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| LEGAL NOTICE Mathews County Wetlands Board hereby gives notice that on Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 at 7 PM, in the Mathews County Historic Courthouse, 27 Court Street, Mathews, VA, the Board will hold public hearings regarding requests for authorization of the following application: Charles & Anna Galusha Aquino, 1818 Point Breeze Road, VMRC #25-2682, TM #17-2-4 – Request to install a 210′ x 12′ armor stone sill, sand fill landward and planted with appropriate wetland vegetation along a portion of the Mouth of Stutts Creek shoreline. Interested parties are invited to attend the meeting. Applications may be reviewed at the Mathews County Wetlands Board office, located in the County Administration Building, 50 Brickbat Road, Mathews, VA, Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm or online at https://webapps.mrc.virginia.gov/public/habitat/index.php. KATY WALDEN, CHAIRMAN MATHEWS COUNTY WETLANDS BOARD 3t2
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| NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING GLOUCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Pursuant to Section 15.2-2204 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on January 27, 2026 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Colonial Courthouse, located in the Court Circle, 6504 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia, to consider the following: APPLICATION NO. (BZA) SE-25-01 – A Special Exception request by Donna B. Combs, Applicant and Property Owner, to the Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals under Article 14 of the Zoning Ordinance, Administrative Procedures, §14-16, Special Exceptions. The applicant is requesting establishment of a Horse Rescue/Rehabilitation known as Woody’s Second Chance Ranch. The subject property is located at 13512 George Washington Memorial Highway, Saluda, Virginia 23149 and is more formally identified as Tax Map parcel 08-15A, RPC #16736 and consists of 7.14 acres, the property lies in the Petsworth Magisterial District and is zoned Rural Countryside (RC-1). All interested parties are invited to attend this hearing to express their views. Citizen comments may also be submitted prior to the public hearing by three different methods: An online form is available on the County’s website at www.gloucesterva.info/citizencomment. Please follow the instructions on the Citizen Comment Submission form to indicate your comments are for this specific public hearing. Comments may also be submitted by calling and leaving a message at 804-824-2760. Follow the prompts to leave comments for this specific public hearing, and clearly indicate your name (including spelling if needed) and your magisterial district. Finally, comments may be submitted by US Mail to County Administration, ATTN: PUBLIC HEARING, 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23061. Any mailed comments must include your name, your magisterial district, and the title of this public hearing clearly printed at the top. Please type or print all comments legibly. Comments submitted through one of these methods prior to the public hearing must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on January 27, 2026, and will be read or played aloud during the public hearing up to the time limit set by the Chairman. “Form letters,” consisting of communications which are verbatim duplicates (other than the identifying information of the author/submitter) of one or more other communications received by the County pertaining to this matter to be considered at the public hearing, shall be read only once per letter, along with the list of persons submitting the same comments pursuant to such “form letter.” Persons requiring assistance to submit comments for the meeting should contact the Gloucester County Administrator’s office at (804) 693-4042. The application, SE-25-01, is on file in the Office of Planning and Zoning, County Office Building Two, 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia and may be reviewed during normal office hours or on the County’s website at: http://www.gloucesterva.info/640/Meeting-Portal. The Office of Planning and Zoning may be contacted at (804) 693-1224 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. James Wayne Horsley, Chairman Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals 3t2
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| NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING GLOUCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS Pursuant to Section 15.2-2204 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on January 27, 2026 beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Colonial Courthouse, located in the Court Circle, 6504 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia, to consider the following: APPLICATION NO. (BZA) SE-25-02 – A Special Exception request by Jameson Brown, Applicant and Tempest Brown Property Owner, to the Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals under Article 14 of the Zoning Ordinance, Administrative Procedures, §14-16, Special Exceptions. The applicant is requesting establishment of an “Online custom firearm manufacturing business as Tidewater Armory.” The subject property is located at 11667 Owl Trap Road and is more properly identified as Tax Map parcel 09-4B, RPC #31094 and consists of 5.02 acres, the property lies in the Petsworth Magisterial District and is zoned Rural Countryside (RC-1). All interested parties are invited to attend this hearing to express their views. Citizen comments may also be submitted prior to the public hearing by three different methods: An online form is available on the County’s website at www.gloucesterva.info/citizencomment. Please follow the instructions on the Citizen Comment Submission form to indicate your comments are for this specific public hearing. Comments may also be submitted by calling and leaving a message at 804-824-2760. Follow the prompts to leave comments for this specific public hearing, and clearly indicate your name (including spelling if needed) and your magisterial district. Finally, comments may be submitted by US Mail to County Administration, ATTN: PUBLIC HEARING, 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23061. Any mailed comments must include your name, your magisterial district, and the title of this public hearing clearly printed at the top. Please type or print all comments legibly. Comments submitted through one of these methods prior to the public hearing must be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on January 27, 2026, and will be read or played aloud during the public hearing up to the time limit set by the Chairman. “Form letters,” consisting of communications which are verbatim duplicates (other than the identifying information of the author/submitter) of one or more other communications received by the County pertaining to this matter to be considered at the public hearing, shall be read only once per letter, along with the list of persons submitting the same comments pursuant to such “form letter.” Persons requiring assistance to submit comments for the meeting should contact the Gloucester County Administrator’s office at (804) 693-4042. The application, SE-25-02, is on file in the Office of Planning and Zoning, County Office Building Two, 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia 23061 and may be reviewed during normal office hours or on the County’s website at: http://www.gloucesterva.info/640/Meeting-Portal. The Office of Planning and Zoning may be contacted at (804) 693-1224 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. James Wayne Horsley, Chairman Gloucester County Board of Zoning Appeals 3t2
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| PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE GLOUCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Pursuant to the Code of Virginia, the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors will conduct a Public Hearing on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Colonial Courthouse, 6504 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia to consider the following: Code Amendment CA-25-02 – An amendment to Gloucester County Code Appendix B Zoning, Article 2 Definitions, Section 2-2 Definitions, Article 5 District Regulations, Section 5-20.1 Regulations in Zoning District RC-1 Rural Countryside District, Section 5-20.2 Regulations for Zoning District RC-2 Rural Conservation District, Section 5-30.1 Regulations for Zoning District C-2 Bayside Conservation District, Section 5-30.2 Regulations for Zoning District SC-1 Suburban Countryside District, Section 5-30.3 Regulations for Zoning District SF-1 Single Family Detached Residential District, Section 5-70.1 Agriculture/Animal/Outdoor Uses, and Section 5-70.2 Civic and Institutional Uses, Article 6 Historic Overlay District Regulations, Section 6-1 List of Historic Districts, Article 9B Supplementary Use Regulations, Section 9B-3.40 Livestock, personal use or enjoyment, Section 9B-3.50 Stable, commercial, Section 9B3.60 Stable, private, Section 9B-9.50 Dwelling, single family detached, cluster, and Section 9B-9.70 Home occupations, Article 11 Off-street Parking and Loading Facilities, Section 11-13 Parking and loading space requirements, and Article 15 Enforcement, Section 15-1 Zoning permits required. The purpose of the amendment to Article 2, Section 2-2, is to revise the definition for manufacturing to clarify that data centers are not considered manufacturing, to revise the definition for livestock, personal use or enjoyment clarifying that it does not regulate horses, and the like, and in the SF-1 district, and other minor changes to the definitions for stables. Amendments to Article 5, Sections 5-20, 5-30, and 5-70 are to remove stable, private as a permitted use in the RC-1, RC-2, C-2, and SC-1 districts (the use is currently permitted in these districts under the use “livestock, personal use or enjoyment”) and to allow several different day care type uses in the SF-1 district by a Special Exception (SE) or Conditional Use Permit (CUP) process. Amendments to Article 6, Section 6-1 are to remove the Timberneck property from the list of historic districts due to its ownership by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Amendments to Article 9B, Sections 9B-3, 9B-5, and 9B-9 are to exclude wetlands, ponds, lakes and other impounded waterways from the minimum acreage requirements to have livestock, to re-establish maximum lot sizes, reduced lot width requirements, and reduced setback requirements for cluster developments, and to remove conflicting text related to traffic and home occupations. Amendments to Article 11, Section 11-13 are to fix an error in the table of parking and loading requirements for Type II home occupations. Amendments to Article 15, Section 15-1 are to clarify that zoning permits authorizing a use associated with an approved site plan must be consistent with that approved site plan and any deviations must be submitted for review and approval. The preceding is a summary, not the full text, of the proposed code amendment. It is not intended to be a comprehensive representation of all the code revisions and does not substitute for the full text of the draft Ordinance, which is available for review on the web at www.gloucesterva.gov/publichearings, and in the County Administrator’s Office at 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia. The meeting will be broadcast live through the County website meeting portal at: https://www.gloucesterva.gov/640/Meeting-Portal and on Cox channel 48. All interested parties are invited to express their views on this matter. Public comments may be submitted prior to the public hearing by three different methods: To submit comments online, complete the Public Comment Submission form (www.gloucesterva.gov/publiccomment). Please follow the instructions on the form to indicate the public hearing on which you want to comment. Comments may also be submitted by calling and leaving a message at 804-824-2760. Follow the prompts to leave comments for this specific public hearing and clearly indicate your name (including spelling if needed) and your magisterial district. Finally, comments may be submitted by US Mail to County Administration, ATTN: PUBLIC HEARING, 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, VA 23061. Any mailed comments must include your name, your magisterial district, and the title of this public hearing clearly printed at the top, and all such comments must be received by the scheduled date of this hearing. Please type or print all comments legibly. Comments submitted through these methods must be received by 4:30 p.m. on February 3, 2026 and will be read or played aloud during the public hearing up to the set time limit of 3 minutes. “Form letters,” consisting of communications which are verbatim duplicates (other than the identifying information of the author/submitter) of one or more other communications received by the County pertaining to the matter to be considered at the public hearing, shall be read only once per letter, along with the list of persons submitting the same comments pursuant to such “form letter.” Persons requiring assistance to submit comments for the meeting should contact the Gloucester County Administrator’s office at (804) 693-4042. Carol Steele, County Administrator 3t2
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| PUBLIC NOTICE GLOUCESTER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Notice is hereby given that on February 3, 2026 beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the Colonial Courthouse, 6504 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors intends to consider the following: AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AN ARTS DISTRICT IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY FOCUSED ON SHOWCASING, RECOGNIZING, PROMOTING AND BRANDING THE ARTS The Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance to establish an Arts District spanning Main Street in the Court House. The Arts District will showcase local arts businesses and will not alter any current zoning or regulatory requirements. The preceding is a summary, not the full text, of the Ordinance. It is not intended to be a comprehensive representation of all the Ordinance provisions and does not substitute for the full text of the draft Ordinance, which is available for review on the web at www.gloucesterva.info/meetingportal, and in the County Administrator’s Office at 6489 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia. The meeting will be broadcast live through the County website meeting portal at: https://www.gloucesterva.info/640/Meeting-Portal and on Cox channel 48. Carol Steele, County Administrator 3t2
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| PUBLISHING NOTICE BLOWN AWAY LLC Trading as: BLOWN AWAY, LLC 2066 George Washington Memorial Highway Gloucester Point Gloucester County Virginia 23062-2338 The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Day Spa, Wine, Beer, Consumed on Premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Candi Michelle Green, Owner NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or (800) 552-3200. 3t2
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| PUBLISHING NOTICE MERMAID COVE ENTERPRISES, LLC Trading as: Mermaid Cove Enterprises LLC 10744 Buckley Hall Road Mathews Mathews County, Virginia 23109 The above establishment is applying to the \tabVIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL AUTHORITY (ABC) for a Retail Restaurant or Caterer Application Restaurant, Wine, Beer, Mixed Beverages Consumed On and Off premises license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or 800-552-3200. 2t2
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| REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Janitorial Services RFP 26-009-SG Gloucester County will receive sealed proposals for the subject work, until 2:00 p.m. on February 18, 2026, in the Central Purchasing Department located at 6489 Main Street, Suite 324, 3rd Floor, Gloucester, Virginia 23061. The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals to establish a multi-term contract to provide Janitorial Services on an as-needed basis. The resulting agreements from this shall be non-exclusive and the services provided shall be on an on-call basis with no guarantee of work with the potential to add or remove County facilities. A copy of the solicitation may be obtained from Central Purchasing, 6489 Main Street, Suite 324, 3rd Floor, Gloucester, VA 23061, or by calling (804) 693-6235. You may also download the solicitation at www.gloucesterva.info/purch and eVa -Virginia’s eProcurement Marketplace www.eva.virginia.gov. Savannah Gardner, VCA Procurement Specialist II 3t1
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