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County of Albemarle
PRE -APPLICATION CONFERENCE CHECKLIST
Tax Map and Parcel (s):_60-57
Date: 10/8/ 18 (meeting date 9/ 10/ 18)
Pre -Application Number:_201800098
Exploratory or Mandatory: mandatory
This checklist is not considered binding by the County or the owner of the property, but
serves as a guide toward providing information regarding an applicant inquiry and
potential application for land development activity to be considered by the County.
Visitors: Diane Schmi
Staff. David Benish, Frank Pohl, Leah Blumfield; Heather McMahon
Description of Location: St. Anne Belfield Lower/Middle School
Existing Zoning: R I
Zoning History: SP200700053;_ARB200800147_
Comp. Plan location and land use designation: Neighborhood Density Residential
Proposal:
(i) Common understanding of the proposed project
The applicant is proposing locate a residential life dorm building to include 6 rooms to house 12 to 18
students and three dorm families. The building will be approximately 10,000 sq. ft. and two (2) stories.
Proposed location on -campus, near football field.
(ii) Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan
• This site in located with designated Development Area (Southern and Western Neighborhoods
Master Plan area). The proposed new use is consistent with the land uses recommended for this area.
In addition to conformity with the Land Use recommendations of the Master Plan staff will be
reviewing your applications for consistency with the principles of the Neighborhood Model. The final
concept for development of the site should attempt to address those priniciples to the extent feasible.
For this particular proposal (Option2B) the principles to focus on addressing are for pedestrian access,
buildings and spaces of human scale, and relegated parking. Building scale and parking should be
focused on addressing impacts/visibility from the Entrance Corridor; pedestrian accessibility should be
focused on assuring pedestrian connection to the remaining campus area are provided.
(iii) Broadly identify the planning, zoning or other issues raised by the application to be
addressed.
The primary issue to address with the proposed new location will be potential impacts to the
entrance corridor. The SP review process will focus on whether this location will have a significant
impact to the entrance corridor that cannot be overcome through normal building scale/design (such as
height, materials, siting adjustments) and land development measures (grading and landscaping). ARB
approval will be required with review and Site Development Plans.
It is advised that the applicant submit a conceptual plan for Advisory Review (for a Special Use Permit)
by the Architectural Review Board at the applicant's earliest convenience. This full -board review
category has no associated fee; the ARB application can be found here while the checklist for requested
materials to accompany the application can be found here. In addition to the materials requested in the
checklist, staff strongly recommends that the applicant provide sight -line analyses that help determine
the proposed building's potential visibility from the Entrance Corridor.
The new building and associated parking may require new stormwater management facilities or
upgrades to existing facilities. While this issue is typical addressed at the site plan stage of review, any
known new or upgraded facility locations proposed along (and visible to) the entrance corridor should
be identified and included with revised information for review.
(iv) Applicable procedures
(v) Identify the information the applicant must submit with the application, including the
supplemental information.
PROCESS FOR REVIEW:
• This proposal can be submitted as a revision to the existing Special Use Permit (SP) application
currently indefinitely deferred (SP201700029). No new SP application is required.
You can submit revised plan as a "resubmittal" to the initial comments provided by staff. Since
the revised proposal/plan will be treated as the applicant's first revision, there will be no fee
associated with this submittal. Because the proposed location and building is completely
different from what was previously submitted and reviewed and SP201800098, the resubmitted
information/plan will be distributed to reviewing agencies and treated as an initial submittal
with review comments due to the applicant in approximately 30 days.
Resubmittal dates: resubmittal dates/deadlines are found on page 3 of the document linked
here. As noted above, because this revision is substantially different (new location) than the
previous (initial) proposal, the review period provided for the reviewing agencies and
departments may be somewhat longer noted on page 3.
http://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/forms center/departments/Community Developme
nt/forms/schedules/Special Use Permit & Zoning Map Amendment Schedule.pdf
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• Because of the limited scope and scale of this proposal, we will accept and begin review of the
site development plan for this proposal after the Planning Commission public hearing on
SP201700029 (provided the Commission is recommending approval).
The Concept Plan approved with SP200700053 will need to be revised to reflect this new use in the
proposed location (approved plan is referred to as "St. Anne's—Belfield Proposed Lower/Middle School
Preliminary Site Plan" dated June 6, 2008). This revision should be submitted for review by staff.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
David Benish
Chief of Planning
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, VA 22902-4596
434-296-5832, ext. 3251
dbenish@albemarle.org