Planning District Commission Meeting   10/6/2022

And just welcome and give me an opportunity to say hello to Commissioner Soliez.

and just excited to be on board at TJPDC in some capacities in regional transportation and like pet transportation.

Why don't we just go around quickly so Liz can have a seat.

I'm going to read Justin Cowley's Central District.

Paul, John Rosen, David Wilkinson, Susan Repp, Rachel Jones, Green Springs District, and Louisa Kelly, Jesse Rutherford, Lewis Duska, Tony O'Brien, and Brian Doudette-County, Brian Adortus, John Herring, and the at-large discussion, Brian Kelly.

O'Brien, and Sam Smith.

I'm David Blount.

Christine Jacobs.

Oh, Ian Baxter.

Dave, will you all?

Oh, wait, Rachel, sorry.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

So that's the reason we're sponsoring our show.

Questions?

Yeah, I do have a few questions.

And I think it's critical what you guys are doing here.

It's a good question.

We can't do a regional, this is what affordable housing looks like, because it's so very different in each of those six jurisdictions.

That is increased rents, which, you know, we know that people that are interested in affordable housing are renting in those parts.

It's not just a board.

I mean, I don't have the pressure from the community, but I honestly don't think there's a lot of board members.

And that's what we're running into in our area.

Yeah, very nice to get it in, Michael.

As we address a little bit, this is the desk.

I'm pretty active in this world, and I don't use the word affordable housing.

I use the word housing affordability,

At least I am here to help.

One thing that I will add that was interesting to me, and I just read this, so I can't say that Adele did enjoy it, but Florida is now overriding localities in terms of some decisions.

Jesse and then Michael.

Our middle class is at this point is living in an apartment complex, building no generational wealth.

It's very, and we're going to start publishing, getting that out a little bit out in the public.

There's no need for a short flight.

Someone I forget who in the regional housing partnership meeting said you know one of the good framings is talking about affordable housing as starter homes because that's something that's maybe a little easier for people to kind of conceptualize and it's true because that's really what we're needing is starter homes and anyway and I'm just finished with this thought is that you know the areas I've lived in Charlottesville now almost 35, 40 years and

Other comments?

Our RHP meetings, both our executive committee and our quarterly RHP meetings are all obviously open to the public, and we would certainly welcome anyone to be able to come join us for our presentation.

That will, it'll be an awesome event where electeds can

Because that could be part of, if Keith and I go through the presentation, that could be a partner part of it, but it could really have some effect.

So you'll see that there's, you know, CRI Chamber

It's also a requirement for folks that are going to be willing to be affordable housing.

Burch,

I thought it was still August when we had that meeting.

It will be separate, so is there a motion to approve the, that's everyone meeting.

Any further discussions?

Aye.

And then we have our monthly financial reports.

So we had a really good month in August for $2516.80.

The first is letter

Greene County is applying for funding to be able to construct a pump storage reservoir and a water treatment plant in order to mitigate future drought to make sure they have safe drinking water for their community.

And so they're asking the PDC to offer a letter of support for that great application.

I'll move the beer.

Nelson loves this.

Take us to the next one.

That's just kind of a summary.

The next item is fiscal year 24 projected operating budget, Christine.

And so we budgeted last month, had a 58,976 reserve transfer, and it is now 53,300.

Those are the three differences between what we saw last month and this month.

If you guys have questions for me, I'm happy to take them.

Yes.

Supervisor Andrews?

Yes.

Mr. Smith?

Yes.

Supervisor Barlow?

Yes.

Supervisor Bruckner?

Yes.

I don't think I have a vote on it.

And our next item, number seven,

As you guys know, we have three vacancy positions that we're working to fill.

Do you want to add anything to that?

That was fun.

Great learning experience.

That would be recommended one way or another.

Yeah, right.

Other regional transition plan with all six of our jurisdictions the visioning portion that's coming to a close that's going to be completed by the end of this October will probably bring a presentation to you all

We've had really good feedback.

And then, I think that's it for my time.

Oh, I promised, as though I would say, the recording and the meeting materials for Promenade Conference are on the RFPC website if anybody wasn't able to attend.

It really did.

Thank you, Christine.

That brings us to number eight, which is the round table discussion.

I'll just get down to it.

Sure.

Timely, because that will potentially have a pretty major impact on that corridor if they're able to go through with it by right and don't do any mitigation.

Go to Dan, Supervisor O'Brien.

That was big, but we also talked a little bit about the housing issues.

Well, that was a big thing.

Mr. Chairman, given a point that's hard to believe, I don't have that much to say.

I guess the good news for Green is we passed a budget for our water authority.

So that's on the next meeting agenda.

Thanks, sir.

Commissioner Wilkinson.

Wilkinson.

We're not called commissioners on the sport.

Of course, they're green in Standonsville, so if anybody has a bicycle to support the Greene County Food Bank, it's a great event to come out here and do it.

Oh, boy.

And we actually kind of gave it a kick and pumped it down the line.

And we got a lot of heat over that.

What are the Science Crossroads?

Well, that's a Science Crossroads project, which is not quite major, but we're getting closer to that.

And we just passed the $30 million that we needed to come up with for the extra amount to finish that, get water coming through Zions and moving forward with that.

They're gonna lay it in the site for a while, and we don't know what will happen now, but we'll see.

So it's very close to all of those lines.

We're not understanding it.

I know Tommy's next.

Supervise your time.

But just, that's, over the last few weeks, that's a big cycle.

Yeah, I mean, we're hearing there's going to be legislation.

I think we're going to be able to do it defensively.

The industry wants to come.

You all are talking about when it's just, I think some of their reaction is based on ordinances that have already been adopted by the localities and what they've seen since then.

You're welcome.

The 5 or 6 proposals required for the commitment.

just in the last year, so it's tough to do.

What is the average of CDP?

Yes.

And yeah, I haven't been engaged in any particular discussions.

But so he was just, you know.

There was supposed to be a meeting the other day with some of my colleagues in the legislative portal.

I was not able to speak to that meeting.

I would love for the state government to make a decision that we can't do anything for somebody else.

You say that to your farm breweries and wires everywhere.

It's exactly the same drive on 48 miles.

I told the story, your story, to everybody.

So I would be fine if Louisa does not have a good reputation.

Well, I think what

Full-time votes, it makes it easier for you to do part-time, like we were in Canada, and I think eventually those folks that we're talking to in the legislative meetings, it's convenient for them too, and that's what it's going

That's one of the changes that the delegate from Northern Virginia that the bill this past year wants to do something is to not have that requirement for a quorum be physically assembled.

Yeah, if you could count the people that participated in the Zoom meetings, and thank you to people who counted on the form, and that's all there's room for.

All right, we'll go to Nelson County.

So you guys, yeah, we just got our first book.

We've gone through so much turnover, not turnover necessarily, but changes in the administration

I feel like I've been in perpetual therapy mode for six months.

So I've got, that's good news for me.

So I think we will see those home values continue to increase even though they equalize because there's

We didn't quite make it to 2,000.

It's a medium over here.

Is that better?

So our next meeting, November 3rd, we have Christine, you want to go first?

So we'll see if you see what our next steps on that are.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Very good.

Thank you.

O'Brien,