The opposition included the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
An inpatient drug and alcohol treatment clinic is needed in Roanoke, but the city Planning Commission decided Monday that it should not be located in the Valley View Mall area.
In making its decision, the commission chose not to accept the planning staff’s recommendation for approval, and it sided with several who objected to the proposal, including unusual public opposition by the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.
On a 4-0 vote, the commission is recommending city council deny the request for the treatment facility in what would be a renovated building on the spur into the mall at 5060 Valley View Boulevard. It’s now an empty building, owned by Mar Roanoke LLC, that started as a Virginia Employment Commission office in 1994 and was later used for outpatient substance abuse treatment, which the current zoning allows. The rezoning would switch the land use designation from a commercial to an institutional use…