Central Virginia
Louisa County
Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting 6/15/2026
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Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting
6/15/2026
Attachments
BOS Agenda - 06.15.26.pdf
BOS Packet - 06.15.26.pdf
Public Hearing Notice - June 15, 2026.pdf
I. Call to Order - 5:00 p.m.
Closed Session
II. Administrative Items - 6:00 p.m.
1. Invocation - Mr. McCotter
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Adoption of Agenda
Failed 7-0-0
Approve
4. Minutes Approval
1. Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Minutes - June 1, 2026
06.01.26 Minutes.pdf
Failed 7-0-0
Approve
5. Bills Approval
1. Resolution - To Approve the Bills for the First Half of June 2026
061526.pdf
Resolution .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
6. Consent Agenda Items
1. Resolution - Authorizing the Louisa County Airport to Apply for a State Aviation Grant for an Airport Rotating Beacon Light
Apply for State Grant for Airport Beacon Light .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
2. Resolution - To Approve and Award a Contract for Fire Alarm Monitoring Services
Bid Overview.pdf
Fire Alarm Monitoring Services.pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
3. Resolution - To Approve a Pass Through Appropriation for Insurance Proceeds
Insurance Proceeds.pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
4. Resolution - Authorizing a Pass Through Appropriation to the Louisa County Airport for Federal & State Aviation Grants for an Airport Master Plan Update
3101-2601 PCS00 2026-04-27.pdf
Airport Master Plan Update Capital Project.pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
5. Resolution — Authorizing the Fire & EMS Department to Apply for an Assistance for Firefighter Grant
Authorizing FEMS to Apply for AFG Grant.pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
III. Recognitions
IV. Public Comment Period
V. Information/Discussion Items
1. Presentation - VDOT Quarterly Update
VI. Unfinished Business
VII. New Business/Action Items
VIII. Supervisor Comments
IX. Reports of Officers, Boards and Standing Committees
1. Committee Reports
2. Board Appointments
Bd appts 06.15.26.pdf
3. County Administrator's Report
County Administrator's Memo 06.15.26.pdf
Airport Monthly Report- May 2026 (1) .pdf
Airport Monthly Report- May 2026 (2) .pdf
Community Development Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Finance Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Fire & EMS Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
General Services Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Human Resources Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Human Services Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Parks & Recreation Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Tourism Monthly Report - May 2026 .pdf
VDOT Monthly Report .pdf
Water Authority Monthly Report - May 2026.pdf
Federal Register 06.09.26.pdf
NRC 06.04.26.pdf
NRC 06.09.26.pdf
NRC 06.09.26 (2).pdf
TJPDC - VATI.pdf
May 2026 VATI 22 Monthly Broadband Report.pdf
May 2026 VATI 24 Monthly Broadband Report.pdf
VDH - Providence Presbyterian Preschool 06.08.26.pdf
X. Public Hearings
1. Ordinance – Amending Chapter 86 Land Development Regulations – Proposed Addition – Trevilian Station Agricultural and Forestal District
BOS Staff Report_05.20.26_Morford.pdf
Packet_Redacted (includes amendment) - Copy (1).pdf
draft amendment_TS_Morford_05.20.26.pdf
Ordinance .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
2. Ordinance – Amending Chapter 86 Land Development Regulations – Proposed Addition – Shelton’s Mill Agricultural and Forestal District
BOS Staff Report_05.20.26_Cox.pdf
Packet_Redacted - Copy (2).pdf
draft amendment_SM_5.20.26.pdf
Ordinance .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
3. Ordinance – Amending Chapter 86 Land Development Regulations – Proposed Addition – Indian Creek Agricultural and Forestal District
BOS Staff Report_05.20.26_Cox.pdf
Packet_Redacted - Copy (1).pdf
Draft Amendment_Indian Creek_Cox_05.20.26.pdf
Ordinance .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
4. Ordinance – Amending Chapter 86 Land Development Regulations – Proposed Addition – Gold Mine Creek Agricultural and Forestal District
BOS Staff Report_Kean_05.20.26.pdf
Redacted Packet.pdf
draft amendment_GMC_05.20.26.pdf
Ordinance .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
5. Ordinance - Amending Chapter 86. Land Development Regulations, Add Section 86-44. Conditional Use Permits for Electric Transmission Facilities
2026-xx Electric Transmission Facilities PC REC 05142026.pdf
BOS CUP Electric Transmission Memo.pdf
Ordinance .pdf
Passed 7-0-0
Approve
XI. Adjournment
SPEAKER_01
00:03:58
The Monday, June 15, 2026 meeting the Louisa County Board of Supervisors to order.
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
00:04:08
We do not have closed session agenda tonight, do we?
00:04:22
Mr. Chairman, you need a motion that we get that we convene in closed session pursuant to the following subsections of Virginia Code 223711 in accordance with that section discussion or consideration and acquisition of real property for a public purpose where discussion in an open meeting would adversely affect the bargaining position or negotiating strategy of the public body and in accordance with 223711A8 in consultation with legal counsel employed or retained by a public body regarding
00:04:51
2.237-1183
SPEAKER_01
01:02:50
I will now call members to certify that the best of your knowledge, only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and is identified in the motion.
01:03:20
for which the closed meeting was convened were discussed and considered by the board.
01:03:24
If any member believes that the board varied from the purposes stated for the closed meeting please state so and the reason prior to casting the vote Mr. McCotter.
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
01:03:32
Yes.
SPEAKER_01
01:03:32
Mrs. Jones.
01:03:33
Yes.
01:03:33
Mr. Williams.
01:03:34
Yes.
01:03:35
Mr. Barlow.
01:03:35
Yes.
01:03:36
Mr. Barnes.
01:03:36
Yes.
01:03:37
Mr. Woodward.
01:03:38
Yes.
01:03:38
All right, we're back into open session.
01:03:40
This is the Monday, June 15, 2026 meeting of the Louisa County Board of Supervisors.
01:03:46
I'd like to welcome those of you that are in attendance here in the public meeting room and those that are joining us online.
01:03:52
We will start this evening's meeting as we always do with the invocation by Mr. McCotter tonight and the Pledge of Allegiance.
01:03:58
If you'd like to join us, please stand.
Chris McCotter
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:04:02
Let's pray.
01:04:02
Loving God, as we begin this meeting, I thank you for your presence with us.
01:04:08
I ask you for patience, for understanding and a compassion in our deliberations.
01:04:13
Infuse us with your Holy Spirit and righteous focus so that our work may be both effective and supportive of those we serve while glorifying you.
01:04:20
In your son's name I pray.
01:04:21
Amen.
SPEAKER_01
01:04:42
First item would be the adoption of the agenda.
01:04:47
Second.
01:04:47
We adopt the agenda.
01:04:48
Any discussion?
01:04:49
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
01:04:51
Aye.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:04:52
Any opposed?
01:04:52
Motion passes unanimously.
01:04:54
Next would be the approval of the minutes.
01:04:56
So moved.
01:04:56
Second.
SPEAKER_01
01:04:57
And properly moved and seconded that we approve the minutes.
01:04:59
Any discussion?
01:05:00
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
01:05:03
Aye.
01:05:03
Any opposed?
01:05:03
Motion passes unanimously.
01:05:05
Next is the approval of the bills.
01:05:07
So moved.
01:05:08
Second.
SPEAKER_01
01:05:08
I don't have any cards.
01:05:12
Is there anyone that would wish to address the board tonight on any subject that's not a public hearing?
01:05:41
All right, seeing none, we'll move on to information and discussion items.
01:05:44
Next is presentation is VDOT's quarterly update presented by Craig Simpson, our new resident engineer.
01:05:53
Welcome, Mr. Simpson.
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
01:05:54
Mr. Chairman, while Mr. Simpson is making his way up, I would note that your monthly report is in your board packet on page 80 while he's making his remarks.
SPEAKER_01
01:06:02
Thank you.
SPEAKER_06
01:06:05
Good evening board, chairman.
01:06:07
I just want to introduce myself.
01:06:08
My name is Craig Simpson.
01:06:10
I'm a new Louisa resident engineer.
01:06:13
Most previously I was working out of our Fredericksburg district office in the traffic engineering section as the assistant district traffic engineer for...
01:06:23
I also worked in the Warrenton residency as the Louisa resident engineer.
01:06:27
I'm quickly getting up to speed on projects within the Louisa residency.
01:06:30
I look forward to continuing and building a strong working relationship
01:06:34
So I'll jump into the quarterly report.
01:06:38
For rural rustics, we have 645 Poplar Avenue.
01:06:42
Currently the environmental review is underway.
01:06:45
Our crews have been busy with pothole patching, with over 2,000 holes being repaired.
01:06:52
For ditching, over 100 linear feet have been cleaned.
01:06:57
Shoulder repair, approximately 5.2 miles of shoulders have been repaired.
01:07:03
For the pavement schedule for this year, we have surface treatment on Route 614, 1240, 618, and 784.
01:07:12
For plant mix, we have Route 601, 669, Route 22, and Route 33.
01:07:23
For our contractor services, they've been forming ditch work on Route 635, Route 656, and Route 648.
01:07:33
Our contracting services have also been doing asphalt patching on 612, 622, 601, 1248, 613, and 1241.
01:07:46
Our contract right-of-way mowing, that just wrapped up last week.
01:07:53
Also, we had pipe replacements on Route 605 and Route 522.
01:07:56
For our land use team, they've completed seven site plans.
01:08:02
66 utility permits have been reviewed.
01:08:04
Moving on to projects.
01:08:10
Hamilton Road bridge that is gearing up to start this week is anticipated to be completed later this year, fall.
01:08:17
I understand there's a section of the bridge abutment that will be preserved and transferred to the county.
01:08:21
652 Kentucky Springs and Haley Drive on the temporary signal.
01:08:30
I spoke with our district traffic engineer this morning and the signal warrant has been approved.
01:08:35
He's finalizing his review package with the details for the signal phasing and the details of that signal plan.
01:08:42
As soon as I hear back, I'll be falling back up.
01:08:46
The Route 33 permit project on the detour was put into place today for a large box culvert replacement and associated stream diversion.
01:08:56
The anticipated completion is 731.
01:08:59
I just wanted to clarify this is not a VDOT project.
01:09:03
This is a permitted project and the work is being performed in accordance to the site plan and approved traffic management plan.
01:09:12
All parties are highly motivated to get this work done this summer while school's out.
01:09:17
So all the work will be completed prior to school going back.
01:09:21
I'm getting up to speed fast in the details of projects here in Louisa.
01:09:25
I look forward to continuing the working relationship and building that strong communication moving forward.
01:09:31
I recognize there are some hiccups with this particular project with some of the communication and coordination, but I just want to, moving forward, I want to focus on the future and look for ways to improve our coordination with the county.
01:09:45
So with that, those are the main items I had on the update.
01:09:49
The board has any questions?
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:09:51
Mr. Williams?
01:09:53
I have two questions.
01:09:56
The 33 that you're redoing with the plant mix, where is that at?
01:10:00
What's section 33?
01:10:00
He may not know.
SPEAKER_06
01:10:06
I don't have the details of that currently.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:10:08
Yeah, he's coming to save you.
01:10:10
Because you knew.
01:10:10
It's okay.
01:10:12
I just didn't realize 33 was, you know what section that is?
01:10:17
Right, okay, in front of school.
01:10:19
And then, what is the county going to do with a piece of bridge abutment from Hamilton Bridge?
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
01:10:24
They're going to, they talked to us about that during the meetings, the stakeholder meetings for the bridge, and we talked about a few options.
01:10:32
It's not a big piece.
01:10:33
We had talked about putting a small concrete pad down there and just setting it on the pad and putting a good coat of paint on it and having it there if you all want to do it, but we need to get pricing before that's finalized.
01:10:44
Is it historic?
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:10:45
It's kind of immemorial.
01:10:47
Hysterical?
01:10:48
Is it historical?
01:10:49
It is historic.
01:10:51
It's not hysterical.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:10:52
A piece of concrete?
01:10:53
A piece of steel?
01:10:53
What is it?
01:10:54
Steel.
01:10:55
So they should cut the end off the pieces of steel and stick it there as a memorial.
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
01:11:00
If the board would like, sir.
01:11:00
For a bridge we're going to replace.
01:11:02
It'll be an option for you.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:11:03
That seems ridiculous.
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
01:11:04
I'm sorry.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:11:04
That's not you.
01:11:05
I just was curious what it was.
01:11:06
Now I understand.
01:11:07
Thank you.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:11:08
Well, can I just answer that for you?
01:11:11
This came out of many talks of discussions and working with the historic district in Green Springs and memorializing the fact that this was a historic bridge.
01:11:20
This bridge has been there for a very long time, so it was a small embankment that they wanted to
01:11:26
We didn't just memorialize the history because there's a lot of walkers and a lot of people that go down to that bridge, walk that road that they would know the history of that bridge.
01:11:34
So it was an offer that was an olive branch that was given out to the historic Green Springs and is something that we need to discuss in the future about what we're going to do with it.
01:11:49
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_02
01:11:51
You had mentioned, and I rode through yesterday, so I see 601 is under, is currently being worked on to be paved.
01:12:01
Do you know what the anticipated finish date is on that?
SPEAKER_06
01:12:05
For 601 for the paving schedule.
01:12:07
I believe they're currently working on that, but I can follow back up on that.
SPEAKER_02
01:12:10
They are working.
01:12:11
Did they start on your end?
01:12:13
No, they started on the far end.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:12:14
Okay, yeah, because I come through that end.
01:12:16
It's all paved.
01:12:16
It's not lined, but it's paved down there.
SPEAKER_02
01:12:19
From... Looks good.
01:12:23
I forget the name of the creek.
01:12:25
From the creek where they repaired the bridge a couple of years ago, going south to 522, it's patchwork, but it's not been paved like the rest of it.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:12:37
They've got to overlay it though, right?
01:12:39
Yes, 601, correct.
01:12:40
The whole thing is getting overlaid from 33 to 522.
SPEAKER_06
01:12:43
That is my understanding, but I can confirm with the correct terminology.
SPEAKER_02
01:12:46
That's what it looked like.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:12:47
Yeah, that's what it looked like.
SPEAKER_06
01:12:51
It's currently not on the two-week look ahead, but we'll follow up once it's on there.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:12:55
They're doing a nice job.
01:12:57
The 33 looks really nice.
SPEAKER_02
01:12:58
Certainly an improvement.
Fitzgerald D. Barnes
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:13:01
Yes, um, I'm sorry.
01:13:05
Welcome to Louisa.
01:13:07
I appreciate it.
01:13:07
And you might not say that later on as you keep coming, but tonight I'd like to welcome you.
01:13:13
Your predecessor before he left, and I was working on one, and he said he'd put a job order in right there on 208, the shoulder coming off of 208, before we get that fixed.
01:13:23
You know what I'm talking about?
01:13:24
I just want to make sure that it didn't get lost in the paperwork on his way out.
01:13:30
Right there at Ferncliff.
01:13:32
You know what I'm talking about, right?
01:13:34
Alright, just make sure.
01:13:35
He gave me a start when he thought it was going to start.
01:13:40
This was a month ago, he thought I'd be able to.
01:13:41
I don't know, but can somebody call me, email me or something, let me know when that project will start.
01:13:48
Just to make it clear to the board, when you come off of 64, it looks like it's a shoulder for people.
01:13:53
You see people always pulling off right there.
01:13:55
Well, what it is is that the people that live there in that area don't want people using it because people been getting out of their cars, doing certain things in that area and things of that nature and right at their house.
01:14:08
So, we'll talk about how he could correct that, okay?
01:14:12
Okay.
01:14:12
I'll confirm it, Paul.
SPEAKER_01
01:14:13
Thank you so much.
01:14:14
Mr. Woodward.
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:14:16
Ms. Simpson, welcome to Louisa.
01:14:17
I appreciate it.
01:14:19
Looking forward to working with you.
01:14:23
First, I want to say thanks for VDOT or the contractor coming out and fixing different sections of Oakland Road 613.
01:14:33
My understanding is that the contract was let out not just to patch it but also to come back and pave over it.
01:14:40
which I don't think the contractor is in paving quite yet in the county, so sometime this summer that should be paved.
01:14:48
That's what Mr. Thornton had told me anyway before he left.
01:14:51
And also, Mr. Thornton had started a road, as I recall, it's called the Road Study Committee.
01:15:01
I think Mr. Gordon sat in on some of those meetings with us.
01:15:06
I think hopefully you can continue that.
01:15:09
Like the lady that's ahead of the school bus transportation department for the county, the town manager of the town of Louisa manager was there.
01:15:18
I believe Town of Mineral had a representative.
01:15:20
Mr. Coon and myself were from the county.
01:15:23
I think we were making some really good progress and it was to look at different sections of road in the county.
01:15:30
The Route 33 thing, maybe it's a good thing it happened that way.
01:15:50
Because you know things can't do anything but get better, right?
SPEAKER_06
01:15:54
Focus on the future and look for ways to improve.
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:15:56
Yeah, OK, thank you.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:16:05
Welcome to Louisa County, as everyone else has said.
01:16:09
You got a pen?
01:16:09
Are you ready?
SPEAKER_06
01:16:10
I got a pen.
01:16:11
I got a list.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:16:11
Now, I'm going to start with the diamond, the interchange at Zion's Crossroads.
01:16:15
That's a gateway into our community.
01:16:17
It's a location that people are coming off 64 every day, all times.
01:16:22
And it's been looking ragged.
01:16:24
And I've been giving complaints on it.
01:16:26
They have mowed it some, but the weeds on the side are really tall.
01:16:29
They've kind of strip mowed it and there's some weeds.
01:16:32
And I have some pictures to show you.
01:16:34
If you'd like to see them, I can send them to you.
01:16:37
And there's a lot of, right along the curb, a lot of sand and debris probably from the winter and everything along that diamond.
01:16:46
But if we could just maintain that and keep that neat and tidy looking, that would go a long way with a lot of residents that I'm getting complaints on.
01:16:53
And it is, like I said, a gateway to our community.
01:16:55
And it's the first look that people get as they pop off the interstate at Zions.
01:17:01
And I also want to thank you.
01:17:03
I see you have here in Traffic Studies and Special Requests Route 15, the guardrail request on the left side.
01:17:10
I went past there the other day and there's a beautiful shiny guardrail there.
01:17:15
I love it.
01:17:15
And it makes me as a driver feel a lot safer all these years.
01:17:19
You just get off the curb and you're rolling down into Never Never Land.
01:17:22
So thank you for getting that guardrail up.
01:17:25
Also, right before Scott left, I talked to him about Zion Road.
01:17:30
I was getting a lot of complaints from residents that live in Mountain Brook and Forest View when they are heading from 615 West towards Charlottesville on Zion Road.
01:17:43
The trucks coming in and out of Spring Creek, there's a lot of construction going on at Spring Creek, and that road is heavily trafficked by big dump trucks, and it has been tearing up very easily.
01:17:53
They've gotten there.
01:17:54
They've patched it.
01:17:54
That road shared with Flavanna County.
01:17:56
I spoke to one of their Board of Supervisors to get that addressed to and their VDOT side.
01:18:02
But if you could just give a little extra attention to that road because it was like four wheeling at one point coming out of winter.
01:18:09
I get it.
01:18:11
But it stayed like that for a while.
01:18:12
They have fixed the western end of it.
01:18:14
So I appreciate that.
01:18:15
But it is coming from the trucks, the dump trucks coming in and out of Spring Creek.
01:18:19
It's pretty heavily traveled with truck traffic.
01:18:22
And the Hamilton Road Bridge, is that estimated, is that the estimate date here, September 15th, under construction, is that for that bridge?
01:18:31
When do you guys anticipate the conclusion of the Hamilton Road Bridge?
SPEAKER_06
01:18:34
I'm talking to our bridge crews, anticipated later this fall.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:18:37
Later this fall?
01:18:38
Okay, yeah.
01:18:39
That's what Scott had told me.
01:18:40
I just wanted to make sure we were still on track with that.
01:18:43
Has it actually been pulled?
01:18:45
I haven't driven down there here.
01:18:46
No, not yet.
SPEAKER_06
01:18:47
This week our bridge crews were on site.
01:18:49
Okay.
01:18:50
I'm kind of getting geared up for it.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:18:52
Okay, sounds good.
01:18:53
I get a lot of calls from people who want to know.
01:18:55
It's a little teeny dirt road in our county or gravel road, but a lot of people like walking it and being down there around it.
01:19:03
And I think that's it for me.
01:19:08
Just maintaining Zion's Crossroads and the interchange.
Chris McCotter
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:19:13
Mr. McCotter.
01:19:14
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
01:19:16
Mr. Simpson, welcome to Louisa.
01:19:18
Mr. Gordon, always good to have you with us.
01:19:19
Thank you for the backup.
01:19:22
I don't know whether it was a parting gift from Scott or what, but I wanted to thank you all for getting parts of Moody Town Road.
01:19:29
I would like to note that working together with county staff is probably the only way forward and once you communicate with us effectively
01:19:48
That is going to help us serve our constituents to the best of all of our abilities.
01:19:52
So, communication is going to be great moving forward between all of us.
01:19:57
I'm looking forward to that.
01:19:58
CUCA residents are happy to hear about this light that we're talking about at Kentucky Springs in Haley.
01:20:06
That's been a spot of a lot of complaints.
01:20:10
And I would like to know, is there a way to inform
01:20:15
Thank you.
01:20:36
It's my job to relay that to you.
01:20:37
If there's any way we can find out when those extra-wide loads, I think they're generators coming down to the Lake Anna Technology Campus, I know my constituents would appreciate that.
01:20:51
Also looking at the road to entrance or gate O.
01:20:54
There's a blistering there.
01:20:56
That's something that I think AWS is responsible for.
01:20:59
I know you guys have probably seen that.
01:21:02
We don't want to get any worse.
01:21:04
Bridge painting on Mill Pond Bridge.
01:21:06
I don't know how you turned that around so fast.
01:21:08
Mr. Simpson, I'm going to echo
SPEAKER_01
01:21:33
The welcome to Louisa Part.
01:21:34
I told you that today on the phone when we chatted.
01:21:37
I do have several questions and comments and I'll preface what I said to you on the phone today.
01:21:47
All your predecessors since I've been on the board, Mr. Saunders and Mr. Thornton, I've had a great relationship with them and look forward to having a great relationship with you.
01:21:57
I mean one of the
01:21:59
One of the most common calls, at least, that I get from my constituents is something to do with the roads, a tree down, a ditch clogged, you know, something.
01:22:08
So we'll be in communication a lot, and I look forward to that.
01:22:12
And I preface that by saying, because I'm going to ask you some hard questions here in a minute.
01:22:16
But I'll start with an easy one.
01:22:18
Is there a way over the next 45 days with the detour on Route 33, is there a way that VDOT could readjust the timing on the light it sheets and the light at 33 and what is that 208
01:22:42
to give traffic more time to move through there so that we can get the buildup out of the town of Louisa.
01:22:50
And I know typically you guys probably have to study this and send it to traffic engineering and da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
01:22:57
You don't have time to do that.
01:22:58
I mean, that just seems like a pretty easy, simple fix if there's not some safety reason that we can't do that.
01:23:07
I drove through the town three times today
01:23:09
and each time there was heavier backups than normal and it was because people can't go down 33 now they're going straight through on five twenty or 208 down to 522.
SPEAKER_06
01:23:20
Yeah I'll reach out to our traffic engineering group tomorrow and see what they can do about the signal timing.
SPEAKER_01
01:23:27
Okay because if they could do that and they could do it like you know
01:23:32
Two days from now it would probably help ease a lot of people's heartburn as we go through this detour over the next 45 days.
01:23:44
Second thing is, and we mentioned it today, I just want to mention it in public so that we have it on the public record, is over on Route 29 South at the Culpeper exit for Route 3 and 522, that's a major route to Lake Anna.
01:24:02
And on 95 and on 64, there is signage that says this exit to go to Lake Anna.
01:24:08
There's no signage there.
01:24:10
and I know that people miss that from time to time so that would be and I have talked to Miss Saunders about that and I've talked to Miss Storton about that and this gives you an opportunity to be a hero your first month or so here to get it here you know so anyway so if we could look at those two things but I do want to address and I have to address the route 33 closure and I and I appreciate you mentioning it today and I think
01:24:42
I think the biggest problem here was lack of communication.
01:24:47
Lack of communication from the applicant, lack of communication from VDOT.
01:24:52
You know, the county found out last Monday, the exact closure date, that was June the 8th,
01:24:59
We found it out the same way I found it out, which is the entire length of that closure is in the district that I represent.
01:25:08
At about 3 o'clock from 6 o'clock, my phone blew up.
01:25:11
People were coming home.
01:25:12
They saw the signs, what's going on.
01:25:14
I was in a position, I don't know, I think I might know, but I got a check.
01:25:23
And frankly,
01:25:26
I'm not here to place blame.
01:25:27
I want to figure out how we can fix any issue like this moving forward.
01:25:31
I don't think it serves any of us well to go, it's their fault, it's their fault, it's their fault.
01:25:37
I purposely didn't point at you.
01:25:40
But at the end of the day, we're responsible as a county government as elected officials to our constituents.
01:25:46
VDOT's responsible, in my opinion, to the people that use the roads.
01:25:51
There just seemed to be a lot of distancing from
01:25:55
This whole issue from VDOT's standpoint, I don't think that's helpful.
01:26:00
I really don't think that's helpful.
01:26:01
I mean, I have an email here, and I'll give you a perfect example.
01:26:05
Last Wednesday when we were all on a conference call, again, I don't have a whole lot of authority as chairman of the board.
01:26:13
But I do have enough to say when a press release is supposed to go out, that's when we put a press release out.
01:26:18
And I believe that call was at 1 o'clock, and we very clearly at the beginning said we want a press release that goes out at 3 o'clock today.
01:26:28
Because we didn't have maps.
01:26:30
We didn't have maps that had been presented to the constituents, to the motorists, to that sort of thing.
01:26:36
And we all agreed that was a good idea, and a map was provided, a usable map, a map was provided, and we talked about it going out at 3 o'clock.
01:26:45
And I'm going to swear here in a minute, and I'm going to apologize.
01:26:46
No, I'm not.
01:26:47
I'm going to change it.
01:26:47
I swore once this year I've done it enough.
01:26:53
So our communications director got the press release ready, had the map in it, had the verbiage, sent it out for approval
01:27:04
And at 4 o'clock, we get an email back from VDOT that says, well, we don't like this, we don't like this, we don't like this.
01:27:11
We already sent it out.
01:27:12
We sent it out at 3 o'clock.
01:27:14
And I replied all.
01:27:19
I don't give a darn what VDOT says at this point.
01:27:22
Send it out, communicate with people.
01:27:25
So the lack, in my opinion, from my seat, the lack of urgency, the lack of responsiveness, we need to do better.
01:27:35
If you don't count 64,
01:27:38
You have 522, 208, 22, 33, and Route 20.
01:27:41
That'd be the five major roads in this county.
01:27:44
I think you'd probably agree with that, right?
01:27:47
And with seven days notice, one of those major roads is being shut down.
01:27:53
And I knew, I think the county administration knew, I have the timeline here,
01:27:59
We all knew that that road was going to be shut down at some point during the summer.
01:28:03
We wanted to make sure that it wasn't during school.
01:28:06
But nobody knew that it was going to be on June the 15th until June the 8th.
01:28:11
And the ability not to communicate sooner with our citizens created additional heartburn that shouldn't have been created.
01:28:18
And that's, I think we all,
01:28:21
I think we all find that unacceptable, and I think we've all, and you made a commitment tonight, and I appreciate that, you made a commitment to me on the phone.
01:28:28
I think we all need to strive to do better for our citizens.
01:28:32
I think they deserve that.
01:28:33
You know, I don't know how long that additional detour is, but it's not two minutes.
01:28:39
I know that.
01:28:40
It's not two minutes for people when they come around through there.
01:28:43
And we asked you a lot of questions and VDOT gave a lot of answers to these questions.
01:28:48
I'm not going to go over all of them.
01:28:51
But I do want to address one because I think the answer is wrong.
01:28:56
The question was, given that the county first became aware of the final start date and six-week duration when variable message boards were installed, is that consistent with VDOT's intended coordination and communication process for significant road closure?
01:29:09
And there's several answers here.
01:29:13
But here's the part that I've seen the email chain.
01:29:16
It says during the regularly scheduled Louisa County meeting on April 2, 2026, the details of the road closure and detour were presented and discussed and the county did not express opposition to the proposed closure time frame.
01:29:30
The timeline that was discussed in that meeting, according to everybody that was in that meeting and emails I've seen, we're in the summertime, not the specific dates.
01:29:39
And that's where we have an issue with that, not those specific dates.
01:29:44
And our staff works really hard at doing a job to get this information out to the people and making sure that we can give people enough time to prepare.
01:30:00
So I think that was a little bit of a disingenuous answer.
01:30:05
I think our staff would have really liked, I know I would have really liked two to three weeks notice.
01:30:12
I know this came together quickly.
01:30:14
I appreciate the fact that the contractor is trying to make sure that doesn't happen during the school year because that would be a whole another conversation if that happened.
01:30:23
But it just, to sum this up,
01:30:28
It was bothersome to me that VDOT, even today, I was reading, I read a lot of local publications.
01:30:35
One of the local media outlets had a story on this yesterday.
01:30:39
I didn't get to read the thing till today.
01:30:42
I saw today that they'd made an edit that VDOT had reached out and said, you know, change this and change this.
01:30:48
So it still looks like you're trying to distance yourself from the issue.
01:30:52
I get some of the specifics weren't yours.
01:30:54
Not a VDOT project, you said that.
01:30:56
But if we're going to be partners,
01:30:59
We either stand together or we fall together.
01:31:01
And, you know, I'm not trying to beat you up.
01:31:05
I'm an honest guy.
01:31:06
I'm not happy about it.
01:31:08
My constituents aren't happy about it.
01:31:10
I was having people call me clear to this weekend, even though we'd put the information out last Wednesday that lived there.
01:31:17
They said, can I get in and out of my house?
01:31:19
I mean, am I stuck for a month and a half?
01:31:23
They shouldn't be doing that.
01:31:24
They shouldn't have those questions.
01:31:27
From this side of the table, we want to be a partner.
01:31:30
We want to work with you.
01:31:32
We want to get those messages out.
01:31:34
We just need a willing partner on the other side.
01:31:37
And you know, I think it's just my responsibility to tell you that.
SPEAKER_06
01:31:41
I definitely appreciate that.
01:31:42
I think moving forward, focus on that additional communication and see if we can put some procedures and practices in place to make sure something like this doesn't happen again.
SPEAKER_01
01:31:51
I appreciate that.
01:31:52
I appreciate it.
01:31:53
Yes, sir.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:31:54
When did you get here?
SPEAKER_06
01:31:55
Approximately like two weeks ago.
01:31:58
I've been still kind of going back and forth between Fredericksburg.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:32:00
I'm going to give you a buy on this.
01:32:02
We're not happy.
01:32:03
I think you've sensed that.
01:32:04
And we're not happy because our constituents aren't happy.
01:32:06
And I feel like you inherited this.
01:32:09
Here at the last minute and I think that's a fair assessment.
01:32:13
So I think the expectation going forward is communicate with us and the staff so we can talk to the citizens and just own it if and when you mess up.
01:32:24
That's all.
01:32:25
That's all we ask.
01:32:25
We're not perfect.
01:32:26
We make mistakes up here and we're glad you're here.
01:32:30
We're looking forward to having you here and I think you'll find us a relatively friendly place as long as we're open and honest with the questions and answers that come out.
01:32:38
So thank you for what you do.
SPEAKER_06
01:32:39
I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_01
01:32:40
Thank you, Mr. Simpson.
01:32:41
Yeah, thank you.
01:32:41
Yeah, thank you very much.
01:32:43
All right, we'll move on to supervisor comments.
01:32:46
Do we have any supervisor comments this evening?
Fitzgerald D. Barnes
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:32:50
Mr.
01:32:50
Chair.
SPEAKER_01
01:32:50
Yes, sir.
Fitzgerald D. Barnes
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:32:54
Being that I sent an email out to board members just expressing this fall when we meet with our legislators,
01:33:09
One of the issues that's been coming up — I don't know if some of you all have seen this survey, but I got a questionnaire from ODU University professor doing a survey on the Dylann Rule and how elected officials felt about the Dylann Rule.
01:33:35
And I checked what I liked and what I didn't like.
01:33:38
But I didn't have to make a long story short.
01:33:40
I'm concerned, as I told you before, most people in their lifetime, when they work, their goal is to, prior to retirement, is paying their home off.
01:33:52
That's their dream.
01:33:53
That's what they work to do.
01:33:54
They want to have a house paid for when they retire.
01:33:58
And believe me, my house gets assessed like anybody else, and I'm not skulking about the assessments.
01:34:06
But what I am concerned about, you worked all your life, you paid for your house, and that the local government can't do anything about that.
01:34:16
And I watch people that are paid for their homes are getting to the point where their tax assessments is almost becoming a mortgage.
01:34:26
And you shouldn't have to get
01:34:42
to give older citizens, come up with a criteria, you live in Weezer County 20, 25 years or whatever, once you get to a certain stage that we could freeze your assessment.
01:34:56
I'm not saying not pay it, but we could freeze it.
01:34:59
Because a lot of people when they get older, they're not looking to sell their homes.
01:35:04
They're looking to live in their homes throughout their life, and if we could—I know the Dilling Rule doesn't allow us to do those kind of changes, but if we could do something like that—because I'm concerned with a lot of older people that don't fix income, that their assessments will run them out of their homes.
01:35:23
Thank you.
SPEAKER_01
01:35:26
R.T.
01:35:36
I don't know why, after nine years, I haven't completely cut all ties to social media, but I haven't.
01:35:42
But we're in a drought.
01:35:45
Louisa County's in a drought, as is probably 80% of Virginia and 60% of the country.
01:35:55
And just last week, the Louisa County Water Authority issued some water restrictions for the Zions Crossroad Wells
01:36:03
I've seen a lot of comments that those water restrictions were due to the data centers that are being built in the county.
01:36:21
which is interesting.
01:36:22
They're being built in the county.
01:36:23
They're not built here yet.
01:36:25
One is functional at the Lake Anna campus and it's not served yet by the water authority.
01:36:33
And I just wanted to clear up that misconception.
01:36:37
The water restrictions were put in place on the two service areas that are served by the ultra deep wells that the county has.
01:36:47
And they're under a little bit of strain as they get whenever we have a lack of rain or a drought.
01:36:53
And everybody, whether you're a residential user or a commercial user, who knows water restrictions are put in place, everybody's under those same water restrictions and has to follow those guidelines.
01:37:07
But it's not because of data centers that haven't been built yet in this county that's causing those water restrictions.
01:37:15
But I would point out
01:37:16
that when those two campuses that AWS is building come online they're going to get water from Northeast Creek Reservoir and Northeast Creek Reservoir system is not subject to those restrictions because we don't have an issue with the water levels at Northeast Creek and I did
01:37:38
Well, we've had some meetings with the Water Authority and I wanted to point out that there's a large commercial company in the county that has been using a tremendous amount of water, far over the amount that they originally purchased.
01:37:55
In February they used 1.2 million gallons for the month.
01:38:01
In March they used
01:38:05
795,000 gallons.
01:38:09
In April they used 1.8 million gallons.
01:38:12
And in May they used 2.6 million gallons.
01:38:15
Now there's two things I want to address about that water coming out of Northeast Creek Reservoir.
01:38:19
Number one, they're getting back to where they're supposed to be, which is somewhere around 540,000 gallons per month.
01:38:28
There was an anomaly there and they're getting back.
01:38:31
But the bigger issue that I wanted to say is while this major amount of water was being used out of Northeast Creek, it did not have a negative impact on Northeast Creek.
01:38:40
So I want people to understand
01:38:46
The facts of this water restriction, I also want them to understand that Northeast Creek Reservoir is in fine shape.
01:38:53
It's in shape to be able to supply the water that the town of Louisa, the town of Mineral needs.
01:38:58
And when we get these data centers up and running, they'll be able to supply the water for the data centers.
01:39:05
The data centers don't use water every day from Northeast Creek.
01:39:09
They use water when the ambient air temperature is over 88%.
01:39:14
So I see a lot of people panicked over that.
01:39:19
Nobody's well is going dry because these data centers are being built because they're not taking water after the one well comes offline at Lake Anna.
01:39:28
They're not taking water from wells.
01:39:32
So what I would say
01:39:34
is understand the reasoning behind it.
01:39:37
Understand that Northeast Creek's water supply is not in a bad position.
01:39:42
It's not under water restrictions.
01:39:45
But also understand that whenever any type of water restriction would go in place, everybody's subject to the same rules.
01:39:55
So I just wanted to make that clear.
01:39:57
I wanted to put people
01:40:00
Mind at ease, that is not an issue right now.
01:40:03
The other thing that I wanted to mention is that we'll see, this may be in your report Mr. Goodwin, I don't want to steal your thunder, but you're going to see the county and the Planning Commission send a joint letter to PJM?
01:40:24
Thank you very much.
01:40:56
8 or 9, right?
01:41:00
8 Counties will be holding another regional summit to continue to plan collaboratively to continue to oppose this project on a regional basis.
01:41:09
I think you're going to see some other counties come in with a significant amount of funding for that continued legal defense and I know Mrs. C. is here and thank you for your leadership from a grassroots effort on that.
01:41:23
So we're going to continue to work on that.
01:41:26
We're going to continue to lead the effort and work collaboratively with our neighbors.
01:41:30
And so that was an awfully long Supervisor comment.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:41:33
Mr. Chairman, I have one question about your Supervisor comment, but I also just had a short thing that I wanted to say.
01:41:40
My question is, I do believe in a meeting we had with the Water Authority, they had stated, and correct me if I'm wrong on this, that at any time if we ever had an issue with the reservoir that the priority always goes to residents, that the state would never allow us to make a data center a priority for water.
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:42:00
can I expand a little bit if I do that I think we all got emails texts whatever they were as versus the chair who
01:42:24
uses social media, I do not.
01:42:26
So the only time I hear about these things is if somebody calls or sends me an email.
01:42:30
So we got these emails about a 1998 study that apparently the board ordered.
01:42:38
I don't know anything about that concerning the aquifer in Louisa County.
01:42:44
So I don't know anything about that.
01:42:46
I think probably there's probably nobody in this room that knows anything about that report.
01:42:50
Somebody happened to be looking through old county stuff and saw it.
01:42:53
I think we're going to find out about it.
01:42:55
I believe staff is checking on that.
01:42:59
I just want to make clear to people, when you talk about the aquifer, what draws off the aquifer is wells.
01:43:08
And I'm no expert on this, but when you drill a well, you drill it in the ground.
01:43:12
If you get water, you're in an aquifer.
01:43:16
The Northeast Creek Reservoir
01:43:19
is not a part of the aquifer.
01:43:22
It gets its water from surface water that runs off into it.
01:43:25
That's what that was built for.
01:43:27
It was built for a storm on a runoff that Louisa County turned into a water reservoir.
01:43:33
So I just want to make sure people are clear on that.
01:43:37
And Mr.
01:43:37
Chair, something that you said, you said 88%.
01:43:40
It's 88 degrees.
01:43:43
I know what you meant.
01:43:45
So Amazon does not use any water.
01:43:48
to cool until it reaches 88 degrees ambient outside temperature.
01:43:53
And this is this is all in the DQ packet that Mr. Goodwin had in our last board meeting packet.
01:44:05
So some really interesting information in there for people to read.
01:44:09
Actually, we for me at least for the first time saw it in black and white in in print.
01:44:15
I did add a few things I just wanted to say.
Tommy James Barlow
Vice Chair, Board of Supervisors
01:44:29
I just wanted to address the 1998 water study that you were saying.
01:44:34
I found that fascinating and I do not know what's in that report, none of us do as you said.
01:44:39
I believe, I would not be surprised if that report comes back and it is addressing the aquifer, what was being built in that time period, Spring Creek.
01:44:48
What was up with the wells at the deep water wells that we talked about at Spring Creek.
01:44:52
There was a lot of worrying concerns whether Spring Creek and the wells from the historic green springs
01:44:57
At that time, my husband and I were building a home.
01:44:59
I remember being very involved in reading the Central Virginian and trying to stay on top of that.
01:45:04
So I wouldn't be surprised if that aquifer and that water report comes back about the western end of our county.
01:45:10
We'll have to see.
01:45:10
We don't know.
01:45:11
It'll be interesting to find out some more information on it.
01:45:14
But just real briefly, I've attended some really fabulous events in the county over
01:45:19
In the last two weeks since we had our last meeting, we had the Chamber Business Person of the Year at Spring Creek.
01:45:25
That was a phenomenal event.
01:45:26
I think it was one of the best banquets that they've had.
01:45:29
Kudos to the Chamber of Commerce and to
01:45:33
Tracy for putting it on and doing a phenomenal job and congratulations to Bethel Builders, Brews and Farms, Lori Nichols and congratulations to her on being business person of the year.
01:45:48
That was a great event.
01:45:49
I'm also very excited
01:45:50
You touched on this at the last meeting, maybe, that you had the opportunity, or you posted about it, to tour the Flavana Louisa Housing Foundation project that we got off the ground, and then I toured it on Thursday, and it is phenomenal.
01:46:07
I did a write-up on my Facebook page about it.
01:46:10
It's an amazing project.
01:46:12
We have the first four buildings up, homes up and built, and all kudos to the Housing Foundation, to the private community donors, who one of the homes was completely funded by private donations from the community.
01:46:27
So thank you for stepping up and donating to the Housing Foundation.
01:46:30
This is a very worthy cause in our community.
01:46:34
The Sunset Market.
01:46:36
Kudos goes to Mayor Michaels for, I always want to call you by your first name because I always have to stumble over that.
01:46:45
Kudos to you.
01:46:46
That was a wonderful market that we had and brought a lot of community people together and it was hot, but it was great and I look forward to future ones.
01:46:54
So thank you for all you're doing to keep the town alive and vibrant and bringing businesses in and then bringing the people in so the businesses can make a profit and stay.
Chris McCotter
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:47:04
Mr. McCotter.
01:47:05
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
01:47:06
30 seconds or less.
01:47:08
June 20th, notable because it's right around the Father's Day time, but it's also two big events.
01:47:13
Shameless promotion as a tourism ambassador for Louisa County.
01:47:16
We have the Lake in a Business Partnership Car Show down in Kukui District at Pleasants Landing, as well as the, let me back up, that will directly benefit the scholarship fund, the Lake in a Business Partnership Young Leaders Scholarship Fund.
01:47:30
Money raised from that event,
01:47:31
It goes to three scholarships, $2,000 apiece, Ouisa, Orange, Spotsy.
01:47:37
Also on the date is the African American Heritage Festival, which will be held at Moss Knuckles.
01:47:41
I've attended that in the past and found it to be a fun event.
SPEAKER_01
01:47:48
I think Mr. Goodwin and I will be there bright and early parking cars.
01:47:51
Parking cars.
01:47:51
Yes, indeed.
01:47:52
Yes.
01:47:52
All right, we will move on to committee reports.
01:47:56
Should we have any committee reports?
SPEAKER_02
01:47:59
And then we have no board appointments.
SPEAKER_01
01:48:01
County administrators report.
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
01:48:02
Yes sir, Mr. Chairman and members of the board.
01:48:05
I would be remiss if I didn't draw attention to the new format for the county administrators report.
01:48:10
Our amazing Ms. Stanley took it upon herself to reformat my report.
01:48:15
I think the layout is much better.
01:48:16
There's a clearer explanation of what's included in each section in my report.
01:48:22
So Alex, I'm very grateful to you for your
01:48:24
The House has proposed a version for the Senate's consideration.
01:48:37
I believe the Senate isn't
01:48:39
H. M.
01:49:02
Chris McCotter, R.T.
01:49:30
And I had a couple other things, but you all have hit them.
01:49:34
And Supervisor Kaiman, certainly, Valley Link and some other things.
01:49:38
So do make sure.
01:49:39
Got some great Fourth of July activities in the town and beyond out in the county.
01:49:43
So do make sure you attend and encourage your constituents to do the same.
01:49:47
So thank you very much.
01:49:48
That concludes my prepared remarks.
SPEAKER_01
01:49:50
Speaking, just a question.
01:49:52
Actually, it's directed to Mr. McCotter because he would probably know.
01:49:55
When is the Lake Anna fireworks?
01:49:57
Do you know, Mr. McCotter?
Chris McCotter
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:49:58
By fourth.
SPEAKER_01
01:49:58
Is it on the fourth this year?
Chris McCotter
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:50:00
930.
01:50:01
Yep.
SPEAKER_01
01:50:01
Saturday evening.
01:50:02
Perfect.
01:50:03
All right.
SPEAKER_02
01:50:04
To follow up on Mr. Goodman's comments about the ribbon cutting and what have you.
01:50:13
We're looking at having that at 3 o'clock.
01:50:16
And the Holly Grove Rescue Banquet is at 4 o'clock.
01:50:22
where they install offices and all that kind of stuff and it would be, I think, they would love to have everybody that wants to come.
01:50:31
It would be helpful to know if you're planning to come.
SPEAKER_01
01:50:34
What's the date?
01:50:35
12th of July.
SPEAKER_02
01:50:37
Yeah, July the 12th.
01:50:39
3 o'clock for the ribbon cutting, 4 o'clock for the bangles.
01:50:43
I've attended it before.
01:50:44
It's a very nice event.
01:50:45
It is.
01:50:46
Some sort of good eats.
01:50:49
and you can climb the top.
SPEAKER_01
01:50:51
I'm going to take pictures.
01:50:52
I don't like heights, I want you up there.
SPEAKER_02
01:50:57
My banker's here, he wouldn't let me get up that high anyway, afraid I'd default on my loans.
SPEAKER_01
01:51:02
All right, we'll move on to public hearings.
01:51:04
The first is an ordinance from in Chapter 86, Land Development Regulations, Proposed Editions, Travillian Station, Agriculture and Forest District.
01:51:14
Maggie Breakville.
01:51:15
Ms. Breakville.
SPEAKER_03
01:51:15
How are you tonight?
SPEAKER_01
01:51:16
Fine, sir.
01:51:17
How are you?
01:51:18
Fine, ma'am.
01:51:18
How are you?
SPEAKER_03
01:51:19
So, last time I was here, you all asked me for some statistics, so if it's okay with you, Mr.
01:51:23
Chair, I'd like to talk about the amount of acreages that have been applied for since our last, or since December of 25.
01:51:31
So is that okay with you Mr.
01:51:33
Chair?
SPEAKER_01
01:51:34
Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03
01:51:35
Great, thank you.
01:51:35
So we've received 21 applications for Ag and Forest District since December of 25.
01:51:41
That's totaling 8,076.048 acres.
01:51:46
Tonight we will consider 1797 acres.
01:51:50
You have already approved 3,078.5 acres, which would leave roughly 5,000 acres remaining for you to see in the next few months.
01:52:00
So this is applications that will go to Ag Forest Stowal Planning Commission from December to August.
01:52:04
We're still accepting applications.
01:52:06
I actually have two more meetings this week to hopefully get new applications.
01:52:11
And when you break that down, the average application size is about 384.5 acres.
01:52:17
So that's what we've seen just since I've come on.
01:52:20
I do want to point out that in 1998 when they created the South Anna, Patrick Henry, and Green Springs Ag Forest District, that was the largest event we ever got in a year.
01:52:39
And it was 9693, most of that being Green Springs.
01:52:45
So we are just 1618 acres from surpassing that total to have the most acres ever in a year.
01:52:54
So thank you all for your support and thank you to the citizens for participating in the program.
01:53:01
So now I can move into the application.
01:53:04
So our first application is for Trevelyan Station.
01:53:07
The applicants are Charlotte Morford and Hooves & Paws Animal Rescue.
01:53:12
There are two parcels zoned A1 totaling 53.833 acres.
01:53:16
The proposed district addition adjoins the southernmost portion of a qualifying portion of the Trevelyan Station Act Forest District.
01:53:23
The parcel is located east of Route
01:53:25
636 NW of Route 613 and South of Route 22 in the Patrick Henry voting district.
01:53:34
This area of the county is designated rule by the comprehensive plan and the subject parcels are used for pasture horticulture crops and livestock.
01:53:42
So I can stand for questions at this time.
SPEAKER_01
01:53:44
Anyone have any questions for Ms. Brigdon?
01:53:48
I'll open the public hearing.
01:53:50
Is there anyone here from the public which would wish to address the board on this public hearing?
01:53:56
I'll close the public hearing.
01:53:58
Mr. Barnes.
01:53:59
So moved.
01:54:00
Seconded.
SPEAKER_02
01:54:00
The property moved and seconded that we approve this amendment adding this to the Travillian Station Ag and Forestry District.
SPEAKER_01
01:54:09
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
01:54:11
Aye.
01:54:11
Any opposed?
01:54:12
Motion passes unanimously.
01:54:14
Next is an ordinance amending chapter 86 land development regulations proposed addition to the Shelton's Mill Agriculture and Forestry District.
SPEAKER_03
01:54:23
The Shelton's Mill Agriculture and Forest District, we have one landowner, Sydney Barbie Cox.
01:54:27
It's two parcels, zoned A1A2.
01:54:29
It's 157.49 acres.
01:54:32
The proposed district addition is located 3.75 miles from the existing Shelton's Mill Ag Forest District.
01:54:38
The parcels are located along the Louisa County Hanover County line on Route 604.
01:54:44
North of Route 610 and south of Johnson & Neal Road.
01:54:47
The parcels are located in the Mountain Road and Jackson voting districts.
01:54:50
They are designated rule by the comprehensive plan and the uses on the parcel are timber and crops and both of these were recommended from Ag Forest and Planning Commission.
SPEAKER_01
01:54:59
Anyone have any questions for Mr. Breakville?
SPEAKER_02
01:55:06
The distance between these parcels being 3.75 miles, that's sort of unusual.
01:55:13
I hadn't seen that much.
01:55:17
My question is, that has no impact on the parcels that are in between these parcels that are so far removed.
01:55:28
No sir.
SPEAKER_03
01:55:29
So it would come under the agricultural and forestry significant language under the statute which takes distance out of it.
01:55:38
Mr. Cox didn't have enough to make a core so we're connecting them to the next closest district that being the only district as of right now on this side of the county.
01:55:47
We do have an application you'll see in a few months for another district
SPEAKER_02
01:55:51
Well, my question is not on that parcel or immediately surrounding him, but I know the question I'm going to get is if you have a satellite, a few parcels out here,
01:56:14
And then you have the core, the main part of it, 3.7 miles away.
01:56:21
Is there, and I'm just, I think I know the answer, but I'm looking for clarification.
01:56:25
There's no impact to landowners that are in between these groups of parcels.
01:56:34
That is correct.
01:56:35
Okay, they're not impacted in any way.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:56:38
There's no negative impact.
SPEAKER_02
01:56:39
Exactly.
SPEAKER_03
01:56:40
No, there is no negative impact on anyone.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:56:42
The key would be maybe a positive impact because then they could qualify to be in district because they are between the parcels.
SPEAKER_02
01:56:48
Yes, that is correct.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:56:49
A negative impact.
SPEAKER_02
01:56:51
That's what I was looking for.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:56:52
Maybe perceived negative impact is a better word.
SPEAKER_01
01:56:54
It's a bridge.
01:56:55
It's an opportunity for you to help her get more land in the ag enforcement districts.
01:56:59
It's an opportunity, Mr. Barlow.
01:57:01
Thank you, ma'am.
01:57:02
Alright, we'll open to public hearing.
01:57:03
Is there anyone here that would stress the board on this public hearing?
01:57:09
We'll close the public hearing.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:57:11
So moved.
01:57:12
Second.
SPEAKER_01
01:57:12
property moved and second that we approve this amendment to the Shelton Mills Agriculture and Forestry District.
01:57:18
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
01:57:20
Any opposed?
01:57:21
Motion passes unanimously.
01:57:23
Next is an ordinance amending chapter 86 land development proposed addition to the Indian Creek Agriculture and Forestry District.
SPEAKER_03
01:57:32
So for Indian Creek, we have landowners Brandi Cox Douglas, Lindsey Cox, Sydney Barbie Cox, and S.B.
01:57:39
Cox Inc.
01:57:40
It's 12 parcels zoned A1-A2.
01:57:43
It's 1,332.939 acres.
01:57:47
The proposed district addition consists of two separate parcels, a northern and southern parcel, both located in the Cuckoo Voting District.
01:57:54
The northern parcel adjoins the northernmost corner of the existing Indian Creek Ag Forest District.
01:57:59
The parcels are located east of Route 699 and along the western side of Route 522.
01:58:04
The southern portion adjoins the southernmost portion of the Indian Creek Ag Forest District.
01:58:10
These parcels are located west of Route 522 along Route 699, north, east, and south of the South Anna River.
01:58:18
This area is deemed rural by the Comprehensive Plan and the subject parcels are used for cattle, pasture, timber, and crops.
01:58:26
Both were recommended by the Ag Force and Planning Commission.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
01:58:30
The actual Indian Creek AFD, do the Cox's or the Cox's affiliations own the purple piece there?
SPEAKER_03
01:58:37
They don't own the current district, if that's what you're asking.
01:58:41
They own surrounding it and they're putting into the district, yes.
SPEAKER_01
01:58:45
Any other questions?
01:58:46
Thank you ma'am.
01:58:48
Is there anyone here that would wish to address the board on this public hearing?
01:58:53
All right, seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.
01:58:58
And properly moved and seconded that we approve amending the Indian Creek Ag and Forestry District.
01:59:04
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
01:59:06
Aye.
01:59:07
Any opposed?
01:59:07
Motion passes unanimously.
01:59:09
Next is an ordinance amending Chapter 86, Land Development, proposed addition to the Goldmine Agricultural Creek and Forestry District.
SPEAKER_03
01:59:17
For the Goldmine Creek Agriculture and Forestry District, we have landowners James and Catherine Kane.
01:59:23
There's eight parcels zoned A1.
01:59:25
It's 253.626 acres.
01:59:29
The proposed district addition adjoins the northernmost portion of an existing qualifying portion of the Goldmine Creek Agriculture and Forestry District.
01:59:37
These parcels are located along Route 669, north of Route 613, south of Route
01:59:43
I-51 in the Mineral Voting District.
01:59:45
This part of the county is deemed rural in the comprehensive plan.
01:59:49
The uses are cattle, crops, hay, pasture, and timber.
01:59:52
And the application was recommended by both Ag Forest and the Planning Commission.
SPEAKER_01
01:59:57
Any questions for Ms. Brinkville?
02:00:00
I'll open a public hearing.
02:00:02
When we come back, since I can't make a motion, I would like to make it clear that I'm in favor of this addition.
02:00:07
I open the public hearing.
02:00:08
Is there anyone here that would wish to address the board on amending the Goldblum Creek Ag and Forestville District?
02:00:14
All right, seeing none, I'll close the public hearing.
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:00:17
So moved.
02:00:18
Second.
SPEAKER_01
02:00:18
Been properly moved and seconded that we approve the addition to the Goldmine Creek Ag and Forestry District.
02:00:24
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
SPEAKER_02
02:00:26
Aye.
SPEAKER_01
02:00:26
Any opposed?
02:00:27
Motion passes unanimously.
02:00:29
Thank you ma'am.
02:00:29
You're doing a great job.
02:00:30
We appreciate the job you're doing.
02:00:32
The next and final public hearing is an ordinance amending chapter 86 land development regulations to add section 86-44 conditional use permits for electric transmission facilities.
02:00:45
Mr. Coon.
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:00:47
Good evening, Chairman, members of the board.
02:00:49
Starting on packet page 197, you will see all the information, the resolutions, as well as the memo explaining the use of the CUP.
02:01:00
We recently adopted an addendum to the comprehensive plan.
02:01:04
which is the intent behind the electric transmission lines and the policy that we would like to see moving forward.
02:01:12
This is now an opportunity for the county to utilize these standards when reviewing any process or implementation that would not be the transmission lines themselves.
02:01:25
I'll stand ready to answer any questions.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:01:27
Can you tell me what the size of a 69 kV line is?
02:01:30
Because that's where the threshold is.
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:01:33
That was one a member of the Planning Commission who also has experience... Mr. Disasway?
02:01:40
Yes sir.
02:01:41
Okay.
02:01:41
...said that there is a very low likelihood that a 69 KB line would be used as a transmission line but for some smaller entities that may be something that could be utilized.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:01:53
So Rappahannock built one.
02:01:55
between two substations in our district, and it went behind and came through.
02:02:00
You don't happen to know the size of something like that.
02:02:03
Is that transmission, would that count as substation to substation?
02:02:06
That would count as transmission, is that right?
Christian Goodwin
County Administrator
02:02:08
I think so.
02:02:10
Yeah, that's a good question.
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:02:11
It goes behind our house and comes back up there to, right there to Anthonytown, and cuts back over to Hanover and goes that way.
02:02:20
And I'm just curious,
02:02:22
What is 69 kV?
02:02:25
I'm not opposed to it, I'm just trying to understand where the threshold is.
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:02:29
I mean, what was explained to us is that there's a very small likelihood that a 69 kV line would be used for transmission, but if there was a situation that 69 kV was used and then they had a substation or any of the other equipment,
02:02:44
makes sense.
02:02:56
and I didn't disagree with them and that Planning Commission felt that that was an appropriate recommendation so that's why we switched it from the 115 to 69 KB.
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:03:07
Mr. Coon, I had a couple of people question me this afternoon.
02:03:14
They were planning on coming tonight because they thought we were doing a CUP.
02:03:20
and I explained to them, no, the only thing about a CUP is we're looking to add to the comprehensive plan CUP process for transmission lines, that type of thing.
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:03:35
So this we did already
02:03:37
Would it be fair
SPEAKER_01
02:04:07
No, I'll say it and see if you agree.
02:04:09
I'm not going to ask your opinion.
02:04:11
This is another tool that we're putting into our ordinances to help us with the ValleyLink project and projects like ValleyLink so that the county, again, continues to have a seat at the table.
02:04:25
Would that be a fair statement?
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:04:26
Correct.
02:04:26
This would address any electric transmission infrastructure that's not outright approved by the SEC or FERC.
02:04:34
So anything below that, which
H. Manning Woodward III
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:04:36
The fee schedule for CUPs, that's based on value of what they're looking to do?
Christopher S. Coon
Deputy County Administrator
02:04:54
No, we have a calculation where it would be acreage
02:05:01
I'll open the public hearing.
SPEAKER_01
02:05:15
Is there anyone here that would wish to address the board regarding this ordinance which would amend the land use regulations?
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:05:32
I see none.
SPEAKER_01
02:05:33
I'll close the public hearing and bring it back to the board.
02:05:35
What's the pleasure of the board?
R.T. "Toni" Williams Jr.
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:05:36
Move to approve it.
02:05:37
Second.
SPEAKER_01
02:05:38
The property moved and seconded that we amend chapter 86 adding sections 86-44.
02:05:44
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
02:05:46
Aye.
02:05:46
Any opposed?
02:05:47
Motion passes unanimously.
02:05:48
Mr. Barnes.
Fitzgerald D. Barnes
Member, Board of Supervisors
02:05:49
So moved.
SPEAKER_01
02:05:50
The property moved and seconded that we adjourn.
02:05:52
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
02:05:55
Aye.
02:05:55
Any opposed?
02:05:56
Meeting adjourned.