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Cedar Bluff Community Church presents revised plans that meet erosion controls; staff requests bond, considers fee waiver
Summary
Cedar Bluff Community Church presented revised plans for an 80-by-90-foot addition with a gym, classrooms and kitchen; county engineering said the first plan failed to meet the Erosion and Sediment Control ordinance but a revised plan now meets standards. Staff recommended a bond and discussed waiving fees for the church project.
Richard Smith, pastor of Cedar Bluff Community Church, told the Tazewell County Planning Commission on Aug. 8 that the church seeks to build an 80-foot by 90-foot addition adjacent to the existing building that will include a gymnasium, classrooms and a kitchen.
Brad Gibson and Kenneth Dunford, Jr., County Engineering staff, reported that Bundy Architecture prepared the plans. Dunford said an earlier version of the plans was rejected for failing to meet the county’s Erosion and Sediment Control ordinance; he met on site with an architect from Bundy and confirmed the second version under consideration meets the ordinance’s requirements.
Dunford told the commission he would recommend waiving fees because the project is church-owned but asked that the commission require a bond to ensure remedial work can be completed at the site if necessary. The provided transcript does not record a formal vote or an approval or denial of a fee waiver or bond during the segment presented.
The presentation followed a pause in planning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith said, and the church contracted Bundy Architecture to redraw plans after the first submission failed erosion-and-sediment control review.
