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Lynchburg council approves rezoning for Wawa site, directs staff to study lowering Leesville Road speed limit
Summary
The Lynchburg City Council approved a future land use map amendment and rezoning for three parcels at Greenview Drive and Leesville Road to allow a Wawa convenience store with fuel pumps, and unanimously directed staff to study lowering the Leesville Road speed limit to 35 mph.
Lynchburg’s City Council voted Feb. 10 to amend the city’s future land use map and rezone three parcels at 1516 Greenview Drive and 794/798 Leesville Road to a B3 community business designation to allow construction of a Wawa convenience store with a fuel canopy.
City planner Rachel Freshaisen summarized the petition, saying the Planning Commission had recommended approval and the city’s engineering division reviewed a traffic study and entrance configurations. The proposal would keep Gary’s Garden Center on one parcel, demolish a small office building, and build a roughly 6,000‑square‑foot store with a fuel canopy containing six islands (12 fueling positions), primary landscaping and vegetated buffers to preserve mature trees,…
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