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Purcellville planning commission outlines phase 1 of 2030 plan update and public-engagement cycle
Summary
Commissioners heard a high-level overview of the five-year comprehensive plan review: staff and commissioners will advance 21 previously initiated amendments in a phased public-engagement process (phase 1) with topic cycles, dedicated comment periods, and a fuller update scheduled for December.
Commissioner Haber and planning staff told the Purcellville Planning Commission on Nov. 6 that the five-year review of the town's 2030 comprehensive plan is moving into a focused, two-phase approach that prioritizes 21 previously initiated amendments.
Commissioner Haber said the work will be split into a phase 1 that "cleans up and completes those 21 previously initiated amendments," grouped into nine thematic areas, and a phase 2 that may consider broader, longer-range updates. "One of the first things we did was to take the list and do some affinity mapping and theme them, as well as then put them into a sequence," Haber said, stressing transparency and shared access to documents and maps.
Director Summer Wilkes described the department's plan-tracking summary and demonstrated the online tracker available from the planning page where citizens can view current site-plan statuses. Planner Kendall walked commissioners through several active commercial site plans (including Red Oak Place parking work, a proposed mixed commercial building on the old Total Fitness site, a near-complete medical office building, and a proposed drive-through behind Walgreens) and explained that the public-facing tracker shows current submission status but does not publish full historical submission-history details.
How the process will work: the commission and staff intend to run each tranche of amendments through a public comment cycle that includes initial publication in the agenda packet, an initial discussion and public comment opportunity, an intermeeting feedback window (email inbox for comp-plan comments), and a final comment/vote at a subsequent meeting. The commission emphasized giving citizens repeated chances to comment before any action is taken.
Next steps: staff will present a deeper overview at the December meeting; commissioners will be assigned committee roles as needed to work through the phase-1 amendments.
