HomeMy WebLinkAboutSDP200800064 Review Comments Waiver, variation or substitution requirement 2008-06-02A-7a
COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596
Phone (434) 296 -5832 Fax (434) 972 -4126
To: Lisa K. Glass, Principal Planner
From: Amy Pflaum, Engineering Review
Subject: SDP - 2008 - 00064, Georgetown - Hydraulic Professional Offices,
Dumpster Pad Waiver Request
Date received: 19 May 2008
Date of Comment: 2 June 2008
The applicant has requested a waiver of the requirement of Section 4.12.13.e of the Albemarle County
Zoning Ordinance.
Section 4.12.13.e of the Ordinance states that "Each site plan that depicts a commercial or industrial
building of four thousand (4,000) gross square feet or more shall provide a dumpster pad ..."
Section 4.12.13.f of the Ordinance provides for the waiver of Section 4.12.13.e if "The zoning
administrator, in consultation with the county engineer, finds that (1) the public health, safety or
welfare would be equally or better served by the modification or waiver; (2) that the modification
or waiver would not be a departure from sound engineering and design practice; and (3) that the
modification or waiver would not otherwise be contrary to the purpose and intent of this chapter.
The engineering analysis of the requests is as follows:
Waiver of the requirement of the Zoning Ordinance section 4.12.13.e:
The applicant states that trash generated within the proposed office building will be collected
internally and taken off -site by an office cleaning agency. No external dumpster will be used, and
therefore, no dumpster pad is required in the parking lot.
Engineering presumes that the public health, safety and welfare would be equally served by trash
being collected inside the building and taken off -site as an alternative to an external dumpster. This is
not a departure from sound engineering practices.
If no external dumpster is to be on the site, then Engineering concludes that no dumpster pad is
necessary in the parking lot. Should the applicant determine the need for an external dumpster at a
later time, a dumpster pad will be required then.
The intent of the chapter is to require orderly disposal of trash generated within the proposed building.
So long as the applicant has secured alternate means of trash disposal, the waiver request is not
contrary to the Ordinance.
Engineering recommends approval to this waiver request.
File: El_wvr_ADP_2008 -64 Georgetown - Hydraulic