Developer’s bid to fill in floodplain for Woolen Mills building not recommended

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…

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