Council amends conditions and approves borrow-pit conditional-use modification at 200 Princess Anne Road

The Virginia Beach City Council approved a modification of conditions to a conditional-use permit for a borrow pit at 200 Princess Anne Road, adopting revised language that deletes a proposed vehicle wash-down station and instead requires defined stone construction entrances and maintenance measures to reduce tracked debris.

Council Member Barbara Henley told the council the planning commission had originally added a condition (Condition 25) requiring a vehicle wash-down station but staff and others concluded that establishing and maintaining stone construction entrances would better limit debris on public roadways. Henley read the substituted language into the record and moved approval.

The substituted condition (to be inserted at Condition 16 and replacing Condition 25) requires: the existing 25-foot by 100-foot stone construction entrance be cleaned and restored; installation of two new stone construction entrances, each 65 feet by 75 feet; maintenance of all construction entrances to minimize debris and sediment tracked into the public right of way; a required sequence for haul trucks leaving the site to cross one of the 25-foot by 75-foot entrances prior to crossing the 25-foot by 100-foot entrance and exiting the site; erection of a conspicuous sign directing that sequence; and prompt collection and disposal of sand, dirt and other debris from the public right of way so it shall not be allowed to accumulate.

The council approved the full agenda package, with the amendment to the planning item noted, by a 10-0 vote.

Why it matters: The change refocuses the project’s mitigation measures on traffic-management infrastructure (stone construction entrances and operational sequencing) rather than an on-site wash-down station. The conditions affect how haul trucks will exit the borrow-pit site and the city’s ability to limit debris on adjacent roadways.

Details and background

Barbara Henley said the planning commission’s intent was to avoid debris on public roads as trucks exited the site. After reviewing the commission’s condition, staff and the applicant recommended deleting the wash-down requirement and strengthening Condition 16 with the stone-entrance language read into the record. Henley formally moved approval of the application as amended.

The council’s roll-call vote on the consent agenda recorded approval of the planning item as amended; the transcript does not record a separate roll-call on this single planning item.

What the record does not show

The transcript does not include the applicant’s full presentation, technical engineering plans, or the staff report that explains enforcement responsibility or monitoring procedures for the required construction entrances. Timing for installation and enforcement was not read into the record during the motion.