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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
14 November 2012
Ms. Megan Yaniglos
Senior Planner
Re: Engineering comments for Special Use Permit SP201200030 — The Peabody School
The application for SP2012 -00030 has been reviewed and the following comments are noted by the
Engineering Division, Community Development Department:
1) There is an existing illegal entrance to the school property approximately 215' west of Stoney
Ridge Road off of Southern Parkway (see photo below). This entrance is too close to the roads'
intersections and it could represent an existing site plan violation.
2) The applicant's assertions regarding the traffic generated for the projected enrollment of 210
students appear to be accurate (AM peak hour trip generation of 189 trips being the governing
standard). The existing public roads appear to be sufficient to handle the proposed additional
traffic.
3) During a field investigation on 9 November 2012, as many as 8 cars were simultaneously
dropping off students around 8:25am outside of designated parking areas and backing out on to
Stoney Ridge Road (see photo below).
4) Relative to comment #3, the existing student pick up / drop off lane appears to be insufficient.
The existing lane is approximately 130' to the nearest faculty parking lot entrance. There is no
County specific standard for this length; however various outside agencies have provided design
guidelines for the lane length as summarized below:
Albemarle County
Engineering
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Jurisdiction
Minimum lane
Enrollment or
Source
length or length
enrollment range
range (ft)
(students)
North Carolina
467
140 elementary & 70
North Carolina Municipal School
middle school
Transportation Assistance —
School Traffic Calculations
spreadsheet
South Carolina
900 -1200
200 -600
SC DOT Guidelines for School
Transportation Design
Texas
400 -800
Less than 550
TTI TRAFFIC OPERATIONS
AND SAFETY AT SCHOOLS:
RECOMMENDED
GUIDELINES
City of
300
210
City of Henderson Development
Henderson, NV
Code Ch. 19.7: Development and
Design Standards
Recommend a parking study which addresses both the minimum number of faculty and visitor
parking spaces and the applicant recommended minimum lane length be included with SP2012- 00030.
5) The existing site for the school appears to be insufficient in area based on The School Site
Planner — Land for Learning (Public Schools of North Carolina State Board of Education
Department of Public Instruction, Published June 1998). This Planner indicates an elementary and
middle school with an enrollment of 210 students should be on an approximately 14 Ac site. The
existing parcel for The Peabody School (76M1- 00 -00- 01500) is approximately 5.09 Ac.
Engineering division recommends that the applicant should address above comments.
Sincerely,
Michael Koslow, P.E.
Civil Engineer II
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Copy (letter only):
Andrew Kellerman
file SP201200030
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Albemarle County
Engineering
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isting site plan violation / illegal parking
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