Nelson County PC holding public hearing on tool to help construction of private school

The Nelson County Planning Commission has two items of business on its agenda for the July 24, 2024 meeting. They gather in the General District Courtroom in the Nelson County Courthouse at 7 p.m. (agenda)

The first item on the agenda is for a special use permit for a portable saw mill to be operated to help construct St. Dunstan’s Academy at 452 Modoc Lane in Roseland. 

“According to the application, there is approximately 110 acres of forest on the property that is available to selectively harvest,” reads the staff report. 

Staff are recommending a condition where any processed timber could only be used on-site. 

St. Dunstan’s Academy is planned to be an Anglican boarding school for males in 9th through 12th grade. 

The second is a site plan review for a portion of the Renaissance Ridge subdivision at Wintergreen that was approved by the Board of Supervisors in 2004. 

“The new Renaissance Ridge neighborhood has been designed to support the county’s NEW Comprehensive Plan by way of a unique partnership that includes a seasoned builder, Greenwood Homes, and two non-profits, the Piedmont Housing Alliance and the Nelson County Community Development Foundation,” reads a letter to the county from Stu Armstrong, the project manager. 

There will be around 150 units on about 29 acres, and Armstrong writes that 40 percent of the units will be for households making less than 80 percent of the area median income. 

“This new development is the last undeveloped Multiple Use Sector zoned property in Wintergreen’s Stoney Creek,” Armstrong continues. 

The Nelson County Planning Commission will next meet on August 28. 

In other meetings on July 24, 2024:

• The Albemarle Broadband Authority meeting scheduled for today has been canceled. 
• The Regional Housing Partnership’s executive committee will meet at 2 p.m. in the Water Street Center in Charlottesville. (learn more)
• The Albemarle Fire EMS Board meeting is being held at 6 p.m. in Room 235 of the county’s office building at 401 McIntire Road. There is no agenda at publication time. (meeting info)
• The Albemarle County Electoral Board will meet at the 5th Street Office Building at 6 p.m. There’s no agenda listed. (meeting info)
• The Nelson County Agricultural and Forestal District Committee will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the old Board of Supervisors meeting room in the county courthouse in Lovingston. They’ll take up an application related to the Fork Mountain district in the Montebello area. (meeting info)

Before you go: The time to write and research of this article is covered by paid subscribers to Charlottesville Community Engagement. In fact, this particular installment is from the July 22, 2024 Week Ahead edition of the newsletter.