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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road,
Charlottesville, Virginia 229024596
Phone (434) 296 -5832 Fax (434) 972 -4126
September 23, 2015
William Moore, PE
Balzer and Associates
1561 Commerce Road, Suite 401
Verona, VA 24482
RE: Town and Country Shopping Center Final Site Plan SDP 2015 -47
Tax Map 78, Parcel 9C
Request for Parking Determination
Dear Mr. Moore,
This letter is a response to the ietter dated July 1, 2015 (attached) requesting a parking
determination for the Town and Country Shopping Center, which was received with your site
plan submittal received on August 31, 2015.
As indicated in your letter, the Town and Country shopping center will have a mix of commercial
tenants but not likely a minimum of 8, as our shopping center definition requires in Section 3 of
the ordinance. (below) You have requested a determination for Unscheduled Uses per Section
4.12.17 of the zoning ordinance.
Shopping center: For purposes of section 4.12, one or more buildings containing a minimum of
ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross leasable area and eight (8) or more retail stores,
personal service shops or restaurants under the same management or association for the
purpose of providing property management, parking, site coverage, advertising, promotion and
other similar benefits. In addition, the building or buildings shall have one or more of the following
characteristics: (1) the stores, personal service shops or restaurants are connected by party walls,
partitions, canopies or similar features; or, (2) some or all of the stores, personal service shops or
restaurants are located in separate buildings that are designed as a single commercial group
sharing common parking areas and vehicular travelways and are connected by walkways and
accessways designed to encourage customer interchange between the buildings and otherwise
present the appearance of a continuous commercial area without regard to ownership. Any site
within a group of uses or separate parcel involving the sale of gasoline shall be excluded from this
definition of shopping center. (Added 2 -5 -03)
The number of parking spaces required for a shopping center of 12,400 square feet, provided it
met the definition above, would be 5.5 spaces11000 gross floor area. If the Town and Country
site used the shopping center parking calculation found in Section 4, the required number of
spaces would be 69 and 69 spaces are proposed on the site plan. The three case studies you
provided in your parking study support the number of parking spaces for the project and use of
the shopping center parking calculation, provided that there is a mix of commercial uses and
restaurant uses are limited.
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Zoning approves this parking study with the condition that restaurant uses are limited to
4,000 square feet and 69 parking spaces are provided. During the Zoning Clearance
process, zoning will confirm that the requirements of this parking determination are met. If you
would like to propose a larger restaurant or a single tenant in the building, Zoning would need to
make a new parking determination.
Please contact me if you have questions or require additional information.
Sincerely,
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Rebecca Ragsdale
Senior Planner
Attached: July 1, 2015 Letter to Amelia McCulley, Zoning Administrator from Balzer and
Associates
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September 23, 2015
July 1, 2015
County of Albemarle
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road
Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
Attn: Amelia McCulley — Zoning Administrator
Re: Town and Country Shopping Center
B &A Project No. S0700006.00
Dear Mrs. McCulley:
On behalf of TAP Investment LLC., developer, Balzer and Associates, Inc. is requesting to utilize Ordinance section
4.12.7 Minimum Number of Required Parking Spaces for Unscheduled Uses to determine the parking requirements for
the proposed project. The project site is located on tax parcels 78 -9C Iocated near the intersection of Richmond Road and
Town and Country Lane in Albemarle County, The project consists of the construction of a new 12,400 s.f. mixed -use
commercial building with associated parking and utility improvements. The current site plan shows 69 proposed parking
spaces with loading areas,
The proposed building will have multiple tenant spaces, but will have less than the minimum eight separate users to be
classified as a shopping center. Therefore, the building has been classified as an unscheduled use and a parking study has
been conducted of other mixed -use commercial centers of similar size. The parking demands of these centers were
evaluated on an average weekday during the assumed peak times of l2pm -1pm and 5 :30pm- 6:30pm to determine the
actual parking demands for these centers. Below is a summary of the results of each case study.
Case Lft 1
1028 Richmond Road — Staunton, VA
Restaurant: 3,215 s.f (i user)
Retail: 4,820 s.f. (2 users)
Phone Service: 3,215 s.f. (I user)
TOTAL: 11,250 s.f
This development has 68 total parking spaces. The number of occupied spaces were counted during the peak times. The
number of occupied spaces during the observed times are as follows: 12:00 pm (30 spaces), 12:30 pm (31 spaces), 1:00
pm (28 spaces), 5:30 pm (40 spaces), 6;00 pin (33 spaces), and 6:30 pm (34 spaces).
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Case Study #2
1407 West Main Street — SaIem, VA,
Restaurant: 1,540 s.f. (1 user)
Phone Service: 2,940 s.£ (I user)
Retail: 6,160 s.f. (2 users)
Hair Salon: 1,960 s.£ (I user)
TOTAL: 12,600 s.f.
This development has 54 total parking spaces. The number of occupied spaces were counted during the peak times. The
number of occupied spaces during the observed times are as follows: 12:00 pm (31 spaces), 12:30 pin (39 spaces), 1:00
pm (33 spaces), 5:30 pm (24 spaces), 6:00 pm (28 spaces), and 6:30 pm (30 spaces).
Case Study #3
309 Port Republic Road — Harrisonburg, VA
Restaurant: 7,900 s.f (4 users)
Retail: 1,700 s.f. (1 user)
Hair Salon: 1,400 s.f. (1 user)
TOTAL: 11,000 s.f.
This development has 56 total parking spaces. The number of occupied spaces were counted during the peak times. The
number of occupied spaces during the observed times are as follows: 12:00 pm (48 spaces), 12:30 pm (46 spaces), 1:00
pm (52 spaces), 5:30 pm (35 spaces), 6:00 pm (42 spaces), and 6:30 pm (43 spaces).
In reviewing the case studies, each site is a commercial center of similar size to the proposed Town and Country site.
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that parking demands will be similar. The three sites studied all have fewer parking
spaces than what is proposed on the Town and Country site and all appear to have adequate parking to meet the needs of
the users. Therefore, it is anticipated that the 69 proposed parking spaces will be adequate to meet the needs of the
proposed Town and Country site.
In summary, we are seeking to utilize the Minimum Number of Required Parking Spaces for Unscheduled Uses section of
the Zoning Ordinance to determine the parking requirements for the proposed project. The case studies presented support
the number of parking spaces proposed for this project. Please review the above request and do not hesitate to contact me
with any questions and/or concerns that may arise.
Sincerely,
Balzer an`d Associates, Inc.
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Chris Bums, P.E.
Project Manager
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