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Planning commission asks truck-repair applicant to submit revised landscape plan showing required 10% tree cover
Summary
At a Jan. 14 public hearing, Dinwiddie County staff and commissioners discussed Capek Properties’ request to reduce side-yard buffers for a proposed truck-repair site on Simpson Road. Rather than approve a 25-foot buffer, the commission voted unanimously to require a revised site plan showing the ordinance-required 10% vegetative cover for staff approval.
Dinwiddie County planning commissioners on Jan. 14 declined to approve the applicant’s requested reduction of side-yard buffers as submitted and voted to require a redrawn landscape plan showing the ordinance-mandated 10% vegetative cover.
During a staff presentation, planning staff identified the case as SAE-2061, for Capek Properties at a site on the north side of Simpson Road. Staff said the property lies in the county’s Employment Center and is zoned M-1 (industrial limited). While zoning does not require side-yard buffers between like-zoned properties, the landscape ordinance requires that developed sites retain 10% tree or vegetative cover. The current, engineer-stamped site plan shows 50-foot side buffers as the means of meeting that 10% requirement; the applicant asked the commission to reduce those shown buffers to 25…
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