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Board approves rezoning and conditional-use permit for Patterson Avenue self-storage, requires no-parking signage on pump-station easement
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Summary
After a public hearing, the board approved a proffer amendment and CUP to allow a 110,275 sq ft self-storage facility on Patterson Avenue. The approval includes multiple conditions and a new requirement that no-parking signs be installed on the access easement to the Eastern Goochland pump station within specified timelines.
The Goochland Board of Supervisors voted Dec. 2 to approve a proffered rezoning amendment and a conditional-use permit allowing a four-building, 110,275-square-foot self-storage facility on a 9-acre portion of a larger parcel at 12330 Patterson Avenue.
Jamie Sherry, director of planning and zoning, summarized the applications: the rezoning will add "mini-warehouse/self-storage" as an allowed use and the companion CUP sets operational and design conditions including a 150-foot setback from Route 6, underground utilities, limits on outside storage and hours of operation. Sherry noted that units within the 500-year floodplain must carry lease language notifying potential renters of flood risk.
The applicant's counsel, Andy Conlon, told the board construction-value estimates of roughly $10 million and described planned access improvements, including a new right-in/right-out eastern entrance that VDOT has approved and an enlarged channelization island at the existing western driveway to reduce illegal left turns. The applicant also agreed to pave an existing gravel access easement used by the county and to provide a construction plan that preserves access to county-owned infrastructure during buildout.
Staff added a condition requiring the applicant to prohibit parking along the access easement that leads to the Eastern Goochland pump station and to install no-parking signs on both sides of the easement every 200 feet (or per fire department requirements). The board amended the recommended condition to require sign installation by the earlier of 30 days after plan-of-development approval or within 180 days of CUP approval.
One nearby resident, Victor Hines of Tuckahoe Pines, spoke in support of the project's appearance but urged additional consideration of intersection safety for older drivers and large tanker trucks servicing the pump station.
The board approved the rezoning amendment and the conditional-use permit (as amended) by roll-call votes; planning staff will include the sign-installation schedule and the access improvements in plan-of-development and permit review.
