Board approves zoning changes on chickens and utilities, sets hearing on updated fee schedule and backs Smart Scale transportation applications

Rockbridge supervisors voted to remove the one‑acre minimum for backyard chickens (keeping a performance‑based ‘not objectionable’ standard), adopted a zoning text amendment limiting public‑utility major uses in R1/R2 to transmission lines, approved resolutions supporting two Smart Scale transportation grant applications, and authorized advertisement of an updated development fee schedule for public hearing July 27.