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COUNTY OF ALBEMARL
Department of Building Code and Zoning Services
401 McIntire Road,Room 227
Charlottesville,Virginia 22902-4596
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April 23,2003
Larry McElwain
2340 Commonwealth Drive
Charlottesville,VA 22901
RE: Clifton,The Country Inn,
Tax Map 79,Parcel 23B and 23C
Dear Larry:
We are currently reviewing the Clifton Inn Site Plan Waiver request and have found an issue
heretofore unidentified. Apparently, the special use permit and the Inn itself are not on the same
parcel as the proposed parking lot. The parking cannot be on a separate lot except for certain
circumstances that I will explain. The result of this finding is that the special use permit, SP2002-
019, cannot be initiated unless and until you have sufficient parking for the additional persons
permitted under that approval. If the SP is not initiated by October 2, 2004, it will be terminate.
Under section 4.12.10, shared parking may be allowed on a parcel with another primary use.
However,if there were no primary use requiring parking on a given parcel, any parking on that
parcel would be considered"stand alone parking". Stand alone parking is only allowed by special
use permit in some districts, but not in the Rural Areas district (RA).
We discovered this problem when Keith Lancaster, our Zoning Plans Reviewer, asked that property
lines be added to the site plan so he could determine if the proposed improvements will meet our
setback requirements. Now that we see the proposed parking is located on Tax Map79,parcel 23F,
the issue is that parcel 23F is zoned PRD (Planned Residential Development) and this parking lot is
not shown on the application plan for that district. To be permitted in that PRD district,your client
would have to concurrently have a zoning map amendment (showing the change in the application
plan) and a special use permit(for stand alone parking) approved by the Board of Supervisors.
Two other options that I can identify for you are:
1) Find another area for parking on either parcel 23B or 23C (both of which are included in the
SP);
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2) Do a boundary adjustment to add the land including the proposed parking area to parcel 23B;
and, rezone that land to RA; and, amend the existing special use permit to include the adjusted
land area of the revised parcel 23B.
If you think of other options, please discuss them with me or another zoning administrator to insure
that everything will work. After any option,you will still need to complete the site plan approval
process showing the accurate location of all improvements related to Clifton prior to construction of
the parking lot and use of the SP for more than 80 persons at Clifton.
I know that this is complex, and I will be happy to assist however I can. If you have any questions,
please do not hesitate to call.
Sin erely,
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Jan Sprinkle
Deputy Zoning Administrator
Cc: Country Inns Extraordinaire, Inc.
Reading files,TM/P 79/23B and 23C
Keith Lancaster
Margaret Doherty