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Home My WebLink AboutSP201000033 Review Comments Special Use Permit 2010-12-03y � IRG1 COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE Department of Planning & Community Development 401 McIntire Road, Room 218 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596 (804) 296 - 5823 Fax (804) 972 — 4012 December 3, 2010 Barbara Kalemba Sliwinski and Kryzysztof Sliwinski 3516 Doctor's Crossing Charlottesville, VA 22901 RE: SP 2010000033 Four Seasons Learning Center Amendment to Special Use Permit # 02 -06 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Sliwinski: Staff has reviewed your initial submittal for an increase in the number of children at the facility from 40 to 64. As you know, this project was reviewed by the Board of Supervisors on October 8, 2008. I have attached a copy of the minutes from that meeting. As you also know, two of the Board members have been replaced since 2008. We understand that you wish to have the matter considered by the current Board of Supervisors. Staff continues to have concerns about the potential scale of the day care with 24 additional students in relation to the neighborhood. Having three employees park across the street at the Northwood Apartments will potentially ease on- street parking on Lakeview. This change will take 3 6 employee round trips away from the intersection of Four Seasons Drive and Lakeview and put it onto Four Seasons Drive and the Northwood parking lot drive. The parking at the Northwood. Apartments will not affect the traffic generated by the parents of the additional 24 students, though. Attached, please find the comments from VDOT regarding the proposal. VDOT is aware that site distance requirements are.met at the intersection of Four Seasons Drive. and Lakeview. They indicated to us that they have received a number of calls with concerns about visibility at the intersection due to the location of cars parked on- street. Their recommendations are made to staff as it develops a recommendation to you and the Planning Commission. At this time, staff is_ unable to support the proposal due to the scale and expected impacts of the development. The last staff report provided to the. Board of Supervisors is included with this letter. Resubmittal or Public Hearin Within 30 days of the date of this letter, please do one of the following: (1) Resubmit in response to these comments on a resubmittal date as published in the project review schedule (the full resubmittal schedule may be found at www.albemarle.ora in the "forms" section at the Community Development page), OR (2) Request a public hearing be set with the Planning Commission based on the information provided with your original submittal (a date will be set in accordance with the Planning Commission's published schedule as mutually agreed to by you and the County), OR (3) Request indefinite deferral and state your justification for requesting the deferral. (Indefinite deferral means that you intend to resubmit /request a public hearing be set with the Planning Commission after the 30 day period.) At this time, the January 25, 2010 Planning Commission public hearing date is available should you decide you wish to go to public hearing. We will need to know by January 4 if you wish to go to this public hearing date. If we have not received a response from you within 30 days,. we will contact you in writing again. At that time, you will be given 10 days to do one of the following: a) request withdrawal of your application, b) request deferral of your application to a specific Planning Commission date as mutually agreed to with staff, or c) request indefinite deferral and state your justification for requesting the deferral. If none of these actions is taken, staff will schedule your application for a public hearing based on the information provided with your original submittal. Unless you fail to respond within the time periods specified above, a public hearing with the Planning Commission will not be advertised until you advise us that the project is ready to proceed to a public hearing. At that time, a legal advertisement will be run in the newspaper and a staff report will be prepared to go to the Planning Commission. Please be advised that, once a public hearing has been advertised, only one deferral prior to the Planning Commission's public hearing will be allowed during the life of the application. The only exception to this rule will be extraordinary circumstances, such as a major change in the project proposal by the applicant or more issues identified by staff that have not previously been brought to the applicant's attention. -As always, an applicant may request deferral at the Planning Commission meeting. Please feel free to contact me if you wish to meet or need additional information. Sincerely, Elaine Elaine K. Echols Principal Planner for the Development Areas � � n k �} i COMMONWEALTU of VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARLOTTESVILLE RESIDENCY OFFICE 701 VDOT WAY CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22911 Gregory A. Whirley COMMISSIONER December 3, 2010 Mr. Bill Fritz Dept. of Planning _& Community Development 401 McIntire Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 RE: Special Use Permits and Rezoning Submittals Dear Mr. Fritz: Below are VDOT's comments for the November, 2010 Rezoning and Special Use Permit applications: SP- 2010 -00032 Avon Street / Ross / AT &T CV376 • Show sight distance on Woodchuck Ln, route 874 in accordance with the VDOT Road Design Manual Appendix F. SP- 2010 -00033 Four Seasons Learning Center • According io ITE Trip Generation code 565, 40 students will generate 179 trips per day and 64 students will generate 286 trips per. day. Although the increase in proposed traffic does not meet the TIA threshold for volume alone, the County may want to consider some traffic data for parking needs or sight lines based on the history of this site. SP- 2010 -00034 Glenn A. Hall (Scott Clark) • VDOT has scheduled a time to check the sight distance along route 640 at the intersection for Braxton Road and will send a follow up evaluation of the findings. SP- 2010 - 00035, 00041 Blue Ridge Swim Club (Joan McDowell) • VDOT has met with the applicant to check sight distance at the entrance and some clearing will be required and a sight line easement maybe required. The applicant needs to submit a plat at the intersection of the entrance to Owensville Road showing the sight lines and any needed easements for commercial sight distance: SP- 2010 - 00036.00037 MonU Park (Scott Clark) • VDOT has previously checked sight distance for this site but at a slightly different location. I believe that this location will be able to clear and obtain commercial sight distance but I suggest the applicant request that. a VDOT Permit Inspector meet them at the site to ensure the location is adequate. • Left and right turn lane warrants need to be submitted and if either is warranted, they need to be added to the plan. SP- 2010 =00038 Badger Industrial (Phil Custer) + No comments VirginiaDOT.org WE KEEP VIRGINIA MOVING SP- 2010 -00039 Peter Jefferson Overlook Offices (Elaine Echols) • According to ITE code 710 for general office, this site should generate 486 trips per day and 109 trips during the peak hour. This site does not meet the requirements for a Chapter 527 TIA. • An increase in traffic at the intersection of the private road with Route 250 may cause queuing problems at the eastbound Route 250 left turn lane. An queue analysis should be submitted for this left turn movement. SP- 2010 -00040 Clifton Lake (Glenn Brooks) • VDOT Culpeper District Planning has concerns about the private road connection .to Milton causing an increase in cut through traffic within this subdivision to the intersection at Route 250 because of the lack of sight distance. Planning has recommended that the county consider limiting this connection until such time that the sight distance is corrected at Route 250. ZMA -2010 00009 Republic Capital (Ervn Brennan) • Recommend that this site ensures that parcel 32 -22N has adequate access to Northside Dr. if the property is to be developed. • The reference in the proffers to adequate road improvements is very. unclear. If you have any questions, please contact me. Sincerely, Joel DeNunzio, P.E. Staff Engineer VDOT Charlottesville Residency WE KEEP VIRGINIA MOVING