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Virginia council keeps zoning district chart unchanged after extended debate
Summary
The Virginia City Council voted 6-1 to leave the zoning-district use chart unchanged, sending remaining ordinance edits and public concerns back to the Planning and Zoning Commission for further work.
The Virginia City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to keep the city's zoning-district use chart as written and not adopt proposed changes that would have reclassified several uses across residential and commercial zones.
The decision came after more than two hours of discussion at the Committee of the Whole meeting on planning-and-zoning recommendations that would have allowed some residential uses in business districts and loosened restrictions on converting single-family homes to up to four units.
The vote matters because the chart determines which uses are permitted, allowed by conditional use permit, or prohibited in each zoning district; changing it would have altered the approval pathway for many proposed projects. Councilor Paulson, who made the motion to leave the chart…
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