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AGENDA TITLE: AGENDA DATE:
SOCA, Polo Grounds Road — Request to amend the August 2, 2006
Albemarle County Service Authority Jurisdictional Area
ACTION: INFORMATION:
CONSENT AGENDA:
SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: ACTION: X INFORMATION:
Request for public hearing to amend the existing
Jurisdictional Area Limited Service designation to provide ATTACHMENTS: YES
sewer service to new structure on Tax Map 46, Parcel 26C1
located within the SOCA sports facility (Attachment A).
REVIEWED BY:
STAFF CONTACT(S):
Tucker, Foley, Cilimberg, Benish; Arnold
LEGAL REVIEW: YES
BACKGROUND:
The applicant is requesting an amendment to the current 'limited service' ACSA Jurisdictional Area designation on an
approximately 26 acre parcel, described as Tax Map 45, Parcel 26C1 (Attachment A). The parcel is located on Polo
Grounds Road and includes the existing SOCA sports facility operating under the previously approved Special Use Permits
(SP 98-18, SP 98-22). The property is bounded by the Rivanna River to the south, a tree farm and contractors yard to the
west, and single family residences to the north and east. The site is located within Comprehensive Plan Rural Area 2, in
the Rivanna Magisterial District. The properties adjacent to the north and south of the SOCA parcel are located in the
Development Areas and are designated for both water and sewer service. The properties adjacent to the west and east of
the SOCA parcel are designated Rural Area in the Land Use Plan. The property to the west is zoned Rural Areas and is
not within the Jurisdictional Area for water or sewer service.The parcels to the east(Tax map 45, parcels 22and 22C)were
part of the original parent parcel which received the ACSA'limited service"designation for sewer service(along with Tax
Map 45, Parcel 26C1) for the SOCA facility and are therefore all three parcels are subject to same limited service
restrictions. (Attachment B).
The current 'limited service' designation on the parcel provides sewer service to only those facilities permitted with the
approval of SP1998-18 and SP 1998-22 for the SOCA Polo Grounds Road facility(playfields and maintenance building/rest
rooms). The applicant is now requesting that sewer service be provided to a proposed 1,000 square foot office trailer to be
located on the existing SOCA sports facility site. The office trailer will be used exclusively by SOCA for club purposes.The
office use also requires Board of Supervisor approval of a Special Use Permit. A Special Use Permit request has been
submitted by the applicant is and is under review by the Staff. It is scheduled for review by the Planning Commission in
August and may be heard by the Board as early as September, pending Commission action.
STRATEGIC PLAN:
2.2 Protect and/or preserve the County's natural resources
DISCUSSION:
The Utilities section of the Comprehensive Plan'Defining Public Water and Sewer Service Areas'(page 129)includes the
following basis for recommendations about proposed changes in the Jurisdictional Area outside of the Development Areas:
"Only allow changes in jurisdictional areas outside of designated Development Areas in cases where the property
is: (1) adjacent to existing lines; and (2) public health and/or safety is in danger. "
A sewer line passes through the SOCA parcel and the sports facility includes an existing sewer connection to the sewer
line.
The prior Board action which established the limited sewer service designation on this parcel was based on health/safety
concerns with using a septic system on this site. Those concerns were caused by the topographic characteristics of the
site,which would have required any septic system to be placed either in the floodplain of the South Fork Rivanna River or
up hill from the soccer complex, requiring pumping to the drainfield. Use of a pump as part of the disposal system means
mechanical failure is an ever present possibility. With a system located so close to the floodplain of the Rivanna River the
failure of a septic pump posses the possibility of a public health threat resulting from effluent contamination. Use of the
public sewer system to dispose of effluent is preferred over a floodplain location for a drainfield or pumping to a drainfield
up hill of the floodplain.
The proposed office trailer, and associated drainfield facility,would be located adjacent to the floodplain of the South Fork
Rivanna River and would be subject to the same topographic conditions and health/safety concerns as noted above.
Staff opinion is that there is there is merit to setting a public hearing to consider amending the limited service designation
for sewer service on the parcel. Staff recommends that the ACSA jurisdictional area amendment public hearing
amendment be scheduled for the same meeting that the Special Use Permit for the office use(SP 2006-14, SOCA Club
Offices).
BUDGET IMPACT:
There are no additions to existing facilities needed for this use. Construction costs are the responsibility of the
applicant.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors schedule a public hearing for this proposed amendment to the ACSA
Jurisdictional Area limited use designation on SOCA property(Tax Map 45, Parcel 26C1). The public hearing should be
scheduled in conjunction with the Board's review of SP 2006-14, SOCA Club Offices (September 13, 2006).
ATTACHMENTS
A Location Map with delineated floodplain and critical slope
B. ACSA Jurisdictional Area Map