Planning Commission Work Session   6/23/2026

Let's go.

And with that, Chair, I'll turn it over to you to hear from the public, but I'm here to answer any questions or provide any feedback.

And then the Planning Commission gets a chance to weigh in if they would like.

You're welcome to call on Dan and we'll control the online version.

Are there any names on it?

It's like two minutes.

Just out of curiosity.

Anybody in the room would like to go first?

This could be a really good scene.

I will.

My phone's working all over the entire room, so.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, maybe I'll do it this way.

We can hear you.

That's my question.

That would be something that would need to be a larger community-led community engagement.

just Chapter 34.

And so we're gonna try to get those cleaned up too so it's more consistent.

Okay.

That's what we found out.

Anybody else in the room?

So in case anybody else is interested there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Thank you.

Still no one online?

So thank you.

Thank you.

And I don't know, thank you.

Technically, it's not working out.

Okay.

Thank you.

I raised my voice.

Good afternoon.

Thank you.

Anybody else like to speak?

Thank you.

And will examination of those answers that you end up resolving with people, will those be examined as part of this process?

Thanks.

The other speakers?

Anybody online?

No.

This number?

So thank you.

Thank you.

We want to protect the whole place against being destroyed.

Any of the speakers?

Staff, you guys have anything you want to add or respond to?

And there's one other thing, and I'm not sure what it was.

Dr. Damon, did you guys want to add anything or respond to anything?

The eBite voucher has been utilizing the Connection Artist Clothes page, so hopefully more departments and divisions will be using it, and we have all the code clean up.

And I don't mean to put you guys on the spot, but can you remind us where things stand with the, um, council was looking at the fee and lieu stuff, uh, the housing, the admission and all that at some point, are they still looking at that?

Um, I think commissioners.

It will continue to be revised.

Thank you.

Any other, and you guys don't have to talk, any other comments from the line commission or thoughts?

Obviously, there's always going to be things that we can tweak and improve or change based on what we're trying to accomplish with the code, but I'm glad that we're moving in the right direction.

So if we could, as we iterate through this, if we just simplified a bit, that'd be great.

Thanks everybody for coming and for your comments.

But we are running into issues with this, especially in our very established neighborhoods that have very large lots, but that's what it's trying to do.

several acre plot and you try to break it up it makes sense to have the build to width and the building max and the setback to the front to try to bring them to the street to the public that all makes sense but when you put it on a city like Charlottesville that started to develop into the 1700s or maybe even earlier there's a lot of conflict that comes from that.

Did I misspeak on that, Matt?

I know it could be creating land lot parcels could be an issue, but it's definitely worth discussion.

Yeah, I'd be curious to know the downstream effects that are being stopped because that was my understanding as well is because you have no minimum lots on this

You know, nobody can hear you.

Josh, you looked like you wanted to talk.

Is that right?

So there was a question, I think, about whether that was ongoing, and it is ongoing.

That's all I got.

I think that's all for right now.

Remember that?

Anyway, we had a conversation with them, and I think we really need to re-engage them.

A few years ago though.

One of the problems is all the leadership changes at UVA.

We need to reestablish some relationships.

Final comments from any other planning commissioners?

So to really come at the beginning with these partnerships and find these people and have them ready to work with the neighborhoods, I think somehow we could, I don't know if it's us, but yeah, starting to go out and have part of these neighborhoods would be helpful.

So just again, I'll reiterate these ones.

All right.

This is what I have, thank you.

This has turned into a policy question discussion here, former tier three, and with Hosea having moved to a different department, who or what is being done with those larger tier three items?

Thank you.

Okay.

And again, if any more thoughts come to your minds, just send us an email.

All right.