Woodstock Council includes bicycle and pedestrian plan in Comprehensive Plan | Nvdaily

The Woodstock City Council accredited a resolution at its meeting very last week to contain the 2019 Bicycle and Pedestrian Grasp System in the town’s Complete Strategy.

The bicycle and pedestrian grasp strategy, adopted in June 2019, was produced to motivate the advancement of initiatives that are constant with the town’s streets, sidewalks, trails, shared use paths, patterns and growth contained in the town’s Detailed Plan.

This resolution gained favorable suggestions from the Planning Commission for incorporation into the Detailed Approach.

Also for the duration of Tuesday night’s meeting, the council and Organizing Fee held a joint community listening to to get comments about a proposed distinctive use allow for a qualified place of work at 150 North Muhlenberg Road.

Monica Johns and Derek Publish, the candidates of the unique use allow, possess Life Enrichment Services LLC, which is a mental health and fitness and remedy enterprise that is hunting to grow into a 2nd office environment. Johns and Post are also wanting to expand their business at a second locale, a 1,882-square-foot dwelling at 150 North Muhlenberg Street.

Their particular use allow application proposes to use the household in a high-density household district in the historic district on Muhlenberg Avenue, and use it as a specialist office. There was also a ask for for the council to waive off road parking since it is in a reduced parking location.

A letter written by Johns suggests that the organization 1st opened in 2010 and has grown around the a long time. “I have close to 80 workforce. Seventy-5 percent of those staff members reside, work, and fork out taxes in just Shenandoah County,” Johns claimed. “I am very very pleased of how my business supports the local economic system as perfectly as how we assist our nearby family members.”

There ended up no other community responses through the joint general public hearing.

Council members Jacqueline Lambert, A. Paje Cross, Alicia Gutshall, Stephen Heishman, Frank Haun, and Mayor Jeremy McCleary ended up all in attendance for Tuesday’s meeting. Councilman Michael Funkhouser was absent.

The next City Council assembly is scheduled for Aug. 2 at the City Office environment Council Chambers.