HomeMy WebLinkAboutZMA196800004 Approval - County 1968-06-20(c) Application for change in zone classification for property located
in Charlottesville Magisterial District from Residential R-X to
Residential R . Subject property is Parcel 69 of County Tax Map
60 and Parcels 27, 32 and 32B of County Tax Map 60 A, containing
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approximately 18 acres fronting on Barracks Road. 9r,,o P, 0 [ ;�,
Mr. Humphrey advised the Board that the Planning Commission recommended
that this property remain R-3 and that the petition be denied.. Mr. J. Harry
Michael, attorney for the petitioners, and Mr. C. Armonde Paxson, attorney
for the owner and contract purchaser, appeared and. presented lengthy arguments
for ari against the petition respectively. After consideration, motion was
offered by Mr. 'feeler and seconded by Mr. Gibson to deny this petition.
This motion was adopted by the following recorded vote:
AYES: Messrs. Garnett, Gibson, Wheeler and Yancey
NAYS: Messrs. fay and. Wood.
(d) Application for change in zone classification of property owned by
Forrest R. Marshall, located on east side of Route 20 between Char-
lottesville and Carters Bridge, from Agricultural A-1 to Residential
R-1 .
Mr. Marshall appeared in support of his request. No one from the public
appeared in opposition. Mr. Humphrey advised that the Planning Commission
approved Mr. Marshall's request. On motion of Mr. Mood, seconded by Mr.
Gibson, this request was given unanimous approval.
(e) application for change in zone classification of property owned by
Progress Corp., located on State Route 649 between U.S. Route 29
and Proffit, from Agricultural A-1 to Residential R-1 .
Mr. Don Reid submitted the following communication and requested that
it be made a part of the minutes of this meeting:
"Mr. A. E. Paessler, Executive Secretary
Virginia Water Control Board
P. 0. Box 11143
Richmond, Virginia 23230
Dear Mr...Paessler:
Mr. J. H. Williams of the Williams Realty "company, 813 East Jefferson Street,
Charlottesville, Virginia, has recently filed an application with various
Albemarle County officials for permission to construct a central sewage
treatment plant for approximately eighty family units in a proposed Albe-
marle County subdivision to be called Jefferson Village.
It is my understanding that your office must receive and approve an appli-
cation for such construction. Therefore, as the immediate downstream
property owner, I would like to acquaint your office with certain facts
concerning the stream into which Mr. Williams proposes to discharge the
plant effluent and which crosses my property.
1. The stream starts from springs located about one-half mile above the
proposed plant location. During normal weather the volume.flow rate
is small.
2. The water now flowing in the stream -is not in any way polluted and is
of "drinking purity."
3. For its size the stream bed in question serves as a drainage path for
a rather large land area. During moderate to heavy rainfall, the
stream will overflow its banks.
4. In dry weather the stream is "bone dry" across all of my property.
5. The stream is now, and has been, in continuous use as a water
supply for cattle and horses that pasture on my property..
I realize I have not offered legal proof of the above "facts". If your
department, following the required on -site inspection, is not in agreement
with the above five statements, then I ask that you inform me of your
disagreements, or lack of knowledge, in sufficient time for me to obtain
legal proof of what I have stated before any formal hearings on this
matter are called,
Now that I have acquainted you with facts that I believe are important,
I like to tell where I this have
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would you stand in affair. I been told
that the criteria for water control for all of Virginia now agrees with
that spelled out by the F%PCA. I would suppose than Secretary Udall"s
comments on "anti -degradation" may also serve as possible guidelines for
your decisions. I hereby officially request that you .not approve any
present or future sewage treatment plant operations that would alter the
quality of the water that now flows across my property, or that would
alter in any way the use to which I might put water of the quality that
I now have. Also, I officially request that you not _approve any sewage
treatment plant locations that could result in an effluent flow into low
parts of my property where such effluent could collect and stagnate.
.As indicated on the accompanying separate sheet, copies of this letter
are being sent to a number of other persons, therefore, I will conclude
with information that may or may net be important in your deliberations.
Mr. Williams has publically announced that plans for developing the large
contiguous land area that he now owns or administers will total, not just
the orjginal eighty family unite, but more than two thousand. The question
that immediately comes to mind is whether the best interests of the
Community, the County,.the._State, and the nation are served by approving
a series of small package sewage treatment plants, located on intermittent
streams, to handle a large single subdivision. It would seem that a well -
planned and adequate central system would be required at the start of any
construction.
Please feel free to contact me at any reasonable time for any help or
information that I can give you. also, please keep me informed of any
action contemplated by your department.
Sincerely,
( signed) Donald L. Reid"
No one other than Mr. Reid appeared in regard to this application. Mr.
Humphrey advised that the Planning Commission had approved this application
with certain conditions. On motion of Mr. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Wood,
approval was given to this request.
(f) 4pplication for rezoning .from Agricultural A-1 to Residential Rt1
property locateda on state Route 729 at its intersection with State
Route 53, owned by James H. and dice Browning.
Mr. Humphrey reported that the Planning Commission recommended denial
of this application since this is a spot which would cause land use to take
place which would not be in keeping with the general area at this time. an
motion of Mr. 'Wheeler, seconded by Mr. Yancey, this request was denied on
the basis of the Planning Commni ssion' s recommendation.
(g) Application for rezoning from Agricultural A-1 to Residential R-1
property owned by Auburn Hill Farm Corp., located on State Route 732
west of Milton Airport
Miss Elbn Nash, Attorney, submitted petition signed by thirty-three
property owners and residents opposing this request. Mr. Wilson McNeeley