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County of Albemarle
Department of Community Development
Memorandum
To: Claudette Grant, Senior Planner
From: Amanda Burbage, Senior Planner
Date: June 11, 2014
Subject: ZMA 2013 -017 Spring Hill Village — 4t" Zoning Comments
I have reviewed the resubmittal and have the following comments:
Parking: Staff continues to have concerns about provisions for non - residential parking. One
space per 1,000 sf is inadequate to support a lab/ R &D use, and the Block B parking lot
currently contains only 18 parking spaces devoted to non - residential use. The applicant has
suggested that additional parking to support a non - residential use in Block A could be
accommodated in Block C; however, the phasing plan stipulates that Block C will be developed
during Phase 1 and Block A will be developed during Phase 2. Staff would prefer to see Blocks
A & C developed within the same phase to ensure that there is adequate parking to support the
non - residential uses.
Section 7 of the Code of Development stipulates parking standards that "expressly supercede"
the minimum parking requirements of the Zoning Ordinance. To do so requires approval of a
waiver by the Board of Supervisors with a justification for the reduction in the number of
parking spaces. Should the applicant choose to pursue a waiver to modify parking standards,
staff cannot support the non - residential standards as they are currently written in Table 7.1. As
an alternative, staff recommends that the applicant remove these standards from the Code of
Development, use the parking standards outlined in Section 4.12.6 of the zoning ordinance,
and submit a Shared Parking Plan if a reduction in the number of parking spaces is desired.