Proposed changes to planning and zoning fees, along with a proposed subdivision expansion, will be among the items on the agenda Monday night when the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors meets.
The board will convene at 7:15 p.m. in the second-floor board chambers at the county government center, 755 Roanoke St., Christiansburg.
Supervisors will vote to schedule an Oct. 27 public hearing on several proposed changes to planning and zoning fees. A draft ordinance would consolidate some existing sliding fees, reduce some fees and increase others.
The proposed new fees include:
- Rezoning: Agricultural and conservation, $250; residential, $600; commercial and industrial, $700; planned unit development, $1,000.
- Special use permits: Manufactured homes, legal advertising fees only; telecommunications towers and solar facilities, $2,500; automobile graveyards, extractive industries and landfill, $1,250; all others, $500.
- Variance requests, $500.
- Zoning decision appeals, $250.
- Subdivision street signs, $160 per intersection.
- Sign permits, $50.
- Site plan reviews: $150 to $400, depending on the circumstances.
- Zoning permits, $30.
- Subdivision reviews: $50 to $500, depending on the specific request.
Also, supervisors will vote on approval of the final plat for phase three, section two of the Walnut Creek subdivision.
The county planning commission approved the plat Sept. 10.
The development is off Houchins Road near the Christiansburg industrial park. Section two of the third phase plans for the development of 37 single-family townhouse residential lots and more than two acres of designated open space. Water service will come from the town of Christiansburg, while sewer service will be provided by the county Public Service Authority.
Other items on Monday’s agenda include:
- A presentation on the activity of the Opioid Abatement Authority in the county.
- Appropriating $440,000 to the county school system. That includes $70,000 from the Petrone Endowment for golf expenditures, $70,000 from local revenue for pupil transportation and $300,000 from federal revenue for instruction.
- Appropriating $30,000 from a Virginia Department of Emergency Management state homeland security grant for maintenance of the county’s radio cache program.
- Scheduling Oct. 14 public hearings on proposed personal property and/or real estate tax exemptions for the Agape Center in Christiansburg, DePaul Community Resources in Christiansburg, the Hacksburg nonprofit “makerspace” for entrepreneurs in Blacksburg and Valley Classical School in Christiansburg.
You can find meeting documents here.
