City planning staff previews 12 May 20 agenda items, highlights church reuse, borrow‑pit fill plan and short‑term rental disputes

Caitlin Halcott, planning administrator for the City of Virginia Beach, briefed the City Council on 12 items that will appear on the May 20 public hearing agenda, covering subdivision variances, conditional‑use permit requests and a city application to place fill in a former borrow pit.

Halcott said the first two items involve a subdivision variance to subdivision regulation section 4.4(b) and a conditional‑use permit for a religious use on property at the southwest corner of North Great Neck Road and Millwood Road in District 8. The applicant intends to create a Parcel A that does not meet the R‑10 district’s 100‑foot minimum lot‑width requirement; Halcott said a 30‑foot Virginia Power easement reduces the calculated lot width to 35.2 feet. Redeemer Presbyterian Church is under contract for Parcel A; the applicant proposes phased development culminating in an approximately 11,500‑square‑foot, two‑story church with a 224‑seat sanctuary, 62 parking spaces at final build‑out and a decorative steeple that would exceed the 35‑foot height limit by about four feet. Halcott said the Planning Commission recommended approval with an added condition requiring any future dumpster be located away from adjacent residential properties in a staff‑approved location.

Also on the agenda, Halcott said, the City (filed) a request to modify conditions on a 19.5‑acre former borrow‑pit site at 560 Oceana Boulevard (District 6) so the city can accept material from public dredging operations and stormwater dredging. She said the city proposes no excavation, operations on an as‑needed basis and hours of 7 a.m.–7 p.m., seven days a week. Staff recommended conditions that include testing fill for…