The Botetourt Planning Commission will hear three separate but related zoning requests from Fralin & Waldron Inc., the developer for Daleville Town Center, when it meets Monday, April 10 at 6 p.m. in the Old District Courthouse in Fincastle.
The planners will also hear a request to rezone a parcel from Business B-2 to Rural Residential (RR) and a request for a special exceptions permit (SEP) to allow a residence on the second floor of a commercial building.
Fralin & Waldron has asked the county to amend its zoning ordinance to clarify and update language in the ordinance and to eliminate conflicting regulations. The company is also asking the county to revise the allowable densities for residential uses within the Traditional Neighborhood (TND) Use District, and to allow a change in height restrictions in a TND with an SEP.
Fralin & Waldron is requesting changes to 10 subsections of the zoning code. Several clarify or correct language in the code and are considered “nonsubstantive.”
One of the proposed changes adds a regulation that the total commercial and industrial uses within a TND cannot exceed 30 percent of the gross development area. It also would increase the maximum commercial uses to 25 percent of the gross development area, decreases the maximum industrial uses to 15 percent of the gross development area, and clarify that the ratio refer to gross development area.
Another change that’s been requested is to increases the maximum height of commercial buildings and structures, with an SEP, from 50 to 60 feet. Another would remove a requirement that 50 percent of approved dwellings may be built prior to construction of at least 50 percent of the approved commercial component of the TND.
Fralin & Waldron is also seeking an SEP to allow a maximum height of 60 feet for the construction of two more multi-family buildings at Daleville Town Center.
The company is also seeking to remove proffers that limit the number of multi-family dwelling units in Daleville Town Center and add a provision to its Design Guidelines that would follow the changes on gross development area proposed for the zoning ordinance.
Other proposed changes to the zoning ordinance dealing with TNDs deal with lot and building requirements, calculating impervious surface requirements, side and front yard setbacks, facades, waivers, off-street parking, sidewalk width, shared parking, canopies, outdoor lighting and bonding.
Other Requests
The other requests the planners will hear come from Botetourt Funeral Home Services and Larry C. Cecile Jr.
Botetourt Funeral Home is requesting an SEP to have a dwelling over a commercial building the company plans on its five-acre lot on Lee Highway south of Buchanan.
If approved, it will be the second SEP granted this year under revised provisions in the zoning ordinance that now allows residences over commercial buildings with an SEP.
Cecile wants to rezone a 1.17-acre lot at 61 Sycamore Lane, Cloverdale, from B-2 to RR in order to change the status of the existing single-family dwelling from a nonconforming to a conforming use, therefore allowing expansions to the house and associated accessory structures.
The planners will make recommendations for the Board of Supervisors to consider when it meets April 25. The supervisors have final say on the requests.
