Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we come to you again at the beginning of this session to ask for your guidance, wisdom and support.

Wir bitten dich unter uns zu sein und um deinen Segen, damit wir sinnvolle Diskussionen führen, die zu angemessenen Entscheidungen für alle unsere Bürger sind.

Lass uns als Gruppe enger zusammenwachsen und die Bande unserer Gemeinschaft stärken.

Wir sind nun bereit für den Namensaufruf durch unsere stellvertretende Planungsdirektorin und heutige Schriftführerin, Sekretärin, Pettinger.

Danke, Miss Hicks. Miss Bauer.

Mr. Bossmann. Mr. Kriegmann.

Mr. Edwards.

Mr. Goodman.

Mr. Powell.

Und Miss Thornton-Emmanuel.

Ist es eine Beschlussfähigkeit geben? Danke. Wenn ich mir die heutige Tagesordnung ansehe, erscheint sie ziemlich umfangreich und ich werde mein Bestes tun, damit wir hier bis 18.30 Uhr oder 18.45 Uhr fertig sind. Sie haben das Protokoll der Sitzung vom 21. Juli erhalten, das Ihren Unterlagen beiliegt. Wenn es keine Korrekturen oder Einwände gibt, gilt das Protokoll als genehmigt. Öffentliche Anhörung. Wir fahren mit der Tagesordnung fort. If our attention is only to the public hearing. We have two public hearings today. The public hearing lasts 30 minutes. 10 minutes for the interpreters, 15 minutes for the opponents. Excuse me. 10 minutes for the interpreters, 15 minutes for the opponents and then 5 minutes for a re-enactment of the interpreters. Today's first public hearing concerns the amendment of the regulation text OTA 2609. Secretary Pittinger. OTR-2026-09, introduced by the City Council for the changes to section 31.54 and to the introduction of section 31.54, as well as to the change of section B.13 of the Uniform Development Order of the City Council of Virginia. The purpose of this change is to update and refine the Code of the City Council, Chapter 31, the Uniform Development Order. Wenn Sie über diesen Antrag entscheiden, beschließen Sie eine Resolution zur Vorlage eines Berichts und eine Empfehlung an den Stadtrat bezüglich der Verordnungstextendung OTRA 2062. Und wenn Sie mich kurz entschuldigen, ich werde zum Rednerpult gehen und heute den Bericht des Personals präsentieren. Good evening, Chair, Vice Chair, members of the Planning Commission. As I have already indicated, this is an amendment to the regulations of the Chesapeake Bay Act. If you remember those of you who were in the Planning Commission last August, I have presented a report on the Chesapeake Bay program in general and some preceding changes. The employees have been working on these changes all last year and I will now give you another background on the Chesapeake Bay program and explain the changes in detail. The Chesapeake Bay Act was approved in 1988 by the Virginia General Assembly and serves as a feasible program to avoid non-punctual pollution. And you can see some of the goals and procedures of the Chesapeake Bay Act here. And you can see the area of entry there. It extends from New York to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, D.C. to West Virginia. In the Virginia law, the requirements for RPA permits, i.e. for areas for the protection of resources, are the following uses and activities. The permissible uses are water-based facilities that are specially defined. This is the construction of already built-in property as well as construction or renovation within intensively used areas and main buildings on property that were registered before October 1, 1989 by the Chesapeake Bay Act. The permissible interventions in the buffer area include crossings through roads and access roads as well as regional flood protection or rainwater management systems that serve as several closure projects. The permissible buffer changes include general tree stock management for the preservation of sight axes, the removal of dead, dying or sick trees or shrubs, weed control, access routes and projects for coastal erosion control. There may be exceptions, depending on the fulfillment of the regulations for land and forestry, water wells, passive recreation facilities such as wooden steps, hiking trails, trails, monument maintenance, archaeological activities, public roads, public supply lines and railways. And the reason for that is that the coastal strip, i.e. the grown area along the waters, offers many advantages. It reduces erosion, reduces depletion, does not filter punctual pollution, offers carbon binding and protects these sensitive environmental characteristics. So that's the reason why we do this, to protect these areas. How does the Bay Act protect water quality? Within the Chesapeake Bay, in the areas that have been designated locally by the city council, the Bay Act limits these activities and is the most restrictive in the areas that are closest to these sensitive features. It states that projects must be planned and that during the planning phase the impenetrable surfaces and soil disturbances should be minimized. And again, all these things help with the irrigation of rainwater to limit the amount of diffuse pollutants. These are sediments, fertilizers and other things that flow into the waters. Within the Chesapeake Bay area and the waterways, you can see that there is a large amount of overlapping conditions. It is one of the more complicated areas of administrative responsibility. In most cases, there are two or more authorities whose responsibilities are different. But what we are talking about today is the resource protection area that falls under the Chesapeake Bay Act program. And you see a map on the right that shows the area within the city of Suffolk that falls under the Chesapeake Bay protection area, i.e. those areas that develop into the Chesapeake Bay and its riverbanks. As you can see, it is not the whole. New and extended water-based uses are permissible within the RPA of the resource protection area, if the non-water-based components are outside the RPA. Sanitation of existing structures, if there is no increase in sealed areas and no further intervention in the RPA. New main buildings and necessary supply systems on a property in front of the Bay Act. These are properties that were registered before the Bay Act was passed on October 1, 1989. Regional. High-water protection and rainwater systems that direct or repair water from several construction projects, as well as fences. Some of you who have been in the Planning Commission for a long time may remember that fences came before the Planning Commission, which was a lot of effort for a fence. Therefore, they are now administratively acceptable. Puffer transgressions are applications that can be approved by staff, formally called administrative exception permits. And again, the development of a new main building on a property under the Bay Act, if it is the minimum, to reach an appropriate, buildable area. This does not mean that you are allowed to build the largest house that fits on the property. This means an appropriate area, which does not meet the balance measures, which are based on a greening according to the buffer manual, at which the state is currently updating. Ingriffe sind in den sehwertigen 50 Fuß des Puffers nicht zulässig. Sie werden uns darüber sprechen hören, dass es ein 100 Fuß Puffer ist. Es gibt 50 Fuß, die den landwärtigen Teil bilden und 50 Fuß, die den sehwertigen Teil bilden. Administrativ können wir nichts genehmigen, das in den sehwertigen Teil hineinreicht. Das muss immer vorgehen. Expansion of an existing non-conforming structure, fences that meet the minimum requirements and these are also administered by the administrative staff. There is no obligation to public hearing, but the necessary determinations must be made, which are the same as with exception. I would like to remind the Planning Commission and the public that the property, which was entered after October 1, 1989, must have a sufficiently buildable area outside the RPA and therefore no interventions should take place in the buffer zone of this property. As far as formal exceptions are concerned, these are the matters proposed by the Planning Commission, i.e. interventions in the RPA for any use that is otherwise not permissible, accessories, buildings and uses such as terraces, free-standing garages, pools, pavilions, patios, sheds and the like. And every intervention, as I have already mentioned, in the visual 50 feet of the buffer zone can be approved by the planning commission. Not automatically, but after a public announcement. In turn, you have to meet the necessary requirements, including the fact that you provide the necessary minimum for relief and appropriate conditions, including the always required. Since there were some regulations, I will read something. Normally I don't read notes, but I want to read this part so that I can correct it. In 2020, so the whole thing has been going on for a while, the Virginia General Assembly provisions in the Virginia Act, which develop the state water control board required criteria, which allow local governments to promote the resistance of the coasts and the adaptation to the sea level rise and climate change through their programs to the bay, in which a resilience assessment is required to understand the effects of climate change and the sea level rise on planned land developments within the RPA on the basis of potential effects. In addition, the General Assembly adopted requirements in the same section of the Virginia law that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ, committed, which enable local governments to promote the preservation of old trees or the planting of trees as an instrument to protect water quality, as a means of providing other natural resources through their Bay Program. So the state has been working since 2020 and that is why we are here today at the creation of guidelines for the municipalities and these were only published last year when we started working on it. These requirements are already anchored in the state law. The changes we propose today will be in accordance with our regulations in accordance with the changes of the state law of 2020. This will therefore include coastal resilience, including the resilience assessment that must be achieved, the preservation of old trees, as well as some new definitions that go hand in hand with these points. For the resilience assessment, these must be applied together with the development plan, whereby models must be taken into account that have been used by the Commonwealth or have been developed on its behalf. These include the Virginia Flood Risk Information System, also known as VFRES, as well as Adapt4IR. In the resilience assessment, the sea level rise must be considered under the use of the middle NOAA curve. This includes the storm flood, modeled by the NOAS LOSH model, as well as floods according to VFRI. The state has created guidelines that we will make available to the applicant after the signing of these regulations. They contain resources and steps to carry out this resilience assessment. A commissioned company has developed model scenarios that can be used and include examples and illustrations. As soon as the resilience assessment is made with these results, the potential effects of the planned development on the buffer function must be evaluated. Conditions, project changes or adaptation measures must be identified that can be implemented in the project and these can be included in the evaluation of the effects on water quality. On the basis of these assessments, we as employees have adhered to it, if appropriate, whatever the case may be, to demand conditions, changes or the installation of adjustment measures for the construction project. Fortunately for Suffolk, most of the urban area has a considerable ground height. The sea level rise is therefore not such a big problem in Suffolk, as in other regions of Hampton Roads such as Portsmouth, Norfolk or Hampton, which have a lower terrain altitude. In Suffolk we have a considerable terrain. Sea level rise and flooding are fortunately not such a big issue, but the evaluation still has to be carried out to be sure. The requirement is that adjustments must be integrated if necessary. One of the definitions that we add is that of the adaptation measure. You will find these in your ...

The required definitions must be nature-based.

So you can't just build a flood wall. It must be a nature-based solution, such as living coastlines, bioretention systems or the like, or a proven management practice BMP, which can be identified as appropriate in one of the states. It must maximize the preservation of the existing natural vegetation, including grown trees. Ground disturbances must be minimized and the plants must be installed according to the specifications designed. In addition, the maintenance must meet all further requirements. So with old trees, in this second part that I have read, the state has really put the focus on old trees in this update of the water quality regulations. So there are three new definitions that we have to take up because they are necessary. Kronenbaum, Unterholzbaum und dann alte Bäume, die sich jeweils auf die Art des Baumes beziehen. Dann müssen wir in der Verordnung die erforderlichen Formulierungen aufnehmen, die Definitionen dazu enthalten, dass alte Bäume einzeln identifiziert werden müssen. Sie können sie nicht einfach zusammenfassen, wenn Sie die Definition für einen alten Baum. Dass sie während der Erschließung geschützt werden müssen. Dass sie bei Bedarf gestutzt oder beschnitten, statt entfernt werden müssen. And then the proof that when planting new trees, local species are used as far as possible. I will now lead you through the proposed changes in the regulation. We propose to raise the entire Chesapeake Bay regulations as a whole. No panic. Directly afterwards, we submit the acceptance of the new proposed section, which follows the structure and requirements of the State Model Regulation and which contains necessary adjustments due to the changes in the state law. This will all happen in one step, so that we do not raise a regulation and then have nothing left to replace it. So this is our only measure. When we then looked at the ChessBay regulation, we found that in section B 13, which contains documents required for ChessBay applications, some things had to be updated to meet the regulations proposed by us. So we see the changes in the new section 1.455.1. Add the required definitions for adaptation measures, basic tree, old tree, nature-based solution and underwood tree. Inzufügen der Anforderungen zum Schutz und Erhalt alter Bäume in den Pufferzonen. Inzufügen der Anforderungen während der Plan- und Projektprüfung eine Resilienzbewertung gemäß dem neuen Abschnitt einzureichen. In addition to the requirements that local species for planting are preferred within the buffer zone and that trees are part of the compensation measures required, you can't just have shrubs or soil. Trees must be trees.

And the requirements for the replacement of trees and woodland vegetation must be in line with the state regulations.

In addition, we make it clear that coastal erosion projects within the buffer zone with the wetland regulation, which is in a separate section of the urban resolution and in the guidelines of the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, are included. The addition of standards in the event that the use of fillings for adaptation measures is planned. In general, rafting in the RPA is not permissible. However, it is allowed if you carry out an adaptation measure that is required in your resilience assessment, but there are standards that you must adhere to when rafting. We set the requirements for the landscape plan in line with a reduction plan that can be met with the development plan. In addition, we offer an exception to the Chesapeake Bay requirements for living coastlines that have been approved by the VMRC or the Wetlands Board. The state strongly emphasizes the use of living coastlines in these areas. And then we make it clear that applications for decisions by the Planning Commission regarding the Chesapeake area of the affected party are to be submitted to the district court. At the moment, the Codex of my knowledge says that they should be submitted to the district court. We also add a section to the penalties for violations. As I have already mentioned, we remove outdated references to the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Department in section D13. This does not exist anymore since the Chesapeake Bay regulations under the DEQ fall. Originally, they submitted to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Restoration on a state level. So the Cablet was part of the DCR, but it has not existed for a long time. We add the requirement to implement a resilience assessment. In addition, we also remove references to the implementation of a rainwater management plan as well as an erosion and sediment control plan. These are already in other sections of the city codex. The recommendation of the staff to the planning commission is therefore to recommend the lifting of the current Chesapeake Bay regulations as a whole. Thank you. APD Edinger. I'm waiting for you in case you have to make notes.

This public hearing is now open. Are there any people who would like to speak up for the change? If so, please go ahead and say your name and your address.

Since no one is responding, are there any opponents? You have the same opportunity.

Then there is probably no reply. Is this hearing closed? I turn to the committee members for comments, questions or a request. I have a question. May I direct you directly to Ms. Püttinger? Everyone says APD. Ade. Just a question.

In general, regarding the new regulations that we are proposing for approval. Was ist der Grund oder die Absicht hinter der Formulierung empfohlen statt erforderlich? Ist das nur Einstieg, um Standards zu schaffen oder soll nur gezeigt werden, was bevorsteht? Ich weiß nicht, ob wir das als üblich ansehen. or especially about local plants. So you can sometimes see that in regulations. It helps to direct people in the right direction and at the same time allows flexibility, if local plants are not suitable in a certain case and someone can prove that another plant meets the requirements. It offers this flexibility, but nevertheless leads in the right direction. And that is the direction in which the model regulation of the state has entered, to consider it as recommended and preferred, without taking the next step, to make it a duty, because there could be circumstances in which further questions, comments or applications. We have a short question to the representative director.

Will this measure be the number of applications?

Das bleibt abzuwarten. Ich meine, durch die Resilienzbewertung muss ein Antragsteller für jeden Antrag mehr tun, als derzeit erforderlich ist. Das könnte für manche Leute ein Hindernis sein, da zusätzliche Schritte und technische Informationen erforderlich sind. Aber es bietet ihnen dennoch einen Weg, ein Projekt einzureichen und dies umzusetzen. Ob das jemanden abschreckt, muss sich jedoch erst noch zeigen. The idea is in general to keep better projects and to check these things on a state level with the resilience assessment for each project that is in this buffer zone.

Are we still offering exceptions or is the planning commission responsible for projects within the 100 footbuffers? Where do we have most of the things within? Because I heard both. That was not quite clear.

So everything that is in the 50-foot buffer must be submitted to the Planning Commission. Everything that is on a property after 19092 must be submitted to the Planning Commission. Everything that is a fence can be administratively approved. Everything that is on a property in front of the Bay Egg can be administratively approved. Everything else comes before the Planning Commission. Any other questions or comments? As you wish, ladies and gentlemen.

I would like an application for approval of the ODA change regulation 2026 999.

I support the application.

Application from Mr. Craig Moore, supported by Mr. Edwards. Are there any further discussions? Since there is none, I ask him to vote.

Commissioner, please vote. Ms. Chairman, the application was adopted with 8 to 0 votes. Very good. Good work. This change of text is approved and will be submitted to the City Council on September 16 with a recommendation for approval by Ms. Bay. Our second public hearing concerns the change of the comprehensive plan CPA 2026 01.

Schriftführer Pittinger, verlesen Sie bitte den Tagesordnungspunkt.

Veränderung des umfassenden Plans CPA 2020. 2026 01, eingeleitet durch die Stadt Suffach zur Überarbeitung von Kapitel 2 Flächennutzung und Wachstumsmanagement des umfassenden Plans 2045, um politische Formulierungen und Strategien bezüglich kumulativer Flächen-Obergrenzen für Solaranlagen im Versorgungsmaßstab aufzunehmen. Jonathan McBride, unser Manager für umfassende Planung, wird den Bericht der Mitarbeiter vorstellen.

Good afternoon, Ms. Chairman, Chairman of the Board of Directors. It is an honor for me to present to you my first point as a manager for comprehensive planning, namely the change of the comprehensive plan 2026.01 to the solar upper limit. A little background knowledge. In its uniform development regulation, we have section 31.724 of the solar energy systems and some dimensional standards, as well as the placement, where these systems allow Sie haben dort auch eine spezifische Klausel, die festlegt, dass Solaranlagen in landwirtschaftlichen Zonen 1% der gesamten landwirtschaftlichen Fläche der Stadt nicht überschreiten.

Und bei dieser Betrachtung geht es um die Solaranlagen.

Um das im Kontext des 1% der gesamten Landfläche etwas zu verdeutlichen. Ihre landwirtschaftliche Fläche beträgt etwas über 161.000 Morgen. The total solar upper limit that you currently have for agricultural areas with approved solar use is about 500. That is about a third of your currently approved upper limit. That leaves two thirds of your upper limit or a little more than 1,000 morgens within. The reason why I am presenting this today is because our short legislative period of the General Assembly was proposed at the two draft laws House Bill 711 and Senate Bill 347 to unite the location choice of solar systems across municipalities. These changes were proposed to you last month and will be presented to the City Council tomorrow evening for approval.

This includes some small changes in addition to the location choice of these systems.

Es gibt zwei Punkte im staatlichen Gesetzbuch, die es Ihnen weiterhin ermöglichen, bei der Standortwahl dieser Anlagen mitzubestimmen. Der erste Punkt ist der staatliche Gesetzestext. Dieser erfordert oder erlaubt Ihnen geplante Anlagen auf Ihre Übereinstimmung mit diesem umfassenden Plan. Zusätzlich behandelt 1429... as well as solar and energy projects, which essentially have to do with the comprehensive. In this context, it should be noted that your recently approved comprehensive plan has now been in force for almost two years. This plan speaks to the protection of agricultural areas and aims to preserve the agricultural heritage that you have here. Normally, we don't change the text of a comprehensive plan directly. Due to the changes on a state level and to strengthen their local decision-making capacity, we considered it important to adapt this language. We have a magnified copy in front of us. I know it's hard to read up here, but I want to show you where these points are in chapter 2. We have added a section under the sub-point agricultural heritage to justify it. Many of them concern the economic pressure of solar panels on agricultural areas and the assurance that we have a reason to protect a critical mass of agricultural areas in our city and to preserve their economic viability. So this is the reason. Under the category of land use and the goal of protecting agricultural areas and the rural character or preserving them, we focus especially under the goal L63 on monitoring large-scale solar systems. We have added additional formulations that explicitly emphasize the need to limit land use through large-scale solar systems. In addition, it turned out that these two sections still had free space, so that the additions fit in there perfectly without changing the layout of the comprehensive plan. These would be approved by the City Council. We informed the Agricultural Advisory Committee last month, presented it with these changes and got its feedback. Er unterstützt diese Änderung im Allgemeinen. Daher empfiehlt das Personal der Planungskommission, die Änderung des umfassenden Plans CPA 2026 mit einer Empfehlung zur Annahme an den Stadtrat weiterzuleiten.

Vielen Dank, Herr McBride. Möchte jemand zur Unterstützung des Änderungsantrags sprechen? Wenn ja, kommen Sie bitte nach vorne und nennen Sie Ihren Namen und Ihre Does anyone want to speak who is against the amendment? Please come forward. Please name your name and address.

My name is Dr. Andi Paas.

I'm Andi Perro and I live in Zwein. 2055. What I see is a really good intention, but the men... Actually, I'm not sure. In the last month, I handed out a handout to the city council. I conducted a literature research on the most current practices that were not examined by people who design solar systems, but it is an academic process at the University of Pennsylvania. im Rahmen Ihres Agrarprogramms durchgeführt wurde. Es ist ein äußerst gut gemachter Artikel mit einer beinahe Meta-Analyse über den aktuellen Stand der Technik bezüglich des Einsatzes von Solarsystemen und der Energie, die sie erzeugen. Es geht nicht um das Land. Es geht eher um die Landnutzung. Es geht um das Land und den Boden selbst.

My biggest concern at the time was not to know how it would affect our agricultural communities.

But not only that, my background in my promotion lies in the field of health and health policy and my background in clinical practice is trauma. And yes, mainly. But what worried me was the question of how these systems would affect health and well-being not only of the surrounding community, but also of how they are built and monitored and who is the supervisor, to ensure that the systems are also monitored. What you recommend here is a consideration of a percentage based on the... Isn't that correct? What we should pay attention to according to literature because of the radiation, the heat development, etc. and other aspects is that the picture you showed was the perfect example of what you can do. If you could call up the picture of these solar systems again, they are very close to each other. If you work with a large number and mass on such panels, The current recommendations for the protection of the soil of the country and the emergence of microclimates that form there and can be transferred by the wind to landfills outside the designated areas should continue to be discussed. The most important recommendation for reducing negative effects was to allow more space between the individual panels. Sie haben einige Diagramme vorgelegt. Sie gaben auch Anregungen und Empfehlungen, da die meisten Gemeinden keine bestehenden Richtlinien dafür haben und es für sie daher eine neue Richtlinie gibt. Sie sagen, wir können keine bestehenden Empfehlungen nutzen, da dies ein völlig neues Feld ist. Eine weitere Sache ist, dass eine der Gruppen, die hier in Zürcher Solaranlagen vorschlugen, erwähnte, dass sie an der Seite Steinarbeiten haben und darunter eine Grünfläche entstehen wird. Die zweite Empfehlung lautete, dass es unter den Paneelen eine gewisse Vegetation geben muss, wenn auch nur, um den Boden kühl zu halten. Alle Solarpaneele verändern die Bestandteile des Bodens nicht. Unbedingt. Negativ. These panels can be very challenging, but they can also be useful if you monitor them properly.

And often that means that they even help with water management.

But that means that it has to be carefully adjusted to the land on which you are standing. The point is, we need more space so that more air can circulate. You need cooling processes, which also means the inclusion of trees. On most of these facilities, you can't see any trees, they're all red. And what that does is that all these elements, heat and energy between these areas, it changes the soil. It will change what is in the soil. They gave examples of which plants can be used and can be used in an advantageous way. And even which animals, like sheep or goats, oder was auch immer eingesetzt werden könnten und wie das angepasst werden kann. Auf diese Weise haben die Landwirte mehr Optionen und Auswahlmöglichkeiten. Aber das Wichtigste ist, sich der Wirkung der Strahlen von den Solarpanelen bewusst zu sein, nicht nur der Größe des Grundstücks im Verhältnis zum Wasserabfluss, denn das But if you increase the distances, you also contribute to improving the drainage possibilities and, over time, to ensure a safer management of these systems. Not only for the owner of the property and the facility, but also for the people in the area. The third recommendation was that these facilities should not limit themselves to inhabited areas. They should have a clear buffer zone. A part of this protection is what you already know scientifically and another part recognizes that there is still a lot of science that needs to be researched much more, especially since the amount and number of panels used is increasing. And what does that do? Ich war in meinem früheren Leben an Forschungsarbeiten beteiligt und habe die tatsächlichen Auswirkungen gesehen als große Akteure, wissen Sie, Arrays für ein Kommunikationsprojekt. Und wenn sie alle so eng beieinander standen, wurde die Fähigkeit, ein klares Signal zu empfangen, stark beeinträchtigt und schlug tatsächlich fehl, sodass sie gar keine Verbindung herstellen konnten. We don't know exactly how the interactions between all these rays look like. And if you concentrate them in a tight space, you strengthen the power of this possible missing synergy. So we say yes, there are things that we do not know, but we will not do it so powerfully and strongly that the effects not only follow for a harvest of the land, which has an unnecessary property, but also for those who live in it. Was könnte durch die Luft übertragen werden? Wissen Sie, der Wind, was bewirkt er? Wenn er sogar die physikalische Beschaffenheit des Bodens verändert, und das tut er auch, ist es dann wahrscheinlicher, dass er vom Wind aufgenommen wird, als es vorher der Fall gewesen wäre? Wieder ein Grund für die Begrünung darunter. Und die Begrünung? Sie würden dort merken, Sie führten Studien. Not only Europe. They did it in all the United States and I think they also did it in Africa. So multinational, because there is just so much to do and everything changes depending on the location. What might work in Portsmouth, works here, possibly. So you need people who really understand the exquisite nature of the property with which you are at this time. Development. I gave the city council the handout last month and called a few of our council members to ask what they think of the article.

Thank you.

Please ask questions to me, kind lady.

As I said, I'm not an expert.

Let's talk about it a little bit. Thank you for your comment, Ms. Perot. Any other... Oh, time is up. Oh, there is a repetition.

You have five minutes.

The public hearing is closed. I am open for comments, questions or applications of the members of the commission.

I was at the Landwirtschaftskommission when we started here in Suffolk. And one of the first tasks they gave us was the discussion about solar parks and solar panels and which position the city of Suffolk should take. And we can sit here for a long time and discuss this panel again and again. There have been some investigations, as Ms. Perron mentioned, and I have seen some from Virginia Tech. And as I said, there is a lot of research and a lot of things that have been published. But it seems to me that what you are trying to do here today is to create some clarity um der Stadt Suffolk vielleicht eine solidere Grundlage zu geben, wenn sie ein Projekt genehmigen oder ablehnen und es gegenüber dem Staat rechtfertigen müssen. Dabei sind wir natürlich die Maßnahmen in der Landwirtschaftskommission durchgegangen und Es gab eine Frage, die erst etwas später aufkam. Und die Formulierung hier ist gut und wir mochten sie und dachten, dass es gute Maßnahmen wären, um sie in den umfassenden Plan aufzunehmen. Aber wir haben auch irgendwo im Kompensationsplan weiter hinten, vielleicht nicht auf dieser Seite, gelesen, dass es um Primär- und Sekundärnutzungen für landwirtschaftliche Flächen ging.

Of course, agriculture was the main use, the cultivation of field fruits, whether it was sugar corn, strawberries, cotton or whatever.

We looked at it and then came the point of secondary uses, where single-family houses, small retail, schools, public facilities, churches, parks and open spaces were introduced. But then the industrial solar use was introduced as secondary use there. And I don't think, and we in the committee at the time did not think that there was industrial solar energy there. Introduced under a primary or secondary use for agricultural fields. As it may be, as soon as a solar park is built on highly productive farmland, this land changes. And Andy has already briefly mentioned this.

It changes the soil structure.

There were many works that dealt with the condensation of the soil. There were many works on zinc toxicity that comes from the posts there. It was also talked about the permeability of the soil and that, as you said, the right amount of grass and vegetation under it and around it, as well as the heat and dust must be dealt with. So there are many advantages and disadvantages. But as far as the agricultural commission and most farmers are concerned, as soon as it is used for such a project, it will never achieve the same productivity again. Is it a great thing for agriculture? E.W. Lee Daniels from Virginia Tech explains in one of his reports that after such use, only 75 to 80 percent of the original productivity of the soil is retained.

So we know that it is not the best.

You could use it again as a hay farm, plant trees or build houses. But as far as the cultivation of field fruits, productivity and the possibility of making a profit with it is concerned, that would no longer be quite so good.

Apart from that, I will not hold any lectures on all these things here in today's session.

But for me it seems as if we have an argumentation basis with it, if we decide not to accept such a project. And that's exactly what seems to be tried here, to provide reasons for why we reject such a project, whether it's because of noise near a church or for various other reasons. And that's just my opinion. Gibt es weitere Kommentare, Fragen oder Anträge von der Kommission?

Die sekundären Nutzungen stehen nicht in der Zonierungstabelle.

Das steht in den Empfehlungen des Gesamtplans.

Können Sie mir das erläutern, damit ich sicher gehen kann, dass ich das richtig verstanden habe?

Im Gesamtplan gibt es empfohlene Nutzung, entschuldigen Sie, für jede Art der Landnutzung. Dennoch muss die Zonierung für jede vorgeschlagene Nutzung angepasst werden. Nur weil etwas eine bestimmte Zonierung hat oder eine bestimmte Landnutzungsbezeichnung im Gesamtplan trägt. Wir hatten diese Diskussion letzte Woche am Schaltplatz. Niemand sagte, oh, da steht traditionelles Nachbarschaft. It is so that the zoning does not allow it. The zoning must therefore be available for the respective specific use. The last one, I promise. Maybe what would be if we as a group would decide, maybe not today and not here, but that would be a change of the overall plan to fight for that as a recommended secondary use for land. Is that a question for the city council?

Technically, yes, it would be a further change of the overall plan. Due to the legislation of the General Assembly, however, this is not what you are allowed to do. You can explain where we are with the change of the overall plan. Der Gesamtplan ist im Allgemeinen nur ein ... Er ist nicht wirklich, wir beziehen ihn zwar in die Entscheidung ein, aber er ist nicht die Grundlage für die Entscheidung.

Was die Generalversammlung jedoch bei Solaranlagen anerkennt, ist, dass sie als Grundlage für die Entscheidung heranbringen.

Dies ermöglicht es, den Flächennutzungsplan an einige der Beschränkungen anzuknüpfen, die wir in die UDO aufgenommen haben,

That's correct.

Das ist zulässig. Und solange es vorher in den Plan aufgenommen wurde, ist es in Ordnung.

Es gibt die Frage, ob jemand nachträglich eine Einschränkung hinzufügen kann. Frau Vorsitzende, bezüglich CPA 2029.1 beantrage ich die Genehmigung. Sie beantragen die Genehmigung.

A request for approval from Edwards, supported by Mr. Goodman. Are there any other questions?

If not, then let's move on.

Commissioner, please vote. I just want to make sure that everyone has voted. Ms. Chairman, the application was accepted with 8 to 0 votes.

Great work from the staff. This changes the land use plan is approved and will be presented to the city council on September 16. The recommendation of this board is that there are still old businesses that we have to discuss. Keine Ahnung. Wir haben ein wenig neues Geschäft. Es gibt den Bericht des Stabes, den wir von UTAA 2026 07 benötigen. Ich verstehe das, Planerin? Caitlin Abbott diesen Präsent. Hello everyone. Good day. This will be a general report from the staff of the some planned internal changes at the UDO. What you have seen last month ... quasi successor to it as part 2, are changes that we propose to different sections of the uniform construction order. This is what it looks like when parts of the regulation are clarified and updated. And these are things, as I said, this document is a living work since 1909. And over time, parts of it have changed. Directions have changed. Things have been designed in a certain way by the Zone Determination Administration. And that makes it necessary to update some things at different times. Many of them are relatively simple, which we use in some sections of the book. Therefore, for every single point, instead, we have decided to summarize this in one single answer and publish it in the next month. What we do with the employee report is again a kind of foreshadowing. Dabei gehe ich ein wenig darauf ein, was wir dort vorschlagen. Dies sind also die Abschnitte, die wir in Teilen ändern wollen. I will go through these again briefly and give a little summary of what we are doing. Section 38391 in the module is our general procedure section. Or legislative area use points.

What do we do with permits?

There is a section in this section that deals with the submission of layout plans for the legislative area use points. So this applies to conditional use permits, commitments and things with public hearings, as well as administratively approved plans, designs and technical plans.

Designs and technical plans.

The main purpose is really to ensure that we have timely re-enrollment on the legislative fronts.

If we do not receive an answer for a year, i.e. write a comment on the review and do not receive any re-enrollment, do we send a notification to the applicant?

Could you please give us a status?

This codifies something that we are currently practicing as a guideline and also gives you a 180-day period for the return of the documents.

The idea is that the documents will be returned in time. Otherwise, they will be... One of our standards 1 also contains some sections that are open to the public. In the public hearing, we have an outdated reference to the urban settlement that we will correct in order to generally prove that public hearings are urban and state settlement. Then again, the current process that we have set out for the adoption of the legislative decision on the use of land is currently going to the district court. It goes to the district court and there is a 30-day deadline. We will correct this in 3.1.306. You have to change a little thing, for example, the placement of something on the site. The board of zoning appeals The BZA often deals with applications for the liberation of distances. Interestingly, it can be found in the section of the UDO that fits with deviations. Here there is actually a kind of time measure that says that a deviation obtained by the BZA can be used within a year. This is not really typical and the state law explicitly allows conditions for deviations.

We therefore propose to apply this time limit, so that a guaranteed deviation remains until it reaches its destination through a measure. Only to allow antennas to be used together on a flight.

This means that a new antenna is placed for T-Mobile or someone else on the tower.

There is no improvement.

This does not require a layout plan, since there is no floor to be carried out. Section 413 is the area that regulates the historical maintenance district HC.

I would like to note that the signs continue to comply with the sign order and other provisions of the UDO. Es befreit lediglich von dieser administrativen architektonischen Kompatibilitätsprüfung

I would like to add that the date of the signed explanation is within 180 days. One concerns the correction of a document document to make it more formal. The other concerns our tree crowns. There are very specific state laws in Virginia for tree crowns, which municipalities do. können und dürfen. Wir schlagen eine Änderung vor, um sicherzustellen, dass das... Es gibt einen Abschnitt, der erlaubt, um bebaute Flächen auszudrücken.

Diesen streichen wir, aber wir lassen die anderen Dinge, die im Statikprozess auftreten.

Das ist unser Abschnitt zur Straßenbeleuchtung. Wir aktualisieren ihn, um LED-Leuchten aufzunehmen, da dies die Straßenlaternen sind, die heute installiert werden. 605 ist unser Abschnitt zu den Grundstücksstandards. Wir schlagen eine Art neuen Abschnitt oder female Unterabschnitt vor, der eine Regelung hinzufügt, um kleine Grundstücke... This means small pieces of land with a buildable area of less than 10,000 square feet, which represent an RPA resource protection area in a larger plot. The goal is to protect the residents of a house from having an RPA right behind the back door and thus not really usable. This would be very targeted and is explicitly aimed at new, larger parcellations with small pieces of less than 10,000 square feet of buildable area. One and six and six covers our standards for parking. We only update our table, which, for example, speaks. We update the language regarding ADA, remove outdated references, add motorway parking spaces and add a regulation that passenger trailers are not allowed to park in private facilities. This is a pure safety measure to ensure that the access roads for the fire department remain free. Small change. We are only adding some new road signs that are already being used in practice. Das sind unsere ergänzenden Standards, in denen wir den Großteil unserer Zaunvorschriften haben. Was wir getan haben, und das geschah in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bauamt, basierend auf den Erfahrungen der letzten Jahre.

Zum einen geht es um sechs Fuß hohe Zäune auf Eck.

Ergänzen wir, wenn Sie ein Eckgrundstück mit einem Zaun haben und der Rücksprung über das Mindestmaß des Gebiets hinausgeht, dürfen Sie einen sechs Fuß hohen Zaun errichten. We only update the approval form and the practice of the city council regarding the operating hours and their approval. This is a reaction to recent applications that have been submitted to us.

31 conformity and non-conformity and non-conformity.

What is often suggested to us at the construction committee are inquiries for existing narrow foundations that are to be used for gap construction and living space, whereby a liberation of the lateral border distances is required.

The proposal is intended to provide a determination that enables the builder to build the foundations with a... A reduction of the lateral border distances to five feet permits, permits, permits, permits, permits.

In addition, we update various requirements for enrollment in section B, which in some places are a bit complicated.

A part of this concerns the number of plan examples. We do not conduct paper plan checks.

There is a comprehensive section B that describes what is included in the enrollment of a technical plan, a layout plan, a pre-design or a final division.

There is a huge table with all the information.

We only update the table to reflect this change and to be on the latest level. I understand that this was very comprehensive,

Der Ausschuss für Satzungen hat sich bereits heute früher damit befasst. Sie hatten also schon Ihren ersten Erfolg. Und wir alle haben die Chance, bis nächsten Monat zu prüfen, sofern Sie dem Antrag zustimmen, der gleichgestellt wird.

Herr Crickmore, haben Sie einen Antrag dazu?

Der Satzungsausschuss hat dies bereits früher im Satzungsausschuss überprüft. Wir haben tatsächlich zwei Punkte. I would like to make a request. The request is for the Planning Commission to check this at our next session. which corresponds to the timetable for the review at our next session. And this serves to clean up the organizational points for the UDO. And that's exactly what... There was a series of them, as we just saw. But my application would be to bring it to the planning commission before the next month.

Antrag OTA 2026 07 der Planungskommission für die September-Sitzung vorzulegen.

Jetzt ist mein Unter- unterstützt durch, war das gut genannt, war das gut genannt. Diskussion.

Keine Wortmeldung. Lassen Sie uns zur Abstimmung. Wo können wir eine mündliche Abstimmung machen? Alle dafür?

Dagegen mit gleichem Zeichen.

Der Antrag ist einstimmig.

Das andere Problem. The other problem is that we will see the prohibitions for data centers next month, which we have checked in the Board of Directors, and that must also be put on our agenda for next month. Therefore, I would like to make the request that this Commission for our next session in September.

No comment. Everyone for it? Please give through a mood picture to identify.

Against. Same time. The application was adopted in accordance. Do we have a status report for the City Council meeting on July 15th? Yes, we have it. At the meeting of the City Council on July 15th, the limited use permit CIP 2026 04. Wörther Mitigation Bank, zur Errichtung einer Ausgleichsfläche für Feuchtgebiete auf dem Grundstück 211 Buckhorn Drive vom Stadtrat unter Auflagen genehmigt. Bedingte Nutzungsgenehmigung, ZAP 1024. Busy Bees Learning Experience, zur Erteilung einer bedingten Nutzungsgenehmigung für eine familiäre Kindertagesstätte auf dem Grundstück 113 Mallard Drive, wurde unter Auflagen genehmigt und die bedingte Nutzungsgenehmigung. ZAP 2022 612. New Leaf Solar for the provision of a limited use permit for the construction of a solar energy plant on the property on Old Myrtle Road, Floor Card 22, Parzelle 3, was rejected by the City Council.

Thank you for this report.

I assume there were no preliminary land plans approved? Yes. Commission members.

Before we get to the comments from the commission members, I have one more point and other things. We have made some recommendations.

My first recommendations, people.

We have made some appointments for the Board of Directors.

Of course, back-of-commission member Krieg Mohr as deputy chairman to the chairman of the Board of Directors as well. Mary Ellen Bauer and Gerald Goodman have received another term of office and we have Celina Emanuel Thornton as our newest member in the Board of Directors. Danke Leute, dass ihr bereits damit begonnen habt, diese großartige Arbeit zu leisten. Unser letzter Tagesordnungspunkt ist... Was passiert damit? Vielleicht bekommen Sie einen Anruf von mir. Das CRP steht an. Also sagen Sie einfach ja, wenn ich Sie anrufe. Vielen Dank. The last point of order is the comments of the committee members. I'll start with my right.

Let me go all the way to the left.

I would like to thank all my committee members for a short session. That gives me more time to talk now.

A few things. I would like to express my prayers and my condolences to the family of Marlins and Thompson for the loss of their beloved part. I would also like to thank the planning team for taking the time to make all these organizational changes to the UDO. I know it's a lot of work and I think we still have a long way to go, but it's just the beginning. That's why I appreciate the work you've done. Some of the commissars had the opportunity a few weeks ago to go to Danville, Virginia, to the planning committee.

I just want to say we had a good time, but we also learned a lot. And hopefully we can bring some of these changes that we saw in Danville back into the city as ideas. I really appreciate going to these conferences so that we can learn and make our people great. Since you were not here last month, I would like to congratulate our new chairman. Commissioner Hicks, I remember how warmly you welcomed me as another woman back then. And now you see, we take over the rudder. And also to the representative chairman Krieg Mohr, who had a great session today, to which I came too late, but they all do excellent work. And congratulations on your appointment for the Board of Directors. I would also like to thank the planning team, including the planning director and our city attorney. Ich kann gar nicht sagen, wie sehr ich die Klärungen schätze, damit wir alle als Kommissare keine Experten in der Planung werden müssen und dass sie uns nicht dumm vorkommen lassen, wenn wir Fragen stellen, um fundiertere Entscheidungen treffen zu können. Das bedeutet mir sehr viel. Kann ich? Ich habe eine Sache vergessen.

Entschuldigung, Herr Präsident.

Nun, das hier ist wichtig. Ich weiß, wir können kein Ständchen singen, aber alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Mary.

Sie erwähnten, dass das jährliche landesweite Planungstreffen in Danville stattfindet.

Letztes Jahr war es in Portsmouth und hoffentlich findet es nächstes Jahr irgendwo bei uns in der Nähe statt. Aber ich würde den Kommissaren empfehlen, falls sie die Gelegenheit haben, diese Veranstaltung zu besuchen, da sie dort Leute aus dem ganzen Bundesstaat treffen. And what you usually find is that they deal with the same topics as we do every month and especially our planning department every day. And so I think you get a real understanding of what the planners in all these municipalities in the entire federal state. So that's all from my side. Thank you.

And of course I would like to thank you all for your trust in the last month during my absence. I have never heard that someone does something like that, but thank you very much that you saw in your minds and thoughts that I am the capable person. I thank Commissioner Creekmore for jumping in for me right on my very first day and I will be very exhausting.

I'll take it easy, because that's the way I am.

Aber ich werde mich sehr bemühen, dem gerecht zu werden, was ihr von mir erwartet. Ich möchte auch der Stadt ein Lob aussprechen. Denn seit meinem letzten Treffen haben wir eine Bibliothek gegenüber eröffnet und vor ein paar Wochen meine alte Schule. Die John F. Kennedy Middle School. Das sind eine ganze Menge von Millionen oder aber Millionen Dollar Leute, die wir in den letzten Monaten ausgegeben haben. Aber das Ergebnis der Arbeit ist einfach, man muss... Wenn Sie noch nicht in der Bibliothek oder in der John F. Kennedy Middle School waren, sollten Sie das in der nächsten Woche unbedingt nachholen.

Beide Gebäude sind auf dem neuesten Stand der Technik.

Die Stadt hat wirklich großartige Arbeit gemacht.

Und damit liegt uns kein weiteres Geschäft mehr vor.

Sie deuten auf etwa... Oh nein, wir haben noch einen Punkt.

Wir haben noch einen, denn niemand hat gesagt, dass wir das nicht dürfen. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Und diese Sitzung ist nun beendet.