
clarify those of us living outside of an overlay district what that means for the future
of our neighborhoods. I also would like to suggest that that 60% petition rate to
establish an overlay district be raised again to something like 75% or 80%, which
one of your previous speakers said about the SSD and about the traffic changes,
that is the extent of my comments. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is William Duke, followed by Robert Goodman, followed by
Andrea Chambers. Mr. Duke. You can please start your comments.
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Mr. Duke: I am William Duke, and I am the Vice Chairman of the Tidewater Libertarian Party.
I am not speaking on behalf of the TLP, but you should know that I am a libertarian
and I am also speaking only for myself, and I also run an Airbnb with my wife in
our large home, we rent out rooms and we stay there. Regarding short term rental
overlays, I am completely in favor of the Virginia Beach Short-Term Rental
Associations recommendations. And, I believe it is great to have meaningful and
useful regulations of these short-term rentals, but I am appalled that you would
create these zones where you would — I don't think it is very well thought out. You
are clearly going to be changing the nature of the neighborhoods because there
will be so many people who will want to start STRs in the near future, they are
going to have to be in that property, that area, and you are going to change the
nature of that overlay, and you are also restricting the rights, property rights of
people throughout the city who don't live there. It's not very libertarian by any
means to extend certain rights to one area but not to another. And you will see a
change in both inside and outside of these overlay districts, as people who expect
to have the right to run short-term rentals realize that they have to move to do so,
buy property elsewhere to do so. It is going to be a disaster. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Robert Goodman, followed by Andrea Chambers, followed by
Margaret Rontini. Mr. Goodman if you can please start your comments.
Mr. Goodman:I am Robert Goodman, a lifelong resident of the North End of Virginia Beach. I
would strongly urge you not to have an automatic short-term rental permitted in the
North End of Virginia Beach, it would only be by permit. And the permits should
be subject to some strict rules and requirements. You do not have a right to
enforce it if it is not a practical matter. First thing is that it ought to be revocable, if
there are problems. Secondly, they should be sunset after a period of time so that
they can be reviewed from time-to-time, so that no one person gets a lock for life
on a rental. There should also be a limit on density, I would recommend 5% of the
total dwelling structures within a street, 1% within a city could leave whole areas
flooded. With respect to a street in the North End, I think you should include the
Ocean Avenue, or numbers that have the same street number, and the feeder road
that has the same street numbers. Once you get to the density and it should be by
side, one on each side of Atlantic Avenue if you are going to get there.The process
should be taken into heavy account any objection by the neighbors, for example,
Mr. Davenport's application is strongly opposed by his neighbors he can rent by
the week now. The issue is short-term rental, that should be limited to one rental
per week, under any of these applications at the North End. There should also be
a look that is not going to adversely affect the live oaks and things like that when
they clean up, they destroy the neighborhoods, for the sake of a little bit more
money. There should be inspection by the fire inspectors because we are
suddenly looking at a greater density. And these are short-term rentals, these are
not normal rentals. The inspectors should be paid out of a special fund that should
be assessed against as a special tax on this, and the inspector should be permitted
in the permit to go into the house to see be sure that there are not more bedrooms,
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than are authorized, so there needs to be an authorization to go in without a search
warrant. I would strongly say that behavior consequences such as very recently
that would involve multiple, multiple violations. You do not need three strikes over
three different days. That three strike point would have been more than covered
by what happened at 56th Street, for example, and that permit should be revoked
effective immediately. If you're going to do that you give a chance of preserving
the residential character at the North End, which despite what people say is there.
And when we talk about the finances and property values going up, yes, but the
residential value goes down. You want to live next to a 56th Street rental, only if
you are going to buy the next one and do the same thing if that's doing right now.
Otherwise you are going to move. That is not what your responsibility is to us as
long term citizen. Thank you very much.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Andrea Chambers, followed by Margaret Zontini, followed by
Andrew Cohen. Ms. Chambers, if you can please start your comments.
Ms. Chambers: Good afternoon, my name is Andrea Chambers. I just recently bought a home in
the North End, last year coincidentally on 56th Street. My understanding is that
the City Council has found that some areas of the city for short-term rentals are
not compatible with residential use and the surrounding communities, due to the
concerns of excessive noise, illegal or improper parking, congestion, litter, and
interference with the quiet enjoyment of the residential neighborhood where they
live. We experienced all these issues with a short-term rental in our neighborhood
this weekend. As you know, there was a massive party at a short-term rental at
Holly and 56th Street that started on Friday night and continued all the way through
Sunday. My neighbor called the police at midnight on Friday due to excessive
noise, the police responded, but were not able to shut down the party, because
they did not have the right to do so. according to what they indicated. The party
continued until 3am that night, at which time eight shots were fired and there
apparently was a shooting victim. To surprise variable and the party continued on
Saturday night, I was out of town and received multiple texts Saturday showing
cars blocking my driveway, running over my lawn. And, I was informed that folks
were shouting obscenities at my neighbors,and that the police returned but we are
not able to shut down the party again. There was twerking on top of police cars
and neighbors said the party did not end till 5am of the party goers were allowed,
leaving the party as well. Due to concern with my safety of my property I drove 10
hours home to get home to see if the mayhem would continue on Sunday. I
understand this was an illegal Airbnb, but I do not see how, adding an overlay to
make it legal would help anything. Concerning the density I am very concerned
with the density issues and I note that the Marriott owner was able to somehow
carve out an exception to the overlay which seems unfair to the rest of us in the
North End who don't want this for our neighborhoods. We were planning to make
this as our retirement home, we spend money at restaurants like every, you know
people are saying they want people to come here and spend money on restaurants
and shops, we do that all the time since we are living here now. So, we would also
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like to be able to bring our children here to visit and see the ocean and have a safe
place for them to come. We strongly oppose the overlay. If there's going to be a
continuation of short-term rentals we would support continued use of the
conditional permit process. I was impressed listening this morning to those
applications and how careful the council was or the Zoning Committee was in
reviewing them. We would support a minimum requirement, in my view of one
month, when I was purchasing my condo here I was told that most of the condos.
Mr. Weiner: Thank you for your comments.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Margaret Zontini, followed by Andrew Cohan, followed by
Michael Kelly. Ms. Zontini, please start your comments.
Ms. Zontini: Most of the conversation that we have had today and you have heard many good
suggestions,which I think is wonderful. Sadly I live on a street where there are six
rentals whether they are STRs I have no idea but who goes through them of the
Airbnbs, but I can tell you that over the last five years we have had incredible
amount of parties, nonsense, and cars. And it is not just all families, you know, it
is just an abundance of all kinds of things. And it goes on until the wee hours of
the morning. I think that I am totally against overlays. I think there could be an
equitable resolution to 90% of it. And, I do think we need desirable regulations but
just to give a blanket automatic lot for life it is not cohesive to a neighborhood, and
the North End is a neighborhood. My grandfather built the house that I live in in
1933, and it is remained in our family ever since. And it started out as a lovely little
neighborhood I do not want that to change, and I greatly appreciate the fact that
you all have let us give our opinions and our voices today. Thank you so much.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Andrew Cohan, followed by Michael Kelly, followed by Thomas
Lopresti. Mr. Cohan, please start your comment.
Mr. Cohan: Thank you very much. Hello, my name is Andrew Cohan, I am a property owner
and a full time year around resident of the North End where I have owned a home
for 20 years. I speak in support of the North Virginia Beach Civic League position
on short-term rentals, which seeks to preserve the residential character of the
North End. While short-term rentals may be compatible with commercial zoning
of the OR and RT districts, they are not compatible with the residential zoning of
the North End. At the recent Planning Commission workshop on STRs I was
deeply disturbed the commissioners were willing to recommend an STR density of
15% for the North End higher than the 10% recommended for the Shore Drive
district, based on data that staff explained is unreliable, stating that they have no
way to determine the current actual number of STRs in the North End. And, further
staff stated that the data that they provided included a significant number of
properties that were grandfathered as STRs, and also a significant number of
unpermitted and illegal STRs, but that they had no way to separate those out in
the data. Your staff told you that the Commissioner of Revenue has at least some
of this data but will not share it with you. Before making an arbitrary
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recommendation for 15% density of STRs in the North End, Planning Commission
should ask Council to direct the Commissioner of Revenue to provide the data that
you need to make a properly informed recommendation. Any recommendation by
this Planning Commission on whether to create an STR overlay for the North End,
and if so, what density to allow in that overlay, must be based on reliable data.
Further, the baseline for any such recommendation must be based on the current
number of legally permitted STRs and not on a number of density that includes
grandfathered or illegal STRs. So, to conclude our request the Planning
Commission adopt the position of North Virginia Beach Civic League as follows;
the North End should not be in an STR overlay, however, if the North End is in an
STR overlay STR applications must be reviewed and approved through the
Conditional Use Permit process. You must limit STRs to density reflecting the
current number of legal STRs in the North End or no more than 5% of residences.
STR should be limited to a frequency of one rental per week. STR applications
shall require a current physical survey and site plan showing the proposed parking
plan, and additional zoning inspectors must be funded and fired as needed to
enforce STR regulations. Thank you very much for this opportunity to share my
remarks with you.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Michael Kelly, followed by Thomas Lopresti, followed by Martin
Warrant. Mr. Kelly, please pause for three seconds before starting your
comments.
Mr. Kelly: This is Michael Kelly, I am the president of the Croatan Civic League and I want to
say first of all I appreciate the challenging issues and problems that you are dealing
with. I think MIT calls it a wicked hard problem. Everybody is trying to do the best
they can from their interests and concerns and thus the problem becomes even
more complex, because we are also dealing with people's lives. Our Board
reviewed the current change recommendations and support the current change
recommendations. You have seen our comments before and letters and so I would
not go in very much detail, I guess I would just highlight three things. The first is
grandfathering. It is vague, and it is not clear. And it is not clear how a
grandfathered property comes into compliance. Secondly, as has been pointed
out, there is no central list that identifies what properties are registered as STRs
likewise what properties are grandfathered. And therefore neighbors and
communities probably do not have a very good way of being able to look for both
the issues, as well as to be helpful in their recommendations. And finally, I think
clearly there is not an adequate process for reporting. It does not work right now
very well, the responses do not seem to work very well right now, and it is already
been mentioned that there is an inadequate ability to enforce and obviously,
whatever you do, you have got to be able to enforce the regulations. Again, you
are doing the best you can. I think you're doing a pretty good job at trying to get
through all of this, and I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Thomas Lopresti, followed by Martin Warrant, followed by Gail
Johnston. Mr. Lopresti, please start your comment.
Mr. Lopresti: My name is Tom Lopresti I am also part of the Virginia Beach Short-Term Rental
Alliance, I am in pro in favor of short-term rentals. I think they should exist by right
within the entire city, I do not believe in the overlay districts. I think you are taking
people's fundamental right to do with what they want to their property. I feel that
the Planning Commission is being bullied into an enforcement and regulatory role
instead of Planning, and that is done by the City Council and a lot of these groups
like the North End. I appreciate them. I appreciate the concerns. I do not want
people trashing my property or misbehaving, I am a renter and an owner. But, the
world is changing, people are changing, and the city changing and I get it, you
guys do not want change or afraid of it. But that is not a reason to ban my right to
use my property how I want. There is already enforcement on the books, we
already know there is rules and regulations governing people's behavior, we just
need to enforce those things. Get rid of CUP process. Get rid of all this nonsense
that you're wasting your time on and let this thing take fold. The only reason you
are doing it now is because it hasn't existed as long as long term rentals. Long
term rentals are worse in every aspect than short-term rentals. I mean they just
are, the data is there to prove that. I get these people do not want short-term
rentals, then they are not going to want long term rentals, and then they are not
going to want young people moving in their neighborhood,then they are not going
to want people that do not speak with an American accent. Where does it stop.
You are not going to always get the perfect little bubble and neighborhood. Things
change and I am sorry but that's just life. So let it happen but do not rely on the
government to, you know, remove your rights or anyone's rights, because you are
uncomfortable with something. I really appreciate you guys taking the time. I think
everyone is really passionate about this, but you know let's let this develop and
unfold for a few years before we start just getting pushed into doing things that we
do not know the consequences of like the whole parking thing. You got people
tearing up these beautiful lawns to make room for parking so they could because
they to comply and do what's right. 99% of the owners want to do what's right. We
want to register, we want to pay our taxes, we want to do what's right by the
government, by the city, by our neighbors. But you guys make it so hard. I cannot
tell you how many people I know are running short-term rentals aren't registered
because they know they would not get approved. They know the City's against
them, they do not want to speak up, they do not do these things. They would love
to but they know it is just not going to happen. So,that is my two cents, I appreciate
you guys listening to me. And please, do what you can do to support the short-
term rentals because we are here to help you guys succeed as a city, one Nation.
Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Martin Warrant, followed by Gail Johnston, followed by Bob
Hughes. Mr. Warrant, please start your comment.
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Mr. Warrant: So, it is been a long day and I thank you very much for your attention, which I do
not imagine has been easy at all. A lot has been said. I live at the North End for
the last 30 to 60 years I have been in Virginia Beach, before that Norfolk. And I
am a full time resident on 66th Street. I was little bit of confused by some of the
commentary because I thought this overlay thing was what we had done. The
North End was burdened by the City with grandfathered ability for people to build
condominiums, single family, duplex apartments and so forth and so on. on small
lots. And that was done all over the North End starting probably 20 years ago, and
the overlay that we created was to allow people to have smaller dwellings, rather
than the big box dwellings and that's how the overlay came about for us. Now, as
regarding the short-term situation, there have always been rentals at the North
End. Those residents that are here know about it and live with it and it hasn't been
much of a problem. The problem is Airbnb, which has expanded into an industry,
and an industry is a commercial activity, and there is no space in a residential area
for commercial activities. Now, we are not going to eliminate short term rentals,
but there absolutely must be a control over short-term rentals.To that end, I believe
that the city has the capacity to find out what percentage of the housing at the
North End is rented and let that be the base of the percentage accepted. There's
no way to increase that activity. I don't want the increased rentals in my
neighborhood. There should be no official sanction to increase the average rental
percentage at all. Now, residents of the North End have not indicated any
animosity towards rentals but they are absolutely opposed to increasing the
volume of them. The city has an obligation to provide for health and safety, nothing
in your plan at the point that I am aware for the North End addresses those
obligations. They are nothing to those willing to alter living conditions, many for
personal profit. The changes you present cater to them, ignoring the bedrock
residents of the City of Virginia Beach. I strongly urge that there be no increased
rentals at the North End. And I thank you very much and I recognize that you've
got a tough job. Signing off.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Gail Johnston, followed by Bob Hughes, followed by Barbara
Sherill. Ms. Johnston please start your comment.
Mr. Weaver: Hi, my name is Michael Weaver, I am Gail's son, she had to run to a doctor's
appointment. I think she did not realize how long this would last. I am just going
to very briefly go over what she wanted me to go over. Right now I am the third
generation longtime resident here, My grandfather built the home that we currently
rent out as an STR. We have been running out for nine years, in that time we have
had one problem the entire time that we personally enforced. We have no
complaints from our neighbors. Now, we are a little different because we are
literally right next door so we can enforce immediately, which is part of the reason
why it is easier for us to enforce, but there are a couple of things that we were sort
of concerned with. One is that the overlays create sort of an unfair concentration.
A lot of people have already said this, but it is worth reiterating, an unfair
concentration in certain areas, it does not really resolve any of the concerns people
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have for their safety or the safety of their neighborhood within those overlays.
Unless there is a means of enforcing rules and stopping people from basically
disturbing the peace. I mean that seems to be a very important thing that we
absolutely need to address but I am not 100% sure how the proposed changes
would in any way address that. The other thing is in addition to the obvious, the
revenue that comes in, the beneficial safety of a home as opposed to a hotel in the
time of COVID. I mean, we really do have some concerns with like the proposed
limits on the number of people that can be at the home. A lot of the people that
stay at our rental are here to see family. And so they come, they gather at the
home. I mean that we may want to expand the number of people who are allowed
to be in the home in addition to renters. It should be maybe more like 10 additional
people. I am not sure that is something that should be discussed. And then, quite
frankly, I think that if we want to protect people like from what I have been hearing
about what happened here on the North End Sunday night, I means the cops were
on our property at like three in the morning with rifles and dogs, and flashlights.
Yeah, that is not okay but I do not see how that's going to be fixed with anything
we are talking about because as far as I know the reason that we are here Sunday
has nothing to do with STRs right, we had somebody complaining to us about it, it
is a resident nearby who apparently has had some problems before. We are not
going to be more or less safe because of STRs unless we have specific ways to
enforce conduct for people who are visiting. That is pretty much all. I really
appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to everything everyone has to say and
looking forward to working with everyone to find a good solution and moving
forward.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Bob Hughes followed by Barbara Sharell, followed by Kieran
Archbell. Mr. Hughes, please start your comments. [3:24:29]
Mr. Hughes: Good afternoon. My name is Bob Hughes, my wife and I am the owner of a two
bedroom condominium located at 2113 Atlantic Avenue in the Kamla
condominiums, and it has been a short-term rental since we purchased it in 1999.
I am also the President of our Condominium Owners Association and I am
representing the owners of all 15 units, 11 of which are either are or will be short-
term rentals. I want to thank the Planning Commission for taking another look at
the short-term rental regulations. I know is a tough nut to crack. Countless rules
and regulations which as the President I actively enforce already reflect many of
the restrictions that you were considering, and they were developed over the
decades to address the need to manage short-term rentals within our
condominium complex. The creation of the oceanfront resort short-term rental
overlay district will help us manage the Virginia Beach vacation experience, and it
is something that we support. I cannot speak to the appropriateness of the other
overlay district by personal basis, a one size fits all solution just does not seem to
work. The oceanfront resort is a very different critter from other areas of Virginia
Beach. However, after reviewing the proposed changes the existing regulations, I
would like to address several areas of concern. Dropping the occupancy limit from
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six people of any age to four adults and two children for a two bedroom 1200
square foot condominium is overly restrictive. Kamla has had a six person of any
age restriction in place for decades and we have never had any issue with
overcrowding. All of our units are two bedrooms and they can safely accommodate
six adults. The requirement for a 30 minute on site response should be modified
to phone contact within 30 minutes, and on site within one hour 30 minutes after
phone contact. All but one of Kamla's 11 short-term rentals are professional
managed by local firms. It is physically impossible to guarantee that somebody can
get on site to the oceanfront within 30 minutes. Have you tried to drive to the
oceanfront on a Saturday afternoon, it could take 30 minutes just to make it from
where 264 ends to get to Atlantic Avenue. I live in Western Branch and on a good
day, it takes me at least 45 minutes to make it to the oceanfront. Many short-term
rental problems can be resolved over the phone, and do not require somebody on
site to resolve. The next issues I want to address are ones that require clarification.
The first is the occupancy limit for events. The proposed change reads no events
permitted with guests above the number of allowed guests per night as calculated
by two per bedroom. But for the purposes of this regulation what constitutes an
event. If my short-term rental tenant invited five people over to my two bedroom
condo one evening to watch the fireworks but not spend the night, is that an event,
and would I be in violation because they invited five people over? This regulation
needs clarification as to what constitutes an event. And finally, with respect to
balcony occupancy determinations, you need to specify what building code
construction or life safety standard you want to have apply to that the
determination. For a building like Kamla, with four inch thick concrete balconies,
the calculations are very different than that for wooden deck or balcony. Kamlas
balconies were built with a design light load of 60 pounds per square foot. In the
case of my unit,the balcony is 126 square feet or a live load of 7560 pounds,which
is thirty seven 200 pound people.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Barbara Sharell, followed by Karen Archbell, followed by Louis
Gaytan. Ms. Sharell, please start your comments.
Ms. Sharell: Thank you. We are second generation of Cape Story by the Sea. We definitely
oppose any kind of overlay. Our neighborhood is sandwiched between the brand
new Delta hotel with 295 rooms and First Landing State Park with 229 between
cabins and recreational camping slots. I just wanted to help put a face maybe on
what an STR on our street has done to us. I had one of my neighbors call me
crying in tears because an STR renter, she works at night and they pulled up, they
came through and were knocking on her back door, and when she said she was
not an STR and did not know where it was, they got angry at her,they left the car,
their cars in her driveway, she came out and demanded that they moved them.
She had me on the phone because she was so afraid of this group of people. So,
the police were called because the man was cursing and swearing at her and I
heard all this over the phone. I came out of my house the police were called
another neighbor came out. So, this is very upsetting with these STRs. That is
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one example. Next example,the kids were scared to walk down the street because
this STR home had different people that would come to it. Cars were parked in
front, their windows were rolled up and the cars were full of smoke. The kids were
afraid to walk past there so they would go around to a different way to get to their
house. So now you have got working people scared, you have got kids that are
frightened. We have a 90-year-old in our neighborhood who has lived here all her
90 years. She is very unsettled by the disturbing constant array of strangers,
pacing back and forth around her property. We are now another house just to let
you know she was scared because the STR tenants were making a bunch of noise.
She did not want to call the police because of repercussions. She did not and
another neighbor did but her house wound up getting egged. Also, there was a
family that came in, they did not like they bought a bunch of fast food, they did not
like it they threw over the food over the fence and the neighbor's dog ate it and got
sick. So does anybody pay the bill for the vet, does anybody pay the bill for the
house that gets egged, is anybody looking after the neighbor now that is so
unsettled because they have STRs banging at their door trying to find out where it
is on our street. I just think this is not a place, Cape Story by the Sea, is not a
neighborhood for STRs. We are a solid family oriented neighborhood, and just this
one STR on our street has been continuously disruptive in every kind of way,
urinating in public, one group was asked not to do that. Overflowing trash.
Mr. Dao: The next speaker is Karen Archbell, followed by Louis Gaytan, followed by Enit
Lulushi. Ms.Archbell, please start your comments. We'll move on to next speaker,
Louis Gaytan, followed by Enit Lulushi, followed by Elaine Fakete. Mr. Gaytan,
please start your comments. We will move on to the next speaker, Enit Lulushi,
followed by Elaine Fekete. Ms. Lulushi, please start your comments.
Ms. Lulushi: Hello Planning Commission. This is Enit Lulushi, thank you for listening. My
husband and I are Croatan homeowners and I speak today against the proposed
ordinance changes. I want to commend the City Council for recognizing the
system they put in place for STRs, which they just created only a short year ago is
entirely broken, flawed, subjective, biased and nonfunctional. However, the
current proposed changes in front of you are also wrong and we reject them. As
they will exacerbate the problems, impact negatively a large swath of your
homeownership base, even hurt your tourism revenue. We believe rental short-
term is a homeowner's right as part of a homeownership right. We support the
STRs with a minimum stay of seven nights in Croatan. We urge you to consider
for Croatan, the same solutions as you do for the North End or at least establish
an objective, unbiased and fair CUP application process in the future. Because
Croatan is very much like the North End, both because of its location and the
history of vacation homes in Virginia Beach. The narrative you have been
accustomed to is that there is no overwhelming support in Croatan for STR. I hope
today's hearing disproves that narrative. At least it is 50:50, up to now. The
statement you might hear that full time residents have bought their homes to live
in a "full time" residential neighborhood is misleading at the least, as there has
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always been the ocean here and there have always been vacation homes in
Croatan from its very beginning. For instance, we have been second homeowners
in Croatan for 18 years now, it has always been that. The argument that Croatan
is residential and therefore STRs should be banned is flawed. It is perfectly aligned
with the American dream and with the residential use of a neighborhood, to have
hardworking honest American families who come here for a beach vacation or to
visit their military members for at least a week. And we care about the peace and
quiet of our neighborhood, as much as anyone else. In addition, we care about
our own property. We indeed are paying members of the Civic League. And by
the way, the President of the Civic League does not speak for me. And even
though the police have, we have Atkinson manage our home. The argument that
the vacation families will come and cause destruction by parking on the street while
they have four guest parking spaces in their fancy Croatan vacation homes and
garages defies logic. In general, the narrative that everyone who comes to visit in
Virginia Beach constitutes a threat to full time residents and is aspiring to break
the law by illegally parking or overflowing trash or worse, is not helpful. So is the
assumption that everyone who aspires to rent out their home on short-term is
careless and has disregard for the peace and quiet of neighborhoods. Please let
us not encourage the bashing of American families that are willing to bring their
hard earned tourist money here and by doing so fully.
Mr. Dao: Next speakers is Elaine Fakete, followed by Whitney Harding, followed by Brandy
Flotan. Ms. Fekete, please start your comments.
Ms. Fakete: Good afternoon everyone I know it is been a long day, I will keep this brief. I just
wanted to say that I can thank everyone my name is Elaine Fakete. I can
sympathize with the issues that people have. I have a friend who invites me over
to a neighborhood that is not anywhere near the beach, every fourth of July for a
cookout and there is a house down the street that every year has huge hundreds
of cars show up. There is admission,there is loud noise,there is underage drinking
there is gunfire, there is fireworks. But what I came here to point out today was
that's not a short-term rental, the owner of the house is doing that. So, some of
these concerns in the neighborhoods are not just relevant to short-term rentals. I
have spoken to you. I live in Sandbridge. I have lived in Sandbridge for 26 years.
I have rented my home for 13, and I have spoken before most of you, multiple
occasions, about Sandbridge, which I know is not in particular on the issue today,
but I just want to point out to you that Sandbridge is a neighborhood as well. On
my street, which is a cul-de-sac street, there are over 50 houses, and there are
only three short-term rentals on my street. The rentals in Sandbridge, we have
found a way to make them where they are not bothering the neighbors, there are
no noise, there are no complaints, there are no issues. I personally vetted every
guest. It is a family that comes to stay with us during the summer. This is the
home that I live in so I rent out my home so I am going to make extra sure that it
is taken care of. Families come in the summer and on the weekends and holidays
when my children aren't in school. We rent to a lot of military families who come
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to town and want to see their children or to families up and down the East Coast
to meet here in the middle. It is a mistake, a huge mistake, to assume that if we
do not have short-term rentals that people will stay in a hotel. I talk to these people,
it is two different groups of people that we can cater to both. People will drive
elsewhere, the Outer Banks is not that far away. It will happen. Like I said, I have
been doing it for 13 years, I have never had a complaint. My neighbors meet me
in my yard on Saturday and say, oh, I had the best time watching so and so's
grandchild ride a bike, oh I went fishing with so and so, oh I invited your guests
over for dinner because they were so nice. And there is no more traffic than when
I am here, there is no more trash than when I am here and I think that, you know
the Visitor and Convention Bureau might be a little upset if people are watching
this today hearing that in general, we think that tourists to our area are a safety
threat, they are noisy, they are more litter, I mean, are we not welcoming or are
we. The one thing I wanted to bring up about the Sandbridge issue is the fee for
zoning.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Whitney Harding, followed by Brandy Flatan, and followed by
Karen Archbell. Ms. Harding, please start your comments.
Ms. Harding: Hi my name is Whitney Harding. I am a resident of the North End at 65th Street.
We do have a couple of short-term rentals, they rent out rooms and everything. I
have three young children and this concerns me for their safety. We have a house
for sale, right at the end of our driveway, which means if someone comes in and
makes it a short-term rental, I fear for the safety of my children playing in our
driveway. We do not know who these people are, could they be a sex offender,
coming in right next to me and me not knowing and not allowing my seven and
nine year old boys to play in their own driveway. I think we need to be very careful
about how many we allow. I agree with the position of the North Virginia Beach
Civic League. I think it should only be 5%, and we need to not be an overlay,
personally I do not think we should be. We are a residential community, I know my
neighbors, yes, some are second homes, but I do know them and they come back
for the summer and we look out for one another like other people in the North End
has said, we look out for their homes we look out for our neighbors, and so I just
do not want to see short-term rentals in the North End. Thank you.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Brandy Flotan, followed by Karen Archbell followed by Louis
Gaytan. Ms. Flotan, please start tour comment.
Ms. Flotan: Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for this time and for this attention on this detail. I
am a homeowner in the Vibe Creative District. I just want to express my support
for STRs, specifically my neighborhood, which is a mixed zone and it is also in the
Oceanfront Resort District Overlay. I purchased my home as a vacation home for
my family to use and enjoy, and we rent it about 30% of time which helps us
support and maintain the excellence of our property. I am invested in this
community as a homeowner, I am also a business owner in this community, and I
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employ members of community for cleaning and yard maintenance. My home is
co-joined with four other units, four out of the five which are also approved and
registered STRs and myself along with my neighbors have had positive
experiences here. We have screened our guests, we have established a
communication channel between us that has been very effective and is a multiplier
for eyes on the property. Personally I hosted 16 families last year, all of which had
no issues and were lovely and had amazing experiences and plan to come back
to Virginia Beach. Again, I have enjoyed operating as an STR and would really
express my support to be able to continue this by right. I submit that the Oceanfront
Resort District by nature is the most appropriate best use and should be allowed
by right to homeowners within the district. Thank you for your time.
Mr. Dao: Next speaker is Karen Archbell, followed by Louis Gaytan. Ms. Archbell, please
start your comment. We move on to the next speaker, which is Louis Gaytan. Mr.
Gaytan, please start your comment. User 19, can you please identify yourself.
Caller 21, can you please identify yourself. I am sorry, can you speak louder. That
is all the speakers on the agenda.
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K. APPOINTMENTS
2040 VISION TO ACTION COMMUNITY COALITION
ARTS AND HUMANITIES COMMISSION
BAYFRONT ADVISORY COMMISSION
BEACHES AND WATERWAYS ADVISORY COMMISSION
BIKEWAYS AND TRAILS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
CHESAPEAKE BAY PRESERVATION AREA BOARD
CLEAN COMMUNITY COMMISSION
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION GRANT(COG)REVIEW AND ALLOCATION COMMITTEE
GREEN RIBBON COMMITTEE
HEALTH SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
INVESTIGATION REVIEW PANEL
MINORITY BUSINESS COUNCIL
OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STEERING COMMITTEE
SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD
TRANSITION AREA/INTERFACILITY TRAFFIC AREA CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
URBAN AGRICULTURE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
VIRGINIA BEACH TOWING ADVISORY BOARD
L. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
M. NEW BUSINESS
N. ADJOURNMENT
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CITY COUNCIL'S BRIEFING
A. CHANGES TO THE CITY'S VOTING Christopher Boynton,
SYSTEM Deputy City Attorney
II. CITY MANAGER'S BRIEFING
A. STORMWATER MANAGEMENT Bobby Tajan,Director-
REVIEW AND STORMWATER Planning and
APPEALS BOARD Community
Development
Carrie Bookholt,DSC
Administrator-
Planning and
Community
Development
Seth Edwards,
Engineering Supervisor
-Planning and
Community
Development
III-VIII CERTIFICATION OF CLOSED CERTIFIED 10-0 AY Y YYY Y YYYY
A-E SESSION E3
S
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F. MINUTES
1. INFORMAL and FORMAL APPROVED 9-0 Y Y Y YYA Y YAYY
SESSIONS May 18,2021 B B
S S
T T
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I I
N N
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D D
2. FORMAL SPECIAL SESSION APPROVED I I-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y YYYY Y
May 25,2021
G. MAYOR'S PRESENTATIONS
I. RESOLUTION IN RECOGNITION Attorney Kerriel
Bailey
Ei. PUBLIC COMMENT
I. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE 47 SPEAKERS
CITY'S ZONING ORDINANCE
SHORT TERM RENTALS
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
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THEEES S E O O E
T I R Y S S ERNDN
1.1. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE the ADOPTED,BY 10-0 Y Y Y Y Y A Y YYYY
Dedication of a 15'-wide(1,861 square CONSENT B
feet)Easement to Dominion Energy S
over City-Owned property located on T
Loretta Lane A
N
E
D
1.2. Ordinance to AUTHORIZE ADOPTED,BY 10-0 Y Y Y Y Y A Y Y Y Y Y
Conveyance of a Safety Arc Easement CONSENT B
to the United States of America over S
15.07+/-acres of City-Owned land at T
Red Wing Lake Golf Course A
N
E
D
1.3. Resolution to EXTEND the deadline ADOPTED,AS 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
for the recommendations of the AMENDED
Citizens Review Panel Task Force
(Requested by Council Member
Wooten)
1.4. Resolution to APPOINT the Members ADOPTED,AS 8-3 Y Y Y NNYY YYNY
of the Urban Agriculture Advisory AMENDED
Committee to four-year terms
(Requested by Council Members
Abbott and Berlucchi)
1.5. Resolution to GRANT permits re ADOPTED,BY 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
ALLOW Emergency Medical CONSENT
Services Agencies to operate in the
City:
a. Fast Track EMS,LLC
b. MB Solutions,LLC
c. Shore Transport Services,Inc
I.6. Ordinances to ACCEPT and ADOPTED,BY 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
APPROPRIATE: CONSENT
a. $197,811 from Virginia Department
of Behavioral Health and
Development Services to FY 2020-
21 Human Services Operating
Budget re security costs at the
Crisis Intervention Team(CIT)
Assessment Center
b. $130,127.39 from the Federal
Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA)to the FY 2020-21 Fire
Department Operating Budget re
costs for mobilization of the
Virginia Task Force 2 Urban
Search and Rescue Team to assist
with the 59th Presidential
Inauguration
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
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J.1. ANATOLY&JOY ANN APPROVED/BY 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
DRITSCHILO for a Street Closure re CONSENT
7.5 foot by 50-foot portion of an
unimproved alley adjacent to the rear of
737 Vanderbilt Avenue DISTRICT 6—
BEACH
J.2. GERARD JANDOC for a Conditional DENIED 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Use Permit re short term rental at 4503
Guam Street DISTRICT 4—BAYSIDE
J.3. KIM DAVENPORT for a Conditional DEFERRED 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Use Permit re short term rental at 8809 INDEFINTELY
Atlantic Avenue Units A&B DISTRICT
5—LYNNHAVEN
J.4 MARK A.MOORE for a Conditional APPROVED/ 7-4 Y Y YNNNY YNYY
Use Permit re short term rental at 2229 CONDITIONED,BY
Maple Street DISTRICT 5— CONSENT
LYNNHAVEN
J.5. KERRY BURNHAM fora DENIED 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Conditional Use Permit re short term
rental at 400 Norfolk Avenue,Unit B
DISTRICT 6—BEACH
J.6. HALF MOON EXT,LLC/JAMES APPROVED/ 9-2 Y Y YNYNY YYYY
GOLDSTEIN for a Conditional Use CONDITIONED,BY
Permit re short term rental at 305 16th CONSENT
Street,Unit A DISTRICT 6—BEACH
J.7. VICTORIA MASON/DOMINIC APPROVED/ 9-2 Y Y YNYNY YYYY
MASON for a Conditional Use Permit re CONDITIONED,BY
short term rental at 304 28th Street,Unit CONSENT
207 DISTRICT 6—BEACH
J.8. COLIN TOMLINSON/JASON APPROVED/ 9-2 Y Y YNYNY YYYY
WALKER for Conditional Use Permit re CONDITIONED,BY
short term rental at 304 28th Street,Unit CONSENT
111 DISTRICT 6—BEACH
J.9. TENIKA CREW for a Conditional Use DENIED 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
Permit re short term rental at 3236
Winterberry Lane DISTRICT 7—
PRINCESS ANNE
K. APPOINTMENTS RESCHEDULED BY CO N S E N S US
2040 VISION TO ACTION
COMMUNITY COALITION
BAYFRONT ADVISORY
COMMISSION
BEACHES AND WATERWAYS
ADVISORY COMMISSION
BIKEWAYS AND TRAILS ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
CLEAN COMMUNITY COMMISSION
GREEN RIBBON COMMITTEE
HEALTH SERVICES ADVISORY
BOARD
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
COMMISSION
CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH
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ITEM# SUBJECT MOTION VOTE R
A L H W W
B U E J R T I 0
B C D N OMO 0 L W 0
O C Y L NOUWS 0 T
THEE E S S E O O E
T I R Y S S ERNDN
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
INVESTIGATION REVIEW PANEL
MINORITY BUSINESS COUNCIL
OPEN SPACE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
STEERING COMMITTEE
SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY
BOARD
TRANSITION AREA/INTERFACILITY
TRAFFIC AREA CITIZENS
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
URBAN AGRICULTURE ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
BAYFRONT ADVISORY Reappointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
COMMISSION Stacey Shitlet
Martin Thomas
3 Year Term
7/1/2021—6/30/2024
BIKEWAYS AND TRAILS ADVISORY Appointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
COMMITTEE John D.Moss—
(Representing City
Council Member)
Unexpired Term thru
6/30/2024
CHESAPEAKE BAY PRESERVATION Appointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
AREA BOARD William Burnette
Unexpired Term thru
12/31/2023
SOUTHEASTERN PUBLIC SERVICE Appointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
AUTHORITY OF VIRGINIA L.J.Hansen—
(Representing City
Employee)
Gary Kelley—
(Representing
Alternate)No Term
TRANSITION AREA/INTERFACILITY Reappointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
TRAFFIC AREA CITIZENS John Cromwell
ADVISORY COMMITTEE 3 Year Term
3/1/2021—2/28/2024
CITY COUNCIL LIAISON Appointed: 11-0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y
COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD Barbara M.Henley
L/M/N ADJOURNMENT 10:51 PM
OPEN DIALOGUE 7 SPEAKERS
11:17 PM