Municipal Planning Commission — Charleston, WV
Date: 2024-04-03
Time: 15:00

Municipal Planning Commission
 City Service Center – 915 Quarrier Street – Suite 6
 Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
 3:00 p.m.

 Agenda

1. Call to Order

2. Unfinished Business

 Subdivision: Final plat approval of subdivision at 1013 Walnut Road.

3. New Business

 Presentation: Bill No. 8021– A Bill adopting a revision of the comprehensive plan and downtown redevelopment
 plan for the City of Charleston, West Virginia, pursuant to Chapter 8A, Article 3, of the West Virginia Code titled
 “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and “Imagine Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan”. Said
 revisions to the plans are to guide the city to accomplish a coordinated and compatible development of land and
 improvements within its territorial jurisdiction, in accordance with present and future needs and resources.

4. Minutes of the March 6, 2024 MPC meeting

5. Announcements

6. Adjournment


 *Meetings may be recorded and broadcast via internet https://charlestonwv.civicclerk.com

Municipal Planning Commission
 City Service Center – 915 Quarrier Street – Suite 6
 Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
 3:00 p.m.

 Agenda

1. Call to Order

2. Unfinished Business

 Subdivision: Final plat approval of subdivision at 1013 Walnut Road.

3. New Business

 Presentation: Bill No. 8021– A Bill adopting a revision of the comprehensive plan and downtown redevelopment
 plan for the City of Charleston, West Virginia, pursuant to Chapter 8A, Article 3, of the West Virginia Code titled
 “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and “Imagine Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan”. Said
 revisions to the plans are to guide the city to accomplish a coordinated and compatible development of land and
 improvements within its territorial jurisdiction, in accordance with present and future needs and resources.

4. Minutes of the March 6, 2024 MPC meeting

5. Announcements

6. Adjournment


 *Meetings may be recorded and broadcast via internet https://charlestonwv.civicclerk.com
 City of Charleston, West Virginia
 TRANSMITTAL
TO:
 Building Department City Engineer

 Planning Department Sanitary Board

 Traffic Operations CURA

 Fire Department


FROM: Permit Coordinator 1/24/2024
 C/O Building Department

PROJECT OWNER NAME: LANE CORPORATION
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:




PERMIT NUMBER: SUB-23-0573
PROJECT ADDRESS: 1013 WALNUT RD CHARLESTON, WV 25314
CONTRACTOR:
APPLICANT: LANE CORPORATION

Please review the attached materials and return your comments with the necessary approvals or
conditions. Plans should be stamped by your department, signed and dated, and comments
returned on this form or an attachment.


REVIEW:
This project is approved as submitted:
This project requires the following/or attached revisions or addtional information:
COMMENTS:




Reviewed By Date
 Bill No. 8021

 Introduced in Council: Adopted by Council:

 April 1st, 2024__ _ __

 Introduced by: Referred to:
 Municipal Planning Commission
 Mary Beth Hoover Planning, Streets and Traffic


 1 Bill No. 8021 b– A Bill adopting a revision of the comprehensive plan and downtown
 2 redevelopment plan for the City of Charleston, West Virginia, pursuant to Chapter 8A, Article 3,
 3 of the West Virginia Code titled “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and “Imagine
 4 Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan”. Said revisions to the plans are to guide the city to
 5 accomplish a coordinated and compatible development of land and improvements within its
 6 territorial jurisdiction, in accordance with present and future needs and resources.
 7
 8 WHEREAS, the City Council herby finds:
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10 a. A comprehensive plan is the basis for land development and use, and must be reviewed
11 and updated on a regular basis;
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13 b. The purpose of a comprehensive plan is to:
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15 i. Set goals and objectives for land development, uses and suitability for a governing
16 body, so a governing body can make an informed decision;
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18 ii. Ensure that the elements in the comprehensive plan are consistent;
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20 iii.  Coordinate all governing bodies, units of government and other planning
21 commissions to ensure that all comprehensive plans and future development are
22 compatible;
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24 iv. Create conditions favorable to health, safety, mobility, transportation, prosperity,
25 civic activities, recreational, educational, cultural opportunities and historic resources;
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27 v. Reduce the wastes of physical, financial, natural or human resources which result
28 from haphazard development, congestion or scattering of population;
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30 vi. Reduce the destruction or demolition of historic sites and other resources by
31 reusing land and buildings and revitalizing areas;
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33 vii. Promote a sense of community, character and identity;
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35 viii.  Promote the efficient utilization of natural resources, rural land, agricultural land
36 and scenic areas;
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38 ix. Focus development in existing developed areas and fill in vacant or underused
39 land near existing developed areas to create well designed and coordinated communities;
40 and
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42 x. Promote cost-effective development of community facilities and services; and
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44 c. Due to the passage of time and state statutory requirements, the comprehensive plan
45 currently in place, the 2013 plans titled “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and “Imagine
46 Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan,” must be updated; and
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48 d. The March 2024 revised plans titled “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and
49 “Imagine Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan,” attached hereto as Exhibit A and Exhibit
50 B respectively, are in compliance with the mandatory components of a comprehensive plan as
51 outlined in § 8A-3-4 of the Code of West Virginia, and should be adopted as comprehensive plans
52 for the City.
53
54
55 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
56 CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA:
57
58 That the March 2024 revised plans titled “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and
59 “Imagine Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan” are hereby adopted as the comprehensive
60 plans for the City.
61
62 This Ordinance will become effective immediately after final passage.
 Municipal Planning Commission
 City Service Center – 915 Quarrier Street – Suite 6
 Wednesday, March 6, 2024
 3:00 P.M.

Members Present Members Absent
Aric Margolis, Architect, Chairman Shawn Taylor
Quintie Smith Cory Stout
Adam Krason Lisa-Fischer-Casto
Mary Beth Hoover Justin Marlow
Alice Hypes JoEllen Zacks
Shannon Ferrari Justin Marlow
Terri Allen, Mayor’s Designee Doug Hartley
Alex Zurbuch
J.D. Stricklen, Kanawha County Representative

Staff Present
Dan Vriendt
Chad Webb
Lori Brannon


1. Call to Order

2. Unfinished Business

3. New Business

4. Announcements

 Presentation: Presentation and review of the 2023 Planning Department 10-Year
 Comprehensive Plan.

5. Minutes of the February 7, 2024 MPC meeting

 MOTION AND VOTE: A motion was made to adopt the minutes of the February 7, 2024
 MPC meeting. The motion was seconded and passed by a unanimous vote of 9-0.


6. Adjournment



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Municipal Planning Commission
 City Service Center – 915 Quarrier Street – Suite 6
 Wednesday, April 3, 2024
 3:00 P.M.

Members Present Members Absent
Aric Margolis, Architect, Chairman Adam Krason
Quintie Smith Doug Hartley
Cory Stout Lisa-Fischer-Casto
Mary Beth Hoover Justin Marlow
Alice Hypes Shannon Ferrari
Terri Allen, Mayor’s Designee
Alex Zurbuch
Brady Campbell
Shawn Taylor
JoEllen Zacks
J.D. Stricklen, Kanawha County Representative

Staff Present
Dan Vriendt
Lori Brannon

1. Call to Order

2. Unfinished Business

 Subdivision: Final plat approval of subdivision at 1013 Walnut Road.

 Dan presented the staff’s analysis and recommendation. There was a preliminary approval
 of Tom Lane’s 4-unit apartment complex on Walnut Road. The map depicts it as one parcel.
 Tom is creating four lots along the party wall of each unit. It was necessary for this to become
 a preliminary and final subdivision because Tom had to provide separate sanitary laterals to
 each unit. In order to provide a lateral to each unit, Tom had to create a sewer extension line
 running across the back with each lateral coming of it. The mainline is owned by the Sanitary
 Board so it requires a Mainline Extension Agreement. The sewer line has since been installed
 to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board. All the departments have reviewed and approved
 the subdivision. Staff also recommends approval.

 Aric asked the members of the MPC if they had any questions for the staff.

 There were no questions from the MPC and no one from the public in attendance. Aric closed
 the hearing and entertained a motion.

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 Motion and Vote: A motion was made by Shawn Taylor to approve the final plat of the
 subdivision at 1013 Walnut Road. The motion was seconded by Quentie Smith and passed
 unanimously by a vote of 8-0.

3. New Business

 Alice Hypes joined the meeting.

 Presentation: Bill No. 8021– A Bill adopting a revision of the comprehensive plan and
 downtown redevelopment plan for the City of Charleston, West Virginia, pursuant to Chapter
 8A, Article 3, of the West Virginia Code titled “Imagine Charleston: Comprehensive Plan” and
 “Imagine Charleston: Downtown Redevelopment Plan”. Said revisions to the plans are to
 guide the city to accomplish a coordinated and compatible development of land and
 improvements within its territorial jurisdiction, in accordance with present and future needs
 and resources.

 Dan stated that the comprehensive plan was presented and voted on at last month’s MPC
 hearing. However, the bill had not been formally introduced to City Council until the April 1,
 2024 City Council Meeting. It has now been properly introduced before this meeting so it can
 now be voted on in the proper order. There has been no change in the content of Bill No.
 8021, as previously approved by the MPC at last month’s meeting.

 Motion and Vote: A motion was made by Quentie Smith to adopt Bill No. 8021. The motion
 was seconded by Brady Campbell. Cory Stout abstained from voting on a motion to adopt
 Bill No. 8021. The motion passed by a vote of 8-0-1.

4. Minutes of the March 6, 2024 MPC meeting

 Motion and Vote: Noting a correction that needs to be made to the attendance list in the
 minutes from the March 6, 2024 meeting, a motion was made by Brady Campbell to adopt
 the minutes of the March 6, 2024 MPC meeting. The motion was seconded by Quentie
 Smith and passed unanimously by a vote of 9-0.

5. Announcements

 Merger of the Planning and Building Departments.

 Traffic Calming Seminar

6. Adjournment



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