Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, September 28, 1995 TAG: 9509290028
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: S.D. HARRINGTON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The amendment will allow for two categories of home child care without requiring a rezoning from residential to business.
A small-family child-care home may have five or fewer children, including those living at the home.
A large-family child-care home classification will allow six to 10 children, including those living at the home. A large-family facility will still require a zoning and use permit.
The code now requires any child-care facility with more than five children to have a business zoning.
The amendment brings the city into compliance with other localities in the state, said Joe Yates, planning director.
In other action:
Council denied a zoning request and a zoning and use permit to allow bingo at an existing Chestnut Street business.
The Planning Commission recommended that the request be denied, but no one showed up to petition before council.
Sterling M. and Jo Ann Minter, property owners, and Hersel L. Lawson, lessee of the property, made the initial request before the Planning Commission. The building was formerly a grocery store and is now being used for furniture storage and sales by Olde Salem Furniture.
David Paxton of Virginia Amateur Sports Inc. presented the council with a plaque and T-shirts to show thanks for the city's participation in the Commonwealth Games this past summer.
Paxton said that about 3,600 athletes out of 9,000 competed in Salem.
by CNB