Planning Commission
5th Floor Conference Room
Agenda — 27 items
- 1 This meeting will be held in-person in the 5th Floor Conference Room of City Hall at 900 East Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia 23219. While all Planning Commissioners and staff will attend the meeting in-person, citizens may participate in the meeting virtually. Special Guidelines for Public Access and Citizen Participation: To access or participate, or both, in this Planning Commission meeting you have several options outlined in the following document:
- 1 City Hall was closed on January 7, 2025, therefore this meeting was cancelled.
- 2 CPC Public Access Participation Instructions - 2025
- 3 Citizens may elect to provide their comments in writing to PDRLandUseAdmin@rva.gov in lieu of speaking through audio or video means during the meeting. All written comments received via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting were provided to all members of the Planning Commission prior to the beginning of the meeting and will be included in the record of the meeting.
- 4 Call To Order
- 5 Roll Call
- 6 Chair's Comments
- - Election of Officers
- 8 Approval of Minutes
- 1. CPC Draft Minutes - November 19, 2024
- 2. CPC Draft Minutes - December 3, 2024
- 11 Director's Report
- 12 Consideration of Continuances and Deletions from Agenda
- 13 Consent Agenda
- 14 The Consent Agenda items will be considered by the Commission as a group, and there will be a single combined staff presentation and a single combined public hearing held for all items listed on the Consent Agenda.
- 3. To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to accept funds in the total amount of $1,148,000.00 from the Virginia Department of Transportation and to amend Ord. No. 2024-100, adopted May 13, 2024, which accepted a program of proposed Capital Improvement Projects for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 and the four fiscal years thereafter, adopted a Capital Budget for Fiscal Year 2024-2025, and determined a means of financing the same, by (i) establishing a new project for the Department of Public Works in the Transportation category called the “Richmond Signal System Smart City Traffic Signal Controllers” project and (ii) increasing estimated revenues from the funds received from the Virginia Department of Transportation and the amount appropriated to the new Department of Public Works’ “Richmond Signal System Smart City Traffic Signal Controllers” project in the Transportation category by $1,148,000.00, for the purpose of funding the implementation of a Richmond Signal System Smart City Traffic Signal Controllers program.
- 4. To amend Ord. No. 2021-277, adopted Nov. 8, 2021, which authorized the special use of the property known as 3401 Patterson Avenue for the purpose of a restaurant, tea room, café, delicatessen, ice cream parlor, or similar food service establishment, upon certain terms and conditions, and repealed Ord. No. 90-142-117, adopted May 14, 1990, to authorize a mobile food truck use and to revise the plans, upon certain terms and conditions. (1st District)
- 5. To authorize the special use of the property known as 1800 North 27th Street for the purpose of one single-family detached dwelling, upon certain terms and conditions. (7th District)
- 6. To authorize the special use of the property known as 2501 Dana Street for the purpose of up to three single-family detached dwellings, upon certain terms and conditions. (8th District)
- 7. UDC 2025-01 FINAL Location, Character, and Extent review of proposed permanent utility easements located along Richmond Hwy between Hull Street and Maury St.
- 8. UDC 2025-02 FINAL location, character, and extent review of Phase 1 for the proposed renovation of Westover Park, including construction of new features, located at 1301 Jahnke Road.
- 21 Regular Agenda
- 9. To authorize the special use of the properties known as 5728 Patterson Avenue and 805 Libbie Avenue for the purpose of a mixed-use building, including commercial space, upon certain terms and conditions. (As Amended) (1st District)
- 10. To dissolve the current iteration of the Public Art Commission in accordance with Ordinance No. 2024-212, which codifies the form and function of City of Richmond’s Public Art Commission and requires the appointment of nine new Commission members following the dissolution of the current body.
- 11. UDC 2024-45 Location, Character, and Extent review of a proposed bus platform, located within the right-of-way on the southeast corner of Brauers Lane and Mechanicsville Turnpike.
- 25 Upcoming Items
- 26 Adjournment