The Albemarle Planning Commission has recommended denial of a developer’s second request to fill in a portion of the floodplain in order to build a commercial building in the county’s Broadway Blueprint.
The Commission had voted 4 to 3 in April 2025 to recommend approval of Elemental Ecotech’s first version of the permit, but the six-member Board of Supervisors denied the permit in June with a tie vote.
This time, the amount of land to be disturbed is slightly smaller at 1.346 acres, as opposed to 1.47 acres in the first submission…