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Home My WebLink AboutSDP202100030 Correspondence 2021-07-19 (2)VDOTVirginia Department of Transportation February 2015 ACCESS MANAGEMENT EXCEPTION REQUEST: AM-E ACCESS MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS 24 VAC 30-73 SECTION 120 Submitted by: COLLINS ENGINEERING Date: 7-14-2021 Email Address: scott@collins-enigneering.com Phone: 434-293-3719 Address: 200 Garrett Street, Suite K Charlottesville, VA 22902 Project Name: Scott's Ivy Exxon Rte # 250 Locality: Albemarle County Description of Project: Expansion of existing gas/service station including site improvements such as paved formal parking spaces. Redevelopment of a commercial site with existing commercial retail and office buildings and an existing entrance. Existing continuous site entrance is being split into two entrances (one partial access and one full access) by installing a landscaped island within the existing continuous entrance. See attached narrative. VDOT District: Culpeper Area Land Use Engineer: Lauren Wilson NOTES: (1). Submit this form and any attachments to one of the District's Area Land Use Engineers. (2). See Section 120 of the Regulations for details on the requirements, exceptions, and exception request review process. (3). Attach additional information as necessary to justify the exception request(s). (4). If a traffic engineering study is required, the decision on the request will be based on VDOT engineering judgment. (5). Use the LD-440 Design Exception or the LD-448 Design Waiver forms for design and engineering standards, e.g. radius, grade, sight distance. See IIM-LD-227 on VDOT web site for additional instructions. Select the Exception(s) Being Requested ❑ Exception to the shared commercial entrance requirement. (Access M. Regulations Section 120 C.2) Reason for exception: ❑ A. An agreement to share the entrance could not be reached with adjoining property owner. ❑ Attached: Written evidence that adjoining property owner will not share the entrance. ❑ B. Physical constraints: topography, adjacent hazardous land use, stream, wetland, other. ❑ Specify constraint: ❑ Attached: Documentation of constraint such as aerial photo or topographic map. ❑ Exception to the vehicular connection to adjoining undeveloped property requirement. (Section 120 CA) Reason for exception: ❑ A. Physical constraints: topography, adjacent hazardous land use, stream, wetland, other. ❑ Specify constraint: ❑ Attached: Documentation of constraint such as aerial photo or topographic map. ❑ B. Other reason: February 2015 ❑ Exception to the commercial entrance shall not be located within the functional area of an intersection requirement. (See Regulation Section 120 C. 1; Appendix F, Rd Design Manual) ❑ Attached: A traffic engineering study documenting that the operation of the intersection and public safety will not be adversely impacted. ❑ ✓ EXCEPTION TO THE SPACING STANDARDS FOR: • Commercial entrances; intersections/median crossovers (Table 2-2); • Commercial entrances/intersections near interchange ramps (Tables 2-3, 2-4); or • Corner clearance (Figure 4-4). Appendix F, Road Design Manual Information on the Exception Request ✓❑ ON A STATE HIGHWAY Functional classification: Principal Arterial: ❑ Minor Arterial: ❑✓ Collector: ❑ Local: Posted speed limit: 35 mph NEAR AN INTERCHANGE RAMP (Submittal of a traffic engineering study required) CORNER CLEARANCE (Submittal of a traffic engineering study required) Type of intersection/entrance: Signalized [=-] Unsignalized [=-] Full Access 2 Partial Access 2 Required spacing distance 250 ft Proposed spacing distance 125 ft Requested exception: Reduction in required spacing 125 ft REASON FOR EXCEPTION: ✓❑ A. To be located on an older, established business corridor along a highway where existing spacing did not meet the standards prior to 7/1/08 or 10/14/09. (Regulation Section 120 C.3.c) ❑✓ Attached: Dated aerial photo of corridor identifying proposed entrance/intersection location. ❑ B. Not enough property frontage to meet spacing standard, but the applicant does not want a partial access right-in/right-out entrance. (Section 120 C.3.f) ❑ Attached: A traffic engineering study documenting that left turn movements at the entrance will not have a negative impact on highway operation or safety. ❑ C. To be located within a new urbanism mixed use type development. (Section 120 C.3.d) ❑ Attached: The design of the development and compliance with intersection sight distance. ❑ D. The proposed entrance meets the signal warrants but does not meet the signalized intersection spacing standard. The applicant requests an exception to the spacing standard. ❑ Attached: A traffic engineering study that (i) evaluates the location's suitability for a roundabout and (ii) provides documentation that the proposed signal will not impact safety and traffic flow. (Section 120 C.5) February 2015 ❑ E. The development's 2"d (or additional) entrance does not meet the spacing standards but is necessary for the streets to be accepted into the secondary system. (section 120 C.3.e) ❑ Attached: Information on the development that identifies the location of entrances. ❑ F. To be located within the limits of a VDOT and locality approved access management corridor plan. ❑ Attached: Aerial photo of corridor identifying proposed entrance/intersection location. (Sect 120 C.3.1b) FOR VDOT USE ONL Recommendation on Exception Request: Approveo Denyr Date: Area Land Use Engineer or: Name Remarks: Exception Request Action: Approved❑ Denied❑ Date: District Administrator or Designee: Name (and position if Designee) Remarks: District Staff: Please email copy to Bradley.Shelton(cDVDOT.Virginia.gov 3 Additional information for 4260 Ivy Road Exception Request This proposed Access Management Exception Request is for relief of the intersection spacing requirement for the existing entrance into the site. Site Conditions: This project is an expansion of the existing service station building on a property owned by SR&DR LLC. The current use of the building is a service station and gas station. Along with the expansion of the service station, the site is also being updated to include more formal paved parking areas on site. The existing entrance to the site does not currently meet access management standards. The entrance is being improved to meet current VDOT standards, but the spacing between the entrances and the other existing entrances on the adjacent properties will not change, and this spacing does not meet VDOT intersection spacing requirements. Site Access: The existing entrance into the site is currently 165 feet long and across the entire site's road frontage. This means vehicles can enter and exit anywhere along the site frontage. The project proposes a large island to break up the frontage and create two points of access. The east entrance will be a two-way entrance. The adjacent properties owned by Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and Louis & Susan Eaton have an access easement across the site to allow vehicles from the adjacent properties to access Ivy Road (Route 250). It should be noted the access easement and entrance is the only access point to Ivy Road for these adjacent properties. The western entrance is a one-way entrance with site egress only. This allows for a better flow of traffic and limits points of conflict along the site frontage. The distance between these two entrances is 124'. This exception request is for a spacing exception between these two entrances. Attached are the images of the existing site conditions from 2002 and site conditions from 2018 showing that access from these same areas have existed and not changed over this period of time. This site plan proposes to improve this existing condition to break up and limit points of access. Below is a summary of the exception request. These intersections are shown on the attached exhibit. The Highway functional classification of Ivy Road is a Minor Arterial roadway. The Posted speed limit is 35 mph. The existing entrance for the site is a full access intersection. Exception Request for Intersection spacing between 2 entrances Required Spacing Distance: 250 feet Proposed Spacing Distance: 125 feet Requested exception #1: Reduction in required spacing: 125 feet Summary: This exception request is for the approval of the spacing between the 2 proposed intersections created by breaking up the continuous Ivy Road frontage along the site with an island. The entrances require a spacing exception from the full access eastern entrance to the partial access western entrance (site egress only). The eastern entrance requires a full access entrance for the existing access easement and ability for vehicles from the adjacent properties to reach Ivy Road (Route 250). 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