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Albemarle County Planning Commission recommends approval for Crosse Fellowship Church expansion
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend approval of a special-use permit allowing Crosse Fellowship Church to expand its sanctuary and increase capacity to 400, subject to conditions on a wooded water-protection buffer, stormwater controls and lighting; the recommendation will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors.
Albemarle County Planning Commission members on April 14, 2026 voted to recommend approval of special-use permit SP20250000005 for Crosse Fellowship Church, which seeks to build a new sanctuary, expand parking and raise permitted assembly capacity to 400 people.
Senior planner JT Newberry told commissioners the project covers three parcels totaling about 16 2/3 acres in the county’s rural areas designation. He said the site has hosted nonresidential uses since the 1970s, was authorized for a 93-seat religious assembly in 2003, and that a 2019 zoning update made religious assembly uses of up to 200 people allowed by right in the rural zoning district. Staff recommended approval with conditions that reflect the applicant’s conceptual plan, a 20-foot buffer around the property and a maximum assembly of 400 people.
Applicant representative Chuck Rap of Collins Engineering described a one-story sanctuary placed on an existing cleared pad, expansion of parking (the…
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