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204 waters, was unanimously approved by Council. WHEREAS, Martha Jefferson Hospital, owner of property located at 459 Locust Avenue, has requested an amendment to the special use permit granted on May 2,~ 1988, which allowed for expansion of Martha Jefferson Hospital, to~permit~ construction of an additional third floor of approximately 12~000 m ore square .feet and completion of a partially enclosed portion of the ground floor of the Ambulatory Care Center wing for approximately 4,000 more square feet of area. This property is further identified on City Real Property Tax Map ~53 as parcel 234, having approximately 300 feet of frontage on Sycamore Street, 276 feet of frontage on Locust Avenue, 506 feet of frontage on'East High Street, 212 ~fee~ of frontage on Lexington Avenue, and containing approximately 9.63 acres of land; WHEREAS, following a joint public hearing before this Council and.the Planning' Commission, duly advertised and held on April 9, 1991, this Council finds that such use will conform to the criteria applicable to special permits generally under Chapter 34 of the City Code; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia that the special use permit granted on May 2, 1988 to Martha Jefferson Hospital is hereby amended to allow for additional expansion of the existing building located at 459 Locust Avenue, pursuant to City Code section 34-379. The approval of this amendment to the special permit is conditioned upon the following: 1. Full adherence to the attached conditions of the approved special permit of May 2, 1988, except as otherwise expressly changed herein; 2. Correction by June 30, 1991 of the adverse effects of the parking garage lighting to prevent direct glare on adjacent properties; 3. Development, implementation and monitoring of a system which is designed to result in Hospital employees parking in Hospital parking facilities; and 4.. Development of a written strategy for a clear directional system and education system which helps insure that patients, staff and visitors to the complex, use East High Street and Locust Avenue as primary access and discourages use of neighborhood streets. 5. That the Hospital develop a process within six months that provides for prompt responses and reasonable efforts by the Hospital Administrator to remedy neighborhood concerns. This process should include at least quarterly meetings between the Hospital and the neighborhood. 6, In order to discourage entry and exit from the Lexington Avenue side of the Hospital and to encourage access by way of Locust Avenue only, the Hospital shall install two signs indicating that there is no left turn out of nor 'right turn into the Sycamore Street access. Once the Ambulatory Care Center is completed and all access improvements are in place as planned, the Sycamore access will be evaluated by the City to determine if further~ improvements are needed there. If such improvements are needed, the hospital shall construct a curb island four feet wide and forty-five feet long~, or other physical barrier, running from a point approximately even with the west side of the driveway at 915 Sycamore Street to a point east of the existing manhole in Sycamore Street, provided that the City prohibits parking on the south side of Sycamore Street from the Hospital access to