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Council approves conditional use permit allowing Miller Home for Girls to operate eight‑person group home on Riverside Drive
Summary
After hours of public testimony both supporting and opposing the proposal, Lynchburg City Council voted 7–0 to grant a conditional use permit allowing Miller Home for Girls to operate a group home for up to eight residents at 271 Riverside Drive, while adding narrow conditions addressing transferability and use limits.
Brian Tiller, president of the Miller Home Board of Directors, asked the council to let the organization continue its long history of serving girls in Lynchburg, saying the move to Riverside was intended to provide “a new vision of community” and a smaller, family‑style setting. “Please afford a Miller Home and our girls the same opportunity that we as a Lynchburg community would afford any family regardless of size,” he said.
The council granted the conditional use permit (CUP) 7–0 after a lengthy public hearing that included multiple supporters and a group of Riverside Drive residents who urged denial. Morgan Ryan, the Miller Home executive director, told council staff and neighbors that the home had…
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