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Property request · conditional use permit

Request by Crystal Cove Housing, LLC, owner, and Carolyn

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In plain words

Crystal Cove Housing, LLC, owner, and Carolyn Crockett, applicant, asked for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a child care facility on property zoned B-1, Business General.1 The property is shown as Tax Map Parcel # 36-(1)-25-C and is located at 740 Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway.2 At the Planning Commission public hearing, no one had signed up to speak, and Dr. Crockett told the Commission about the proposed child care facility in Burgess.2 Dr. Crockett said there is a tremendous need in the county for child care and that existing facilities have a waiting list.2 The Board voted 5-0 to approve the Conditional Use Permit with the suggested conditions, with yes votes from James M. Long, Richard F. Haynie, James W. Brann, Chip Williams and AC Fisher, Jr.3 The suggested conditions include obtaining all required permits and/or licenses from appropriate regulatory agencies and complying with the Virginia Statewide Building Code.4

Summarized from the county’s records, September 28.

Where each sentence comes from
  1. “Request by Crystal Cove Housing, LLC, owner, and Carolyn Crockett, applicant, for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a child care facility on property zoned B-1, Business General.”Mar 20, 2025 · Planning Commission · On the agenda
  2. “The property is shown as Tax Map Parcel # 36-(1)-25-C and is located at 740 Jessie Dupont Memorial Highway.” … “no one had signed up to speak” … “tell the Commission about their proposed child care facility in Burgess” … “there is a tremendous need in the county for child care” … “all of the existing child care facilities have a waiting list”Mar 20, 2025 · Planning Commission · In the minutes
  3. “Motion to approve the Conditional Use Permit to allow a child care facility on property zoned B- 1, Business General with the suggested conditions.” … “Vote 5-0: yes, James M. Long, Richard F. Haynie, James W. Brann, Chip Williams, AC Fisher, Jr.; no, none.”Apr 10, 2025 · Board of Supervisors · Motion carried, 5-0
  4. “All required permits and/or licenses shall be obtained from all appropriate regulatory agencies” … “The building shall comply with the Virginia Statewide Building Code.”Request by Crystal Cove Housing, LLC, owner, and Carolyn · full text

Written automatically from the county’s records. Each sentence has to quote the record it comes from, word for word, or it’s left out. The records have the final say.

Zoning districts here

  • B-1 · Business GeneralWhat the ordinance says it’s for
    “A. It is the purpose of this district to promote light commercial expansion, development, and redevelopment in the existing business centers for mixed commercial and residential uses. B. This district covers these areas of the County intended for the conduct of general business to which the public requires direct and frequent access. This district is not characterized either by constant heavy trucking, other than stocking and delivery of light retail goods, or by any nuisance factors other than occasioned by incidental light and noise of congregation of people and passenger vehicles.”
    Zoning Ordinance § 148-81

Words the law defines

  • Conditional use permit

    Virginia law calls this a special exception, or special use permit:

    “‘Special exception’ means a special use that is a use not permitted in a particular district except by a special use permit granted under the provisions of this chapter and any zoning ordinances adopted herewith.”

    Code of Virginia § 15.2-2201, Chapter 22. Planning, Subdivision of Land and Zoning

What’s happened

  1. Thu10Apr

    Board of Supervisors · a vote

    ApprovedRequest by Crystal Cove Housing, LLC, owner, and Carolyn

    Motion to approve the Conditional Use Permit to allow a child care facility on property zoned B- 1, Business General with the suggested conditions. This motion is made in due consideration… Show all

    Moved by Williams, seconded by Long

    Minutes, Apr 10, p. 19Open it in the meeting →

  2. Thu20Mar

Meeting by meeting, newest first, in the records’ own words. Each vote names the minutes it’s written in.

The records

Gathered from Northumberland County’s agendas, minutes and notices. Checked October 26.

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How a conditional use permit is decided

Some uses of land are allowed in a zoning district only with the Board of Supervisors' permission. An owner asks for that permission with a conditional use permit.

In Northumberland, the Planning Commission holds a public hearing on the request and makes a recommendation, then the Board of Supervisors holds its own public hearing and decides, often with conditions. Each hearing must be advertised in advance.

The law: Va. Code § 15.2-2286 (What a zoning ordinance may provide, including special exceptions and conditional uses); Va. Code § 15.2-2204 (Advertising public hearings). This describes the general process, not this decision.