NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7:00 PM
The Jefferson County Planning Commission has scheduled a Public Hearing on Zoning Ordinance Text
Amendment (ZTA 16-01), a proposed text amendment to multiple sections of the Jefferson County
Zoning and Land Development Ordinance. This text amendment, in accordance with WV Code §8A-7-
13, proposes to replace the current nontraditional zoning ordinance with a traditional zoning ordinance
by eliminating the Development Review System (DRS) based on the Land Evaluation and Soils
Assessment (LESA) Conditional Use Permit (CUP) Process (Articles 6 and 7) and replacing it with a
traditional Principal Permitted and Conditional Use process. The proposed Zoning Ordinance text
amendment further propose changes to the Rural Zoning Cluster Development Provisions in Section 5.7
and proposes related rural land use amendments throughout the Ordinance. The amendment is the
proposed implementation of a key concept throughout the Envision Jefferson 2035 Comprehensive Plan,
adopted in February, 2015, which states “This Plan proposes a higher density cluster provision rather
than allowing rural residential developments via the Land Evaluation Site Assessment (LESA)
system/Conditional Use Permit (CUP) process; and to allow the use of the a more traditional CUP
process in the Rural District for non-residential uses which are compatible in scale and intensity with the
rural environment and that pose no threat to public health, safety, and welfare.”
Copies of the proposed text amendment are available at the Dept. of Planning & Zoning office (304-
728-3228) or online at www.jeffersoncountywv.org.
Oral or written comments may be provided at the hearing located in the Charles Town Library
meeting room at 200 E Washington Street, accessed at the side entrance on Samuel Street. In
addition, you may provide written comments to [email protected] or
PO Box 338, Charles Town, WV 25414.
By Order of the Jefferson County Planning Commission
Mike Chapman, President
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