Fluvanna Planning Commission to hold four public hearings

One role that Planning Commissions play in Virginia is to make recommendations on certain land use applications or changes to land use rules. Fluvanna County’s PC will be busy with four public hearings at their meeting on February 11, 2025. (meeting packet)

This particular meeting will begin at 6 p.m. with a work session on food trucks within Fluvanna. There’s no advance material in the packet.

Three of the four of the public hearings are on changes to the zoning code. The first is for a request from a landowner who wants to remove a 6.78 acre parcel from the North 640 Agricultural and Forestal District. Land in these districts have tax benefits. 

“The applicant has indicated an intent to divide the property in order to sell several acresto an adjoining landowner,” reads the staff report. “This landowner does not intend to develop the property.”

The applicant is the landowner’s daughter who said they need to sell some land to help pay for the care of her 99-year-old mother. She’s asking for a waiver of rollback taxes associated with withdrawal. 

If approved, the North 640 AFD would still be 2,363 acres in size. 

The other three public hearings are for “zoning text amendments” which are changes to the rules for how land can be developed.

• ZTA 24:11 would clarify that a maximum of five lots can be created in a subdivision. The idea here is to eliminate an interpretation that would allow more. (learn more)
• ZTA 25:01 would amend the zoning code to define “agritourism activity” and to allow it is a by-right use on agricultural land. (learn more)
• ZTA 25:02 would eliminated the word “municipal” from the definitions of “Solid Waste Material Recovery Facility” and “Solid Waste Collection Facility.” The purpose is not stated in the staff report. (learn more)

For their final act, the Planning Commissionwill be asked to recommend advertisement of a future public hearing to amend the zoning code to remove a phrase from the definition of “Full Cutoff Angle.” 

Top image: The 6.78 acres of land under a request to withdraw from the North 640 AFD (Credit: Fluvanna County)