The Beaver Hill Mobile Home Community near Crozet has been in operation since 1960, nine years before the Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted the county’s first zoning code.
The property is just outside the growth area boundary, but that hasn’t stopped the property owner from seeking a request to rezone the 24 acres from Rural Areas to Residential-4.
“With the rezoning, the owner is also applying for a Special Use Permit to expand the existing manufactured home park and bring the existing manufactured home park into compliance,” reads the narrative from Shimp Engineering.
The narrative argues that the land would have already been subdivided and developed if the land was in a growth area and this rezoning would provide affordable housing close to public water and sewer.
“This expansion request is a unique opportunity to add 53 manufactured homes into an existing manufacturing home community where there is additional land available,” the narrative continues.
A September 18 letter from a reviewer from the Virginia Department of Transportation requests a 25 foot right of way donation at the front of the property and points out that the spacing and site distances are not appropriate.
On May 3, the property was transferred from the Sprouse family to a new entity called Sonny’s Homeplace LLC. The proffer statement conditions that only mobile homes will be allowed on the site.
The rezoning and special use permit will go before the Planning Commission and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. But first there will be a community meeting. Stay tuned to the Week Ahead newsletter on Sunday for more information.
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