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Planning commission recommends rezoning at 383 Village Highway to allow single-family use
Summary
The Campbell County Planning Commission voted to recommend rezoning tax map Parcel 34A‑22‑1D (383 Village Highway) from Business/General Commercial to Residential Single‑Family so the existing house can be returned to residential use; the board of supervisors will decide Sept. 1.
The Campbell County Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of rezoning application PL‑26‑154 for the property at 383 Village Highway, moving the parcel from Business/General Commercial to Residential Single‑Family so the existing dwelling can be used again as a home.
Planning staff told commissioners the house has an existing single‑family structure but that residential use had ceased for more than two years and the dwelling lost its grandfathered nonconforming status. "This is rezoning request PL‑26‑154 for the property located at 383 Village Highway further identified as tax map Parcel 34A‑22‑1D from business general commercial to residential single family," planning staff (Katie) said, explaining that the commission must find changed circumstances, a mistake, or fraud to permit the downzoning but that the comprehensive‑plan designation is mixed use and could support the change.
Applicant Assad Umtiaz, who identified himself at the hearing, told the commission he bought the parcel quickly and only later learned the residence could not be used. "So I just wanna use for a, residential if you guys can let me do it," Assad said, adding he intends to live in the house and renovate it. He affirmed he would maintain and repair the house to the commission's standards if allowed to return it to residential use.
Commissioners discussed whether the rezoning should be treated as a correction to a blanket corridor rezone or as a change of circumstance; several members said they were inclined to support approval on that basis. Commissioner (speaker 3) moved to approve the recommendation, a second was recorded, and the commission voted in favor. The chair noted that "these matters... will be heard by the board of supervisors on September 1" and that the board will make the final decision.
The commission's recommendation does not itself change the zoning; it forwards a favorable recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, which is scheduled to consider the request on Sept. 1.
