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County of Albemarle
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road,
Charlottesville, VA, 22902
Phone 434 - 296 -5832 Fax 434 - 972 -4126
Memorandum
To: Claudette Grant
From: Michelle Roberge, Engineering Department
Division: Engineering
Date: April 1, 2015
Subject: ZMA 2014 -00006 Avon Park II, Waiver Request for Private St. Authorization, Waiver for
Construction of Public Road Ext.
1) The applicant is requesting a waiver for the private street authorization of Stratford Way. Please note
that this application is to amend a previously approved ZMA201200004. The reason for amending the
ZMA is to relocate and reorient the affordable housing to meet parking requirements.
I recommend approval of Stratford Way with the condition to provide parking only on one side.
The proposed road meets VDOT standards; however, it does not meet Fire Rescue's requirement
for a 20' clear access. I recommend parking on the southern side and "no parking" signs on the
northern side. Please note that my recommendation will impact the required parking spaces
again. It appears reducing the proposed lots is a solution to reduce the required parking spaces.
It is important to resolve the parking at this stage to avoid another rezoning.
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2) The applicant is requesting a waiver to not build Hathaway Street to the property line.
Per 32.7.2.2[e.][,] "All streets within a development shall be extended and constructed to the abutting
property lines to provide vehicular and pedestrian interconnections to future development on adjoining
lands, terminating within the development with a temporary turnaround. The arrangement of the streets shall
provide adequate access to adjoining lands within the development where necessary to provide for the
orderly development of the county including, but not limited to, reserving temporary construction easements
of sufficient area to accommodate the future completion of the street when the adjoining lands are
developed."
I recommend disapproval of the waiver. The justification for not constructing to the property line is
to avoid an offsite grading easement. The applicant also states it is a substantial offsite grading and
clearing. However, grading and easements are already shown to provide an emergency access from
Nobel Heights. It is possible to grade into the property and if easements are already being proposed
to address the emergency access road it is also possible to obtain easements to build Hathaway to
the property line.
Please contact Michelle Roberge in the Engineering Dept at mroberge(Qalbemarle.org or 434 - 296 -5832 ext.
3458 for further information.