HomeMy WebLinkAboutVA199600015 Correspondence 1996-09-09 Oscar W. Smith, Jr.
795 Bedford Hills Drive
Earlysville, Virginia 22935
(804) 973-6747
September 9, 1996
County of Albemarle
Zoning Department
Charlottesville, Virginia
RE: Woodbrook North, Lot C
We are requesting a Parking Variance on Lot C, Woodbrook North,
because of changes allowed on lot B (Phase 2) development, causing
severe hardship.
Request is made for the following:
Spaces required 46
(based on County formula)
On-site spaces available 26
Net hardship required 20
We support this request with the following reasons:
A. The County required Woodbrook North and Stereotypes
to be developed as a single unit as to traffic flow and common area
parking;
B. The development of Lot A (Ron Martin) was required
to construct four (4) parking slots on Lot B to meet initial requirements
without restricting development of Lot B;
C. Elimination of parking on Lot B reversed the requirement
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placed by the County on the developer.
D. Letters on file with variance request show that Martin
and Eways use only 40 to 50 percent of their spaces which are
common area. Lot A and Lot B, as-built spaces total 70. This leaves
35 spaces open the majority of the time.
We request common area use of 20 spaces. This still
leaves 15 open spaces.
E. No notice has ever been received by us as owner of
Lot C and developer of Woodbrook North that the footprint change
on Lot B was even being reconsidered, eliminating 28 parking spaces.
We feel that this problem should be handled at the staff level.
Sincerely,
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O. W. Smith, Jr./