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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSP201000035 Review Comments Special Use Permit 2010-12-03• f N'socrit '. L1, ow COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road, North Wing Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596 Phone (434) 296 -5832 December 2, 2010 Kelly Strickland 411 Cranberry Lane Crozet, VA 22932 RE: SP201000035 and SP201000041 Blue Ridge Swim Club Dear Mr. Strickland: Fax (434) 972 -4176 Staff has reviewed your initial submittal for a Special Use Permit for a day /boarding camp that would allow overnight stays (SP201000035) and a Special Use Permit to continue existing swimming pool use for members, allow expansion of the existing bath house, and allow special events and concession sales (SP201000041) on 13.206 acres We have a number of questions and comments which we believe should be resolved before your goes to public hearing. We would be glad to meet with you to discuss these issues. Our comments are consolidated below: Planning Initial comments on how your proposal generally relates to the Comprehensive Plan are provided below. Comments on conformity with the Comprehensive Plan are provided to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors as part of the staff report. The property is located within the Ivy Creek Water Supply Watershed. The Natural Resources section of the Plan includes goals and objectives for protecting the region's water supply: OBJECTIVE: Maintain the integrity of existing stream channels and networks for their biological functions and drainage. Protect the condition of state waters for all reasonable public uses and ecological functions. Restore degraded stream and wetland ecosystems where possible. SURFACE WATER STANDARDS The following GENERAL STANDARDS should be applied to protect surface water: C Protect and enhance riparian corridors in their natural condition. Maintain natural buffer areas for all land uses. Buffer areas reduce erosion and runoff of sediment, nutrients, and pesticides from land activities adjacent to watercourses; provide stream bank stabilization by maintenance of live root systems; maintain temperature norms along watercourses; and maintain shoreline and aquatic habitats. Maintain along all watercourses buffers of undisturbed natural or established vegetation, or replanted buffers with the goal of an indigenous bottomland forest. Stream buffer widths should be adjusted based on the presence of wetlands, flood plains, adjacent critical and /or erodible slopes, guidance from the Open Space Plan, and other watershed considerations. C Avoid placing fences, bridges, and other impediments across canoeable streams. Property owners should be encouraged to remove fallen trees and other obstacles to canoe and boat passage on streams commonly used for boating and canoeing. C As development occurs, design development and asociated BMPs to reduce impervious cover and to minimize negative impacts on streams, including stream channel erosion, habitat degradation, and loss of groundwater recharge. C Undertake ecosystem restoration projects in high priority areas. The following GENERAL STANDARDS should be used in flood hazard areas: C Locate and design utilities such as gas lines, electrical, and telephone systems to minimize damage and prevent flotation and dislocation due to flooding. C Require storm water detention facilities for developments with high impervious coverage and design such facilities to maintain pre - development runoff rates for the 2 -year and 10 -year storms. Encourage regional and subregional stormwater detention facilities that can serve as BMPs and that can serve more than one individual development. C Utilize floodplains for their natural ability to assimilate floodwaters. Appropriate uses include passive recreation, greenbelt development, buffer areas, and open space. C Restore natural floodplain functions where they have been altered. Plant appropriate floodplair vegetation as part of a BMP and buffer program. C Encourage and promote landowners to put floodplains into conservation easements In addition, show existing bathroom and shower facilities on the plan and existing drainfields. Show parking areas and the number of vehicles accommodated in these areas. Describe fully what facilities will be made for campers — tents, cabins, food, etc. How many current members are in the club; how many attend on a daily /weekly basis (general amount). How many and what type of special events? How many people: How is attendance regulated? Where will they park? Describe parking surface and driveway surface materials. Explain type and placement of concession sales. Give distance from pavilion /pool /bathhouse /parking to the property line and to the nearest residences. Show location of well and drainfields on plan. Zoning The following comments have been submitted by Amelia McCulley: I have reviewed this initial submittal and have several questions. My comments will be combined for both special use permits. 1. How much parking currently exists on the property? Please generally depict the parking on the plan and note the surface of the parking. We will need to determine that there is or will be adequate parking provided. Please also see questions #4 and 5. 2. The application states the swimming pool use will allow up to 350 memberships. How many memberships are currently permitted? This is asked to understand the extent of expansion in the pool use. 3. The application states the camp use will be for up to 100 campers. How many staff will there be? 4. How will transportation be provided to the camp — by individuals or pick -up by camp bus? Is there currently a commercial entrance to this site? 5. Please further describe the special events. What type of events (private parties or open to the 6. What months will the camp be open? 7. How will access (pedestrian and vehicular) be provided to the pavilion both during use and during construction? Will the pavilion have walls, running water, bathrooms? 8. What type and distance of buffer will be provided between the pavilion and adjoining property? SP2010 -35 SP2010 -41 2 Blue Ridge Swim Club Review Comments 1 Current Development The following comments have been provided related to how your proposal may or may not be able to meet site plan or subdivision ordinance requirements in the future by Bill Fritz: 1. A pavilion is proposed across the stream from the access to the property. How will this building be accessed for construction and after construction without impacting the stream buffer? In addition, it is difficult to determine if room is available to build the pavilion without impacting critical slopes, or if it could meet setbacks. 2. Both the standard parking and overflow parking appear to be in areas of critical slopes. Disturbance of critical slopes is not permitted without a waiver. 3. 1 cannot tell how much if any formal parking is provided for this site. I have reviewed the aerial photos and it appears that the parking is informal at best. It is my opinion that additional parking will be required for this use (although this is a determination for the Zoning Administrator). If additional parking is required or if entrance improvements are required then a site plan will be required. The parking will have to meet all the requirements of the ordinance for design including surface material (paved), slope and the provision of curb and gutter. 4. Overflow parking is shown. The extent of the overflow parking is difficult to determine. Overflow parking will have to be designed to provide a surface and slope that is adequate and appropriate for the intended use. 5. As part of the site plan review process the site will be evaluated to determine if it meets the minimum standards of Section 5.1.16. 1 would recommend that an analysis be done with the special use permit to determine if it complies instead of waiting for the site plan process. Engineering and Water Resources The following comments related to engineering and water resources have been provided by Glenn Brooks: 1. The existing bath house is within the Water Protection Ordinance stream buffer, which does not allow expansion. 2. The plan needs to show access to the proposed pavilion. It appears a stream crossing is required. 3. Required parking will need to be formalized. It should be out of the buffer, and meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance. 4. Stormwater management will be required. by the Water Protection Ordinance, and should be shown conceptually. 5. The Entrance and road should be shown conceptually to meet the zoning ordinance and VDOT requirements for a commercial /institutional use. VDOT and Health Dept. Comments from VDOT and Health Dept. will be forthcoming and they will be forwarded when they have been received. FIRE AND RESCUE Must comply with the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code. Final approval is subject to field inspection and verification. Resubmittal or Public Hearing 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.org 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 SP2010 -35 SP2010 -41 Blue Ridge Swim Club Review Comments 1 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.) If we have not received a response from you within 30 days, we will contact you again. At that time, you will be given 1 Q 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, ,:::?� Joan McDowell, Principal Planner Rural Areas cc: Blue Ridge Swimming Pool Club LTD P.O. Box 424 Ivy, VA 22945 Todd Barnett P.O. Box 4234 Charlottesville, VA 22905 SP2010 -35 SP2010 -41 4 Blue Ridge Swim Club Review Comments 1