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County of Albemarle
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road,
Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Memorandum
To: Sanford Wilcox (wilcoxrealty(@aol.com )
From: Ellie Ray, CLA, Senior Planner
Division: Planning
Date: May 15, 2013
Subject: SDP 1990 - 00101/1994 -00077 Blue Goose — LOR
Fax 434 - 972 -4126
The County of Albemarle Planning Division will recommend approval of the plan 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. [Comment] Engineering says that all proposed work on your parcel has been removed from the plans for
Crozet United Methodist Church; please remove reference to their site work from your plan and letter. This
should include any reference to the temporary storage /contractor yard that is indicated as being proposed
for use by the Church.
2. 32.5.2(b)] Provide the maximum amount of paved parking and vehicular circulation area.
3. [32.5.2(n)] Please clarify what is proposed for the area between the existing building and the proposed
parking; will the existing parking and travelway be removed? If so, what will take its place? Will connections
to the existing sidewalk near the building be included? Show and label all demolition and proposed
improvements.
4. [32.5.2(n)] Dimension the new travelway that is parallel to Route 240.
5. [32.5.2(n)] Please label the curb radii on the parking islands and exterior curbing.
6. [32.5.2(n)] Label fencing as temporary per ARB comments.
7. [32.6.2(i)] Please label the width of all of the parking spaces, or note the 9' width label provided as `typical'.
8. [32.6.2(i)] Provide bump -outs at the end of each travelway to allow a vehicle parked in the last space in the
row enough room to back out of the parking space safely.
9. [32.6.20) & 32.7.9.4] Please include a plant schedule that includes the plant species, quantity, and size on
the plan.
10. [20B.4(D)] Each parking area having more than five (5) spaces that abuts or is visible from one or more
public streets abutting the lot on which the parking area is located shall be screened from the streets with
continuous evergreen shrubs or opaque walls comprised of materials such as, but not limited to, masonry or
board, at a height not to exceed four (4) feet, or by a combination of evergreen shrubs and opaque walls.
Opaque walls shall be augmented with landscape vegetation such as shrubbery, trees, or other vegetation
approved by the agent. If evergreen shrubs are used as the screen, the shrubs shall measure at least
twenty -four (24) inches in height at the time of planting, and at maturity shall be three (3) to five (5) feet in
height. Evergreen shrubs shall be planted between three (3) and five (5) feet on- center, depending upon the
species selected. Please provide screening along the north side of the entrance, along Crozet Avenue from
the entrance to the building, and along the end of the parking lot that faces Carter Street or along the Carter
Street frontage itself. This requirement is listed in Section 32.7.9.5(e) as well. Please also refer to ARB
comments for additional information.
11. [32.6.20) & 32.7.9.6(a)] An area of at least five (5) percent of the paved parking and vehicular circulation
area shall be landscaped with trees or shrubs. Neither the areas of street trees and shrubs required by
sections 32.7.9.5(d) and (e) nor shrubs planted between a parking area and the building shall be counted
toward the minimum landscaped area for a parking lot. As noted above, the square footage of `paved
parking and vehicular circulation area' has not been provided. Additionally, the 5% requirement refers to
square footage of planting space, not tree canopy (as it's often misinterpreted). Please provide all relevant
information to verify this requirement is satisfied.
12. [32.6.20) & 32.7.9.5(b)] The 5% landscaped area required shall be planted with a mixture of shade trees
and shrubs and shall include one (1) large or medium shade tree per ten (10) parking spaces or portion
thereof, if five (5) spaces or more. Please refer to ARB comments for additional information.
13. [Comment] This Letter of Revision cannot be approved until Engineering and ARB grant their approval;
comments have been forwarded. The Inspections reviewer has completed their review and has no
objection.
14. [Comment] A Water Protection Ordinance application must be submitted and approved before this Letter
of Revision can be approved; please refer to engineering comments for additional information.
Please contact Ellie Ray in the Planning Division by using eravCcDalbemarle.org or 434 - 296 -5832 ext. 3432 for
further information.