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Home My WebLink AboutSP202100001 Presentation 2021-03-16Agric u Itu ra I-Foresta l Districts Advisory �. �.01 .A. 1-1 rel I . Ix AV Committee March 16, 2021 Scott Clark, Senior Planner II Bill Fritz, Development Process Manager Andy Reitelbach, Senior Planner Agenda 1. Call to Order 2. Online -meeting Preamble Et Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes (2/1 /2021) 4. SP202100005 Haupt Property Day Camp 5. SP202100001 Midway Solar 6. Old Business 7. New Business 8. Adjournment fi. 1 ✓ �i7 f 4n, m i Y m1 0 250 500 1,000_ AFD Review Criteria for Special Use Permit Within Districts Section 3-202(A) prohibits "development to a more intensive use" in the District, and lists several exceptions to that prohibition. Subsection (3)(k) includes the following exception: Special uses and structures allowed in the Rural Areas zoning district. Any proposed use or structure allowed by special use permit in the Rural Areas zoning district, provided that the Board of Supervisors determines that the use or structure allowed by the special use permit is consistent with the purposes of this chapter. AFD Review Criteria for Land Uses Adiacent to Districts Section 3-202(D) of the Albemarle County Code reads as follows: D. Consideration of district in taking certain actions. The county shall consider the existence of a district and the purposes of this chapter and Chapter 43 of Title 15.2 of the Virginia Code in its comprehensive plan, ordinances, land use planning decisions, administrative decisions and procedures affecting parcels of land adjacent to the district. The County's practice has been to consult with the Committee on any special use permit requests located on land adjacent to an existing District. AFD Review Criteria - Summary Sec. 3-100 - Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a means by which agricultural and forestal lands of statewide and local significance may be protected and enhanced as a viable segment of the State and local economies, and as important economic and environmental resources. The Committee's role is to assist the Board of Supervisors by commenting on any possible impacts to the Districts from the proposed uses. The Committee's review should directly address Agricultural -Forestal District impacts. Other aspects of the proposed uses, such as traffic, noise, visibility of the proposed facilities, etc., will be addressed in staff's reports to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. Public Comment Policy For each item, after staff presentation and initial Committee questions/discussion: • Attendees sign up by using "raise hand" in Zoom - staff will notify them of their turn • Time limits - 2 minutes per person; 30 minutes overall • Attendees may not transfer their time to other attendees Agenda 4. SP202100005 Haupt Property Day Camp 5. SP202100001 Midway Solar 6. Old Business 7. New Business 8. Adjournment ;P202100005 Haupt Property Day Cam Tax Map 85 Parcels 3A and 3A1 - 103.56 acres Batesville Agricultural/Forestal District Request: Special Use Permit Amendment Existing SP: Permits day camp for up to 10 attendees, up to 30 days per year, on parcel 3A only. No limits on hours or season. Proposed Amendment: Up to 50 persons (total of attendees and staff), operating from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Expand use to include parcel 3A1. nrzuziuuuus riaupt dl�fnl1 ',iCttS? Ecuxmen{ drew• Q VOQT E,+Anm--turenks arr�yt C�l'►o-feA drop 'R� of�i �1vs Tvrh—avnurY� ® -?(ivy USG -Mw.w iWiM fVlek Q' O ®%egdeW-CCc.aS6CDn4 LiP O C - - ��/ v O tifth"')-glint nra. l / a,t cw p ndiv4L -. IN 10 - r ,f /� 1\ i s/ +v ff5 -3q-r U 150 A. Production of food and other agricultural and forestal products. The impacts likely created by a day camp use would include an increase in traffic and the potential for an increase in unamplified sound from the additional participants at the camp. However, unlike industrial and commercial uses that can create chemical or water -quality impacts, a day camp would not directly impede the District's ability to produce food or forestal products. B. Provide essential open spaces. The proposal would use existing roads and structures on the property and would not require land -cover changes other than potential driveway and entrance improvements in order to meet VDOT and Engineering standards. Open spaces within the District would not be impacted. Minimal clearing of land is proposed. The only new construction proposed at this time is for a potential future pavilion to be located on TMP 85-3A1 for camp activities. nrzuziuuuus riaupt C. Strong agricultural and forestal economy. Increases in traffic on the narrow roads of the Batesville area could theoretically impede farm -related traffic near the proposed day camp property. However, as the day camp use is proposed to operate for a maximum of 45 days per year, the impacts would be infrequent. In addition, this increase in traffic would likely occur only twice a day, in the mornings and late afternoons, as participants arrive at and depart from the property, based on the proposed hours of operation from 9am to 4pm. D. Protect and preserve natural resources and retain continuous and unfragmented land. One of the subject parcels is already protected from fragmentation by a conservation easement, and the proposed use would not intrude between District properties. No significant construction activities or vegetation changes are proposed that would have an impact on landscape connectivity. nrzuziuuuus riaupt RECOMMENDATION: • Physical impacts of the proposed use will be limited across both parcels located within the District and are not expected to have an impact on agricultural or forestal resources on land in the District • Traffic impacts could impede farm uses, but they would be infrequent and likely limited to certain times of the day and year. Staff recommends that the Committee advise the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors that the proposed use does not conflict with the purposes of the District. POSSIBLE MOTIONS: Should the Committee find no conflicts with the purposes of the Districts: I move that the Committee find that the proposal does not conflict with the purposes of the Districts. Should the Committee find that the proposal conflicts with the purposes of the Districts: I move that the Committee find that the proposal conflicts with the purposes of the Districts, as it (state the features of the proposal that conflict). arzuzivwmo riaupt Agenda 5. SP202100001 Midway Solar 6. Old Business 7. New Business 8. Adjournment 14 SP202100001 Midway Solar • Tax Map 85 Parcel 17B - 136 acres • Adjacent to the Batesville Agricultural/Forestal District • Special use permit request: • 8 megawatt photovoltaic system • 4 megawatt battery energy storage system • Approximately 80 acres nrzuuvuuui rviiaway notar _-ftI i 117 - IB r - nii -�r le ,/ono✓ 7a �.- -) � PERIMETER 9 I 1 YETEI0.INE -j BUFFER TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION LAYDOAN V �- BATIERYSTORAGE & PARNING AREA 12, A B I �,1 Y` MB -..% - o LRI mm J AI L'ISTNGATtESS •,\ EXISTING TRn... � 'I ,. LIE EASEMENT ' • \ Peomm VEGETATIVE BUFFER •/PFIIMETER ! 4 ATNE BUFFER RECEIVING CHANNEL DRAINAGE BUM (SEE PHASING NOIESI PROJECT VALE PRIORITIZE LIMITING DISTURBED AREA DURING CONSITUCTNRI CONSTRUCTION WILL UM TO SEEDINUECH DISTURBED AREAS IMMEDIATELY UPON BRINGING THE SITE TO GRADE AM WINE ENSURE REOURED IEAPORART)PERMANENT SEEONG AIM OTHER STABILIZATION REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. INDMOUAL EROSION CONTROL MEASURES WILL NOT BE REMOVED UNTIL APPROVED BY COUNTY NSPECTOR. PROJECT WELL TREAT DRAINAGE AREAS AND CORRESPONDING BMPS NOMOUALLY AND WILL AIM TO CONVERT TEMPORARY DEVICES TO PERMANENT N A STRAIEGE SEOJENCE TO MINIMIZE POTENTIAL IMPACTS RESULTING FROM INDIVIDUAL RAIN STORM EVENTS THE PROJECT AREA IS DIVIDED AND DRAINS 10 TWO DIFFEHIM RECEIVING CHANNELS AS SHOWN AND THEREFORE THE UPSTREAM AREA OF DISTURBANCE 15 SPI IT SMEAR TO TWO DIFFERENT PROJECTS LEGEND PROPERTY BOUNGARY — - - • - PROPERTY SETBACK(501 TRANSMISSION EASEMENT EXISTING TREELINE ----- PROPOSED TREELINE EXISTING CONTOUR (7) PROPOSED CONTOUR(7) 750 PROPOSED FENCE PROPOSED DIVERSION ---- ---�- LMS OF DISTURBANCE ------ - ------- PROPOSED GRAVEL ROAD C� PROPOSED LAY➢OWN AREA EXISTING STREAMINIT AND IDO STREAMIMTLAND BUFFER CRITICAL SLOPES VEGETATIVE BUFER NOTE B) DRAINAGE BOUNDARY ------ .�. PROPOSED DETENTION BASIN 8 (� PROPOSED CULVERT CONCEPTUAL GRADING & S NMXSC PLAN r I / i \ / J , &S/SWM I o� tap. I 76 E&S/SM , 16'a / ��I 760 LEGEND PROPERTY BOUNDARY — - - - - PROPERTY SETBACK (507 --- ------ TRANSMISSION EASEMENT — — DUSTING TREELINE PROPOSED TREELINE DUSTING CONTOUR IT) -------- 759--------- PROPOSED CONTOUR (21 750 PROPOSED FENCE PROPOSED DIVERSION LIMITS OF DISTURBANCE-----^� PROPOSED GRAVEL ROAD PROPOSED LAYDOWN AREA EXISTING STREAM)WETLANO 100- STREAM)WETLAND BUFFER CRITICAL SLOPES 0 VEGETATIVE BUFFER (NOTE 8) DRAINAGE BOUNDARY - - - - -- •.....•..•..•. PROPOSED DETENTION BASIN � 05 PROPOSED CULVERT A. Production of food and other agricultural and forestal products. The presence of a solar -energy electrical generation facility on 80 acres of a 136 acre parcel that is outside the District will not limit the capacity of land in the District to produce agricultural or forestal products. Traffic for construction of the facility will not impact Tax Map 85 Parcel 3, 3A, 3A1 because they access Batesville Road and not Craigs Store Road. Traffic impact on Tax Map 85, Parcel 17 (a 5 acre parcel) would be limited to the anticipated 6 month construction window. Traffic to the solar facility after construction is minimal and will not impede farm traffic. B. Provide essential open spaces. Open spaces within the district would not be reduced by the creation of a solar -energy electrical generation facility on an adjacent parcel. The district's value for watershed -quality and wildlife - habitat protection would not be impeded by adjacent construction. C. Strong agricultural and forestal economy. A solar -energy electrical generation facility on adjacent property does not impede the District's ability to support agricultural or forestal production. D. Protect and preserve natural resources and retain continuous and unfragmented land. Development of the site would not create fragmentation of land ownership or of land cover within the district. Issues associated with the change in use, and ground cover of the subject property, will be evaluated by the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors during the special use permit review. Recommendation: Physical impacts of the proposed use will be limited to the parcel adjacent to the District and would not impact agricultural resources on land in the District. Staff recommends that the Committee advise the Board and the Planning Commission that the proposed use does not conflict with the purposes of the Agricultural -Forestal Districts. POSSIBLE MOTIONS: Should the Committee find no conflicts with the purposes of the Districts: I move that the Committee find that the proposal does not conflict with the purposes of the Districts. Should the Committee find that the proposal conflicts with the purposes of the Districts: I move that the Committee find that the proposal conflicts with the purposes of the Districts, as it (state the features of the proposal that conflict). � zu/iuuuui rviiaway Dour Agenda 1. Call to Order 2. Online -meeting Preamble Et Roll Call 3. Approval of Minutes (2/ 1 /2021) 4. SP202100005 Haupt Property Day Camp r; cp?n? l nnnnl Midway Solar 6. Old Business 7. New Business 8. Adjournment 21 22 23 24