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COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
1601 Orange Road
Culpeper, Virginia 22701 -3819
Gregory A. Whirley
Commissioner of Highways
July 2, 2013
Mr. Christopher Perez
Senior Planner
County of Albemarle
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Re: SDP - 2012 -049 Church of Our Savior
Dear Mr. Perez:
We have reviewed the site plan entitled Church of Our Savior New E.Y.C. Building dated 613113
as submitted by Water Street Studio, LLC and offer the following comments:
1. As part of the construction of the new commercial entrance onto Route 631, Rio Road,
the entrances for the loop in front of the church's thrift store and all entrances of the real
estate office directly onto Rio Road must be physically closed. VDOT standard CG -6
needs to be replaced at each of these entrances to close them.
2. The western most entrance to the real estate office off of the new shared access needs to
meet the minimum throat length per Appendix F of the Road Design Manual. For one
egress lane, the minimum throat length should be 35 feet.
3. The entrance width should be a minimum of 30 feet as shown on Figure 4 -10 in
Appendix F of the Road Design Manual.
4. It appears that an access management spacing exception will be necessary for the new
entrance due to the spacing between the signalized entrance of the gas station to the south
and the proposed entrance shown in this site plan. I can support this exception on the
basis that as part of the construction of the new entrance, three other existing entrances
will be removed.
If you need additional information concerning this project, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Troy ustin, P.E.
Area Land Use Engineer
Culpeper District VirginiaDOT.org
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