HomeMy WebLinkAboutSP202100014 Correspondence 2021-09-28 (18)From: Scott Clark
Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 3:05 PM
To: Mariah Gleason
Subject: AFD Comments for Reclaimed Hope SPs
Attachments: SP202100014 Soils Map with Notes.jpg
Hi, Mariah—thanks for calling today. Here’s a set of AFD comments that you can plug into your
comment letter. I’ve also attached a map for the applicants to refer to – please use this one rather than
the one I sent previously.
Let me know if you need anything else!
--Scott
· Agricultural-Forestal Districts:
o This property is located in the Hardware Agricultural-Forestal district, which is a
voluntary landowner-driven land-conservation program. Under section 3-202(A)(3)(k) of
the County Code, uses permitted by special use permit can be permitted in the districts
“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.” Those purposes
can be found in section 3-100, and related policies supportive of those purposes are in
section 3-101.
o In order to provide the Board of Supervisors with guidance on whether or not they
should make that determination, staff and the applicant will need to present this
proposal to the Agricultural-Forestal Districts Advisory Committee for their
recommendation. That meeting will be scheduled once the date of the community
meeting has been set.
o As the proposed use is not itself directly related to agriculture or forestry, staff suggests
that the best approach for achieving consistency with the purposes of the Districts is to
minimize the footprint of the proposed use on important agricultural resources (mainly
soils), and to ensure that as much as possible of the property remains available for
agricultural or forestry use in the future. To that end, staff offers the following
recommendations:
The lower camp area is currently proposed to spread out over an area that
contains prime agricultural soils (see attached map). In order to avoid these
impacts, we recommend that the conceptual plan be revised to move the
proposed structures into the same area where the camper cabins are currently
proposed. This would (1) move the permanent infrastructure out of the prime
soils, to keep those soils available for the long term, and (2) reduce the overall
area devoted to infrastructure for the use, thus retaining the largest possible
contiguous area for future agricultural use. Moving the
The upper camp area is proposed for another area of prime soils. However, this
area is already in residential use. We therefore recommend that the conceptual
plan delineate the existing disturbed (non-forest) area, and show that all
structures proposed for this use would remain within that area, in order to
reduce the overall impacts of that portion of the use on important soils.
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Scott Clark (he/him)
Albemarle County
Community Development Department - Senior Planner II (Rural Areas)
Secretary, Albemarle Conservation Easement Authority
sclark@albemarle.org
401 McIntire Road, North Wing, Charlottesville VA 22902