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Virginia Beach Planning Commission recommends approval of consent agenda including zoning and floodplain ordinance amendments
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended approval of a multi-item consent agenda on Aug. 13, 2025, including an amendment lowering the minimum ground-floor height for residential buildings in the Western Campus Overlay District and changes to the city floodplain ordinance; the consent agenda passed by a recorded 10–0 vote with one abstention on minutes.
The Virginia Beach Planning Commission recommended approval of a multi-item consent agenda at its Aug. 13, 2025 public hearing, advancing a package of technical amendments and property requests to the City Council.
Planner Madison Eichols told the commission the most substantive items included an amendment to the zoning ordinance for the Western Campus Overlay District that would differentiate minimum ground-floor heights for residential and nonresidential buildings, allowing residential ground floors of 10 feet while keeping nonresidential at 14 feet, and a change to the…
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