AGENDA February 25, 2025
** APPROVAL OF AGENDA.
1. MINUTES of previous meeting.
2. PERMITS (Projects over $500,000.00 with no objections and with staff recommendation for approval).
3. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.
4. CLOSED MEETING FOR CONSULTATION WITH, OR BRIEFING BY, COUNSEL.
5. ROANOKE CEMENT COMPANY, LLC, #24-1360 requests authorization to construct a clear span haul bridge across Catawba Creek west of the existing facility and east of Catawba Road in Botetourt County for their Catawba Farm Quarry. The project is protested by the adjacent property owner.
6. MARSHA WEATHERWAX, #24-2553 requests authorization to construct a 15-foot by 20-foot gazebo with screened sides on a statutorily authorized private pier along the Timberneck Creek shoreline at 6470 Williams Landing Road in Gloucester County. The project is protested by an adjacent property owner.
7. GAIL TIESENGA, #24-1805 requests authorization to construct a living shoreline at 469 Coppedge Farm Road, situated along Johnsons Cove in Lancaster County. The project is protested by the adjacent property owner.
8. CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, #24-2851 requests authorization to mechanically dredge a 19-foot wide by 63-foot long subtidal area to a maximum depth of minus two (-2) feet mean low water within Pleasure House Creek to create a shallow water channel necessary to provide the hydrological connection to the proposed municipal Pleasure House Point Mitigation Bank in Virginia Beach. This project is protested by nearby property owners.
9. PHILLIP GIBSON and BLACKWATER PIER & DOCK, INC., NOTICE TO COMPLY #24-07 Commission consideration of Phillip Gibson and Blackwater Pier & Dock, Inc.'s failure to comply with the Commission's August 22, 2024, directive to remove four timber piles and an unauthorized extension to an existing boathouse built in excess of its former authorization under VMRC Application #2000-0590 at 119 Dandy Haven Lane situated along Back Creek in York County.
10. SHELLFISH Request for approval of the 2025 Oyster Replenishment and Restoration Plan (ORP) and the Associated Procurements Procedures.
11. PUBLIC COMMENTS
12. PUBLIC HEARING Proposal to amend Chapter 4 VAC 20-1360-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Commercial Electrofishing", to expand the electrofishing fishery, broaden eligibility for new licenses, increase harvest areas, remove size limits on blue catfish, and clarify areas where electrofishing is prohibited.
PAGE 2 ITEMS
A. JOHN PRESS, #24-2605 requests authorization to install a 50-foot-long low-profile timber groin extending 37 feet channelward of mean low water at 371 Locust Lane along the Rappahannock River in Essex County. The project requires a VMRC Wetlands and Subaqueous Permit.
B. MICHAEL VARNER, #24-2525 requests authorization to construct a 173-foot-long rock revetment channelward of an existing bulkhead along the Mattaponi River shoreline at 94 and 110 Horse Landing Court in King William County. The project requires a VMRC Wetlands Permit.
C. ERGON ASPHALT PARTNERS, LP, #24-2713 requests authorization to mechanically or hydraulically dredge up to 125,000 cubic yards of state-owned submerged lands, on an as-need basis, with disposal at the Craney Island Rehandling Basin or an approved upland storage site at their commercial facility located along the James River at 801 Terminal Ave in the City of Newport News. The project will reestablish previously permitted (VMRC #16-0662) depths of minus 38 feet mean low water on the western side of the pier and depths of minus 18 feet on the eastern side of the pier. This project requires a VMRC Subaqueous permit.
D. CITY OF VIRGINIA BEACH, #23-2820 requests authorization to mechanically maintenance dredge on an as-necessary basis a maximum of 34,000 cubic yards of state-owned submerged lands to achieve and maintain a maximum depth of minus six (-6) feet mean low water within sections of the Western Branch Lynnhaven River municipal channel in Virginia Beach. Dredged spoils will be offloaded at either the Thalia Creek or Crab Creek Transfer Facility and will be truck-hauled to an approved upland facility. Staff recommends approval with instream work time-of-year restrictions on dredging activity from April 1st until July 1st for summer flounder and from July 1st until September 30th for local shellfish within areas situated north of Hebden Cove. This project requires a VMRC Subaqueous permit.
FISHERY MANAGEMENT ITEMS WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE HABITAT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA.
