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Commissioners probe Whitewater Bike Ranch compliance, cite communication gaps in county review
Summary
Commissioners spent much of the April 28 meeting reviewing compliance failures and communication breakdowns tied to the Whitewater Bike Ranch project after staff and DEQ inspections uncovered roughly nine acres of unpermitted land disturbance associated with trail construction.
Planning commissioners used a large portion of the April 28 meeting to review compliance and process issues surrounding the Whitewater Bike Ranch project, where county staff and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality identified significant unpermitted land disturbance.
County staff recounted the timeline and said the applicant provided Mr. Richardson a written timeline of events. Staff described a breakdown in internal communications: the project had been handled primarily through the stormwater reviewer and had not been circulated across zoning, building and other departments early in the review process. "Because of the nature of what it is being a bike park and the county is not to my knowledge ever had something like this before, it stayed in the stormwater realm and never really went too far among the staff," a county official said.
Staff reported DEQ…
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