NHC 2022.02.04 Ron Meredith
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February 3, 2022
Ron Meredith
230 Government Center Drive, Suite 110
Wilmington, NC 28403
RE: Habitat Restore – 6138 Carolina Beach Rd – Commercial Site Plan – TRC Review
Dear Ron,
On behalf of Piedmont Companies, we are submitting a response to your comments emailed
4/30/2021. Please find your comments listed below with our response provided in bold.
Planning, Ron Meredith 910-798-7441
1. Please update the plan with the following general corrections:
A. Please show and label the sight triangles on the landscape and site plan.
• Sight triangles are shown on the Site Plan and Landscape Plan as
requested.
B. Please show and label the setbacks on the site plan.
• Setbacks are shown and labeled on the Site Plan as requested.
C. Please adjust the label for the square footage of the interior parking island, it
appears the label is on top of the GPS nail label.
• The label has been adjusted as requested.
D. Please label the retaining wall.
• Retaining wall has been labeled as requested.
E. Please add a legend for all symbols used within the site plan.
• A legend is included on Sheet C-1.0 General Notes.
F. Please add the site plan revision dates as revisions are created.
• Site Plan revision dates have been added.
G. Please label what datum the elevations are tied to. Elevations must be tied to
North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) and horizontal
coordinates must be tied to the North Carolina Grid System.
• General Note #1 on Sheet C-1.0 describes vertical datum.
2. Parking:
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A. Please verify all Parking Dimensions per Section 5.1.4.B
• Parking dimensions are labeled on Sheet C-2.0.
i. Please be aware that the drive aisles are larger than the UDO requires. To
save on impervious, you may consider reducing the drive aisle widths.
• Larger drive aisles are provided as required for routing of tractor
trailers
3. Landscape Plan:
A. It appears that an additional tree may be required in a couple of the interior
parking landscaped areas. Per Section 5.4.5.C, one planted or existing tree
shall be required for every 144 square feet rounded to the next lowest whole
numberof total interior landscaped area, with a minimum of one tree in each
island. Interior landscaping,
• Additional trees have been added as required.
B. Buffering
i. Please show the proposed plantings for the required transitional buffer on
the western property line.
• Plantings for the transitional buffer are shown on Sheet L-2.0.
ii. Please label the required Transitional Buffer as a Type A: Opaque Buffer.
• Type A Opaque Buffer is labeled on Sheet L-2.0.
iii. If existing trees are proposed to be used to create the necessary opacity,
be aware that additional plantings may be required to reach the required
opacity.
• Noted.
C. Streetyards
i. Please be aware that secondary street frontages are only required to contain
50 percent of the required streetyard area.
• The secondary streetyard on the south side of the site has been
revised to 12.5 feet in width (half the width of the primary
streetyard).
D. Screening per Section 5.4.4.:
i. It appears that the current design for the trash receptacle location does not
meet the code requirements. The proposed dumpster must be screened from
the public right-of-way or property with vegetative, berms, fencing, walls,
and/or any combination thereof to a height of at least eight feet. Please
provide a detail of the proposed screening.
• A proposed 8’ high fence and row of evergreen shrubs is shown on
on Sheet L-2.0 for screening of the dumpster.
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ii. Please show the proposed locations for the HVAC systems. Screening
may be required from view from the property line of an existing
residential use by means of a 100 percent opaque solid wall.
• HVAC units are to be roof mounted per architectural plan. The
buffer along the western property line includes an opaque fence.
iii. Please be aware that the proposed loading berth shall be shielded from
view from the property line of an existing residential use by means of a
100 percent opaque solid wall per Section 5.4.4.
• Per the enclosed architectural plan, an 8’ fence with opaque slats is
proposed along the rear of the loading berth.
a. Please show a detail of the proposed loading berth screening wall.
• See enclosed architectural plan for detail of screening.
4. Tree Retention:
A. Section 5.3.4.C of the UDO requires a minimum of 15 trees at least 2” DBH
must be retained or planted on the parcel where development occurs for each
acre or proportionate area disturbed.
• See enclosed Tree Removal Plan (Sheet L-1.0).
i. Please note that required landscaping for the project can be credited to
meet this requirement.
• See enclosed Tree Removal Plan (Sheet L-1.0) and Landscape Plan
(Sheet L-2.0).
B. Please be aware that there are new tree retention requirements with the UDO
that have updated the classifications of regulated trees. Please see Section
5.3.4 for more specifics. In addition, trees preserved on the site may be
credited toward mitigation.
• See enclosed Tree Removal Plan (Sheet L-1.0).
C. Please be aware that a Tree Removal Permit is required prior to any land
disturbance activities. Please provide the specific species (Loblolly Pine, Long
Leaf Pine, etc.) of the trees to be removed or retained to determine required
mitigation.
• See enclosed Tree Removal Plan (Sheet L-1.0).
D. Please see the attached tree mitigation worksheet to help determine and verify
required mitigation.
• See enclosed Tree Removal Plan (Sheet L-1.0).
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5. Please be aware that no building permit will be issued until NCDOT has issued the
Driveway Permit approval.
• Noted.
6. Before the building permit can be issued, documentation must be provided to illustrate
that street lighting, all exterior lighting, and indoor lighting visible from outside shall
be designed and located so that the maximum illumination measured in foot candles at
ground level at lot lines abutting R-15 parcels do not surpass 0.5.
• See enclosed Site Lighting Plan.
7. Please work with your attorney to provide a Title Opinion showing the right of access
to South Ridge Boulevard (Private).
• See enclosed letter from The Deaton Law Firm.
8. Prior to the issuance of the CO, required roadway improvements per the TIA must be
installed in accordance with NCDOT standards.
• Noted.
Fire Services, Troy Davidson 910-798-7464
1. For all new and existing buildings shall follow Appendix J of the 2018 NC fire code –
Building information signs
• Noted.
2. All new structures must comply with Section 510 of the NC Fire code. Emergency
Responder Radio Coverage survey must be conducted, and results given to the
Building Safety Fire Plan Reviewer. (It is highly recommended that a pre-construction
survey be conducted however a pre-construction survey is not required).
• Noted.
3. An automatic sprinkler system is required - a fire hydrant shall be within 100ft of the
FDC
• An automatic sprinkler system will be provided. See Sheet C-2.0 for the
location of the fire hydrant and remote FDC.
4. Provide proposed FDC and hydrant location on the drawing
• See Sheet C-2.0 for the location of the fire hydrant and remote FDC.
5. All fire hydrants are to follow CFPUA design requirements and must be equipped with
a 5in. Storz connection on the 4.5 steamer.
• Water service will be provided by AQUA, but CFPUA standards will be
followed on the hydrant located on the private fire main.
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6. No obstructions within 36 inches around fire hydrants this is includes but not limited to
landscaping vegetation, utility boxes or poles, street signs or street lights.
• Noted.
7. No additional comments at this time.
NHC Engineering (Stormwater), Galen Jamison 910-798-7142
1. A land disturbing permit and a stormwater system authority to construct is required for
this project. Please submit for permits as the design is completed.
• A land disturbing permit and stormwater permit from NHC Engineering
have been received for this project.
2. The proposed site circulation road appears to include a combination of catch and spill
curb. To avoid grading contractor confusion, please indicate all transitions between
spill and catch curb on the future permit plans.
• Noted. See Sheet C-3.1.
3. There appears to be offsite drainage from the west that may become cutoff from
overland sheet flow and the proposed building could result in ponding along the NW
side of the building. Any offsite drainage routed through or around the site will need a
drainage easement to assist with the mission of new Stormwater Services department
starting in July.
• A swale in a drainage easement is proposed to route offsite drainage
around the building.
Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, Bernice Johnson 910-332-6620
1. No CFPUA water and sewer available.
• Noted. AQUA will provide water to this project.
NCDOT, Patrick Wurzel, 910-398-9100
1. These preliminary comments and are based on the plans as submitted for the proposed
site and are subject to further review upon receipt of any additional information.
Subsequently, additional comments and/or requirements may be necessary for this site.
A. A NCDOT Driveway Permit is required. Submit a plan in accordance with
pages 14 and 15 of the Policy on Street and Driveway Access to North
Carolina Highways to include access locations within 500’ of the proposed
access on both sides of the State road. Submit to the local NCDOT District
Engineer’s Office.
• A driveway permit and associated plans have been submitted to
NCDOT and are under review.
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B. Improvements are required from an approved TIA
• Plans for the required improvements based on the approved TIA
have been submitted to NCDOT and are under review.
C. A NCDOT Encroachment Agreement is required for any utility connections or
installation within NCDOT right-of-way.
• Noted. Utility connections will come from the west and south and
will not be installed within NCDOT R/W.
D. NCDOT Driveway Permits are now submitted through the NCDOT Driveway
website. https://connect.ncdot.gov/municipalities/Utilities/Pages/help.aspx
• Noted.
Environmental Health, Marie Hemmen 910-798-6664
1. Per, CFPUA, no water and sewer available through CFPUA. Check with AQUA. If
water and sewer is not available, Construction may not begin on these lots until the
owners or his/her representatives obtain Environmental Health Permits (which may
include the following: improvement (septic) permits, well permits AND authorization
to construct for on-site wastewater systems) from the New Hanover County Public
Health Department. A site/soil evaluation must be conducted to determine if
improvement and/or well permits can be issued for this tract of land.
• AQUA will provide water and sewer service to this site.
2. If connecting to AQUA sewer and water, all new construction and appurtenances must
meet the required state rule setbacks to existing wells per 15A NCAC 02C and existing
septic systems per CHAPTER 18 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SUBCHAPTER
18A - SANITATION SECTION .1900 - SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL
SYSTEMS. The applicant shall identify on a survey if any of these private utilities/on-
site systems exist within 100 feet of property lines. Please reach out to Environmental
Health for any records that may be available at 910-798-6667.
• We have coordinated with NHC Environmental Health and identified that
the well for the adjacent community system is well beyond 100’ from the
property.
WMPO, Kayla Grubb 910-341-7890
1. NCDOT Projects:
N/A
2. WMPO 2045 Projects:
N/A
3. New Hanover County CTP:
N/A
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Planning (Addressing), John Townsend 910-798-7443
1. Contact planning for address assignment after TRC approval.
• Noted.
Comments not received at this time from:
NCDEQ, Chad Coburn
New Hanover Soil & Water, Dru Harrison
NCDEMLR, Dan Sams
DCM, Tanya Pietila
USACE, Rachel Capito
New Hanover County Schools, Laura Severt
Thank you for your attention to this matter. If you have any questions regarding any of this
information or require additional material, please feel free to call. Thank you for your time
and effort.
Sincerely,
Paramounte Engineering, Inc.
J. Branch Smith, PE