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County of Albemarle
Department of Community Development
To: Megan Yaniglos, Senior Planner
From: Phil Custer, Engineering Review
Date: February 3, 2011
Subject: SUB - 2010 -00166 Old Trail Block 3B "Lot 4" Final Plat
The final plat for Old Trail Block 3B "Lot 4" has been reviewed. Engineering review for current
development can recommend approval to the plat once the following comments have been addressed.
1. Before this plat is approved, Claremont Lane must be dedicated to public use to provide frontage
for these lots. The applicant may continue with the dedication procedure already established with
the review of Block 313 subdivision this fall (county- preferred method) or modify this plat to
dedicate the necessary ROW and drainage easements. If the ROW and drainage easements will be
dedicated prior to this plat, please include each of the deedbooks and page numbers that the deed
of dedication and drainage easements were recorded under. I will remind everyone involved that
the road bond will need to be posted prior to dedication of this ROW and drainage easements. [14-
404, 14- 302.A.3, 14- 302.A.5, 14- 303.L,14- 303.E]
2. The history regarding the sight distance easement for this corner of the Old Trail development is
somewhat confusing. In 2008, a wide sight distance easement was placed with the plat recorded in
DB 3650 to match the easements shown with the Pool lot site plan (Old Trail Block 3A -SDP-
2008- 00035). These are the easements that the owner now wants to vacate. These easements were
omitted on each of the Block 313 site plans and buildings were placed within these easements.
With these site plans, a new sight distance easement looking north from Mornington Place was
added, which the applicant intends to keep.
Because site plans were approved showing buildings within these easements and the reduction in
safety by removing these easements is minimal, engineering has no objection to the vacation
shown on this plat. I have some questions as to whether the approved layout within the site plan
meets the proper standards regarding sight distance, but it's too late and pointless to investigate
this further.
3. This plat seems to indicate that it will vacate one of the two sight distance easements on TMP 55E-
1 -E. If this is the case, this property owner should sign the plat as well.
File: El_fpt_PBC_sub20l000l66.doc