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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSUB201200038 Review Comments Preliminary Plat 2012-04-12_ p County of Albemarle Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22902 Phone 434 - 296 -5832 Memorandum To: Scott Collins (scott @collins - engineering.com) From: Ellie Ray, CLA, Senior Planner Division: Planning Date: April 12, 2011 Subject: SUB 2012 -00038 Westlake Hills - Preliminary Fax 434 - 972 -4126 The County of Albemarle Division of Planning will recommend approval of the plat referenced above once the following comments have been satisfactorily addressed (The following comments are those that have been identified at this time. Additional comments or conditions may be added or eliminated based on further review.): [Each comment is preceded by the applicable reference, which is to the Subdivision /Zoning Ordinances unless otherwise specified.] 1. [14- 302(A)4] Private easements. Provide and label the location and dimensions of all existing and proposed private easements. Existing easements must include the deed book, page number, and owner of record. A letter of intent for any off -site easements is also required. It appears that grading is proposed off - site, which will require an easement. 2. [14- 302(A)5] Public easements. Provide and label the location and dimensions of all existing and proposed public easements, including the pond, drainage and access easement on TMP 56 -53 (DB4024, PG489). Existing easements must include the deed book, page number, and owner of record. The existing sanitary sewer easements shown should be labeled with the deed book and page number. 3. [14- 302(A)8] Proposed lots. Provide dimensions for all boundary lines of each lot, including frontage on any proposed street; a few dimensions are missing. 4. [14- 302(A)9] Building sites on proposed lots. The minimum building site diagram provided should include the minimum square footage for the building site based on the dimensions of a typical footprint plus the required setbacks. The diagram must also include a statement certifying that each lot has a building site that contains at least that specific square footage. Include a reference to the requested critical slope waiver on the Cover Sheet as well. Engineering comments on the critical slope waiver request indicate that modifications to the lot layout will be necessary before staff can recommend approval of the waiver. 5. [14- 302(A)11] Instrument creating property proposed for subdivision. The most recent instrument for each parcel must also be provided. 6. [14- 302(A)14] Land to be dedicated in fee or reserved. Provide the location, acreage, and current owner of all land intended to be dedicated in fee or reserved for public use, or to be reserved in a deed for the common use of lot owners in the subdivision. The total is provided on the Cover Sheet, but the areas must also be shown and labeled on the layout sheets. A tabulation of areas should be provided on the Cover Sheet as well. 7. [14- 302(8)3] Public areas, facilities or uses. Indicate the location of all areas shown on the comprehensive plan as proposed sites for public areas, facilities or uses which are located wholly or in part within the property. The Crozet Master Plan shows greenway /trail areas and an area for a potential park. Please see Parks Department comments for additional information. 8. [13.4.1] Environmental standards. The plat provides the boundaries and acreages of all wooded areas being maintained to meet the requirement for the requested bonus density. However, the table on the cover sheet indicating each area and the sum appears to be missing some areas shown on the layout sheets. In order to qualify for this bonus, a conservation plan as specified in section 32.7.9 shall be required. 9. [13.4.1] Environmental standards. For your reference, street trees are required to be shown on the road plans for this development to meet the requirement for bonus density. 10. [2.2.3] Minimum open space required. A minimum of 25% open space is required for cluster development. It appears this standard has been met, but not documented properly; see #6 for more information. 11. [14- 302(B)6] Tax map and parcel number. The tax map and parcel numbers provided in the Cover Sheet are incorrect; please revise. 12. [14- 302(8)8 & 4.6.1(c)] Yards. Several of the setback lines demonstrated on the layout plan are incorrect. Revise the setback /yard lines shown to establish the depth of all front and rear yards to where the minimum lot width is achievable. Lots 11, 13, 107, 108, & 109 appear not to meet this standard on the front setback. Lots 72, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 124, & 137 appear not to meet this standard on the rear setback. 13. [14- 302(8)10 & 17- 317(B)] Stream buffer. The stream buffer indicated on the plat is incorrect. The Water Protection Ordinance reads as follows, `If the development is located within a water supply protection area or other rural land, stream buffers shall be retained if present and established where they do not exist on any lands subject to this article containing perennial or intermittent streams, nontidal wetlands contiguous to these streams, and flood plains. The stream buffer shall extend to whichever of the following is wider: (i) one hundred (100) feet on each side of perennial or intermittent streams and contiguous nontidal wetlands, measured horizontally from the edge of the nontidal wetlands, or the top of the stream bank if no wetlands exist, or (ii) the limits of the flood plain. The stream buffer shall be no less than two hundred (200) horizontal feet wide from the flood plain of any public water supply impoundment." Revise the stream buffer accordingly. Please contact Ellie Ray at the Division of Current Development by using eray(a)albemarle.ora or 434 - 296 -5832 ext. 3432 for further information.