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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road, North Wing
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596
MEMORANDUM
TO: Steve Edwards (Terra Concepts)
224 Court Square
Charlottesville, VA 22902
FROM: Elaine Echols
DATE: September 5, 2007
RE: ZMA2006- 00022, The Commons at Albrecht Place
Dear Mr. Edwards:
Fax(434)972 -4012
On August 28, 2007, the Albemarle County Planning Commission reviewed the above -noted item in a work
session. Attached please find the section of the official action memo for this meeting describing the
discussion and direction provided by the Commission on this item. Please note there has been a change in
you Planner.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at (434) 296 -5832.
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Cc: SUE A ALBRECHT
255 Ipswich Place
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA 22901
ZMA- 2006 -00022 The Commons at Albrecht Place
PROPOSAL: Rezone 3.398 acres from PD -SC - Planned Development Shopping Center which allows
shopping centers, retail sales and service uses; and residential by special use permit (15 units/ acre) to
PD -SC - Planned Development Shopping Center which allows shopping centers, retail sales and service
uses; and residential by special use permit (15 units/ acre) to allow up to 32,364 sq. ft of commercial
space.
PROFFERS: No
EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE /DENSITY: Community Service - community -scale
retail wholesale, business and medical offices, mixed use core communities and /or employment services,
and residential (6.01 -34 units /acre).
ENTRANCE CORRIDOR: Yes
LOCATION: 400 feet west of the intersection of U.S. Route 29 and Shoppers World Court, directly behind
the Shoppers World shopping center
TAX MAP /PARCEL: Tax Map 61 M, Block 12, Parcel 1 E
MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT: Rio
(Sean Dougherty)
In summary, a work session on The Commons at Albrecht Place was held by the Planning Commission.
In a power point presentation, staff reviewed the applicant's proposal. The Commission reviewed and
discussed the proposal, answered the questions posed by staff and made comments and suggestions.
The applicant made a presentation. Public comment was taken. No formal action was taken.
In response to a request from Ms. Joseph, Mr. Cilimberg summarized the Planning Commission's
comments:
- The Commission at this point would not be favorably inclined to grant the waivers for critical
slopes or buffer intrusion. There is the need for the required buffer to be established on the south
side of the site as well as the west side of the site.
- The Commission would like to see consideration of a design that respects the critical slopes and
buffers and at the same time compliments Shoppers World. That may mean that it is a 3 -sided
kind of project and the service alley is utilized for that purpose with this development as it is being
utilized for Shopper's World. The face of the project would then tend to be south, west and north.
The plan may need to be minimized.
The Planning Commission made the following comments about The Commons at Albrecht Place:
1. The Commission would not support the critical slopes waiver or waiver to disturb the 20 foot buffer.
2. The design needs to respect the edges next to the developed residential areas.
3. The orientation of the buildings may need to change and some sort of redesign to better use the
service alley is desired.
4. The applicant should talk to the neighbors about where and how to formalize pedestrian access since
there is already a footpath down to the shopping center.