Halifax County Supervisors will host two public hearings when they meet
tonight for their regular monthly session in the second floor meeting
room of the Mary Bethune Complex at 6:30 p.m.
  A third hearing which had been scheduled for tonight's meeting has
been canceled after Eric Wingard withdrew his application for a
conditional use permit for a seven space recreational vehicle
campground in ED#7.
The first public hearing tonight focuses on a request from Halifax
County for a conditional use permit to operate a convenience center on
River Road, west of its intersection with News Ferry Road. In comments
made earlier to County Planners, several residents of the Elmo
community explained they are not opposed to the convenience center
provided that green boxes in the Elmo community are not removed.
Several Elmo residents noted that the distance to the proposed
convenience center would be problematic for them to dispose of their
solid waste.
A rezoning application in ED#7 is the subject of tonight's second
public hearing. Donnie Green, owner of Cluster Springs Self Storage,
Inc. and County Planners are asking that a 5.5 acre tract located at
the intersection of US 501 and Cherry Hill Church Road be rezoned from
A-1 to B-2. The site is the location of the self storage business and
the Apple Mart properties.
In other land use matters, Supervisors are expected to set public
hearings for their November meeting on four requests for conditional
use permits. Those requests include one in ED#2 from Doris Chism for a
group/foster home on Bagwell Drive and a second one in ED#3 from Don
and Jenny Hochstein to allow for a small wind energy system tower on
Deer Ridge Trail, south of Oak Level Road.
The third request comes from Arlene Gurganus who wants to start a day
care center on US Route 58, west of the Industrial Park Road in ED#6
and the seventh request comes from Cingular Wireless for a
telecommunications tower on Route 501, south of Whitt Loop Road in
ED#7.
Board members are also expected to recognize two local individuals who
have been appointed by Governor Tim Kaine to serve on statewide boards.
The first is Traci Talley, who was named to the Virginia Board of
Agriculture and Consumer Services and secondly, Linda Faye Wallace who
was named to the Virginia Pesticide Control Board.