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VI UPDATE U.S. Virgin Islands Public Records TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS Committee of the Whol Legislature USVI March 13, 2026 · 0.1 hours · gov Source recording https://youtu.be/pfJsRE-ThRI Status This is a working transcript produced by machine from a recording of a public proceeding. It is a finding aid, not an official record of the Legislature. Transcribed by VI Update, using OpenAI Whisper large-v3-turbo, run locally. Not reviewed by a person. Reliability Automatic transcription, UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording before relying on it. Speech recognition splits spoken digits and wraps figures mid-number, so a dollar amount, a vote count or a bill number can be wrong in a way that reads as correct. Speakers are not identified: automatic speaker labelling was measured unusable and removed. 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A verbatim transcript is mechanical rather than authored, so there is likely nothing in it to own; to the extent any copyright is nonetheless found to subsist, it is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Please copy it, quote it, index it, train on it, republish it, mirror it, sell it. Redistribution is the point: a public record with one copy is one fire from gone. No permission is needed, and none is ours to grant or withhold. Properties use because all of our 18 zoning districts are multi-use. Residential and non-residential uses are allowed. Although both B1 and B2 zones would allow the intended use, the B1 zone is more appropriate given its alignment to represent and maintain the historical and commercial character of the business center of Christianstead Town. The B2 zone is intended more for major shopping centers outside of the primary B1 business areas, such as the Golden Rock Shopping Center. Development provisions between the B1 and B2 zones are similar, but the B1 better supports the district's planning goals. After reviewing the applicant's request, the department finds rezoning to the B1 zoning district will be more consistent with the comprehensive plan and appropriate for the intended use. The department recommends approval of the zoning map amendment request from R3 residential medium density to B1 business central business district. Pursuant to title 29, Virgin Islands Code, chapter 3, section 238, The report of the planning office regarding this proposal, including the reasons for our recommendation, is incorporated into the records and submitted prior to this committee of the whole hearing. We respectfully request that the PowerPoint presentation for CCZP0038-25 now be displayed. Good afternoon, Leah Laplace, Matthew. This PowerPoint is for the CCZP0038-25, which is the Central Line Car Rental LLC application. So the current site condition, it is being used for the car rental parking of their vehicles. However, it is operating as an accessory to the hotel caravelle. And so the request is to allow it to operate as a standalone, independent of the hotel. Next slide. 0:00:00 This is the map geo-aerial view. So it's in proximity to the seaplane. The next photo. This is the testimony on this bill item. Thank you very much, Ms. Laplace. And on St. Thomas, we have Mr. Woods. Mr. Woods, are you prepared to provide your testimony at this time? Yes, I am. I think I gave a jump drive to your media office, if they could bring it up. Okay, media. 0:02:24 Okay. It's still morning. Good morning, Senator Potter, members of the 36th legislature, legislative staff, DPNR, staff, general public, Virgin Islanders. The total area for all of those lots just listed is 37,800 square feet or 0.87 acres. The 0:03:14 Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 1 of 2 Legislature USVI · Committee of the Whol zoning code such that they could, we can operate this business as a matter of right and not as an accessory use to the hotel caravelle. Central business district. Central business district, zoning districts to the east and some, somewhat part, partly to the south and R3 residential medium density to the west and partially to the north. Central line car rentals has recently moved to this site and have temporary structures that have been approved by historic preservation on the site. They were initially across the street by the old Rasmussen property where the sea plain was for a short period of time. So, this proposed zoning designation is representative of the changing needs of the town of Christianstead, expanding the business district, and it still leaves the opportunity for residential development if it needs. So, this is a cover sheet, if that shows where it is on the island and the town and also a map geo image that Ms. Laplace showed earlier. So, if we move to the next sheet, this is an outline of all of the areas that are being considered. Uh, you can, you can see it's a lot of small lots that are combined together to make one 0:04:54 People named in this transcript SUSPECTED, and a finding aid only. Names were matched by machine against the spellings used across all 426 of our transcripts, and the title is the one used in the room. Being named here is NOT evidence that a person attended or spoke · only that the name was said. Speech recognition mishears names, so a spelling may be wrong even where no alternative is offered. 2x Senator Milton E. Potter heard in this transcript as: Potter Machine transcript · UNVERIFIED. Verify every quotation against the recording. Speakers are not identified. VI Update · usvipublicrecords.com · public record, no rights asserted (CC0 1.0) 2 of 2