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2026-09-14 - City Council

Summary

Built from the City's official action summary for this meeting (Legistar, status Draft). It records outcomes and sponsors, not motions, individual votes, discussion or public comment. No video is posted.

  • Regular meeting, Council Chamber, 6:00 PM; 75 items on the action summary.
  • Adopted 11 ordinances, among them a nightclub conditional use on West Broad Street, an alley closure, garage and townhome permits, a weeds-code exemption for native plants (as amended) and a $137,038.00 juvenile detention center grant.
  • Continued 15 items, including the South Meadow Street townhomes to September 28, Brook Road to October 13, and the Gilpin Court agreement (amended) to October 13.
  • Introduced 49 new items: committee referrals for housing, finance and governmental operations, and 26 items sent to the Planning Commission before an October 13 hearing (17 special use permits, 3 permit amendments, a rezoning, land acquisitions and a $1,000,000.00 federal road safety grant), plus opioid settlement funding.

Mimosa Street Townhome Permit

  • A Mimosa Street permit for two detached homes (2026-185) adopted; the larger 2026-186 (up to 22 attached townhomes plus one detached) was amended and continued to September 28.

South Meadow Street Townhome Permit

  • Continued to September 28 (listed as amended from up to 31 to up to 21 dwellings).

Brook Road Multifamily Permit

  • Continued to October 13.

Overbrook Road Apartment Permit

  • Up to 100 units; continued to September 28.

Colonial Avenue Rented Garages Permit

  • Continued to September 28. A thirteen-garage permit on Crenshaw Mews Alley (2026-102) was adopted as amended.

Affordable Dwelling Unit Advisory Committee

  • Continued to September 28 and referred to the Land Use, Housing and Transportation Standing Committee (September 22, 3:00 PM). Ordinance 2026-278 on renter affidavits introduced.

Gilpin Court Redevelopment Agreement

  • Amended and continued to October 13.

Emergency Operations Plan Adoption

  • Continued to September 28 and referred to the Public Safety Standing Committee (September 22, 1:00 PM).

Newly introduced

Other items adopted

  • Special use or conditional use permits and amendments: Crenshaw Mews Alley garages, a nightclub on West Broad Street (2nd District), a Grove Avenue physicians' office modification, North 27th Street detached homes (repeal of Ord. 2024-327), a West Broad Street auto sales use, a Brookland Parkway home with accessory unit, and a South Meadow Street multifamily and parking permit (repeal of Ord. 84-310-278).
  • Alley closure between South Meadow, Appomattox, Hampton and Powhatan Streets (about 1,600 square feet), and the weeds and vegetation code change exempting native plants.
  • $137,038.00 from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services for a juvenile detention center program (Byrne/JAG, 2026-191).

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