HomeMy WebLinkAboutSDP202000052 Review Comments Final Site Plan and Comps. 2020-09-03COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road, North Wing
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902-4596
Phone (434) 296-5832 Fax (434) 972-4126
TO: Justin Shimp
FROM: Kevin McDermott; Chief of Planning
DATE: September 2, 2020
SUBJECT: SDP202000052— Regents School Reservoir Road
The Albemarle County Community Development Department, Planning Division, Transportation staff
has reviewed the above referenced plan and associated traffic impact statements and subsequent updates
as submitted by Shimp Engineering and EPI2, P,C. and would like to provide the following comments:
Transportation staff does not agree with the methodology used to establish the trip generation for the
school at 230 students. The difference between the ITT- trip generation estimates and those used for the
analysis appear too great to be acceptable as valid estimates. The estimates used rely on assumptions that
may not be valid. These include:
• The number of students with parents on staff will exist at the same rate with 230 students as it
currently does with 160 students.
• The number of students taking a bus to school will exist at the same rate with 230 students as it
currently does with 160 students. This would likely require additional buses to be achievable
which I do not believe was something that was conditioned with the Special Use Permit.
• The number of students carpooling to school will exist at the same rate with 230 students as it
currently does with 160 students.
ITE is the industry standard for estimating trips and should be used in the absence of an extreme
circumstance that would make it unrealistic. Those circumstances do not exist in this situation.
Therefore, staff recommends that the applicant run the analysis using the PIE estimates for trip generation
to establish a better basis for the analysis.
If you have any questions regarding this statement, please feel free to contact me.
Kevin M. McDermott
Chief of Planning
Albemarle County
(434) 296-5841 Ext. 3414
kmcdermott@albemarle.org