City Council Special Formal Meeting, 2/24/2026

Welcome everybody. How are we all doing today? And uh we are ready to go uh to get things started. In accordance with the Virginia Beach City Code 2-21 and by the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Virginia Beach, I hereby call for a special formal session of the Virginia Beach City Council on Tuesday, February 24th, 2020 2026 at 100 p.m.

City Council conference room 2034, building 1,21 Courthouse Drive. We got a long address.

Um the purpose of the special uh session is to allow the city council follow regularly scheduled formal session as listed in the attached agenda to convene into a close session to consider the following matters. Publicly held property district 2 and district 5 public contract project pelican personnel matters. uh council appointments, boards commissions cities authorities, agencies, task force, and

appointees. At the conclusion of the closed session, the city council will convene into an open session for the purpose of certifying the closed session. The special formal session will be broadcast on cable TV, virgin beach.com, and Facebook live. Sincerely, Bobby Dyer. Okay. And we're ready to go.

All right. So, Mr. Mayor, members of council, the first presentation will be given by Brent McKenzie, director of legislative affairs. He's in Richmond.

He's going to give city council overview of the general assembly's actions and where we are in that process. So, Brent, go ahead. The floor is yours.

Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, members of city council. Um, so today's uh briefing is going to cover u status of our legislative agenda items. uh update on the budget that was released on Sunday by each chamber and then we'll give you just a quick overview of some of the where some of the legislation is post crossover that we are still working on and keeping an eye on. Um so that's what

we'll kind of cover today.

So on our legislative agenda items, uh hasn't been a ton of movement since last week. Because you'll remember uh most of our legislation was had action taken on it. Prior to crossover, but since crossover, we have seen a couple of items. Um our EMS for for life funding legislation uh had passed the house 98 to0 was sent to the Senate. It was heard in Senate Transportation earlier this

week and passed 15 to zero, but they re-referred it to finance. We were trying to keep that from happening. It doesn't um doesn't increase funding. It just changes how the funding is spent.

But anytime legislation goes to the finance committee, it gets a little dicey. And so we were hoping that wasn't going to happen, but um it followed it followed the same pattern as the Senate version of this legislation did. So we've got some uh some additional work to do on that piece of legislation. Uh later this afternoon, HB390 from Delegate Ascu is going to be heard in the Senate Agriculture Committee. We're

expecting a positive result there, but um um we will see how that one goes.

You will likely recall that as part of our original legislative agenda, we had an additional item that we had hoped to get legislation introduced on. Um rather than seeking legislation, we decided to take it in a different route and try an administrative uh I don't know result.

And so this is uh just a quick update on that. So our friends at Dominion have really taken this project on. Uh we owe them a debt of gratitude. They've done a great job with this. But on March 3rd, Dominion is going to go before the SEC damage prevention advisory committee to talk about creating a pilot program on uh using spot marking for utility markings at the oceanfront. So we've

been working with them on this. Um this map here, the resort area, SGAA, is the area that we're proposing for this pilot program to take place. Um and the pictures to the right are some pictures that we've shared with Dominion and with the SEC just to show to demonstrate the challenges that we're seeing at our oceanfront with the markings and how we would like to try and reduce those

impacts. Uh so we're hoping that the SEC will uh look kindly on this request and create a what would likely be a one-year pilot program and then we come back next year to see how it was working, how utility lines are being protected, how the uh spot marking is is reducing the impacts of the markings and see if it's all working for both sides and see where to go from there. But this is uh this is

nice progress and we're hopeful that SEC will um will approve this.

So, as I mentioned last week and the beginning of my little ramble there today, um the each house released their budget uh this past Sunday. They really released like their uh budget summaries and summaries for each budget um um like uh program. They haven't released the full details yet and they haven't released all their half sheets. So, there's likely some items in here that I

don't have a ton of details on and there are likely a few items that we just haven't seen yet as they haven't released all of the information. But, um, this first slide are items that um, everything on here except for two items are things that we had listed in our legislative agenda and that we wanted to highlight for you. So, the first item on the list is one of those two items that

wasn't in our legislative agenda, but we definitely wanted to make sure that was highlighted for you guys. You'll recall that we um uh had mentioned earlier in the year that Delegate Ascu had put in a uh a budget request of $10 million to support the uh Atlantic Park development. That was a request from the developers themselves, not from the city, but that the city would likely be used as a pass

through. Um the house included in their budget $5 million for that. Um the rest of these items in the house are all things that we had in our legislative agenda item. So we're extraordinarily happy to see $2 million for Delegate Ascu's cancer screening legislation.

That'll be a big plus not just for Virginia Beach, but for the state. uh $500,000 for the historic Nemo church.

Uh $500,000 for the YMCA partnership.

This is a a daycare partnership. Uh $2 million for a Menhaden research study. I know we talked a lot last week about the Menhaden legislation and our disappointment and how that legislation was not um successful in the House.

Well, this is the reason why is because they decided to do it through the budget instead. We'll have to wait and see what the half sheet says on some of the specifics on that study, but my guess would be was that the legislation was likely more broad and they were trying to reduce the scope and maybe some of the cost. Their original request for this study was closer to $3 million. So,

we'll see once we get all the details.

Um, but we're happy to see that show up here in the House budget. Additionally, there's $2 million for the solar interconnection grant program. Uh we've talked previously about how a lot of government agencies would or a lot of governments, local governments would like to do solar on the rooftops, but the uh interconnection fees to get onto the grid are really cost prohibitive. So a grant program like this could help

local local governments advance some additional solar. Uh house included $1 million for the sports tourism grant program, $150,000 to study emergency management needs in Virginia. That one's particularly uh important to us as the federal government looks to uh reduce the role of FEMA. There is going to be a lot of uh additional likely a lot of additional uh responsibilities placed on the state. The study will help us

prepare for that. Um also the house included language but no money but language to create a legislative work group to study the impacts of the veterans tax exemption. That's an issue that local governments have been raising for uh for a couple years now. And uh they also included 43.4 43.5 million for the storm water local assistance fund. On the Senate side, u the Senate historically does fewer

um these sort of line item budget amendments. They try to fund the major programs um in a different way. So, you will see fewer of these sort of things on the Senate side. Um, but they did include $2.5 million for the sports tourism grant program, uh, $43.5 million for the storm water local assistance fund, and $19 million in one-time capital assistance for transit systems.

And then a a big item here, this one was not included in our legislative agenda, but it was something that Hampton Road Sanitation District has been working hard on, and the Senate funded $340.5 million for their uh treatment plant project, which will benefit uh all the local governments that are in that uh system.

The next couple slides um spell out just some of the different some of the differences in the budgets in the House and the Senate. You'll see a lot of similarities here. Um one of the So the House and Senate both proposed their budget on Sunday. Uh by I think it's Thursday of this week. Each chamber will have to approve their budget and send it across to the other chamber and budget negotiations will

continue. to form one single budget. One of the big differences you'll see here is in the presumed allocations, the amount of money they believe they have to spend. Uh on the House side, they believe they have $71.5 billion. On the Senate side, $74.1 billion. Uh the biggest item that creates that discrepancy is the Senate removed um a tax incentive program for data centers that created like $ 1.5 billion in

additional uh uh funds that the Senate spent or allocated throughout their budget. And so that was the biggest difference and they'll have to come to some sort of policy agreement on that on if they want to move forward with that or not.

One of the big items that they took care of uh in both budgets was in trying to restore some of the federal cuts that came were the result of HR1 including uh providing additional funding for uh healthcare marketplace premium support uh and additional funding for SNAP benefits. Uh on the house side, they included funding to um there there are some new administrative requirements coming down from the

federal government for both state and local governments. The uh house included funding to cover the um administrative costs for both the state and the local governments. We'll have to see what the Senate did with that as we get more details, but the Senate did not spell that out specifically in the information they released on Sunday, but we'll keep an eye on that. That's going to be uh

pretty crucial for local governments throughout the Commonwealth.

On the education side, uh the House maintained the 2% pay raise for teachers. The Senate added an additional percent to raise that to 3%. Um, and then the House included $400 million and what they're calling one-time flexible flexible spending support for K12. Uh, the one caveat with that is that the those dollars will only be available to localities that provide the pay raise to teachers. Um, and

the dollars will be distributed in different buckets through different formulas. uh part of it through the at risk add-on and part of it by population. So um again you're kind of repeating myself a lot but we're waiting for the details on that. Typically when each chamber releases their budget they'll release a spreadsheet that shows each localities uh the the impact to each locality

school system. And so we're waiting for that spreadsheet to to be released here um hopefully today. Uh, so that's the House side and education on the Senate side. Oh, well actually I guess I'll point out both took an interesting tact on school construction and added add added dollars for school construction grants and both have moved away from school construction loans. They're

starting to notice that the loans aren't being utilized to their fullest potential and they're starting to move some of the dollars that have historically been allocated for loans and moving those into grants, which is a good thing. Um, and then on the Senate side, the Senate included $1.3 million for a Jark study of the school funding formula u for the state school funding formula, which um

was a recommendation from JARK that the the funding formula needed to be updated. Um, and so that's just something we'll have to keep an eye on is with any sort of formulaic allocation of dollars is once you start tinkering with it, you start to have winners and losers and uh those dollar allocations.

And so um you know the devil is just always in the details on those sort of things. Uh the House budget included 2% pay raise for state employees and 2% pay raise for state supported local employees. The Senate included an additional uh 1% pay raise for state employees.

Uh both budgets made some serious u investments in child care and housing which were things that were in our legislative agenda and that we've been pushing for. Um both included $137 million for additional child care subsidy slots. both uh funded legislation that's moving through the system to create a child care pilot program that would provide um state funding to local employers who provide a

match to provide child care for their um employees. The 25 million in the House, 50 in the Senate, and then uh both made major investments in housing as well.

87.5 million housing trust fund investment in the House, 50 million in the Senate.

Likewise, both made pretty major investments in uh the metro transit system up in Northern Virginia. I thought it was interesting that they did so and and in doing so, they also included a 1% increase in the transit occupancy tax for Northern Virginia. Um that's um an interesting tax for them to take. Uh, and you'll also see under the transit column in the house, they included $300,000 for the HRT study that

has been moving through the system. Both chambers included funding to raise salaries for legislators. Uh, $45,000 to the h in the house, uh, raising the salary to $50,000 in the Senate. Um, right now the legislator salaries are around $18,000.

So, thought that was an interesting as well.

Um and then uh uh under taxes there's been a lot of discussion and we've talked a lot about it a lot. There were no tax increases.

They didn't end up expanding the sales tax in the budget as the um they had discussed earlier in the session. Uh on the Senate side, they did um like as I mentioned earlier, they eliminated the $1.1 billion in tax exemptions for data centers and they used a lot of that money to provide a a small tax rebate to um tax filers and to increase the standard deduction. Um I didn't see the

increase in the standard deduction in the house, but could have just been something I missed. And that's that's something that's pretty typical um each budget cycle. So, I'm not 100% sure that wasn't in the house, but I didn't see it.

Um, I think this is my last slide on the budget, but we definitely wanted to highlight this for you. Um, on the House side and the information they released on Sunday, they included uh the fiscal impact to much of the labor legislation that's moving through the legislative session, things that we've been talking about. I didn't see these things explicitly spelled out on the Senate side, so we'll be on the lookout for

that as more information comes out, but um the House included $20 million in fiscal year 2027 for startup costs dealing with collective bargaining. Um a big portion of that deals with the um Virginia Home Care Authority. Uh that is in the House version that uh that part is not in the Senate version of collective bargaining right now. So, that could be why um why that's in the House budget, not the Senate

budget. Uh the Senate, I'm sorry, the House also included 14.5 million over the bienium to cover the cost of raising the minimum wage to $15, 11.1 million to provide paid sick leave to personal uh care attendants funded by Medicaid, and um included a $116.5 million uh um Treasury loan to begin work to create uh to establish the paid family medical leave program.

The next couple slides are uh just kind of a really quick summary of some of the big pieces of legislation that we're still following that are still active.

Uh none of these have had any movement since our last briefing and we talked about these. But um just a reminder of really kind of what we're focusing on and continuing to to work on. Um as we were just talking about all of these things, uh collective bargaining, uh prevailing wage for public works projects, those bills are are in interesting shape differently in the Senate and the House. Um,

uh, paid sick leave and paid family leave. Um, on the next slide are some of the revenue stream items that we've been watching. Uh, skill games, cannabis retail marketplace, um, and the 1% sales tax for school construction. There's a interesting thing happened here that we weren't expecting, but the legislation from the Senate uh wound up being left in Senate Finance and did not get a full vote on

the Senate floor. So, um language and funding from this legislation was included in the Senate budget. So, don't know, maybe it's just a different tack they wanted to take in the House. Um but certainly something that was interesting and unexpected we thought. Because this legislation has passed the last two years out of the general assembly and had been vetoed by the governor, we

expected a similar result this year and all the intel and discussions we had was telling us the same thing. So that was a big surprise.

And then the last slide here just highlights some of the land use legislation that um we are continuing to follow. Um, still lots of work going on here dealing with a lot of mandates on local governments on how we use our uh on land use policy. Um, we're hoping we'll have a good result. Legislators are certainly listening to us, working with us. Lots of amendments have been included in these legis pieces of

legislation. So, they've all have gotten better as they've moved through the process. They're still not great and there's a couple of them that we really really don't like. But we're going to continue to uh work with the legislators to um you know see if there's some compromise to be had and to make sure that these legisl pieces of legislation are uh things that we can live with.

Last thing I will leave with you is really just kind of a process briefer briefing I guess. Uh so typically what happens from here is um often times there's bills that are introduced in the House and the Senate.

Sometimes they start exactly the same.

Sometimes they start similar but they're on the same topic or the same code section. They work their ways through the chambers. So oftentimes get amended along the process and then once they pass the chamber they flip over to the other chamber. So once they go to the other chamber, the typical process is that um that chamber will conform that bill to the way it passed their chamber and then they'll just pass it along

until it gets through. So theoretically, and this happens, I don't know, a hund hundreds of times every legislative session, the same bill concept will pass each chamber in a final form, but they'll be different. So once that happens, they go to what they call a conference committee. And a conference committee is made up of three members of the Senate, three members of the House, and they get together and um

try to hash out the differences and come up with one piece of legislation that they believe could pass the House and the Senate. Um from there, there is no like official meeting. They meet sometimes in the hallways, sometimes they meet in the senator's office. most of the time they just talk while they're on the floor. So once it gets into conference committee, um we always say like anything could happen, anything at

all, like amendments that you never thought of or seen before, uh legislation can go all the way back to its original form. Sometimes things just fall apart and that doesn't pass at all.

Um conference committees are um I don't know, they're our worst nightmare because they are very difficult to follow and to try and influence. So, um, as you hear these things moving into conference, it's certainly something to, um, be aware of and keep top of mind that, you know, we'll do everything we can to continue to influence outcomes, but conference committees get, uh, get get

tough on us. So, but I would expect most of these big pieces of legislation to wind up there from collective bargaining to maybe even cannabis, although the cannabis there's not a ton of differences between the House and Senate. um some of this land use stuff all likely headed towards conference and so certainly a lot of work to be done here over these last couple of weeks with that Mr. Mayor I'll turn it back

over to you for any questions or comments okay questions comments anybody work Mayor thank you Mr. McKenzie for the briefing and the work. I just uh want to encourage you for the spot marking pilot program. Thank you for the support there. Interested in that because you may know that we are considering council's considering a major investment in Atlantic Avenue and we'd hate to make that investment with the continued

markings that are there. So, if you could pass that along that uh we'd like for this program to come forward if if possible. Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Okay. Anyone else?

Okay, Brent, we look forward to having you back.

Me, too, Mr. Mayor. Thank you.

Hey, God bless.

All right, moving on. All right, so Mr.

Mayor, members of council, at this time, we'll be joined by my fellow council appointee colleague, Sue Cunningham, the city's real estate assessor. She's going to give city council and the public her annual report regarding this the current conditions of our real estate market.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Get organized here.

Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of city council, fellow appointees. I am here to give you the annual report for the projected real estate assessments for fiscal year 2027.

Um, as a reminder, I follow state code and city ordinances to assess all property in the city of Virginia Beach annually at 100% of market value. City code requires that I complete this analysis by the end of January. And this is includes data that we've analyzed through the calendar year 2025. So through December 25 and then by the end of January, I have to have all that reconciled and back and ready for budget

purposes.

along with the values that are that we see today that are representing the market value adjustments that I've made to the assessments. This includes my projections for two quarters of new construction, changes in values due to plat and resonings along with adjustments in value due to appeals.

I'm here to report all these values to you, but the effort and the dedication and the professionalism lies with the rest of my team. There's 24 members on this team, and there is no plug-in formula for coming up with an assessed value. It's all analytics and research.

And this team dedicates every day to analyzing that data, making sure our ownership transfers are correct, completing fieldwork in the snow and rain and the mud, answering difficult questions, and they do all that with the understanding that the service they provide must me be communicated with respect and professionalism. I'm beyond grateful to these team members for what they do and to let me lead them for this

city, and I thank them very much.

The projected total assessments including the values today and my um projected two quarters are going to be a little bit over 92 billion. This projection represents about a 6% increase from last year including growth growth and appreciation.

It'll generate approx at the current tax rate, it'll generate approximately 896 million in tax re real estate tax revenue. And at the current rate of 97 cents per h per per hundred each penny will generate about $9.2 million in tax revenue. Again, as a reminder, real estate is the single largest source of revenue for the general fund. And that fund really takes up the cost associated

with running our schools, with streets, with flood mitigation, running our rec centers, public safety, our agricultural reserve program, and funding initial council um initiatives and priorities.

When we take a look at the chart here of the growth and appreciation throughout the years, our overall uh increase was the similar to last year. we had a little bit less appreciation, but we're still greater than what we've seen in the prior years. Um, and this this chart goes back to 2018 just to give you the representative of those indicators.

This chart again gives you a little idea of how many how much information and the amount of work tied to those 34 members of my department. Each year we have to reappraise 163,000 parcels plus. That includes about 3,800 exempt parcels that have to be valued every year as well.

And again, that includes making sure that we have the property characteristics updated, the annual revaluation, new construction, changes in ownership, plat recordation, and all of that.

I'd like to spend a little bit of time on this inventory maintenance productivity the numbers here. In 2025, my real estate technicians processed almost 14,000 ownership transfers.

Just a little bit on that process and what it takes for them.

Each year or each day, they review all the documents that are recorded in the clerk of court's office that have to do with ownership or real estate transactions.

And while we don't guarantee title, our cl our technicians do make sure that things like um GPIN ownership and legal descriptions are correct before they enter that information into our system, which is necessary for appropriate billing and notifications on all properties in the city.

It takes about a week for us to process one day's worth of transfer with all the analytics and the research that goes into that. That's about 40 transactions per day. of those days, there'll be at least or an average of two transactions that are going to require additional followup before my technicians will record that in our system. Legal descriptions may be wrong, GPINS may be

wrong. They reach out to um attorneys, to surveyors, to owners to try to get that information corrected before we'll enter it into our system.

We then have to manually take all that information from the clerk of course system and then re-enter it and duplicate it into our system for ownership transfers and track trans transaction. That's a lot of work just for the transfers on the 257 subdivision plat. That's a lot of information that goes back and forth between our GS department and ourselves before that information and those new parcels can be

committed into our system to ensure we have the proper um pop property boundaries, legal information before that it'll get into our system.

Um also as a note this this number of corrections this isn't all mistakes that we're making. This is sometimes research in history where we've not we've noticed that there's been a problem with a transfer or there's been some research done that we need to go back in history and we may need to correct four or five years of historic transfer information on one parcel. And again just a

breakdown of these plats. These aren't all just regular subdivision split and merge plat. We also process we processed 89 of those in 2025.

119 easements which are easements right away and rose takes which also have to be analyzed to see if they have an impact on the value of the property. 56 condominium plats and all of those properties that have to be researched again for issues with um illegal information before we'll process them.

Again, that's a lot of work and we try to get all those transfers up through the end of December so that we our appraisers then have that information on sales to get everything finalized by the end of January.

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So then we get to our breakdown on by district of total assessments. Again, you'll see similar to last year, districts six and eight generate the most value, followed closely by districts two and five. Some of the top residential um neighborhoods by value in district six include obviously the oceanfront bay colony cav cavalier and some of the highv value commercial properties include the hotels down on the

oceanfront.

In district 8 we have Bay Island, Broad Point Greens and Point Chesapeake on the bay as higherforming residential neighborhoods. Then we have the Delta Hotel, Linhaven Shops, and some um mini storage facilities in Rose Rosemont in that district as high performers.

I thought it might be interesting also to take a look at the districts broken down by major property types including commercial, multif family, and residential. This chart just kind of gives you a breakdown by both property um count and percent of total value by district on how much residential, how much multif family, and how much commercial can be found in each district. Um you can see pretty much by

this that district 4 probably has the most balance of all three categories in the city.

The next slide is that same breakout just by total value. And what you can see on both of these slides that residential is the mountainous impact of value on all the districts throughout the city. By parcel count, residential property accounts for about 95% of our inventory.

Next, we can take a look at the assessment comparison by classification history. This has remained fairly constant throughout the years as this chart shows you with about 78% residential and 13.5 commercial.

And again, by parcel count, residential is about 95% of that. Commercial by count is about four with multif family making up the additional 1%.

When we look at the change in property value by classifications, the one thing that stuck out here, again, this is a change from January to January. So, it includes growth and appreciation.

Um, that industrial figure of 22% really stuck out. That is because of new construction that's included in this figure that included some large um commercial property completion in 2025.

Uh our information for all of our income properties is based on 2024 data. Um you can see our hotels didn't have much of a change. They're kind of reaching a point of normalization and Virginia Beach is really showing a greater resilience than the national market. We saw some declines in revenue with the hotels and small increases in expenses. Um and as a note, every year we inquest we request income and expense

information and rental data from our local owners.

For hotels, we received only 25 income and income and expense back for the two consecutive years which we need to kind of see trends and understand um volatility in those areas. We have under 100 over a 100 hotels but we received 25 requests back.

Our retail was fairly stable. We had about a 40% participation in our rental data collection on all categories.

Multif family was definitely our strongest performer. Our gross potential rent saw an increase of about 3% for large units and 4.6 for smaller. There was a slight decrease in expenses and a general decrease overall in vacancy and collection.

Um, we had an that all resulted in an average net operating income of about 4.5% across all categories. And again, we're only as good as our data.

Participation would be great for income and expense. We had about a 46% participation in uh multif family.

In the residential sector, our single family detached homes obviously have the best uh influence on value. People enjoy their privacy. They enjoy locations in the the um higher value neighborhoods where these are located.

Town houses remain our most um affordable inventory.

When we take a look at the mean median appreciation by category, our overall average was about 5.74, median being 5.23.

Residential, you can see the residential, multif family, and commercial breakouts on this slide as well.

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This is just a chart showing the distribution and change of values. The purple indicates that these properties, this is the majority of properties that changed that that increased or decreased less than increase less than 10%. Um, that's the majority of properties in the city. We did have some small percentages that we're going to see some double digit increases across the city as well.

When we look at a chart looking at our overall median appreciation throughout the years, we're on a downward trend, but we're still higher than anything we saw from 2022 and beyond. 2008 was obviously an anomaly with the financial crisis and the housing bubble there.

This kind of slide gives us a good idea of why we use multiple statistics when we're trying to figure out assessments in real estate. This is the average or mean and median for properties based on um value categories. The first thing that stuck out to us was what the heck happened in the $150,000 and below range. When we took a look at this data, we saw that this is being impacted by

about 300 properties all in one location. um I think it was an over 55 facility where we didn't have all the data that was necessary in those prior years to understand what was actually being reflected in those sale prices. So they saw a rather large increase this year um as we got um interest in that new data. If you remove those 300 properties from that category, the average comes down to about 2%.

Typically, this is why we we put we more we weigh more heavily the median than we do the average when we're doing statistics in real estate.

We took a look at residents by year built and their median assessment as well. Similar to last year, our oldest housing stock and newest housing stocks are generating the most value. Again, the older housing stocks when Virginia Beach was first populated centered around the oceanfront in some uh waterfront areas. They're still indicating the best value for that those areas based on location.

Um some of the high value sales for properties in the neighborhoods again were the north end or oceanfront, Bay Colony, Sandbridge, and Lynhorn Estates.

The majority of our housing was, you can see, was built in the 80s where the median sale price was 341,700.

When we take a look at the mean median residential values by category, this compares to where we were from January to January for that change in median.

This is similar to last year when we see the duplexes and the home with accessory dwelling units performing the best in as far as change. Some of that is the duplexes that are being purchased um de demolished and new two new condos are being built on the same area and also the uh people are being more attracted to those accessory dwelling units for multigenerational living.

In addition to this we have four 41,872 apartment units. This is up 734 units from last year.

Again, just an indicator on this slide that our duplexes are performing well as well as our high-rise. A lot of our high-rise condos, some of them, the ones that are over a million dollars per unit include Point Chesapeake on the Bay, 921 Oceans, and 42 Oceans.

In new construction, we recognized the total value of $719 million in new construction. Again, an anomaly this year was a larger portion of that was generated by our commercial properties.

That's because we had the Amazon warehouse distribution center completed.

There were some completions finalized in Atlantic Park and the our acoustical tile buildings were completed in 2025 as well.

Our value of new construction is is up predominantly from last year. Again, I attribute that to the the cost of construction and the cost of labor, but also to those large commercial categories that we had completed in 2025.

Although that value is up, the number of new units that we built was down from last year by about 159 units. Of these new units that were constructed, 18% represented homes, 12% were condominiums, 69% were those apartment units, and the remainder 1% were townhouse, duplex, and attached homes.

Again, the mean median on these homes remains pretty significant um at over $800,000 for this year. We're down a little bit from last year, but these mean and medians for new homes are almost double what our existing inventory values are for mean and median.

We broke that down further when we take a look at those properties new construction by value range.

Um we did not have any homes constructed under 250,000 this year. The majority of the new homes in the 350 and less category again were attributable with Spence Crossing. They had 59 units constructed last year with an average sale price of $325,000.

You can see that a majority of our ind inventory over 32% of new homes was in the million plus categories.

Asheville Park accounted for 35 of those properties over a million dollars.

This change in land is is very difficult to determine. What we're trying to capture here is the change in land that's attributable to reszonings, subdivisions of property. It can also be impacted by properties that change status from taxable to exempt or exempt and taxable.

It's really hard to determine because when a property when we have new plats or subdivisions that come in midcycle, they don't get assessed until the next fiscal year. So, we kind of lump in appreciation and that new lot value to the next fiscal year and it's difficult to separate that out. Um, obviously we have a limited supply of land and as that that would attribute less development here. Um,

we're trying to find a better way to track this for you in the upcoming years.

We move on to our tax increment financing in special service districts.

compared to last year. Again, this is a January to January comparison. So, Sandbridge is at 2.2 billion. That's up about 10% from last January. Atlantic Park was a new CDA last year at 45 million. It's at 126 million now due to new construction with that large increase.

The central business district tiff is an increase of about 8% from last year at 1.3 billion. and the SSD is an increase of about 4% from last January.

We also have our special dredging districts that were adopted in 2011 by council in response to interested neighborhoods looking at ways to keep their navigational waterways intact.

This requires about 80% of the residential participation of the waterfront or impacted properties and the additional taxes used to fund that dredging in specifics.

The city does cost participate in dredging a channel down to those SSD district S channels as well.

We don't have any new SSDs in that are in place as of this year.

The Virginia landmark registry was administered by the state to promote the preservation of historic properties. no new properties this year and the tax redued reduction associated to these parcels which reduces the rate on the building by about 47 cents is a little over $100,000 in tax reduction.

We also have a beach historic rehabilitation program. Um for the historic rehabilitations, the property must be listed on the historical register. They can be no less than 50 years of age and the credit runs for 15 years. We have no new properties in the program this year. You can see the tax reduction there of about $33,000.

We have the similar rehabilitation program in the vibe district. Again, similar program. We have similar. We have not had any new participants in this program as well. And then the accident potential zone APZ conforming rehab credit was put in place to encourage redevelopment and revital revitalization by converting non-conforming use to conforming. Runs for 15 years and we have a single property in that program.

I have to make a clarification on this slide. In the past I've been reporting this as a tax credit. It is not a tax credit. This is a um by code of Virginia we established the code of Virginia established energy efficient buildings as a separate classification of real estate. What this does is allow for a city to tax these properties that are classified as energy efficient at a rate

that is different from the local rate.

So the city council adopts the rate each year uh for these energy efficient classified buildings. Currently that rate reduction is 15 cents below our our rate um just on the and this is only applied to the uh structures not the land. We had a slight increase this year and you can see the impact in the increase on this throughout the years.

This classification runs with the property. So if the property transfers the classification remains and once you're in you're in. There's been no reertification. planning department um is responsible for the application processing. We track the process for the land book and tax redu reductions.

Our land use taxation programs allows us to assess properties farm properties based on rates determined by the states versus market value for those properties being farmed or open space. There's an annual there's an application process and an annual reertification to remain in the program.

Uh the acreage we have in there now almost 32,000 acres reduced about 109 acres from last year. What we have now is about 50% 56% agricultural and 28% forest. The difference between the market value what I would assess them on if they were developable and and at full market versus what the state assesses them for is def is continued as the deferred value. We had a deferred value

of 250 million this year, which results in a deferred tax of about $2.4 million.

If a property that's in this land use program transitions to a more intensive use, it comes out of the land use program and the current plus five years of that deferred value is taxed and plus interest is collected for those current plus five years. And that's looked at to as a roll back process.

In 2025, we rolled back 16 acres for a little over $17,000.

Our exempt property, we have almost 38,000 parcels of exempt property, the majority of which are locallyowned or federal governmentowned.

This represents about 13 billion in value. Um, and also about 12.4% of our total value overall.

The tax reduction associated with these exempt properties is about $126 million.

The real estate senior exemption deferral and freeze programs are administered by the commissioner of revenue. The senior program saw a tax relief increase of about 5.8% from the previous years. The largest increase was due to our attributable to our disabled veterans where we had a 27% increase in tax relief, an additional 1,321 participants.

As a reminder, our real estate assessment notices are going to be mailed Friday, February 27th. The annual report, which contains this information, plus some more detailed information, will be available on our website shortly, as well as a neighborhood change report that lists out each neighborhood by district for the changes that you can expect to see overall. To let you know, we're dedicated, my staff

is dedicated to answering calls and taking and getting you information on your assessments through our appeal deadline, which is April 30th this year.

In closing, I just like to thank city council for their continued support for my department and for the opportunity to serve. And with that, I would open it up to questions.

Thank you. And let me uh get going, then we'll get to Stacy. You know, what we're seeing here today is not unique to Virginia Beach at all. This is happening everywhere. There is a housing crisis that is a national uh thing that everybody is contending with as we run out of land. You know, once again, I brought up this scenario before. It wouldn't be unusual for a piece of land to cost between a hundred $150,000,

if not more, and probably a lot more in a desirable situation.

And then Wells Fargo calculated that approximately $90,000 plus are now regulatory costs that go into building a home. So you're talking 200 to three uh 200 and a4 million dollars before you put the first nail in the first board. And I think that explains why housing inventory uh you know even modest is like what 350,000 now. And uh but the thing is the important thing is that we we have a

need to increase h housing inventory because as people migrate up to it, it creates fact vacancy down below. But once again, you know, we we are you know confronted with the problem that, you know, we want our police, we want our teachers, we want the people that work in public works to be able to have good housing. But once again, uh, you know, this is a problem that we must, uh, confront and we're going to. Stacy,

thank you.

So, big increase again. Uh, question for you though. Um, I guess you use sales comps as a big part of your valuation process for residential. Yes. So, majority. it.

So, is there a discount given for like um if there's a low amount of uh sales in a given neighborhood?

Is there a discount given? Um what so for instance, right, I understand hypothetically in let's say there's an island in Virginia Beach. Hypothetic there is an island beach and let's say there's about 400 houses on this island hypothetically.

And so if if one three-bedroom house if somebody had had owned that for 20 years and then before they were getting ready to sell it, they did a major remodel of the kitchen and the bathrooms and the flooring and what have you to greatly increase the value of that when they went to sell it. Would that how would that affect the rest of the comparable type houses in that neighborhood?

Gotcha. That's a good question. So what we try to do when we analyze data and you had asked me a question some years ago is it more difficult to assess in an upturn or a downturn market. The reality is it's more difficult to assess when I don't have any data. Doesn't matter what market it is. So in your scenario um if I we have neighborhoods where properties are being renovated and sold. We have

properties that are being sold out of estates um where there's none no renovations being done. When we do our analysis on a neighborhood, we try to stratify that and take into consideration that a renovated property is obviously more desirable than one that hasn't had any work done and adjust accordingly as we can to that data. If we can't find it within the neighborhood, then we reach out to

similar properties and surrounding areas just to see if we have an impact that will give us an indication of how to treat each of those and how to stratify accordingly.

How would you know if there was renovation done?

Well, typically we have different ways of of researching this. MLS obviously gives us the internet can give us great detail on properties that have sold. Um, if we can't, we go out and visit all the sales. Once they occur, we leave door hangers. We try to contact agents, owners to get information that we can on each of those transfers as they happen.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you, mayor. Uh, thank you, Miss Cunningham, for the presentation and for your staff. 163,000 plus parcels over 12 months is a lot of data. So, thank you yet again for that. Still a quick question about hotels because you say 25% respond with information, which I understand, but I also understand you need to value these properties fairly because constituents do ask me this

question, more than one constituent. Are you using the other ways to evaluate to value the properties or you just going on the the data submitted because how how do you know for the most and multif family for that matter too?

Right. So clarification 25 gave us data for two consecutive years. We might have had a little more participation from one year but maybe they didn't participate last year. What those trends allow us to do is build a mar a model. So for us in mass appraisal, it's not only the market value of the property, but it's treating properties equitably. The only way we can do that is by trying to figure out

trends and what stabilized how a property would would um react with a stabilized operating expense and income.

When we don't get those from properties, we also look at national indic indicators. Um we reach out to our other jurisdictions. We don't only reply on and we only take a look at our local suppliers, but they're certainly the best indicator of what's happening in our market.

Sure.

Okay. Thank you for this great uh presentation.

You're welcome.

Um I wanted to ask where you mentioned two things. The town homes you said seem to be more affordable.

They they are there are that when we look at sales and transactions the the town homes are selling at at a lower value than oceanfront homes, single family detached and condominiums that are being um purchased in Virginia Beach at this time. Is there a reason?

I I would say because um the they're most affordable because um I'm trying to put into words. you don't they're not you're not taxing the land.

You don't have a yard to complete. Um there's there's typically smaller units.

Um I you know I can't speak to the financing but it might be easier to get financing on those smaller units as well.

Thank you. And the other we talk nobody for the historic no new we haven't had any new applications in any of those pro prop those programs in several years. Yeah, because I remember in Keville when we did the 5 to5 Yep.

we changed in the high school, all that goes into it.

Say there's none or just have heard nothing.

We've had no new applicants. They come typically come through my office. So I have nobody else reapplying.

Thank you, Josh. Thank you, Mayor. Um Sue, thank you to everybody in your office. I know um you do a tremendous amount of work and you run a lean and mean department.

So, thank you for that.

Thank you.

Um the the tax exemptions that we saw the numbers that keep increasing over the years, I want to say the disabled deaths and the the KIA uh and spouses were up upwards of 35 plus million dollars. Correct. Um, and then another 15 for for our local tax relief. And and this is probably just maybe more of a question for the manager and Brent when he gets back. But I know, you know,

these are extremely worthy causes. Um, and these are all all of them people who've either served or are disabled folks in a in a a dire financial circumstance. Um, but when these things are put on to, you know, a constitutional amendment or to vote when when folks are, you know, making decisions at a at a polling precinct, do do the numbers come out in those in in the ballot language? Does it ever does

it ever translate to folks who are who are voting for these these tax adjustments? Do does it translate into what what this means, I guess. And assuming the answer to that is no, I think it would be, I don't know, a nice act to at least have voters evaluate what what kind of financial impact that some of these um some of these decisions have, especially when it comes to, you know, their projected kind of long-term

increases over time.

Yeah. Um Mr. Mayor to council member um Schman I don't recall how it was actually done when the constitutional amendment um was done when it was but I don't think they it was able for them to predict this the number of participants in these programs and it's one of the reasons why um cities including Virginia Beach has asked the general assembly to look at this to see if there's a way to possibly

um reimburse localities for the cost associated with these um rebates That's I mean my my quick math I mean that's 6 cents right I think essentially.

Yes sir. Yeah I think I think roughly it's about 1% of our assessment growth or something like that.

Okay. Anybody else? No. Once again my friends we have another confrontation with reality and uh once again at least now we got some of the data that we need to to move forward. Hey thank you very much.

Sometimes it's a thankless job, but you are indeed necessary and thank you to your entire crew. Really appreciate your efforts.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

So, Mr. Mayor, members of council, at this time, council will receive a review of the comprehensive plan that will be presented to the planning commission for their consideration in March. And after that, council will be free to ask any questions on the next steps in the process.

So Kathy Warren will start her presentation. Then we'll have Hank Morrison.

Hey Kathy, how you doing?

Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, members of council.

Today we are happy to bring you the Imagine VB uh 2040 comprehensive plan. This is a more in-depth presentation than the one we provided to you in October of 2025.

Uh before we get started, special thanks of course to Hank Morrison and Rachel Miller on our comprehensive planning staff, to Renaissance Planning and Dell's architects who've worked with us over the last two years to put this document together. And then of course to our planning commission who have held eight separate workshops on this plan to date.

So, this is the presentation overview.

We're going to talk about really what is a comprehensive plan, why is the comprehensive plan being updated. We'll walk you through our community engagement over the last couple years and what we heard, what is this comprehensive plan about, and how is it different from the 2016 plan? And then Hank's going to get into a chapter 1 through seven overview.

We'll talk about the comp plan and how it aligns with the citywide uh citizen survey.

We do have a budget request in this year to update the zoning code. And so we'll we'll uh talk a little bit about that and then give you the current status and proposed next steps before we get into discussion.

So what is a comprehensive plan? Well, this is an essential feature of our long range planning for the city. It expresses a collective and cohesive vision for our future. It promotes economic development in many different ways. It allows for development while protecting valued resources. It provides justification for decisions, shapes the appearance of our community, and guides implementation tools such as our zoning

ordinance, our capital improvement plan, and subsidiary plans. It is important to note that this is a guidance document.

So there are times as you know that although the comprehensive plan may call for something specific in the in an area, city council andor planning commission have decided to go in a different direction based on approvals.

Also there are times when we realize something isn't working with the comprehensive plan. So at that time we'll bring you proposed amendments to make those changes as necessary.

So, why is it being updated? Well, first, Virginia law requires a review of comprehensive plans every five years.

Our last plan was adopted in 2016.

Yes, we're a little bit late uh fully updating, but we got hit with COVID in those few years. So, that really put us on a delay when we had to uh stop our public engagement.

This gives us a chance to revisit and update our goals, objectives, and policies for the city. again, what's working, what's not working, and then it reflects changing conditions in our population changes flooding attainable housing pressures, economic shifts, and new demand for redevelopment and infield development.

So for community engagement, we conducted three surveys where we had over 9,000 responses. We had 10 focus groups initially, 12 public meetings where we had over 1500 participants.

We had 100 plus stakeholder input meetings attended by staff.

As I already mentioned, eight planning commission workshops. We've had nine city council staff reports and this is our fourth city council briefing. All of our documents associated with the update of the plan and all of our meeting videos are published on our website.

And then the total number of comments received on our actual plan is 612.

So what did we hear in the community engagement phase for the comp plan?

Well, there was a recognition that the city is going to grow. So, it's important to strike a balance between protecting the established neighborhoods and the rural areas of the city while also identifying locations that are appropriate for infill and redevelopment like our strategic growth areas along major travel corridors and within aging commercial areas north of the green line. We also heard that maintaining the

green line urban growth boundary was also extremely important to residents.

Of course, resiliency was also on a lot of people's minds, making sure that the city is sustainable and resilient into the future, not only environmentally, but also economically and socially.

And then there was also a strong desire from residents who wanted more options on how they get around the city, not only to be able to drive safely and efficiently to their destination, but also to be able to walk, bike, or take transit to travel around Virginia Beach.

So, what is this plan about and why is it different from the 2016 plan? Well, it aligns closely with the city council priorities that you've established in your retreats. It has a strong redevelopment focus whereas in past years there was a real focus on uh green field development which you all know our green fields are now uh diminishing.

There's now a designation of context areas, four of those, and centers and corridors. And it is important to note that the centers in the plan are already areas that are in Virginia Beach with a mixture of housing, jobs, commerce, and supportive infrastructure. This plan just puts those centers on a map for redevelopment.

It also formalizes the blue line and this plan is much more streamlined than the former plan. You will now be able to go online and if a plan like one of our strategic growth areas plans is referenced, you'll be able to just click on that and it'll take you directly to that plan. This plan is a lot easier to read, a lot of pictures and I think you will you will uh find quite an

improvement. And then of course I've already mentioned there is a recommendation to update the city zoning ordinance.

So this is just showing you the structure of the new plan. It's seven chapters. This is the flow of how this comprehensive plan works. The first two chapters are really citywide goals and then the next four chapters are context areas. It goes into specific details and specific guidance for our four context areas. And then it narrows down even further into chapter 7 for guidance within our different place types which

convey the character, function, and development patterns for the different settings within each context area.

These are the citywide goals that were established as part of the public engagement process. Economic and J development and job creation, housing attainment in all housing types, infill, urban development and multimodal access north of the green line, rural and agricultural land protection south of the blue line. community identity and connections, neighborhood well-being and safety, and environmental sustainability.

These goals apply across the city with tailored objectives that are specific for each area of the city you're in. So, now I'm going to turn it over to Hank to go through the details of the plan.

Welcome.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Mad Vice Mayor, members of council. Um, I think you all know who I am, but for the record, my name is Hank Morrison. I'm the comprehensive planning administrator.

So, thank you Kathy for getting that started off. Um, these are the seven chapters that she spoke about. So, chapters one and two are citywide and then we go into the context area chapters and the um place type policies and design guidelines in chapter 7.

And these are the four context areas that are new to this plan that Kathy mentioned. So we have the coastal, the inland, the green line context area and the rural context area.

And these are the economic development areas in the city. So this includes our eight strategic growth areas, our three special economic growth areas around Naval Air Station Oceanana and then Princess Anne Commons.

So this is kind of just the overview for chapter one. We talk about existing conditions, demographic information, our military and regional partnerships. Uh we talk about the public involvement process and then we go into the citywide goals, objectives, and big ideas as well as the general framework for the plan.

So like I said, it lays out the citywide goals, objectives, and priority policies to meet those goals. Um as far as so for economic development the main strategy is just to continue following the economic development strategic plan. Um support agricultural industry and attack year attract year-round visitors for housing attainment. Uh use center redevelopment to increase housing supply, ensure the quality of existing

housing and address demand for senior housing for environmental sustainability. that we this plan enhances healthy ecosystems, improves water quality, mitigates flooding, increases access to nature, and also protects, enhance, and connects natural lands and open spaces. For infill development, uh the plan is to direct new growth into these centers and then designate multimodal corridors to provide safe and

convenient access between them. for community identity. Uh we'll continue to recognize the unique histories and identities of communities and then leverage opportunities for things like public art and um new opportunities for placemaking. And then for neighborhood well-being, promoting quality housing, safe streets, and then including additional protections for neighborhoods that are adjacent to non-residential

developments.

So as far as the framework goes, context areas define the vision and policies for those unique areas in the plan. Centers are settings for compact, mixeduse, walkable, transit oriented development.

Um that are along corridors and while corridors are generally transportation routes that provide safe vehicular, walking and cycling as well as transit to and from centers.

Planning areas are specific parts of the cities where development is guided by adopted plans. So think about the strategic growth areas um the ITA shore drive those are those are considered planning areas in this comprehensive plan. And then when we talk about place types as Kathy mentioned those convey the character the function and the de development patterns within the context

areas. So that could be like a type one neighborhood your single family neighborhoods that are all sprinkled throughout the city.

And then chapter two is all about the environment, our linear park system and things like that. So the goals remain the same as chapter one.

Enhance those eco enhance health healthy ecosystems, improving water quality, mitigating flooding, um those things.

But in order to do that, the plan suggests things like expanding the use of green infrastructure, expanding public access to open space, development of a linear park system, u and then enhancing connectivity between those protected areas.

uh as far as water goes, um continuing to implement the sea level wise program, um protecting the quality of the city's ground as well as our surface waters and then encourage flood mitigation designs u that will help to create multiple benefits. So that that could be something like a floodable storm water park uh or different landscape treatments um that are that are useful.

So that good. And then so from the citywide chapters, we're going into the context areas. So this is our our first context area is the inland context area and generally speaking the Virginia Beach will continue to grow and sustain and diversify its economic base and standard of living. That growth however will be inward not outward so so as to protect the rural and agricultural land south of the blue line. The inland

context area will absorb most of the of the city's anticipated future development. Um, and suburban retail and office developments over time will uh will transform into more walkable mixeduse centers. Neighborhoods will remain being uh remain a healthy, safe uh place that provides a sense of well-being to the residents. And then community hubs will be created as places for residents to gather um with walking

and biking connections between So going into some of the policies um rem just as a reminder the policies remain the same those citywide goals and they're tailored to each specific context area. So for the inland context area economic development is going to look different than it will in the rural part of the city. So um for the inland context area for economic development uh the city will provide locations and

other opportunities for businesses that are seeking more urban settings as well as regional access. Um it'll provide locations and opportunities for industrial and logistics business growth. Uh for housing attainment, we're going to be using center redevelopment to increase that housing supply and ensure the quality of existing housing and address demand for the seniors as well. Let me see if I'm on the right

place here.

I don't think so.

Here we go. I'm sorry. I apologize. Um, jumping over to some more uh different place types and land use policies where we have guidance for institutional pol uh place types that encompasses large-scale educational facilities, health and civic functions like uh TCC and Regent and the Centa General Hospital. um industrial and logistics uses for large-scale manufacturing and warehousing uses like corporate landing

um within our seas.

Um and then business land use uh types like businesses, offices and hotel zoning districts that are generally larger than five acres that also lie with outside of those designated center areas.

So, jumping over to the coastal context area, this is the context area that stretches along the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Uh, and it also it draws residents and visitors alike. Uh, businesses in the resort and the Shore Drive area will continue to bring outside income that supports the city's economy and tax base. And the neighborhoods will feature a mixture of housing from single family homes to

multi-story apartments and condos uh designed to complement the coastal settings.

So, and beaches and dunes will be strengthened to reduce flooding and the resort will remain a major tourist draw while also uh becoming a more vibrant and accessible destination for residents alike. Um, neighborhoods will keep their diverse uh housing stock and their distinct character as well.

And then we go into talking about the specific goals and objectives uh the place types within the coastal area as well. So, there's that. And then for chapter five, that is what we're calling the green line context area. It's where we are standing right now. Um, so the green line context area will continue to buffer the urban and suburban land north of the green line and the rural lands

south of the blue line. Enhancements and connections among open space and natural lands will create a connected open space system. and lowdensity neighborhoods will continue to be a place for refuge connected to neighborhood oriented businesses and civic uses with walking and biking access. Princess Anne Commons will continue to be a place for low impact and low inensity businesses and

activities that help to diversify the city's economy and culture. And the transition area will continue to support low density residential and residential serving uses while prioritizing the preservation of open space.

And again the uh chapter is laid out in a similar way as the other ones. We talk about the goals and objectives, the um specific policies for the transition area and the princess commons and um talk about the different place types within um within this context area.

And then our final context are our largest the rural context area. So, the city will enhance and uh connect rural and natural lands to continue to support viable agriculture south of the blue line. And uh this plan strives to create an open space system that safeguards the rural landscape and agricultural production, supports ecoourism opportunities, mitigates flooding, promotes wildlife migration and pro and

provides public access to nature and recreation.

So we do talk about the goals and objectives, the different place types um and the rural corridors and policies. So um we're carrying over the rural villages from our current comprehensive plan. So that consists of Pungo, Creeds, uh Backbay and Blackwater. So those policies are being carried over directly. Um, and the goals and objectives are really to support sustainable agriculture

um, as well as provide opportunities to access nature.

And then for chapter 7, we uh, we go into what we call the place types and design guidelines for those areas. So, we're going in, we started off very broad and we narrow our focus down and we go all the way down to the parcel level. So, chapter 7 provides implementation guidance for how you organize the streets and blocks and how you get around within those. Uh, it provides guidance for what the building

uh should look like in terms of shape and scale and aesthetics. Talks about integrating uh natural areas, open space, and green infrastructure and also provides guidance for things like parking and loading um and and even freight access when that applies.

So these are just kind of a major list of all of the place types. So we've got this the three types of centers, the special use type, special use place types, excuse me, and design guidelines for our institutional, our industrial and logistics uh place types. In our business, we have neighborhoods uh designated. So we have four different types of neighborhood place types. Type one place type consists of exclusively

single family neighborhoods. Type two consists of kind of that those neighborhoods that have a mixture of of single family homes, duplexes, uh triplexes, and town homes, things like that. Um we have coastal neighborhoods for those those different types of neighborhoods that are kind of unique to Shore Drive as well as the north end. um they have to take into consideration things like different

materials to use when constructing um whether to elevate their you know mechanical things. So there's some unique aspects of developing within a coastal area that that gets carried over. And then we have our place type guidance for the transition area um that really just uh mimics and mirrors the transition area design guidelines that are already in in place. Uh, and then we also have our community hubs, rural

villages, and our different corridors.

So, I'm going to get into the three different types of corridors that we have designated or centers, excuse me. So, we've got regional centers, which are highintensity mixeduse settings for regional regionally oriented businesses and civic venues. So, you think that's going to be town center and the resort.

And then we've got city centers which are kind of that medium to high intensity setting for cityoriented businesses and civic venues. So that's going to be places like Hilltop or the Linhaven Mall or even here down at the municipal center. Um and then we've got local centers which are that kind of low level low to moderate intensity setting for housing um and also locally oriented

businesses and civic uses. So, that's going to be um historic Kempsville is a great example of that. The uh the Kemps River Shopping Center that's being redeveloped that you all approved.

That's another great example. And then the uh the intersection of Shore Drive and Great Neck. That that scale is kind of what we're thinking of as far as local centers go.

And here is a map that shows all of the uh the centers and the different corridors. So, one thing to note is that all of the centers are the same size in terms of like geography. They have a a core with a quarter mile radius and then they have an edge that's an additional quarter mile. So, every center has a radius of a half a mile give or take.

Um, but the difference is the level of intensity within the center. So, regional is going to be more of a jobs focus. Cities are going to be more of a mixture of housing and jobs. And then local is going to be more focused on housing. Um and then we've got our um corridors shown there as well, the large blue ones. We've got the two um we've got the regional corridor, Virginia Beach

Boulevard, of course, and then our second one which connects town center to the municipal center, which is the um Independence to Princess Anne corridor.

And then we've got our special use place types uh which again the place types convey the character function and development patterns in different settings. So we've got um institutional place types, industrial and logistics place types and then business place types. So these are all for these these areas that might occur outside of a center. We provide guidance for that as well.

And I spoke a little bit about the neighborhood place types before, but just I'm going to bring it back. type one neighborhoods. Those are going to be your single family exclusive zoned neighborhoods. They're um they're basically proposed not to change. We we're adding protections and buffering requirements for new developments and things like that. So um then we've got the type two neighborhoods which is that

mixture of single family um and neighborhood scale multif family and then the coastal and transition neighborhoods.

And then the other place types we have the rural villages, our community hubs and our different corridors.

So talking about the corridors, I did mention that we have two regional corridors which is Virginia Beach Boulevard and then Princess Anne. Um we've got the city corridors, freight corridors, rural corridors. And generally our policies for this are to follow the master transportation plan as well as our local road safety action plan. monitor and improve sidewalk and biking facilities. Um re review and

improve transit service as needed. And then um we have there's some policies to uh incorporate new corridor plans um for Virginia Beach Boulevard and Princess Sand corridor within 10 to 20 years. So it's got our work cut out for us hopefully. Um, so I find I this is a useful flowchart to kind of understand how staff will use this comprehensive plan uh when we get discretionary applications for things like resonings

or conditional use permits. So we get the proposed development and then we determine are there does this in this area of the city are there adopted plans um or regulations? If there are, for example, um the shore drive corridor plan, we would staff would then utilize we would go straight to the shore drive corridor plan and then use the policies that are in that particular plan to

provide our recommendation at least from the comprehensive planning side. Um but that applies to any part of the city that has an adopted um plan or regulatory structure to it. though. Um but if that's not the case, there's also there's other options for the applicant.

The first is that they can um develop it by right, which is of course obviously their right. Um but we would we would definitely encourage them to use our design guidelines. Obviously, it wouldn't be required, but um there's also the second option would be to do a site reszoning. So that's would when it would come forward to you all. um and we would recommend that they use the center

uh redevelopment design guidelines. And then um option number three, this is probably going to be a fairly rare occurrence, but the thinking is that if there's going to be a fairly large redevelopment, probably over 20 acres, um then we would we would want to create an an entire center plan so so we could focus on how to holistically redevelop that center.

So there are four appendices.

Um at the end of the plan we talk about zoning districts to place types. That's just a kind of a helpful um thing when uh reviewing land use applications. Um we also provide detailed maps of every center that we've designated. There are 40 centers in the plan. Um then we also have our documents adopted by reference.

Those are those subsidiary plans that guide more in-depth than the actual comprehensive plan. And then we have our soils map which um our zoning ordinance and the soils map are linked down in the southern part of the city to um restrict the density down there.

And Kathy did mention that we um we wanted to take a look at the uh 2025 community survey that was put out last year. Um, you know, we started this almost three years ago, so it's important for us to kind of check in and see if the policies that we're putting out are kind of still in line with what the community is thinking. Um, so we these are the specific areas where we

think that there's strong alignment. Um, the next slide will show that these are the areas where there's some concerns, but we think that the comp plan bolsters these um these concerns. So, and then Kathy also mentioned um that the planning department has included a budget request for the an update to the city's zoning ordinance and that is a recommendation of this comprehensive plan as well.

And so, our final draft was posted on the 18th and final com comments have been compiled and they were distributed back to the planning commissioners. Uh the final planning commission workshop was held in January and uh it is on the agenda for March 11th planning commission hearing and um we'll be headed to you all in April for final consideration and I can stand by for questions. Thank you for your time.

get things rolling and then thank you very much for first question is there uh we've been given a number of these drafts. Are we going to be given another given the final that the planning commission will recommend?

Yes. If you'd like uh hard copies of those, we're happy to have those printed for you and provide those to you.

Okay, great.

Uh she can you go to slide 23

22. There you go. Okay. Um for clarity because this is a little bit of unique situation I think and because we have a um a city center actually we have two city centers in the transition or in the green line area. So we have the municipal center which is the larger of the municipal centers and in the comprehensive plan as I'm reading it there is a call for uh housing around these center these city centers

and particularly around the edge of the city centers where type two housing would be encouraged.

Am I correct so far? Yes, that's correct.

Okay. Because um so is there a priority given to because this is obviously going to be in this uh green line area. Uh is there going to be a priority given to the city center uh thought or to the green line context?

Well, so this goes back to that flowchart because there is a uh adopted plan for the transition area. We if it was if we got an an application for that, we would just follow the transition area guidelines. If it was in the ITA overlay, we would follow the ITA master plan. Um the thinking with the comp plan designating these as centers is that they're already areas where businesses and um

and different places that people want to go exist. So it city centers can you can develop hotels. They don't doesn't have to be housing. It can just be more walkable, more um uh yeah, I guess more of like a walkable urban setting to to allow for that type of development and support that type of development.

I don't think we're putting a hotel in a municipal center. But as far as, you know, walkable housing and type two housing and stuff that would be encouraged around a a city center like the municipal center is my understanding of it.

Yes. where the zoning permits it to to happen. So if any resonings would happen, you it would have to come to the city council first. And then my um last comment is just that I' I've suggested this before is that uh because as part of this process the we're going to look at have to look at our zoning ordinances and again I recommend that we get our uh pisk involved in that because there's a

lot of expertise in that commission that could I think really help staff and and developing zoning ordinances.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank um thank you mayor and Hank and Kathy and everybody on your team who spent what six years.

Um I'm just reading through this. Um 9,000 survey responses, 10 focus groups, 12 public meetings, eight planning commission workshops, nine city I mean just it goes on and on. and you you you have done a remarkable job. Um the document reads very well when you read it through. Um and the the visuals and all of that really um really do a great job of telling the the entire picture of our city. So I I

just want to commend you. You've done a wonderful job.

Thank you.

Um and I also appreciate some of the edits uh just you know being um among the council members who represent the the Bayront. Um I I see that you've done you and your staff have done uh a great job kind of accentuating our bayfront um as a distinct coastal area um you know from our resort beach and and from Sandbridge um because there while we share a lot of the same attributes and

challenges um they're they're you know distinct parts of our community and I know people will come to appreciate that over time. So, um, in line with, um, Council Member Cummings comments, um, and it's been a, I think it was a just a comment that I had the last time you came before us was, um, just simply that, you know, words and and any of our planning documents, in particular, our

comp plan um, they can send a signal um, beyond this room. And um and I think what we we as a council and especially now and going forward as we confront the challenges that we have with water and and environmental challenges that um we strive for balance um and don't send unintentional signals. So I guess my question to you um and I've got a little bit more commentary to kind of round it

out, but um previously this context area, this area was called the municipal um context area, was it not? or some something in that in that line, the courthouse context, right? Um, and my concern isn't isn't necessarily about the values behind the this proposed change to the green line context area and naming it as such. But, um, but I think it's just worth asking, you know, around the table um whether it act

actually and accurately reflects what what is there now and what our policy intent is. um even if we haven't sharpened our policy intent yet because we've got a lot of unanswered questions that that we still have outstanding out there. So, I mean, I think we can support conservation and preservation and rural uses. Um but I don't know that that necessarily requires a label that doesn't reflect what is there now. It's

a whole host of non rural critical uses that that the community enjoys and is important to us. So medical, educational municipal um retail, um we've got sports uses. Um so, so I just I I just kind of put that to all of us. And again, I don't want to I mean there's there's there there is tremendous value in in conservation and preservation and his rural heritage. Um, I just I just don't know that that this

this sends the right signal about not only what this area currently is and has been. Um, but but but what it what it should be as we kind of shape our policy um decisions going forward.

Did you have something?

I did. Thank you, Mayor Barber.

Um, thank you, Mr. Hank, for your presentation. Director, uh, Kathy Warren, thank you as always. Um just a question and um this is more um from reading u the draft that uh the the 2040 draft that is on my um living room um table but the update I'm not sure if it's in there um and the reason why I'm bringing this to your attention and to my colleagues attentions is is drudging

um in context of the 2040 plan. Um when drudging is going to be done, how dredging, what's the process for that?

Only reason I'm saying that is because and this may be more for the city manager is because um in district 7 um the residents are really hot on the topic of drudging. When is it happening?

when can we expect it? What are the process? And so if that were somehow included in your community engagement, I think that's a a vital piece especially for homeowners uh that are surrounded by uh lake around lakes. Um so I don't know if that's for you city manager or for Mr. Hank. Um how we coordinate dredging throughout the city typically falls um on the operational side and not on the

conceptual land use side. So we'll work with um public works cuz I think they're working with you to work in a town hall as well. So we can communicate to your district the timeline for dredging and what that process looks like and we can also talk to our comm's office about getting information out regarding dredging in the city as well.

Okay. Okay. I really appreciate Barbara Michael Worthia.

You know, I know we had all of these uh beginning meetings with the public and so forth, but now to get the feedback from the public as to how well they think we have put it together.

All right, that will come how I mean will we each be meeting with people from our districts to hear what people think about the proposals or where in this process will the public be able to say okay we think you've done a good job with this but we do think you ought to change this so how do when is that going to occur? So that has already taken place. We've been out

to the public over the last six months.

We've invited the public to all of our planning commission workshops. We've accepted comments online and verbally and we had our two large public meetings back in I think it was late summer, September or September. And then we've gone through several iterations of the plan since our final large public engagement.

So we've already done that. So now we're just saying to people, this is what's going to be voted on and we'll either vote yes or no.

So we've had a lot of public engagement where we've asked our public to help shape this and they've done that and we've provided online every time that we've we have put out another draft for additional comment. So yes, we are at the point where a planning commission can consider it and then pass it along to city council for recommendation.

Positive from our people, then we feel comfortable in voting for it. If we get negative from our people, we say we still need to do some more work.

I mean that would be at the discretion of planning commission and city council.

Yeah, I think that you know Barbara, you know, don't forget there will be a with public hearing and input with planning commission and then the night of our vote there will also be Yeah.

Well, you know, at one point we had a policy that we had a three process vote.

We would present something at one meeting.

we would uh hear from the public at the second meeting and then we would vote at the third meeting. But we've kind of gotten away from that so that we do it all in one meeting. But that process allowed us to have some time in between when we heard the public and we made adjustments. But when we do it all in one meeting, we're hearing the public and then we have to vote and we don't

get to say, well, we just heard you and so forth because people do well, everybody looks at something maybe in a different way, but you know, I I think our old process of using a a three vote process or a three meeting process for a vote on something like this is really important because if we have a public hearing, And then as soon as the people sit down, we vote. We haven't had

a chance to adjust anything that we've heard in that public hearing and they tend to say, "Well, we came down and we spoke, but nobody listened to us." And and so we've got to make sure we have provided for that opportunity. And I don't see how we do it when we do everything in one one public hearing and vote at the same public hearing.

Hey, with due respect, Mrs. Henley, this has been an ongoing process for a considerable time. I know that with significant input and don't forget we I'm sure we will have uh the input that the planning commission gets during their meeting. So that in fact would be getting preemptive information from the public uh before we have our meeting. But believe me, this uh this has been an extensive vetted

process that I think we should feel comfortable with. Michael, thank you, mayor. Um well um one thing that I would like to discuss and I was sort of thinking about that procedural discussion but moving on from that because um we we have a we do have public hearings and then a separate vote another time.

So, I think there's a lot of opportunity for publicans, but as you know, correctly noted, mayor, in addition to the robustness of this process, um I just kind of want to emphasize or ask a question about the legal role of a um comprehensive plan as it relates to land using. Could could you provide clarity how that fits in? What is a what is a comprehensive plan versus an ordinance versus a zoning category? and

how are those documents used to shape uh and inform and constrain land use decisions?

So, I'll I'll take that if it's all right. The comprehensive plan is just that it is a it is a aspirational planning guide. Uh it is it it it will guide the staff in making recommendations to you regarding specific planning applications and it is a guide to you as you consider those applications. It is not a law. It is does not require 100% adherence.

But if a decision is inconsistent with the plan, it does make it more open to challenge uh if you if it's if if there are not legitimate reasons for not following the plan. It is not an ordinance. It is not the same ordinance.

It is just a conceptual plan. But trying to stay true to that is helpful in the event there is um controversy regarding action taken.

Yeah. And I think that's an important um notation to make as this process continues to unfold and and to um thankfully move forward. um because in a lot of the land use conversations that um that I've observed in the last um approaching seven years, the comprehensive plan is frequently referenced and um it it is important because of course it was created by professionals in consultation with um the planning

commission and importantly um citizens across the city of Virginia speech and it and it should be relied upon as a guiding document. But um having acknowledged that fact, there are moments when um emergent scenarios arise such as the affordable housing crisis um such as critical transportation needs develop, unfold or change where a deviation from that aspirational plan is a necessity for the public good. And I

think it's really important as we have conversations about the um development and about any potential approval of a comprehensive plan that we go into it with a um full understanding about what it means and um and how it plays a role in these really important land use decisions. So I appreciate that, Mr. Styles. Um, since we're on slide 22, I would just like to take the opportunity to note, um, and I I'll now

also ask another procedural question.

Um, this was changed, I guess, at some point in the development from the courthouse context area to the Green Line context area. In my view, I just want to associate myself with the remarks that were made by Councilman Schulman for consistency for um the broadest understanding of what um that context area is actually utilized for in um in land use terms. I think it was important that it remain as the

courthouse context area. And um that would also be my request. And how would that occur if if an adjustment like that were to be made? And also, could you just help me understand just for some clarification? So that dark purple dot in the middle is the U courthouse corner. Is that what that says?

So that's where we're sitting now.

Center.

Actually, we have a closer up at the end of the slides.

So that's the municipal center center.

Center. And then if you could go back to slide 22. Um, what it would show is I want to make sure that I understand there's a little bump out sort of on the top right. Is that Lancetown on the top right?

Yeah. The little purple.

Oh, that's TCC.

Oh, that's TCC.

Yes, sir.

Um, so and then where is the hospital?

It is in that little purple the top.

That's the hospital in Innovation Park is there.

It's our new area. Oh, the Oh, that area. Okay. That's that's what's known as Innovation Park. Where where's Princess Anne um Athletic Complex?

And then where are the golf courses?

So, way to go. Should I go on?

Nice. I like it.

Should I go on?

Oh, what? Where's the Where? Oh, where's the amphitheater?

Oh, the amphitheater is in that other little purple.

It's in there. I sit right there.

Um, where's Operation Smile?

Exactly.

And so what I'm illustrating here is the diversity of use that's part of the courthouse context area and why I think it's important that it remain consistently named and and I and I agree with Mr. Schulman for that. Thank you.

Thank you mayor and thank you Mr.

Morrison and Miss Warren for the presentation. This looks familiar because you did present this to my community meeting a little over a week ago and I appreciate that because we do need to get this out in the public. But I just want to join in on a conversation about this particular slide and and the context area because even the courthouse area as we just uh talked about the number of city assets that are contained

in this area, it's huge. And so I'm going to end this with a question, but um the the sports district that we deferred for 60 days last Juji for next month, that's in this area too. So, it's a big sports tourism possibility in addition to all the other assets that Council Member Beluchcci just uh listed, including the course, the courthouse um area where we're right now. So, I'm not

sure the Green Line context area does reflect it. Maybe the courthouse context area does describe it, but even then it doesn't. But I just it's a huge part of the city. It's an important part of the city. So, my question is I did see a report. I don't know if it's official or not, but as a part of this plan, are or is it contemplated that an additional 7,000 new residents would live in this context area?

Did I hear that correctly?

No, doesn't look like it.

I don't think so, but I can look that.

Can we check that?

I'll check that for you.

Oh, okay.

All right. uh Amelia and then thank you again both of you for the um comprehensive if you go to page 27 I just wanted to clarify because you mentioned centers.

Yes ma'am. And right now with district 4 we cross the regional, the town center and Burton station, the city centers.

Now, how is that all going? Because I begin looking at this snake like design.

How does that all pull together?

Sure. So corridor.

Yes. So there are all these are all located on corridors um that have public transit. So all of these centers are already served by public transit. Um there's the three different types of centers. We have the regional center, the city center, the local center. Um the vast majority of them are local centers, so they're going to be kind of that low slung three to four story in height maximum kind of thing. Um so

yeah, they're the they're all the same size of uh a half mile radius. Um we purposely excluded any sort of single family zoning from these centers. So they are not applicable. Um they do not exist within the center and then we provided extra um buffering requirements and things like that where those that does exist. So we did an opport we're trying to kind of find strike a balance between protecting the existing

neighborhoods and allowing for redevelopment especially along those major corridors where transit and businesses and uh commerce exist.

Right. And did I see near the towel center like you had a passover? Was there look like a train or something on there that you showed?

So I think on I might have used a picture from the Pemroke SGA plan uh which has very nice pictures but the light rail is not a component of this plan that one buddy sorry you know I would not go okay um thank you I think that is all that I have oh to do with the land use because in my area people keep asking we're running out of land we're running

out of land and then suddenly Okay, there's all these other developments.

So, they're wondering there's got to be land, but from what you're saying, we should move through that. We're moving inward and we're moving vertical.

Yes, ma'am.

So, you know that people will understand because they're wondering where there's extra land. We keep saying running out of land. So, that will help me explain that in our meeting coming up. Thank you. much.

So, can we go to slide 11? Hey, as everybody else said, you two nice, very nicely presented. We appreciate it all the work. Um, so I I also was uh struck by something here and I think we had talked about it before and it's echoing my two council members earlier comments about this. So, you look and it says coastal, right? And then it says inland and it says rural, you know, and

then we say green line. it's uh it's not in context with the rest of the the terms in my opinion and as I've spent my whole life here that area is the courthouse for me. I understand council member Beluchcci showed quite well that there's a lot more going on there now.

But as far as anybody that has grown up here, um I would think we'd call it the courthouse complex or, you know, area for us, the five mile stretch. I mean, I can go on and on, you know. Um so I thought we had said it was going to be the courthouse area. I I could be wrong on that, but um but for the way we have the rest of it named, I I don't think

the I don't I don't think the green line because a lot of our public doesn't know what the green and blue line means, but they know what the courthouse means, you know, and I think they even understand that you got spa and French sand and you know, the old all that stuff is still part of their thought process when you head out this direction. So I I just felt like that should be said is that

that to me is the way this is worded and how you would remember it to me that would be the courthouse area. It's it will whether we call it the green line or not I will be calling it the courthouse area. So thanks that makes sense Michael and then Barbara did you want to Okay then Rosemary after Michael I'm sorry.

Mine will be very quick. It's just a followup to what I said and it's I think a natural followup to what uh council member Hutcherson asked. I think I think I need to understand more procedurally what the next steps are to make that adjustment and and um can we provide that direction now?

So, I I think you can uh express your concerns here and obviously staff will relay those concerns to the planning commission because they still have to have their public hearing to bring this back to you. And I would assume that at that point either they would they would make the change in what they recommend back to you or you would have the ability to do it when in fact it comes to you for final approval.

U so I want to say I'm in agreement with a lot of the comments that have been made here about this green line context area.

I totally agree Hutch. People get very confused with the green line and and a lot of them don't even know what the blue line is. They have no idea about the blue line. And I and I think they get people I think people get confused between the green and the blue and they think that below the green line nothing is supposed to happen. And as Councilman Bluchcci pointed out there's a lot of

things that has happened this area. And I I think it's sort of sets tone that when you say it's the green line they folks think that nothing is supposed to happen in that area. And and I totally agree that everybody knows where the courthouse is.

We we all know where the courthouse is and there's no confusion with that. So, I would I'm in agreement with a lot of the people who have spoken today that I would like for to go back to what it was before um courthouse area, contact area and and I'm glad, Michael, that you asked about where we go from here as far as so we just let the staff know what our

comments are because there may be some a little little things here and there that we may want to to lay in on. And so the process for that is to let the planning staff know or how how would we do that?

Um, so Mr. Mayor, specifically for the context area. Um, we'll take it as council is asking us to ask the planning commission to go back to the courthouse context area. Um, as Mark said, obviously it's the planning commission's choice, but ultimately it becomes your choice after a while. But we'll take that as us asking um direction for us to ask the planning commission to make a change from calling the green line to

the context area. And as council mentioned before and as we noted as well, we are working to define the blue line as well as part of this comprehensive plan. As far as any other comments regarding um the comprehensive plan, I think if council communicates that to us, we'll communicate accordingly to the planning commission ahead of their meeting for if there's any necessary adjustments that need to

be made before they take their action to advise you and and I say the work that everyone put into this has been herculean. I mean, you really deserve a huge round of applause and credit for all that you've done and we we really appreciate. But at the end of the day, it's going to be our comprehensive plan. So, that's what we thank you so much for all it's just staggering all of the all the work in

the public input.

Thank you.

Well said, Rosemary Barber.

Well, I'll comment on this courthouse area, but then I had another one. Well, we don't even call it the courthouse anymore. We're calling it the municipal center. And so, I mean, I I've lived here all my life, too. And the courthouse is a very small area. This is a much larger area that goes all the way up to Damn Neck. Maybe Green Line isn't the right name, but I don't think

Courthouse is either. So, I think this is going to be something that's going to be one of those differences of opinion uh on on these names because the courthouse to me is a very small area where the courthouse school, the courthouse, you know, um stuff right there at that intersection, but it doesn't go this far all the way over to Chesapeake and so forth. It's not the courthouse. So, we've got to

come up with another name. on on slide 28 when you have these quarters with your little purple sign. You've worked with them so much you know what each one of them is but I have a hard time reading those and knowing what it is exactly. Do you have someplace where you have named each of these little circles that you could just have a list of pages?

Yes, ma'am. They are in the back of the uh draft of the comp plan. Yes, ma'am.

Okay.

Every single center has their Thank you. Because I've had a hard time trying to figure it out. That is completely understandable. Yes, they're in the in the back.

Okay. Anybody else at this time?

Just just want to say I hear what Miss Henley is saying and I'm certainly not saying that that's the whole thing. It's just my mindset of where it is. So, yes, ma'am. I hear you on that.

Yeah. One way or the other, we'll get to a plan B on that.

All right. Thanks very much. And once again, kudos on all your work.

All right. So, Mr. the mayor, members of council. The next presentation will be given by Stanley Smith. He's a engineering support administrator for public works. He's going to brief city council on our draft recommendations to you all as it relates to smart scale, the applications, the projects we want to submit for an application for smart scale consideration. Right. So, Stanley, go ahead. The floor is yours.

All right. Thank you. Uh, good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and members of council. Uh, thank you for your time today. I'm here to brief you on Smart Scale round seven. Um, I'll be giving you a brief overview of the program, um, as well as some some previous round results that we've gotten as well as the the the proposed projects that we're proposing for round seven.

Um, as you can see on the screen here, uh, Virginia or Smart Scale is Virginia's largest, uh, transportation grant program. um smart and smart scale stands for the system management and allocation of resources for for transportation. Uh the program accepts applications by annually. So every other year um applications are scored and awarded using a metricbased system. Um you can see on the right is the the

metrics that are used in the scoring.

Um, starting from the top, 5% for economic development, 15% for safety, 10% for environmental quality, 25% for accessibility, and 45% for congestion.

So, as you can see, there's a there's a high focus on congestion relief in this area. Um our our evaluation measures are are shared with the Northern Virginia area which is category A which as I mentioned focuses on congestion relief. Land use typically or in rounds one through five. Lane use was also included as a as a a measured category. Um that has been split into safety and accessibility but is still

used as a multiplier. Uh I'll also note that resiliency while it's not factored directly into the score is still remains a consideration during the the scoring.

Um local matches are not required for smart scale. They do help our scores. If we do have a local match um the smart scale request factors directly into the score. So if there's a local match included it can reduce your your request and improve your score. Um so previous rounds takeaways um rounds one through five um we overall we've we've been awarded 16 projects or just shy of $162 million over the first six

rounds. Um the available funding for each round is has ranged anywhere from 800 million to 1.7 billion. Um the rounds one and two focus more on larger projects. Um, rounds three through five kind of shifted towards more smaller projects around the state. Uh, round six, the smaller projects continue to score well and medium projects in the 20 million or less range also scored well in round six. Um, rounds one through

five, just to note, uh, limited traffic counts to current year traffic counts.

uh round six V dot shifted to seven years into the future so that we can account for um expected growth that's continued expected to continue in round seven so we can use additional growth in our traffic counts um and then innovative designs have cons have scored well on all rounds and are expected to continue to score well um innovative designs think any river Kempville type of intersection improvements

um for round seven upcoming um we're expecting 800 million to 1.2 million available. Those will those funds will be available in FY32 and FY33. They'll be federal funds. Um small to mediumsiz projects about 20 million or less are expected to to continue scoring well. Um traffic count requirements as I mentioned will still look into the seven years into the future. And then innovative designs and bike and

pedestrian projects are expected to continue to score well.

So with that, I'll jump into this. This slide shows a overview of the the six rounds of of awards that we've received.

Uh previously, as I mentioned before, we've been awarded 16 projects just shy of 162 million total. Um as you can see in the local commitment column, as we've gone uh through the rounds, the local commitments have decreased generally each round. Um, and just to give it, uh, some some context, um, this statewide averages for rounds one through five was about 1.1 billion available. Uh, 383 applications

submitted and 156 awards across the state. Round six was 1 billion available. However, the applications and awards decreased quite a bit. There was 270 applications statewide and 53 awarded. Um I will note in round six there's also some some funding uh used out of the smart scale pot for hurricane Helen efforts.

Uh this slide shows a more detailed list of projects that we've received over the the first six rounds. Uh as I mentioned in round six, uh we we also we received Virginia Beach Trail Phase 4 for just shy of $24 million.

and and um so if you have any any questions on those we'll be happy to take at the end.

Moving into smart scale round seven which is the current round. Um each year we each every other year we uh sit down with a committee of of members from public works uh engineering public works operations, parks and recreation, economic development and planning to select projects to study. Um the committee developed a list of 10 projects you can see there on the left of the slide across the city based on

grant metrics mostly. Um and after performing some mock scoring of the projects as well as focusing on funding existing projects with federal funds this round as well as council priorities. The five project projects that rose to the top uh and recommended are shown on the right side of the screen which are Alaskan Road phase three, Len Haven Parkway at Potter's Road and I264, Pacific Avenue at 22nd Street left turn

lane, Theia Creek I264 Pedestrian Bridge, and Virginia Beach Trail phase 3. And I'll go into each one of these in a little bit more detail.

Um before I get to the projects, this is a map of the candidate projects that we looked at. The yellow stars are the projects that we're recommending for for applications. The red circles are projects that were screened out uh during the the screening process. You can see there's a um projects from across the city.

So, the first project that I'll go into is Alaskan Rose FA phase three. Um as a as a reminder, this is the the the overview of the Alaskan Road phasing plan. Alaskan Road phase three is on is the western most piece which is from um Philip Avenue to Republic Road. Uh that's the the project that we're proposing to apply for smart scale this year. Alaskan Road phase 1A and and bridge have recently been completed with

construction to remove the the um feeder roads. Alaskan Road phase 1B is partially funded with RSCP funding and we have a funding plan in place with that project. And then Alaskan Road phase two is the the eastern most section which goes from Oral Drive to the the roundabout which is not currently funded.

So Alaskan Road phase three as I mentioned would widen Alaskan Road from four to six lanes from Republic Road to Phillips Avenue. Um it would remove the frontage roads along that section continuing the improvements from phase 1A in the bridge. Um this would convert the intersection at Regency Drive also to continuous green tea allowing for better traffic flow through that segment. Um it would install dedicated

turn lanes along that section and as well as construct a 10- foot wide shared use path. Um minor rideway acquisition is required. However, the majority of it is already been required.

Um the benefits of this project is is it completes the western most segment of Alaskan road. Um as I mentioned continuing the the Alaskan 1A and bridge improvements. Um it improves safety by removing the frontage roads and also enhances bicyclist and pedestrian activity. Um currently we're estimating the project at 55 million total cost and we would be requesting from Smart Scale

23.5 million. Um and I'll get into some more of the local commitments at the end as well.

Uh this is I know it's hard to see on the screen, but this is a a concept of the overview overall plan for for Alaskan Road phase three. Um which would as I mentioned widen the section from four to six lanes.

Uh the next project is Linhaven Parkway at Parters Road and I 264. Uh this project would essentially realign northbound Linhaven Parkway um between Potter's Road and the interstate uh to provide better access to the interstate and and improve traffic flow. Um it would add an exclusive right turn lane on I26 264 on-ramp um and construct right turn lanes for westbound onto Laven Parkway and northbound uh Potter

Road. Um the benefits of the project is it's a lowcost improvement. The majority of the improvements are within existing pavement. So there's there's not a lot of new pavement to be done. Um it reduces congestion and improves access to I264. So regionally improves the the access there. And it also increases safety during peak traffic period. Um this project was selected in coordination with VOTE doing a star

study. Um star study stands for strategically targeted affordable roadway solutions. Uh this is a study that we've been working on with VOTE over the last year or so to develop this project um and put forward hopefully towards a smart scale um project application.

Uh this is kind of a this is a concept of the of the project. Um so just to orient you north would be from left to right. Uh east and west is from um top to bottom on the screen. Um heading north on Len Haven Parkway, there's currently three three through lanes.

This would realign uh that section to to have four through lanes. So essentially the rightmost through lane would would carry on north through Pers and provide a access um to eastbound I264.

The through lane next to that would continue on to westbound I264. Um, so as as it is right now, there's only three through lanes that goes through the intersection. So this would provide an additional lane um to help with with access on the 264.

Um, north of of of Potter's Road, it would shift the existing median and left turn lane um to the to the top towards the top of the screen as you see here um within existing pavement.

Uh the third project is Pacific Avenue at 22nd Street. Um this would construct a left turn lane at 22nd Street providing access to the interstate um at the oceanfront area. Um this would implement roadway improve would be improvements between 20th and 23rd Street and install pedestrian me pedestrian refuge areas along that section as well. Um significant rideway is required in this section. Um and it's

located within a priority zone of VOTE's pedestrian safety action plan.

Um the benefits of the project it's the dedicated left turn lane that as I mentioned provides direct access to the interstate um as well as addresses congestion by increasing capacity um and adding a dedicated left turn lane um as well as safety in that in that area. And it would improve traffic flow for Atlantic Park and other oceanfront events um and venues in that area.

Um we're right now we're estimating the project cost at 20 million and and um proposing to request 10 million from from Smart Scale.

Uh this is a concept of the project. As you can see, the improvements would stretch from 20th to 23rd Street, but the the main left turn lane to be um constructed would be between 22nd Street and 21st Street.

The third or the fourth project is the Theelia Creek um I264 pedestrian bridge.

Um this is would be pedestrian bridge to span I264 that would connect basically the town center area with the Mount Trashmore area. Um this would essentially connect to existing um sections of the Theo Creek Greenway. Um as you can see on the map on the right side there is the the Creek master plan.

This would connect basically into that.

Um the project that we're proposing would construct the bridge and then connect to existing pedestrian uh infrastructure on Bendix Road and and eventually up to Bonnie Road.

Um right now we're estimating the project at about 42.5 million and we were we're asking to request the full amount from Smart Scale. Um this project was coordinated with parks and recreation. Um and some of the benefits for the project is it would um as I mentioned connect to the creek greenway overall master plan um and enhances amenities for uh recreational tourism uh under un under underserved communities

and workforce connectivity.

Um this is this slide is kind of a a a closer look at that plan. The blue line is is an overview of the high level concept plan um with the bridge across I264 uh connecting to Mount Trashmore on the right side of the screen.

And then the last project is VB trail Virginia Beach Trail phase three. Um just as a reminder, this is an overview of the full trail improvements that that um has been put forth or or proposed. On the left side of the screen is phase one, which goes from Constitution Drive to the Norfick City line. That project is funded through SS4A and is in design now. Um phase two goes from Constitution

Drive to South Plaza Trail, which is currently unfunded. We're looking at other um grant opportunities for that section. Phase three goes from South Plaza Trail to London Bridge Road.

That's the section that we're um proposing to apply for smart skill round four this time or excuse me smart scale round seven this time. Phase four is from London Bridge Road to Birdneck Road. That project was previously funded with smart skill round six funding. And then phase five um is partially constructed with the Norfick Avenue Trail, the existing Norfick Avenue trail and then would uh eventually connect to

Rudy Loop improvements that are proposed.

Um, so Virginia Beach Trail phase three is is about 2.3 miles of 14 foot wide shared use path from from South Plaza Trail to London Bridge uh road as I mentioned. Um, it's it's on already owned city rightway on the former Norfick southern corridor railroad corridor. Um, the project is estimated at about $30 million and we're proposing to request the full amount from Smart Scale.

Um there's no acquisition required as I mentioned there the the rightway is already owned by the city. Uh some of the benefits is it uh as identified as a priority project in the Virginia Beach active transportation plan. So it can it continues the um plan to to fully fund the the VB trail for it full limits and it also enhances amenities for underserved communities, recreational,

tourism and workforce connectivity. Um and this project was also coordinated with parks and recreation.

Um so with that said, that's the five projects. Um so an overview of the funding strategy that we are recommending. Um as you can see in the table at the top of the screen, we're recommending 8.5 million total and local uh committed funding and that would be on the Pacific Avenue 22nd Street project. Um a couple o overviews of the of the what you see on the screen here.

Um two projects are requested in the 10 million or less range. Uh which would be um Len Haven Parkway and Pacific Avenue projects. Those projects as I mentioned before 10 million or less have shown to score well in the smart scale program.

Um one projects in the 20 million range which is Alaskan road phase three. um with the allocations that we have planned and have received from the RCP program um it shows a good federal commitment to that project. Um and then there's two projects in as requesting a larger amount which would be BB trail phase 3 and I264.

However, those projects have shown to to score well and be um to be awarded using less local commitments. Um, as I mentioned on the first slide, the the funds are FY32 and FY33. So any local committed funds are not needed until that time frame.

So next steps, um, VOTE, public works leadership, parks and rec leadership, the city manager and MLT have all been briefed prior to this meeting today. Um, obviously we have the city council briefing today. Um after that we have our the smart scale portal opens on March 2nd for pre-applications.

Pre-applications are due April 1st. Uh between the April and June time frame, VOTE screens pre-applications to um continue applications onto the final application stage. Final application stage will then open on June 1st. Uh we plan to come back to city council in the June time frame to request resolutions and support uh for each smart scale project which are required with the applications and then

final applications will be due August 1st. Uh and then we'll find out any awarded projects in the January 2027 time frame at the CTB meeting.

So with that I'll open up with any questions and feedback.

Once again a lot of work was put into this. Michael Stacy thank you. Well, all of the projects are really good and and really needed and I I'll join the mayor in complimenting you and your colleagues on the thoughtful and and thorough um not only presentation but most importantly formulation of these requests. Of course, the one that I'm very excited about is the project that connects um

Elia Creek Town Center, VB Trail with Mount Trashmore. Um it's expensive. I think it's $42 million is the request.

Um sort of seems crazy. I do have a question about that, but before I get to the question, um I'm just going to pontificate for Just kidding. But but I want to make some points. Um it's you mentioned that it's recreational workforce connecting underserved communities, but it's it's in addition to those things, it's a north south connection that's safe and that's 100% needed in the context of VV trail.

Um, Independence Boulevard, a lesser degree Rosemont Road can be quite dangerous for pedestrians and for bicyclists.

But Mount Trashmore, among many other things, is a safety of, you know, is a haven for for safety.

It's a safe place and it's a welcoming place and a lot of um citywide activities that residents and visitors enjoy occur there. And so as we have an east west connection, it's equally essential in my mind that we have an that north south connection that's safe. Uh it connects not only districts three and four but also, you know, 8 and 10 uh one and and 10. I mean, you know, it's it's pretty

it's pretty crazy how many connections that would forge and is why I've come to believe that it's probably one of the most important unfunded priorities that um that we've contemplated around this table since the time that I've been here, especially in relation to uh connectivity. We just heard a presentation about our comprehensive plan and the transportation issues related to that and prioritizing

connectivity and I just don't see how we can prioritize that sort of east west connectivity without also the north south portion of it. Why is it so expensive? Is that the um is that the bridge mostly?

It's mostly the bridge. If you go to the slide, and I think it's slide 16, there's a lot of these blue lines, and I guess if you could just help me understand what does what that blue line actually means.

Sure. So, uh, across the interstate is the is the actual bridge. Um, when you get to the left side of the interstate on on the screen, um, a lot of that is already existing infrastructure. Um when you get closer to kind of the buildings and the the lower part, we we highlighted it here just so you can see kind of what the full scale would be. Um a lot of what the cost would be, a lot

of it's the bridge, especially since it's crossing an interstate. Um there's going to be a lot of coordination with VOTE to install that bridge. A lot of traffic um uh and traffic cost to keep traffic flowing during the in the installation of that bridge. And then there's also a lot of um inflation that's included in that cost. This you have to remember this is six years out to the funding. So and that's to start

design. So you're looking at at maybe 8 to 10 years out to start construction.

So that incl you know adds a lot of inflation to that number.

We're not necessarily retreading what already exists. So there's a lot of existing infrastructure there that correct is is there any val I mean but you've c you've already factored that in any sort of value that can be attained from the existing infrastructure. Yes, it's really just mostly the bridge. Um but I hope we'll I hope we'll keep it in mind and and find a way to to make this

hopefully they'll fully fund it. um that would be really fantastic and if there's anything that we can do to support that um I think it's I think is just vitally important. Um we we're on the right track. We're doing a lot of really amazing things. Um I also want to compliment Parks and Wreck for their role in and helping to develop it, but just can't emphasize enough the important role that Mount Trashmore

plays in our lives and um and how much we need a safe crossing into that part of the city. You know, we could um Jennifer and I could ride our bikes to lunch in Town Center.

Yeah. Eight years.

Josh, can you go to slide 19?

Sure.

It's just educational on my part, I'm sure. But when we look at Pacific Avenue and uh total cost of 20 million and we're looking at recommended local funding of 8.5, why is that versus other sources of funding?

Um so the for that project um specifically because of the the rightway that's included or needed on that project um VOTE looks at that as more of a risk to that project. So, if we can put towards put some local funding towards that project and decrease our smart scale ask, it helps our chances of getting it funded um just because it's a lesser amount that we're asking for mostly.

It's more rightway acquisition.

A lot of that causes rightway acquisition.

Thank you.

Okay, Josh.

Um thank you, Mayor. And um thank you, Mr. Smith, for the for the briefing. Um I I I know council member Beluchcci just asked you in a in a manner of speaking but um but I'd really like to know if there's anything that we can do beyond um sending up a resolution to approve these um for example for the the bridge spanning I264 which I also um I think is is critical. I mean those north south

connections we just we just don't have them uh not safe ones um and certainly not enough of them. So, is would would letters from individual council members uh included in the packet help? Um I know it is a large sum of money, but um I I I really I think we need to push really hard for this.

So, Councilman, if if you may, I I I stood up to um add a little bit of context uh to the to the previous question about why we're offering $8.5 million on this. It's important to remember that SmartScale uh is a scored we're in competition with all of the projects across the whole Commonwealth.

And as as Stanley pointed out in the very beginning, that score is weighted based upon a number of factors. And so for Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads, 45% of that score is based upon congestion mitigation. So that is not true for RBA or for the western part of the state or for uh many other the different parts of the state. Their metric what they're scoring against is different than what Northern Virginia

and Hampton Roads are. So the weighted totals are compared though across. So for instance, if let's and I don't know what all the other scoring formulas are, but let's say that RVA or Fredericksburg has a project and it is it's scoring very well in economic development because that's where their scoring metrics are and it's important that our projects have to score well in congestion mitigation. So when we look

at uh Pacific Avenue or we look at the the flyover project, we have to recognize that it's 45% of the weight of that score is going to be counted on congestion mitigation. If we don't think that it's going to offer enough in the way of congestion mitigation, the way that we can adjust the score is to buy down the costreward, right? So, how much does it cost the Commonwealth to accomplish this project

versus what is the reward? That's the way that we buy the project back into competition. So, with Pacific Avenue turn lanes, what we're trying to do is buy ourselves into the competitive range. If we didn't offer anything on that, it probably wouldn't score very well because the congestion, while it's important to um our our folks at the resort area, compared to say what's going on in Fairfield or Fairfax, it's

not going to compete. That's why we're trying to buy our way into that.

Similarly, on the on the fly over, we didn't offer any contribution on this one because honestly, we just don't know how it's going to compete. What we have seen in the past is that uh typically trail projects um and uh bicycle path, those types of things, they usually compete very well.

They score very well. 42 million is a big ass though. I don't know that um letters from interested groups doesn't typically count into the scoring process. They do require that we have a letter from city council saying yes, we support the project. And that's more more so that they understand that if there's local funds or if there's a shortage that city council's already bought into it and that they're going to

cover the gaps and help help make this up. If if council wanted us to be more competitive on this, I would suggest then that that we try to offer some type of a funding uh contribution to similar to what we proposed at Pacific would be to buy down that gap.

I hope that answers your question. It does.

Ties the two of them together. Just as a followup, looking at this timing, the pre-application is due April. So, we wouldn't have necessarily decided on an approved budget at that point. But should should a decision be made between um that time and or now and and and say August 1st when the final application is due, we would be able to supplement Yes, sir.

the application with the new information.

Scoring is based upon the information that's provided in August, not the information that's provided in April.

April is the information that we usually give to VOTE. VOTE comes back and says, "Hey, we reviewed your applications. We find some holes in it. We think maybe you haven't considered this or you overweighted that, something along the lines of that." But then we always can adjust our strategy and adjust our our contributions or even our applications.

We can pull projects. Um I don't think we can add them. They have to be in the pre-lication.

They have to be in the preapp. Yes.

Okay. And then I promise this is my last one and this is getting a little bit far a field, but um when that when that that blue line comes back down and goes through what I guess would be the Constitution Drive extended into the business complex down there. Is that road public or private?

Bendix Road is is public. Yes. But now there is some private property at the end and there will get some easements.

There will be some right-of-way acquisition and that that figures into that $42 million and that as to what we'd have to Thank you.

Anybody else at this point? Michael, just one one thing to to add to that.

$42.5 million is very expensive and just upon first glance. It's hard to imagine that it would be that it would cost that much, but I've seen a lot of other projects, you know, that's guess that's just what it cost to cross the interstate. But if we don't get moving on this now, the other observation I would make is it's going to be a lot more the longer we delay this crossing. And we need this

crossing. We need this pedestrian and bicycle crossing. So, just an additional observation I would make to this. Sooner we can get it done, the less expensive it will be.

Yes, sir.

Good point. Okay. Thank you all very much.

Thank you.

Over now.

All right. So, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, the last presentation will be provided by Miss Alco in the planning department. It's going to be a glimpse on the pending planning items that will come to you at your next voting meetings.

Good afternoon, mayor, vice mayor, members of council. Um, as the city manager just stated, I'm here this afternoon to present the planning items that will be considered at your March hearings.

So, looking first at your March 17th agenda, item one is a street closure request for a portion of an unimproved 15 foot wide alley adjacent to 622 Surfside Avenue in District 5.

Several similar requests have been reviewed and approved by the city council within this same block. The applicant has obtained a quick claim deed from the property owner to the east and as such the entire closure area would be incorporated into 622 Surfside Avenue. Consistent with the previous approvals, staff is recommending a minimum 15 foot wide public drainage easement over the entire closure area.

Staff has not received any opposition to this request and the planning commission recommended approval on the consent agenda.

Item two is a modification of conditions request for the Cavalere Golf and Yacht Club located at 1052 Cardinal Road in District 6.

A cup for an outdoor recreation facility was granted in 1997, but that approval was specific to tennis courts. The current request is to repurpose and expand the existing facilities to include four covered and two uncovered pickle ball courts. The proposed improvements would occur in two phases.

The first which is shown in yellow on the slide there would include the four covered courts and the second phase shown in blue includes the two cover uncovered courts.

No outdoor lighting is proposed with this request. However, the covered courts will include lighting inside that covered structure to minimize sound impacts. Um sound deadening material is proposed along the western edge of the courts which is nearest to the adjacent residential properties. Staff has received two letters of support and two letters of opposition with those in opposition noting concerns related to

lighting, noise, and staffing. There were no pre present at the planning commission hearing and the commission did did recommend approval on consent.

The next two items include a conditional reszoning and a subdivision variance request for 4916 Uklid Road in District 4.

The applicant is requesting to reszone the 7,700 square foot parcel from R7.5 residential to A18 apartment district as well as a subdivision variance for the lot width and street line frontage requirements. The subject parcel has a lot width and street line frontage of 77.44 ft where 100 ft and 80 ft respectively are required.

The applicant is proposing to develop the site with three multif family units for an overall density of just under 17 units per acre. While the property is located within the central village district of the Penrook SGA, the density study included in the Pinbrook SGA plan does not recommend any changes or increased density for this location.

The profered concept plan includes the 10- foot wide landscape buffers that would would be required to the north, east, and west where the site abuts the adjacent R7.5 districts. The applicant is requesting a deviation to the minimum lot area and lot coverage requirements with this request to allow for a minimum lot area of 7,744 square ft where 20,000 square feet would be required by ordinance and a lot

coverage of 66% where a maximum lot coverage of 50% would be required by the ordinance.

The required parking is met on site with a twocar garage or excuse me a two-car driveway and a onecar garage provided for each unit. Additionally, the applicant is proposing an 11 foot wide rideway dedication with this proposal to accommodate both a five- foot wide sidewalk and then space for future protected bike lanes on Uklid Road.

The images on the slide here show the exterior of the proposed units which will have a maximum height of 35 ft and include a 6-ft tall privacy fence to further buffer from the adjacent residential properties.

staff has received two letters of support and 26 letters of opposition related to this request. Additionally, there were two speakers in opposition at the planning commission hearing who noted concerns with incompatibility with the surrounding neighborhood and an increase in traffic and congestion in the area. While staff was recommending denial of this request due to incompatibility with both the comp plan

recommendations as well as the surrounding neighborhood, the planning commission ultimately recommended approval by a vote of 8 to three.

Why?

So it was based on a couple of factors.

So, as I mentioned, while this site is located within the Pemrook SGAA, that SGAA plan specific to this parcel does not call for any changes or increased in density. Um, staff did not find the proposal. When you're looking, it is a smaller site, which is why they need that deviation to the minimum lot area and the lot coverage. They felt it was a smaller site for what was being proposed, and it's not compatible. So,

the surrounding neighborhood is a mix of one and twotory single family dwellings.

So they just we just felt there there was some incompatibility with the with the area and with the recommendations of the SGA plan and the height as well with the height that they're proposing it would be a max height of 35 ft which is consistent with the max height for a residential district.

And how would you all look at if it came to a point of a duplex? Just asking is that more compatible?

We could certainly evaluate that. I would imagine with a duplex you might not the applicant might not need as many of the deviations that they're requesting but we'd have to look at the plan that would be submitted with that and evaluate that independently.

Okay. And this is coming up.

Yes. Yes ma'am.

Next meeting.

Yes ma'am. March 17th.

Okay. Is there possibility to you know discuss that further just before then?

Sure.

Thank you. Sure.

All right. Item five is another conditional resoning request. This one for two parcels along Greenwell Road.

This is adjacent to station 4 in district 9 and is within the Shore Drive overlay.

The applicant is seeking to resone the property from R5R residential to conditional A12 to construct a six-unit multif family development for an overall density of 11.25 units per acre. The site is currently developed with a duplex and a triplex.

The proposal includes two buildings, each with three units. A one-car garage and a two-car driveway will be provided for each unit. The required landscape buffer is shown along the northern property line adjacent to the res residential properties to the north and a privacy fence is proposed along the south and west property lines. While the active transportation plan calls for an

11 to 12 foot wide shared use path along Greenwell Road, due to site constraints, the applicant is proposing to install a 6' wide sidewalk in its place.

This proposal did receive support from the Bayfront Advisory Commission and the applicant presented the proposal to the Chesapeake Beach Civic League and we were told that no concerns were raised during that meeting.

Two letters of opposition were received citing concerns related to density, impact on the neighborhood, and an increase in traffic. There were a total of four speakers at the planning commission hearing. Two had a neutral position and then two were in opposition. Those in opposition had similar concerns that I just stated.

Ultimately, the planning commission did vote to recommend approval on the regular agenda agenda by an 110 vote.

Item six is Oh, yep.

You're fine. Um, Kaitlin, um, just I I want clarity the existing use here, remind me, is two buildings with two two residences in each of them and then there's an additional I guess over the garage type of unit, right? There's it's a total of five.

A total of five.

Okay. They're asking for six.

Correct.

Item six is a conditional use permit request for a bulk storage yard at 207 Parker Lane in District 3. The applicant intends to use the site largely as is to store tree servicing equipment and process timber materials. Additional landscaping will be installed near Parker Lane and the applicant has placed an office trailer on the site to support the use. The proposed bulk storage yard

is compatible with the site's location in both the greater than 75 decel noise zone and the APZ1.

The applicant has requested a deviation to the screening requirement to allow the use of the existing chain link fencing on the site and then supplement with new chain link fencing where needed. Staff is unaware of any opposition to this request and the planning commission recommended approval by consent with two additional conditions. The first would prohibit the storage of materials in the area that is

shown in red on the slide there. And then another condition would limit any stacking of material material taller than 15 ft.

Item seven is another cup request for a bulk storage yard. This one at 464 Progress Lane again in District 3.

This property was conditionally reszoned from R10 to conditional I1 in 2005. It is located in the greater than 75 decel noise zone, accident potential zones one and two and is within the west ocean special economic growth area or sega 2.

The applicant intends to develop the site with a 30,000 square foot office warehouse building which is a byite use and then a contractor layown yard which is the subject of this request.

The applicant is seeking a deviation from the screening requirement along portions of the storage yard that are not visible from the right ofway and are heavily screened by existing vegetation.

The western edge of the storage yard as well as portions of the southern edge will be screened with a privacy fence as shown in red as required by the ordinance.

In response to comments from adjacent residential property owners and the planning commission, the applicant has provided a double row of Evergreens as well as a privacy fence along the edge of the parking lot nearest to the residents of the Evergreens neighborhood to the east. And I'll go back. That's kind of up towards Progress Lane here.

Staff received two letters of opposition and there were two speakers in opposition at the planning commission hearing with concerns regarding noise, environmental, and visual impacts and a decrease to property values. While the planning commission requested a 30-day deferral of the item at their January hearing to allow the applicant time to address both the reser the concerns raised by adjacent residential property

owners and by the commission. The planning commission did feel that the applicant had been responsive to those concerns and voted to recommend approval of the item at their February hearing.

Can you go back one slide?

Sure.

I'm sorry.

Yes.

And who owns that preserved area?

That's the property.

The property owner.

It's the same property. Yes.

So everything in green here is on the subject property and is proposed to be preserved with this request to provide additional buffer. Okay, got it.

Item eight is a CU request for a family daycare home for property located at 677 Baker Road in District 4.

The applicant is seeking approval to provide care for up to 12 children ages 6 weeks to 12 years of age within a 1400 square foot townhouse. She also intends to offer overnight care on a limited basis to no more than four children.

The applicant intends to fully enclose both the front and rear yard with a combination of an existing chain link fence, a new vinyl privacy fence, and then a vinyl picket fence with landscaping along Baker Road. Dark mesh fabric, which you can see in the lower photo there, will be added to the chain link fence. This is to satisfy requirements of the Department of Education to ensure the fence is not

climbable for the children.

staff has recommended a condition that if the or if and when the existing chain link fence needs to be replaced in the future, they would need to replace it with a material similar to the new fencing that's proposed with this application.

There is one existing parking space at the rear of the site which is accessed from the alley and the applicant does intend to add two additional parking spaces for a total of three to support the use. Staff is recommending approval of no more than eight children due to the limited parking and overall outdoor play area on the site. The planning commission did recommend approval.

However, they bumped up that total number to up to nine children. We have not received any opposition to this request and we did get a petition of support with 11 signatures from nearby residents.

Item nine, this is another conditional use permit request. this one for a bulk storage yard at 1361 Virginia Beach Boulevard in District 6. This item was deferred at your February 17th hearing.

So, for the sake of the sake of time, I won't run through all the details again.

Um, just a quick reminder, this will be a bulk storage yard for a tow business.

You can just see here the proposed site layout with the bulk storage yard in the back that is proposed to be fenced um and then additional landscaping proposed at the front of the site.

Staff has received four letters of support, including one from the residential property owner to the rear of the site. Staff is unaware of any opposition, and the planning commission recommended approval by a 100 vote with one abstension.

Right. These next few are kind of your standard C applications. We have several tattoo parlors and short-term rentals.

So, I'm going to kind of go through those a little bit more quickly than I would. So this first one here is AC requests for a tattoo parlor at 3615 Virginia Beach Boulevard, sweet suite 102. This is in district 8. So the applicant intends to offer traditional tattooing within an existing suite from noon to 9:00 p.m. daily. Support was provided from three nearby businesses.

Staff is unaware of any opposition and the planning commission recommended approval on consent.

Item 11 is another CP request for a tattoo parlor at 2260 Sea Shore Shops Shopping Center. And that's in District 8. I practice that one.

As with the last application, this applicant also intends to offer traditional tattooing within an existing suite from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

daily. Nine signatures of support received from nearby businesses. There was one speaker in opposition at the planning commission hearing who did just express concerns with the number of tattoo parlors within this general area.

Ultimately, the planning commission did recommend approval by an 110 vote.

Item 12 is another CP request for a tattoo parlor at 4239 Holland Road, sweet 712 in district 10.

This is again another request for a traditional tattoo parlor within an existing suite of the Timberlake Shopping Center. Proposed hours of operation are 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

daily. We have not received any opposition to this request, and this item was recommended for approval by the planning commission on their consent agenda.

The last few items are all CU requests for short-term rentals. The first for 428 21st Street in District 6. This request is for a two-bedroom unit, which would require two off- streetet parking spaces, both of which can be accommodated accommodated on site. There are no prior zoning complaints, violations, or previous rentals associated with this unit, and the planning commission recommended approval by consent.

Item 14 again is another short-term rental request for 516 22nd Street, unit 200, again in District 6.

This is for a four-bedroom unit with two parking spaces provided on site, and the applicant has submitted an intent to lease off-site parking agreement for two spaces within the 25th Street garage.

No prior zoning complaints, vi violations, or rentals. We have not received any opposition, and the planning commission recommended approval on consent.

The final item on the March 17th agenda is a C request for a short-term rental at 413 21st Street in District 6. This is a three-bedroom request, and all the parking can be accommodated on the site.

No prior zoning complaints or violations associated with the site and there has not been any documented stays since August of 2020. We did not receive any opposition and the planning commission recommended approval by consent.

Moving on to your March 24th agenda, there are total of two items, both of which are part of one um proposal.

So this is a request for a modification of profers and a conditional reszoning for property located off of Signature Drive in District 2.

The subject request is related to an approximately 203 acre portion which is shown in green on the slide there of the larger 419.8 acre villages at West Neck development which is shown in white that was approved by the city council in 1999.

Since the entire 203 acres was included with that 1999 approval, a modification of profers is required specific to the 203 acres that are the subject of this request. Approximately 86 of those acres which are outlined in black on the plan here are proposed to be resoned with approximately 63 of those acres proposed to be resoned to PDH2 and approximately 23 of those acres proposed to be resoned

to P1 Preservation District. If these requests are approved, approximately 136 of the 203 acres site will be P1. 63 acres will be PDH2 and just over 5 acres will remain PDH1. And that's shown in the blue area. That's the existing clubhouse at the site.

The development will include a total of 143 single family homes which incorporate rural architectural elements as recommended in the transition area design guidelines. And these are just some examples of the housing styles there on the slide.

While the proposed preserve at Westnight development is the subject of this request, since the same area was included in the original villages of Westnight Development approved by council, staff evaluated this proposal holistically to avoid double counting any area. When initially approved, the villages at West Development included just under 420 acres, 386 of which were considered developable. That project was

approved for 974 units, which equates to a density of 2.52 units per acre. This proposal was modified in 2001, decreasing the total number of units to 934, which brought the approved density to 2.42 units per acre.

This current request includes just over 203 acres, 140 of which are considered developable, and is proposing 143 additional units. If approved, this would increase the overall density to 2.79 units per acre.

Looking now at the open space, the 1999 development included 45% open space, just over 41% of which was comprised of the golf course, which was not accessible to all re uh residents of the villages of Westneck. and that left 3.79% of that open space, so about 14 and a half acres that was accessible to all residents of the villages at Westnneck.

While this current proposal represents a slight decrease in the overall open space, dropping to 40.1%, all of that open space will be accessible to residents both of the preserve at West Neck as well as the villages at WestNC. This does fall short, however, of the 50% open space recommendation that's found within the transition area design guidelines.

The proposed development will generate the need for a traffic signal at the intersection of WestN Road, Signature Drive, and Tin Barn Way. The applicant has included a profer that the signal would be designed, installed, and operational at the applicant's sole expense prior to the first certificate of occupancy being issued for the dwellings.

Due to the site's location within the s Southern Rivers wershed, a preliminary drainage study was provided and reviewed by staff with this request. Staff did determine that the proposed storm water design had the potential to meet all storm water regulations which would be facilitated through the site plan review process. The proposal does include approximately three additional acres of detention and retention areas.

At the time this PowerPoint was drafted, staff had received 173 letters of support and 278 letters of opposition, one of which was from the transition area interfacility traffic area citizens advisory committee who did not find the proposal to be consistent with the transition area design guidelines. There were a total of 45 speakers in attendance at the planning commission hearing. 22 of those were in excuse me

23 in support of the proposal and 22 in opposition. Those in opposition had concerns with the inconsistency with the design guidelines, an increase in traffic and congestion, um, and particularly focusing on during the construction time frame. Um, and then environmental and storm water impacts.

While staff is recommending denial of the request based on the def the density and open space, after the hearing from the speakers, the planning commission did vote to recommend approval by a vote of 7 to three with one abstension. One quick thing I do want to note um it is our understanding that the applicant is working on some additional profer language based on feedback that was received um during the planning

Any questions? Cash.

So thank you so much. Um great presentation. Um just a question about Harris and Leer. Um, and this is not in my district, but um, we all weigh in on this. And so I've received tons of emails, tons of phone calls, right, of um, I'm I thought I was the only one.

You guys, too. Okay. Tough crowd. Tough crowd. All right. So, anyway, um, I guess what I'm driving home are asking.

I live in Centerville.

Um, a major concern was, is this something that's going to be transferred to a private company? If it is, then would the city still have access to and and obviously that's the proper language is that he's going to ensure the company is going to ensure that um the city the residents still have access to it um like it is now a municipal golf course or or private. It's private.

Currently there is no golf course.

The golf course has been enacted for several years. This proposal involves rebuilding nine holes of the golf course. Uh and I believe those are intended to be available to the public.

Yes. Okay.

Anybody else at this point? Know it's going to be controversial, but you know, we'll hear both sides.

Yeah, but you know once again uh you know you know we took it to the 24th uh you know because I think it might have been originally scheduled for the 17th but uh two reasons. Number one, I'm going to be in London, you know, on a trip with the alliance, you know, uh, for military. And the other thing is we wanted to give, uh, adequate time. We expect a full gallery on this. And, uh,

you know, but once again, I think it would be fair, you know, to all concerned, you know, if we went ahead and did it this way.

So, when is it?

The 24th.

March.

Yeah.

that be the only item on Yeah. Rosemary, this will be a special meeting at the end of our normal workshop day. So, we're going to extend the day, but because of the length that the planning commission had and with Bobby being out of town, I thought this is a really good idea. And also the staff is having to work really hard on those additional profers and because they have to be done

10 days before the hearing it's going to give them more time and make things a little bit less stressful for them as well. So this and there'll probably be more speakers than came out.

Usually more comes out for us, you know. And then if we had that on a day with a crowded agenda, you know, I don't think this way we could just focus on the one area. Barbara, I think that's good because what happened at the planning commission there were so many other items. I mean, and they were around I mean those people and a lot of the people who had signed up to speak, particularly being older

and so forth, just couldn't stay all until that hour at night. And so they had signed up to speed and you know had to leave. So I think having one item knowing there are going to be this many speakers is a very good move.

Yeah.

So the 24th of March and it'll be it will be a special meeting after our informal.

Okay. So it will be a 6:00 meeting.

It will be a 6:00. Yeah.

6 o'clock meeting.

Mr. Mayor, um I think you suggested five o'clock.

Yeah. I'll tell you what. Let's go ahead and start at five, you know, because Yeah.

Yeah. You know, we have to anticipate that, you know, we just want to make sure that everybody has the ability to starting then at 5:00.

5:00.

So, it'll probably So, I know what to tell people.

Yep. It'll probably be pretty much right after we finish the workshop. Like, it'll be a day like today where there's not a formal meeting. So, it'll be the only item on the agenda that council is going to take up for voting consideration.

Is fair is fair to everybody.

Okay. All right. Um, let's go. Let me, if you don't mind, start with uh council comments. And uh you know a uh Sunday was a pretty sad day for our city as we uh had a visual uh to remember the slain officers Garbbert and Ree and a number of council members were there and uh it was a very touching remembrance and um a really beautiful distinctive plaque. It was placed in the fourth U precinct.

And you know, once again, you know, at every formal meeting, we have a moment of silence to reflect upon all of those paid the ultimate price to keep our city and our nation safe. And we can never take this for granted.

And uh you know, we're blessed.

Um, you know, and I I think it speaks to our police department and all public safety. Uh, this morning Patrick uh, you know, sent me a link that we were just, you know, named the safest beach community in this nation.

And, you know, it takes a lot of time and sacrifice and uh, commitment uh, you know, to those. And when we talk about public safety, we talk about police sheriff um we talk about fire, we talk about EMS and 911.

And you know, it takes a real real commitment. But once again, um you know, we we continue to pray for the family members of these officers and uh you know, be assured uh we will once again remember them in perpetuity. Okay, Rosemary. Um, last night I had one of my town hall meetings and I know we're all having them, but I did want to give we really had a great meeting and a special

shout out to the staff that came and and helped helped with that with Nancy Helman and John Crawford who's doing the the uh the parking and he's, you know, he's only been with us four months and he's already making an impact and and he did a really good job because people people are very interested in parking and they had a lot of questions that didn't that was beyond the resort parking program

and he didn't have all the answers cuz you know he's been here a short time and but he handled it really really well and after it was over when I got up after I said look we got to give him grace because he's only been here four months and he got a huge round of applause so um Patrick you did a really good job in finding him and I and I know all of

Y'all have probably done this, but I'm just going to say this so that the public can hear it. Um the the new voters registration facility is unbelievable.

I had no idea how gigantic it is. It's really really big. And uh it's going to be a real change for people to go to this different location. I think it's good because it's and and we all talked about this that it's uh more in the heart of the population of the of the city, but it's I think it's going to be just different for people to get into the habit of going

there. And it's not just sort of off the road a little bit in that little HOA condo park, but it's it's just almost overwhelming to see how big it is. but it's going to house everything that needs to be housed and hopefully save us some money and rent stuff everywhere else. But but also it's going to be very secure. The security there is absolutely amazing so that people can feel really really good that you know we

have paper ballots and all those ballots going to be safe and sound. So, I just want to give a shout to the council for putting the I mean, and the votes the most important thing I think we do as a as a citizen and we we made this a priority and then for the staff to to get it all ready and prepared because there's always a vote coming up and we're going to have some coming up

really soon like March 17th.

We're so blessed to have elections every year.

Almost seems like almost every month.

Oh my god. Yeah. Okay. Anybody else at this point?

Yes, I do have, as you all know, it's been all Black History Month and so many events to attend. We did our last um of the unveiling of the neighborhood signs and I think this was one of the best we had.

Literally, I asked how many different families came out and we had 16 different family groups who live in this area in Great Neck and it was interesting hearing their stories and we had almost 50 come out on that rainy snowy like day and um I'm pleased to say that the mayor has made all three of those unveilings three Sundays in a row. Miss Rain or what? We did Seac, we did Lick Smith and

his last one was Great Neck. And even though their council member wasn't there, we had council member Worth Remedy come out and represent and he says this may be a little bit near my border. Showing up one person says I know you. I live on what? Hawaiian Hawaiian Drive. The people want to see people out. They're very proud. And this specific area has a lot of history. Some of you may remember once I put out this

self-guided in 2020, but there it talks about this group because this is it goes all the way down to sea state park which is today first landing park and how many years ago and um it was built in 1930s and they had 250,000 African-Ameans come to work in this area and build that park. And I can tell you looking back at what we have, it says how um an All American Regiment Company 1371

constructed trails, build cabins, cleared the whole place with today, which we know as First Landing State Park.

Although they were not allowed to build to actually come and use it, but it went through where there was protest in 1951 when they filed a suit. They closed the entire park down until later in 1955.

After that, it reopened Israel in 1961 and its campground in 1962.

So some of that, you know, knowledge and a lot of the people who live there said to me, "This all used to be wooded farmland and now we have all these big homes and so forth there, but yet they were very proud. They told their story.

We were there. I couldn't come over to the ritual because we were there a quarter to three listening to different families and it was almost like a reunion for them and they really love to see the new um unveiling of that. So we thank all of those who supported when I first came up with that and the city went ahead to continue each year. I think we only have one more, but there's

some behind the scenes people. We have Emily Archer. Are you around? Again, she was there at every one of these and help oversee this with designs. We had others that we hadn't mentioned before, so I brought the program so I don't forget.

But we have um Paul Haynes, who was the local historian. We have the office of communications who helped. We have Drew Langford who helped pull things together from a writing standpoint. We also had um Deacon William Barnett from the first Linhaven Baptist Church. And we had another group of people that came.

The landscape design is our landscape management team. Jennifer Carol creating the landscape design and wind nursery of Virginia who handle the planning with such care. So all of these people really takes a team and we have a wonderful group of people and staff who take time to do all of these. Besides that, I tell you on um Thursday over at Virginia Wesley University, they did a black history uh program with

students um doing poetry. We had a wonderful uh singer BJ, some of you will know him from the Vibe area playing the cello. We also had um other speakers. I was one of the speakers and we talk about dreams deferred black voices um black excellence and so forth. Had a nice turnout at the um what's the center called on uh Virginia Wesley. We went through that. Then we had um where again good

at good. Then they had the black authors in Norolk to attend. and the walking trail out in Portsouth.

So you can see it has been very very busy for the year but I think positive.

And the last one I hope you can come Councilman Cummings I hope maybe they've invited you at Great Neck Middle School.

One of the projects that the VACC put together were pa podcasts and some of the kids the middle school they have an African-American uh group that they call you Belong. So tomorrow I think from 4:15 to 5:30 they're doing a skit and then having a panel especially to talk about the neck area. So, it's really, you know, bringing a lot of interest around each community to see how this has

pulled things together and I'm looking forward to attending that.

Then we can rest.

Well, I you know, I typically do my schedule a year in advance and it would be nice if somebody could say, "We're thinking about doing this event on a certain day. Are you available? What days are you available?"

Yes. And it's also nice to get more than 24 hours notice to events. It it helps, you know, with the attendance.

I didn't know that.

Uh and listen, also tomorrow at 5 uh 5:00 West Mr. Canterbury, there's Rosemary.

I also want to give a shout out to our own Dr. Millia Ross Hammond. She made the newspaper top of the fold today for her map of the and guide book. Yeah. For the regional black history month, black history areas. Yeah.

And uh that's very exciting. It was really nice to to read about that this morning.

Thank you so much.

Okay. Really quick, just wanted to kick off March even though this is February.

um gotta redeem myself.

So, we're going to be district 7 and um community members in district 7 are going to be honoring uh the legendary Panel Sweet P. Whitaker in the months in the month of March. And why this is so um amazing to us is that his kids live uh right behind me, right? His his ex-wife D uh they live there as well.

And so we it March 19th we're going to be uh it's going to be a starst study event.

It is really to um to bring awareness to the afterchool program that um is in um your district in powerhouse um is called powerhouse gym and that's where uh Sweet P Whitaker and his kids and they have a thriving afterchool program that we're really bringing attention. So, it really is um Sweepy Whitaker kids live in district 7, but they work in district 10. And so, we're excited because um we've got a named uh

boxer who's going to be flying out for a couple hours to spend time here in Virginia Beach proono, by the way. Um and that is none other than heavyweight champion of the world, Evander Holyfield. All right. I was able to to use my gift of gap and and and so he said, "Usually they charge, you know, for having these celebrities come, but I said it it really is to to highlight Powerhouse

Gym, which Coach Twan, who um is the nephew of VP Whitaker, is in a wheelchair. He's paralyzed." And so he's done everything he could to keep the doors open. And so powerhouse gym um the doors are financially we're almost ready to close and yet is you've got these afterchool kids coming there to learn the disciplines of boxing. So um it's going to be a star studied event. I just want to um highlight and and and send

out a headliner. Mama Ali, which is Ali's second wife, is going to be in town too really to highlight their afterchool program. But I just want to tell you guys that um Virginia Beach, get ready. Evander Holyfield is coming here um March 19th for a couple of hours. So um I'll give you more of that information. And mayor, I think we are requesting for you to just say a couple of words.

Yeah, I think I'm traveling that day with the England thing, but I'll let you know. We'll check our itinerary.

Okay. Okay.

Okay, Michael.

Thank you, mayor. Well, it's never a um slow or dull day at city hall. I just want to share that the mayor and I had the privilege of meeting with um the Italian council general um for our region uh this morning um affirming our shared commitment to serving everyone in our city including uh people who are Italian citizens and Italian-Americans who live in Virginia Beach and make Virginia Beach home. as well as um the

importance of how local relationships influence international relationships.

Um and we affirmed our shared commitment to the values that we share such as defense, democracy, rule of law, individual liberty and freedoms, um and our transatlantic partnership. So very good. Thank you, mayor, for joining that conversation and we're so pleased to welcome them here. Um, that's really all.

Yeah. Thank you, Michael. You You did a great job with those folks. Yeah.

Yeah. Michael, you forgot about the public.

Oh, yeah. Thank you. I I was struggling to remember there was another one, too, but I wasn't. Thank you for reminding me. Also uh on Monday morning, yesterday morning, a number of us gathered to express our appreciation to the public works professionals who responded to the graffiti incident that occurred at the crosswalk at 19th in Cyprus um on December 23rd um just before the holidays were

starting. uh those professionals, a team of them responded on a cold day um right before the holidays and they worked diligently to ensure that the hateful, discriminatory graffiti that existed at that crosswalk was removed. Um they did so hours past their the sign shift ended. um which I think is a reflection of their dedication to the service of our community. And it I don't think it

would have mattered what was written on on there or where it was located. Um, those folks knew that something uh wrong had occurred, something that was hurtful to many people and as our professional staff always does, they responded accordingly and they made sure that graffiti was removed um even before they went home to their families during the holiday season. I also want to give a um

shout out and a recognition to Kate Pitman and the Vibe Creative District um not only for organizing that event and for initiating that thoughtful moment of gratitude, but also for her outstanding visionary leadership and conceptualizing creative interpretations that bring people together and unite people. And that's what we um experience at 19th in Cypress and and that's what um the vibe

creative does district does. And also that's what the power of creative expression can do is unite people um helping create a sense of place and home and connect us more fully with not only our unique human experiences but the people and the um community around us.

And I think that was all well on display. So thank you for reminding me.

I do have one last that I forgot. We were um featured in the for Black History Month the BAACCC in USA Today special edition.

Not to mention that we all got a lot to be proud of folks.

Okay. This point the chair will entertain a motion to recess into a close session pursuant to exemptions from open meetings allowed by section 2.23711A 23711A code Virginia as amended for the following purposes. Publicly held property discussions or considerations acquisitions of property for public purpose or disposition of public property uh where discussion and open meeting would

adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy of public body sue into section 2.2371 23711 A3 and that's district 2 district 5 uh public contract discussions award of public contract involving the expenditure of public funds and discussions of terms of scope of such contract where discussion in an open session would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiation

uh strategy of the public body proceed to section 2.2 2 3711A29 and that would be project pelican and then personnel matters discussions consideration or interviews of the prospective candidates or employment assignment appointment promotion performance demotion salaries disappointing or resignation of specific public officers appointees or employees of any public body pursuant to section 22 23711A1

and that's council appointees boards committee s committees, authorities, agencies, and appointees. Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Second.

Okay.

I

recess at the close. Do we need a

I have a motion to approve the um close.

So move second.

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to thank you all. Great meeting. Have a good evening. Wow.