THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, September 15, 1996 TAG: 9609170515
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 77 lines
City Council took the following actions at its last meeting:
Proposal
Request for an ordinance to increase the transient occupancy tax from 5 percent to 6 percent of the total amount paid for transient board and lodging inhotels and other lodging establishments. Approved, 7-2; de Triquet and Krasnoff voted no.
Request for an ordinance to increase the meal tax from 5 percent to 5.5 percent of the total amount paid for food and beverages in restaurants. Approved, 7-2; de Triquet and Krasnoff voted no.
Request by the Social Services Department for an appropriation of $45,268 of guardianship demonstration grant funds awarded by the Virginia Department for Aging. Approved, 9-0. Request by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Building Maintenance for an appropriation of $5,000 of Urban and Community Forestry Grant funds awarded by the Virginia Department of Forestry. Approved, 9-0.
Request by the Department of Juvenile Detention for an appropriation of $22,735.40 allocated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Approved, 9-0.
Designation of voting and alternate voting delegates to the annual Congress of Cities meeting. Approved, 9-0.
Resolution authorizing the interim city manager to execute a coordination agreement and all other documents necessary to support the Chesapeake Industrial Development Authority in the lease and optional purchase of a 51,000-square-foot public convention and conference center in the Greenbrier area. Approved, 7-2; de Triquet and Krasnoff voted no.
Proposal
Request from the City Manager's Office to the Planning Commission to consider and make recommendations concerning proposed amendments to the City Code to define convention centers as an allowed use in business, office and institutional and industrial zoning districts and to provide off-street parking requirements for them. Approved, 9-0.
Request from the City Manager's Office for an appropriation of $1,559,000 of Community Development Block Grant funds and $503,000 of Home Investment Partnership Grant funds as awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Approved, 9-0.
Consideration of design features of the Johnstown Road project. Approved, 9-0.
An ordinance amending the City Code to regulate towing services with outside storage. Approved, 9-0.
A resolution requesting the Planning Commission to consider and make recommendations concerning a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance prohibiting parking commercial vehicles in commercial parking lots except for consumer or service purposes. Approved, 9-0.
Resolution requesting the Planning Commission to consider and make a recommendation concerning proposed amendments to the Zoning Ordinance to requirenetting for driving ranges under certain circumstances. Approved, 9-0.
Request for an ordinance amending the City Code to increase maximum heights for communication towers and antennas permitted as accessory structures in industrial districts, to modify application procedures and minimum development standards for communication towers, and to allow communication towers as a permitted use on certain public lands identified in the master plan of municipalsites for communication towers. Approved, except for one section, which was continued to Sept. 17, 8-0 (Parker out of chamber).
Concurrent advertising for a proposal involving United Freewill Baptist Church. Approved, 9-0. by CNB