There’s a full docket for Danville’s regular city council meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The council will consider a rezoning application that would allow the commercial component of the Vandola Crescent housing development to move forward.
The housing development off Riverside Drive will create 360 town and patio homes for purchase, accompanied by a retail building.
The rezoning request involves transferring a parcel from a suburban residential designation to a highway retail commercial parcel designation to allow for the retail portion of the development.
The applicant, Blackstone Building Group LLC, plans to build a small-scale, multitenant retail building on the property, according to the staff report in the meeting’s agenda packet.
It is expected to include a Walgreens pharmacy and a second location for Crema and Vine, a coffee and wine bar with an existing location in the Old West End.
This would “serve the existing community as well as the development planned for the surrounding vacant parcels,” the report says. “The units are intended to accommodate restaurants, offices and retail uses.”
The rezoning will allow for this broader range of commercial activities, it says.
PLAN Danville, the city’s comprehensive plan project, designates this portion of Riverside Drive as a residential mixed-use corridor. The rezoning request would be in line with that designation, the staff report says.
The Danville Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval for this rezoning at its May meeting, with one condition about the egress location. City staff recommends that the council approve the request with this same condition.
Also at this meeting, the council will vote on a special-use application to allow for the adaptive reuse of a former textile mill building into an apartment complex and hear a first reading of the city manager’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
This is the only meeting in Danville this week.
In Pittsylvania County, the board of zoning appeals will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, and the planning commission will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
