The Buckingham County Board of Supervisors agreed to table a permit and approve a zoning text amendment Monday regarding a special use permit for a proposed campground for self-contained camping units on Buckingham Centre Drive behind McDonalds in Dillwyn.

The proposed campground — sought by Atlantic Investment Corporation and Lucky Management Inc. — would be on 4.5 acres of land near the intersection of Routes 15 and 20.

Four people who spoke during the Monday public hearing regarding the permit voiced opposition to the project, citing concerns about its close proximity to the Central Virginia Christian School, not knowing the backgrounds of the potential campground occupants — particularly those building the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) — and that the campground could potentially detract businesses and economic resources from area motels.

According to the permit application, the purpose of the permit would be “to establish a two year (recreational vehicle) RV park on vacant commercial property (80 units max) and adjoining vacant properties.”

The application cites that approximately 60-80 … (RVs) or fifth-wheel homes are estimated to be accommodated on the property.

Attorney J. Robert “Bobby” Snoddy III, who lives in Buckingham, spoke on behalf of the permit applicants, who were present during the meeting.

“This is all contingent with the pipeline coming through,” Snoddy said.

District Seven Supervisor Danny Allen noted that while the campground would primarily be for those working on the ACP, that was no written evidence that the campground would be contingent on the pipeline’s approval.

“We have talked about it, but there is nothing here in the condition saying that,” Allen said.

Snoddy said the proposed conditions for the permit hint at that implication, but there was not a written contingency.

“I think it’s implied in there, but you’re right — there’s nothing that expressedly said (that) … We don’t have any issue with that. That has been the proposal from the get go,” Snoddy said.

A July public hearing by the county planning commission yielded a recommendation that supervisors deny the permit. 

Snoddy requested amendments to several conditions listed by County Planning and Zoning Administrator Rebecca S. Cobb, including a condition that enables a stop order and discontinuation of the special use permit if the conditions listed by the planning commission are violated. The amendments would allow for a reasonable period of time for the infractions to be corrected and to remove the commission’s involvement in the stop order and discontinuation.

Other changes include, in place of an onsite security person from 7 a.m.-7 p.m., to have members of the Buckingham County Sheriff’s Office provide security as “reasonably required,” Snoddy said, and to reapply water and calcium chloride as a means of treating roadways around the campground in addition to tar, gravel or other paving methods.

District Two Supervisor Donnie Bryan said there would not be enough time to vote on the special use permit in light of the amendments to the conditions posed during the Monday meeting.

Following the discussion, the permit was tabled by consensus to the following month’s meeting scheduled for Oct. 10. Regarding the requested zoning text amendment, supervisors voted to add “Temporary campground with self-contained camping units only,” which include Recreational Vehicles (RVs) and fifth-wheel trailers, into the county’s zoning ordinance for B-1 Business District.