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Home My WebLink AboutSP199800037 Action Letter COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE Dept. of Planning & Community Development 401 Mcintire Road Charlottesville, Virginia 22902-45% (804) 296-5823 October 15, 1998 Ivy Investment Limited Ptrn C/o Management Services Corporation POBox 5608 Charlottesville, V A 22905 RE: SP-98-37 Ivy Investment Ltd Ptrn Tax Map 73, Parcel 27G Correction Letter (corrections noted in bold) Dear Sir: The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on September 16, 1998, approved the above-noted request to establish a golf course on approximately 250 acres. Please note that this approval is subject to the following conditions: 1. Engineering Department approval of phasing plan to insure adequate erosion control. 2. Engineering Department approval of drought and disease tolerant turf materials. 3. Engineering Department approval of stream buffer areas including all activity within stream buffers such as, but not limited to, enhanced plantings, fairway/path crossings. 4. Engineering Department approval of runoff treatment systems, including monitoring and reporting procedures and approval of any changes in the systems. 5. Engineering Department approval of turf management systems, including monitoring and reporting procedures and approval of any changes in the system. 6. Engineering Department approval of storage and spill containment systems for all hazardous materials including, but not limited to, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fuel. 7. Engineering Department approval of water quality monitoring program, and reporting procedures. 8. The serving of food and refreshments shall be limited to those individuals utilizing the golf course or driving range. 9. No grading/clearing or other land disturbing activity above the 900 foot elevation. 10. No residential development shall be permitted. Page 2 October 15, 1998 11. Planning Commission approval, in conjunction with site plan review, of minimum setbacks, landscaped and earthen buffers, and similar improvements, designed to address visual and noise impacts of the golf course on, and to respect the livability and historical significance of buildings on Tax Map 73, Parcel 27. 12. There shall be no outdoor lighting of the driving range and there shall be no public address system. 13. Engineering Department approval of an Environmental Resources Plan that addresses the items in the August 24, 1998 memo from David Hirschman to Bill Fritz, labeled Attachment D (copy attached). The approved plan shall be implemented during construction and operation of the golf course. In the event that the use, structure or activity for which this special use permit is issued shall not be commenced within eighteen (18) months after the issuance of such permit, the same shall be deemed abandoned and the authority granted thereunder shall thereupon terminate. For purposes of this section, the term "commenced" shall be construed to include the commencement of construction of any structure necessary to the use of such permit within two (2) years from the date of the issuance thereof which is thereafter completed within one (1) year. Before beginning this use, you must obtain a zoning clearance from the Zoning Department. Before the Zoning Department will issue a clearance, you must comply with the conditions in this letter. For further information, please call Jan Sprinkle at 296- 5875. If you should have any questions or comments regarding the above-noted action, please do not hesitate to contact me. ~erelY' . , v.~W~~ Director of Planning & Com~evelopment VWC/jcf Cc: Amelia McCulley Jack Kelsey George McCallum, III ATTACHMENT D COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE Department of Engineering & Public Works MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Bill Fritz - Senior Planner David Hirschman - Water Resources Manager~'Y\ 1...- JCl'4~ 24 August 1998 SP 98-37 Ivy Investment Ltd, (Proposed Golf Course) This site is within the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir watershed, and issues with water quality and runoff are of utmost importance, The critical issues with the establishment of a golf course are: (1) erosion arid sediment control during construction (golf courses usually necessitate major grading operations), (2) surtàce runoff of sediment, nutrients, arid pesticides, and (3) subsurtàce contamination arid subsequent discharge to suríàce water. In the past several years, we have evaluated two golf-related proposals: SP-96-l7 (Virginia Land Trust) and SP-97-55 (Riverbend Golf Center), The first of these was in the )Jorth Fork Rivanna River drainage upstream from the raw water intake at Camelot, and the second was directly along the banks of the Rivanna River adjacent the ParItops Shopping Center. Our comments on the current project will build on comments on these two previous proposals. We understand that the applicarIt has retained a golf course designer with experience with environmentally-sensitive design; Rather than detail design specifications or restrictions for this course, we recommend that the designer's expertise be utilized to develop a water quality plan for the proposed tàcility. At a minimum, the plan should address the following: 1. Providing for advanced erosion control during construction, including the phasing of grading to minimize the amount of disturbed land at arIY one time. Î The selection of turf materials that may be more drought-tolerant arid disease-resistant than typical turf selections. 3. Retention and/or establishment of stream buffer areas, The Water Protection Ordinance requires a 100 foot buffer along all streams on the property, The plan should address how existing stream buffers will be protected or enhanced by additional plantings, streambank restoration, and/or increased buffer widths, arid how fairway crossings will be handled, 4. Conducting a preliminary biological inventory to identify existing sensitive habitats and biological resources on the site, ATTACHMENT D PAGE 2 5. Treatment of runoff from roadways, parking lots, structures, fairways, arid green~ ULll1¿Ult:, ponds, bioretention areas, constructed wetlands, or other similar concepts, Runoff treatment design should strive to surpass the minimum requirements of the Water Protection OrdinarIce. This design can also incorporate stormwater recycling for irrigation, arid, possibly, reuse of treated leachate from the Ivy Landfill (based on a careful evaluation of that option), 6, Use of integrated pest management concepts and control of fertilizer applications, 7. Storage, containment, and spill response of chemicals arid hazardous materials. 8, Water quality monitoring of suríàce runoff and groundwater, including the establishment of baseline data, monitoring during construction, and post-construction monitoring for a set period of time. The designer undoubtedly has many reference materials on ecological golf course design, One reference that the County has tòund helpful with past applications is "Environmental Guidelines for the Design and Maintenance of Golf Courses," developed by the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection arid Resource Management. We recommend that the applicant make use of this document when developing the water quality plan referenced above, The requirement to develop and implement the water quality plan should be a condition of approval of the special use permit. The plan should be developed in consultation with the Engineering Department and must be subject to review and approval by the department. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions, /djh cc: Glenn Brooks File: hirschmanlgolf course memo to .., ------------ ~' // e: e \ \ \ \ / / ,/ ~~ \ \ r----", :\ "------ -------- ! : -~----- ~ -' -- // POllNDING BROOK GOLF CLUB Al.BEMARU-: COUNTY, VIRGINiA ROUTING PLAN & POND LOCATIONS; þ r g; ~ ~ ~ ~ ::! ~ (5 f" p~:; - ~. !~~ i:~ ~~~ ~- r" \ _ i _ø-Þ-' "~ '/ ðO» /,¿;l' t/ / / ~ 1// I /: _(;-/ '''-!;I ¡." ( /'..---.. //~/~ /J6 / ~ ____~ ~ ' ,:/' \. ",( ì /~ó/ Þ ,/ ç /V\,t\: />%/ ~¿. /' ~~:::;;>' 4'(/ /// ./;::~~-..-¡/ /--~,," '/ /// ;.; . //¿ø::;~ þ\0 f/i, /;;6::¡~ / C·O~ , ~/;:¢~:-~ ~_lÇ '. 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