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Resident urges better outreach for Pittsylvania County comprehensive plan update
Summary
At the Oct. 21 meeting a county resident said the county and its consultant have not provided an accessible way for residents to join the comprehensive plan update process and urged stronger, clearly publicized community involvement.
At the Oct. 21 Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors meeting, resident Jeff Love urged the board and its consultant to actively solicit and publish clear ways for citizens to participate in the county’s comprehensive plan update.
Love said he viewed the Sept. 16 presentation by consultant Line and Grade and was concerned that neither the consultant nor the board had established a simple method for residents to register interest in participating in advisory committees or public engagement opportunities.
"It's essential that the community is properly represented and involved in the comprehensive plan update since it impacts everyone in Pittsylvania County," Love said. He asked the board to publicize participation opportunities and make them easily accessible to any interested county citizen.
Love also criticized the county's earlier work with the Berkeley Group on a zoning ordinance update, saying the zoning effort was delayed and that the process failed in part because community involvement had not been properly requested. He recommended the board start the zoning update only after completing a well-publicized comprehensive plan update.
The board did not respond with a formal action during the public comment period; the remarks were entered as public comment for the record. No formal timeline or mechanism for signup or advisory-committee formation was recorded in the meeting minutes or staff remarks during this hearing.
Context
The transcript references a Sept. 16 presentation by Line and Grade and an earlier Berkeley Group engagement on zoning updates that ended with a delay; Love described the zoning effort as postponed from January 2025 to August 2025 and subsequently delayed again. The board has not recorded a clear, centralized sign-up method for citizen participation in the comprehensive plan update in this meeting’s public record.
