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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCPPC 05-11-98 Meeting AgendaU COUNTY of FREDERICK Department of Planning and Development 540/665-5651 FAX: 540/678-0682 MEMORANDUM TO: Comprehensive Plans and Programs Subcommittee FROM: Evan A. Wyatt, Deputy Director RE: May Meeting and Agenda DATE: May 5, 1998 The Frederick County Comprehensive Plans and Programs Subcommittee (CPPS) will be meeting on Monday, May 11, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. in the first floor conference room of the County Administration Building, 107 North Kent Street, Winchester, Virginia. The CPPS will discuss the following agenda items: AGENDA I. Discussion regarding the Southern Frederick Land Use Study area. The subcommittee will begin reviewing information pertaining to the study area and will develop a schedule to include worksessions with county officials and community meetings. II. Other. Staff has been directed to advise all committee members that access to the County Administration Building for night meetings that do not occur in the Board room will be limited to the back door of the four-story wing. I would encourage committee members to park in the county parking lot located behind the new addition or in the Joint Judicial Center parking lot and follow the sidewalk to the back door of the four-story wing. Staff will distribute the 1998 Comprehensive Policy Plan to the subcommittee during this meeting. The 1998 Capital Improvements Plan is at the printer and will be mailed to the subcommittee this month. Please contact our department if you are unable to attend this meeting. Thank you. UAE VAN\COMMON\CPPS\051198.MTG 107 North Kent Street • Winchester, Virginia 22601-5000 ITEM # I SOUTHERN FREDERICK LAND USE STUDY Please find enclosed a map which depicts the boundaries of the Southern Frederick Land Use Study (SFLUS) area. As you know, the Board of Supervisors directed the CPPS to undertake land use studies of two areas of interest. The first area includes land along Front Royal Pike (Route 522), south of the Winchester Regional Airport to the Parkins Mill Wastewater Treatment Plant, while the second area includes land along Apple Valley Road (Route 652) and Shady Elm Road (Route 651). The CPPS felt that these areas should be studied together to ensure that a comprehensive land use plan was developed for this portion of the county. This would allow for the development of a land use plan which considers issues related to several other studies including Route 37, the WATS, and plans for the extension of water and sewer service in this study area. During the March meeting, the CPPS identified a significant amount of information that was requested for this land use study. Information requested included existing and planned transportation networks, existing and planned water and sewer facilities and infrastructure, zoning information, land use information including agricultural and forestal districts, environmental and historic data, and boundary information including political, magisterial, and policy boundaries. Staff will present thematic mapping during the meeting which depicts some of this information. The remaining thematic mapping information will be presented during the June meeting. Staff will utilize this time to present information to the subcommittee and receive input that will be considered during the development of land use and policy recommendations. The subcommittee will assist staff in developing a project schedule for the next several months which will include worksessions, community meetings, and special meetings of the subcommittee. ITEM # 2 OTHER - RITTER WATER AND SEWER EXTENSION REQUEST Attached is a copy of an Op -Ed article from the March 11, 1998 Winchester Star. This article was written based on the dialogue between the CPPS and Mr. Lynwood Ritter during the March 9, 1998 subcommittee meeting. The article clearly demonstrates the relationship between the Comprehensive Policy Plan and good planning. Staff commends the members of the CPPS for not losing sight of this connection. tee, the question is not so much 'IR - but rather "When?" and "How?" "We weren't given the job of deciding if it should be done," says Mr. Mitchell, who chairs the panel. "We are supposed to figure out how it can be done, which is what we're trying to do." At present, seven subcommittees are pondering unification, each from a spe- cific angle. They are currently in the process of collecting, culling, and pro- cessing data. To be sure, as Mr. Mitchell has duly noted, potential stumbling blocks do ex- ist. The county, for example, provides more monetary support to each of its fire and rescue companies than the city stations, more than 50 vehicles, and more than 500 careerists and volun- teers is the answer; such a system, devoid of duplication, is in the best in- terests of everyone from Star Fort to Star Tannery. Just this month, the Frederick Coun- ty Fire and Rescue Association invited the Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad to join its ranks. May that be a harbinger of things to corse, when Friendship and Reynolds Store, Rouss and Greenwood, South End and Stephens City, will all operate as one. If Mr. Mitchell has his way, this will come to pass "sooner (rather) than lat- er." That's pretty much our wish too. Firm Stance County Planers Must here is little -question that Lynwood Ritter's mobile home park, located east of Stephens City, is under the gun with regard to water and sewer service, particularly the latter. A con- sent order from the state Department. of Environmental Quality stares Mr. Ritter in the face; he must, so says- the DEQ, find an alternative to the septic lagoon serving his property. For more than two years, he has hoped that Frederick County would extend water and sewer to his property. However, the county is a bit under the gun itself. It must make a stand somewhere against the residential growth that, in time, threatens to over- whelm it. For members of the Planning Commission's Comprehensive Plans and Programs Subcommittee, the line of de- marcation is the present boundary of Frederick's Water and Service Area. That line, needless to say, falls some - 31 1 i 198 LJ �.� cffer Maintain. Lines what short of Mr. Ritter's beleaguered mobile home park. The planners can sympathize with Mr. Ritter, -but .they also recognize the potential consequences . of making an exception for his property, an exception that could open the door for even more residential development down Stephens City way. As subcommittee member James W. Golladay Jr. has said, "Where do you stop? There's no logical stop to it." No, there isn't. So that is why the county must do its utmost to manage growth as best it can. Good planning is the foundation of growth management. And, in this instance, good planning entails maintenance of the Water and Service Area boundaries. Mr. Ritter may need succor, but the county, we believe, is courting unto- ward consequences if it makes an ex- ception for one landowner. Therefore, we applaud the subcommittee's stand;. Does Char Yes, and It Is Z By EDWARD STURDIVAN During the last few weeks has been a nationwide debate o substance of a leader's ethics. Does a leader have to hold h herself to a higher standard of and moral character? Does it m; difference in the way people pe: us as a nation? I am, of course, referring ti commander in chief. Here is a who has been proven to not alway it like it is. In 1992, on the shoe Minutes," he told the nation he : had an affair with Jennifer Flo Yet now, under deposition in the l Corbin Jones case, he admits he an affair. Now comes a scandal in which alleged to have had some sexual tionship with a 21 -year-old in working at the. White House. HE hies the affair. Do you believe Can you believe him? Here is a with his finger on the proverbial n ar button, who can't seem to keel facts straight. Let us suppose that his denial the truth. Then I will be the fir: send him a letter of apology. Le consider, however, that the allega are true. Let us also consider the did in fact grope Katlileen Wille the Oval Office. Would you still that it does not matter? Would want your own daughter being th, jest of desire from a 50 -plus -yea lecher? Is it right for a CEO of a com to have sea with a subordinate? W Col The Winchester Star's edito interest to the community. Sul: • Letters to the editor must be must be double spaced, all subr name, signature, address, •Writers who want their ww Star's reader -written opinion cc Correspondence intend Tt Wine "The great star-spangled spectacle that has always been American politics f� s now seems to offer every attraction except simple dignity. Increasingly, the United States of America isn't so much a Republic as a sideshow. A sense of shame would be too much to hope for, but a little silence now and then, at least t -r until the evidence is in, would be welcome." Columnist Paul Greenberg Firm Stance County Planers Must here is little -question that Lynwood Ritter's mobile home park, located east of Stephens City, is under the gun with regard to water and sewer service, particularly the latter. A con- sent order from the state Department. of Environmental Quality stares Mr. Ritter in the face; he must, so says- the DEQ, find an alternative to the septic lagoon serving his property. For more than two years, he has hoped that Frederick County would extend water and sewer to his property. However, the county is a bit under the gun itself. It must make a stand somewhere against the residential growth that, in time, threatens to over- whelm it. For members of the Planning Commission's Comprehensive Plans and Programs Subcommittee, the line of de- marcation is the present boundary of Frederick's Water and Service Area. That line, needless to say, falls some - 31 1 i 198 LJ �.� cffer Maintain. Lines what short of Mr. Ritter's beleaguered mobile home park. The planners can sympathize with Mr. Ritter, -but .they also recognize the potential consequences . of making an exception for his property, an exception that could open the door for even more residential development down Stephens City way. As subcommittee member James W. Golladay Jr. has said, "Where do you stop? There's no logical stop to it." No, there isn't. So that is why the county must do its utmost to manage growth as best it can. Good planning is the foundation of growth management. And, in this instance, good planning entails maintenance of the Water and Service Area boundaries. Mr. Ritter may need succor, but the county, we believe, is courting unto- ward consequences if it makes an ex- ception for one landowner. Therefore, we applaud the subcommittee's stand;. Does Char Yes, and It Is Z By EDWARD STURDIVAN During the last few weeks has been a nationwide debate o substance of a leader's ethics. Does a leader have to hold h herself to a higher standard of and moral character? Does it m; difference in the way people pe: us as a nation? I am, of course, referring ti commander in chief. Here is a who has been proven to not alway it like it is. In 1992, on the shoe Minutes," he told the nation he : had an affair with Jennifer Flo Yet now, under deposition in the l Corbin Jones case, he admits he an affair. Now comes a scandal in which alleged to have had some sexual tionship with a 21 -year-old in working at the. White House. HE hies the affair. Do you believe Can you believe him? Here is a with his finger on the proverbial n ar button, who can't seem to keel facts straight. Let us suppose that his denial the truth. Then I will be the fir: send him a letter of apology. Le consider, however, that the allega are true. Let us also consider the did in fact grope Katlileen Wille the Oval Office. Would you still that it does not matter? Would want your own daughter being th, jest of desire from a 50 -plus -yea lecher? Is it right for a CEO of a com to have sea with a subordinate? W Col The Winchester Star's edito interest to the community. Sul: • Letters to the editor must be must be double spaced, all subr name, signature, address, •Writers who want their ww Star's reader -written opinion cc Correspondence intend Tt Wine