Bedford Supervisors to get updates on progress toward goals
Plus: Powhatan elected officials to resume discussion on zoning changes in Village Growth Areas
These newsletters about upcoming meetings in local government are likely only effective if they are published a day before. Yet, this is an experiment because there are times I cannot work such as when I am driving a cargo can up and down the mid-Atlantic seaboard.
So, this is another very quick edition with very brief blurbs because I hate breaking the rhythm completely. This is a beat I’m trying to establish and doing the work helps me hear the music.
Bedford Supervisors to review strategic priorities
The seven-member Board of Supervisors meet for a work session at 5 p.m. followed by a regular session. (meeting portal)
The work session will be an update on strategic priorities to be presented by Deputy County Administrator Justin Stauder. These are my favorite kind of meetings and there’s a very handy chart in the packet that tracks progress towards various goals. Such status updates go a long way to allowing people to know exactly what their local government is doing. In Bedford County, that means an education priority to “Enhance partnerships with parents offering home schooling, charter schools, private schools, parochial schools, and vocational centers.”
That will be followed by a discussion of the Personal Property Tax Relief Act.
In the regular meeting, there will be two public hearings.
There’s a special use permit request from PLS LLC for expanded industrial use on Homestead Drive.
There’s a special use permit request from RYT LLC to allow equipment sales at 11400 West Lynchburg-Salem Turnpike.
There are four action items.
There’s a resolution to initiate review of the city’s zoning code and the section on requiring mandatory sewage system pump outs.
There’s a resolution to set a new depreciation rate related to the Personal Property Tax Relief Act
There’s a resolution to alter the percentage of relief the county will offer through the Personal Property Tax Relief Act
There’s consideration of an appropriation of funds from a grant submitted for emergency management staffing
Powhatan Supervisors to take up changes to Village Growth Area Districts to allow more light industrial uses
The five-member Board of Supervisors in Powhatan County meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Pocahontas Landmark Center. (meeting agenda)
Under old business, Supervisors will resume a discussion from March 27, 2023 on proposed amendments to the Village Growth Area Districts to allow for some Light Industrial uses in Commerce Center areas.
That’s followed by an initiation of an amendment to the subdivision ordinance related to private road subdivisions.
I’m afraid that’s all I can do for Powhatan and I hope to read some coverage of what happened.
Reading material:
[Powhatan] Supervisors sound alarm over housing questionnaire, Roslyn Ryan, Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 3, 2023
Speakers focus on education during Proud Patriots of SML September meeting, Smith Mountain Eagle, September 15, 2023
Bedford County school division received unsolicited proposal for CIP project at three schools, Rodney Robinson, Lynchburg News & Advance (paywall), September 22, 2023
VDOT road projects affecting Bedford and Franklin Counties, Smith Mountain Eagle, September 22, 2023
Mecklenburg schools get extra $1.7 million from state, Mecklenburg Sun, September 22, 2023