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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Rd. North Wing
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 434 - 296 -5832
Memorandum
To: Eugene Ryang
From: Joanne Tu Purtsezova
Fax: 434 - 972 -4126
Division: Planning
Date: December 29, 2011
Subject: 20' buffer grading waiver approved for
SDP201100082 Boar's Head Sports Club Squash Club Expansion - Major
The Albemarle County Planning Division hereby approves the request for a 20' buffer grading
waiver.
In granting this waiver, the following was considered:
21.7 MINIMUM YARD REQUIREMENTS
c. Buffer zone adjacent to residential and rural areas districts. No construction activity including
grading or clearing of vegetation shall occur closer than twenty (20) feet to any residential or rural areas district.
Screening shall be provided as required in section 32.7.9. (Amended 9 -9 -92)
2. Waiver by the agent. In accordance with the procedures stated in section 2.5 of this chapter,the agent may waive
the prohibition of construction activity, grading or the clearing of
vegetation in the buffer zone in the following circumstances:
(i) adequate landscape screening does not currently exist and the installation of screening
which meets or exceeds the requirements of this chapter would result in disturbance to
the buffer; installation of screening that exceeds the landscape screening
requirements is anticipated (significant more plantings as indicated in
proposal /request)
(ii) an arborist or landscape architect certifies that trees in the buffer are dying, diseased or
will constitute a fall hazard; N/A
(iii) the county engineer determines that disturbance of the buffer is necessary in order
to address an existing drainage problem; N/A or
(iv) disturbance of the buffer will result in improved screening through the use of a berm, a
retaining wall or similar physical modification or improvement. In such a case, the
developer or subdivider shall illustrate the result of both the existing screening without
disturbance of the buffer and the screening that would be provided as a result of the
disturbance of the buffer. improved screening is anticipated
Please contact Joanne Tu Purtsezova in the Planning Division at jpurtsezova @albemarle.org
or 434 - 296 -5832 ext. 3458 with any questions.