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Planning staff outlines historic-survey progress, $50,000 T-Mobile grant pursuit and schedules zoning rewrite presentation to council
Summary
Staff reported a newly separated engineering and planning structure, a new GIS hire, progress on a town historic-survey and walking tour, a T-Mobile Hometown Grant application for $50,000 for downtown projects, and that the commission's draft zoning ordinance will be presented to Town Council in October.
The Purcellville planning director updated the Planning Commission on staff activity and upcoming milestones at the Sept. 19 meeting.
Staff has separated engineering and planning functions and added a GIS specialist, Reza Gazzini, to support mapping and planning work. The director invited commissioners and residents to sign up for a multi-hour tour of the town's water and sewer facilities so stakeholders can see the infrastructure firsthand.
An intern, P.J. Flynn, has completed surveys of West Main and downtown and is nearing completion of East Main and South 32nd Street; Flynn and Economic Development Director John Heather are building an ARC GIS story map to host a virtual, self-guided historic walking tour of Purcellville.
The town has joined the Main Street program and staff has applied for a T-Mobile Hometown Grant, a $50,000 award intended for shovel-ready downtown beautification and streetscaping projects. The director said staff had not been tracking staff time on grant work but could do so to evaluate return on investment.
Staff also briefed commissioners on active site-plan work including progress at the Panera (Corner Building 6), interior work at IHOP, a minor site plan for Woodgrove bus parking expansion and a minor site plan for a 7-Eleven to pave a rear lot and add a dumpster enclosure; BAR (Board of Architectural Review) has reviewed storefront/color schemes for a plaza near Giant.
On schedule: the commission's draft zoning ordinance is slated for a presentation to Town Council on Oct. 8 with an Oct. 24 work session scheduled for deeper review; commissioners said October will be focused on the zoning rewrite.
Quotes from the meeting capture the items in staff's report: "It's a grant for $50,000, that are for shovel ready projects downtown, beautification, streetscaping, and a number of improvements," the director said. On the zoning rewrite timeline he told commissioners the draft would be presented to council on Oct. 8 and discussed in a later work session.
Next steps: staff will continue the historic-survey work, pursue the T-Mobile grant, coordinate county-required elevation certificates related to the 769 interchange, and prepare the zoning draft presentation for October.
