Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) Meeting   9/1/2026

I'd like to establish a quorum and I'd like to ask if the clerk would please call the roll.

Mr. Burkhardt?

Here.

Mr. Carrington?

Since the quorum has been established with four present, I'll give a moment for Ms. Joseph to get seated before we proceed.

Counted by the official clock.

We're just prompt.

The regime.

I'd like to call for a motion to approve the minutes, please.

I move that we approve the minutes.

Will the chair please call the roll for the vote?

Mr. Carrington?

Okay, hearing none.

These from the past, I mean, just look at this.

Speak in the mic, please.

the gun case.

So we're just waiting for the court.

Thank you very much to serve the answer.

Okay.

Mr. Kastenbeck maybe?

The Kostelec matter?

The road off between Hydraulic and Barash Road, the zoning violation.

The county has filed a response and that's the one that we're still waiting for.

I got it right or have I got it mixed up?

I believe that's correct, yes.

So the courts are all clogged up, is that what I'm hearing?

The county has done what we've needed to move the case forward and it's really up with the court to get this scheduled.

The mystery.

Yes.

I mean, it's been a long time.

Two years is about average, I'd say.

Thank you.

And I would like to call for a motion, please.

Move that we convene a closed meeting.

Sure.

I move that the Albemarle County Board of Zoning Appeals go into a closed meeting pursuant to section 2.2-3711A of the Code of Virginia under subsection 1 to discuss, consider, or interview prospective candidates for employment of legal counsel for the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Is there a second on this motion, please?

I'll second.

I'd like the clerk to please call for the vote.

Mr. Carrington?

I see that everyone is returned, but I would like for the clerk to please call the roll to confirm that all members have returned.

Mr. Burkhardt?

Aye.

Mr. Carrington?

I would like for a member to please make the following motion.

I move that the Albemarle County Board of Zoning Appeals certify by a recorded vote that to the best of each member's knowledge that only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and identified in the motion authorizing the closed session were heard, discussed, or considered at the closed meeting.

Do I have a second to that motion?

I second.

I'd like the clerk to please call for the vote.

Mr. Carrington?

Aye.

Mr. Burkhardt?

I'd like a member to make a suitable motion, please.

So it's as submitted maybe?

You could use renew or approve.

And in my motion, I would ask that we authorize the chairman to sign that letter agreement.

I'll second.

I'll ask the clerk to please call for the vote.

Mr. Carrington?

Aye.

Mr. Burkhart?

I'd like to ask staff if there's any updates to any new requests that may have been scheduled for an upcoming meeting.

If it does move forward, it would probably be the November meeting for that time.

Just kind of an informational interview of sorts with your staff.

Could you say that again?

For example, if I had something that I would like to bring forward and there's a zoning issue, have you had much interaction with the public in terms of people coming in, trying to get clarification, guidance where you might say on this particular issue, it might be something that we can work out just as I think you're trying to do on this one or direct them toward the appeal process?

Thank you.

That's just a personal remark.

With my colleagues, is there anything else that you would like to ask of staff?

Is that tracking with everything that you all have on the calendar?

I believe that when the schedule was approved, it was approved for the second Tuesday of November.

Yeah, I just pulled that up.

I'd like to have a motion to adjourn, please.

I move we adjourn.

I second.

According to my watch.

I'll ask the clerk to please call for the vote.

aye, Ms. Joseph, aye, Mr. Carrington, aye, Mr. Burkhart, aye.

We are adjourning at, I see 2 33, I believe.

Sure.

Thank you very much.