HomeMy WebLinkAboutARB201800153 Worksession Minutes 2019-03-1814. Provide perimeter parking area trees on the north and east property lines.
15, Ensure that planting locations do not conflict with utilities and their easements or with
proposed light fixtures.
16. Provide at least two more shrub species so that no one species of shrub proposed exceeds, in
number, one -quarter of the total number of shrubs proposed.
17. Provide sight -line analyses to prove that the retaining walls on the southern side of the site will
not be visible from the EC street. If the walls are visible, landscaping is required at the bases and
in between the walls to mitigate the walls' blankness.
18. Provide sufficient tree protection fencing along the eastern edge of the 70-foot (undisturbed)
landscape buffer on the site plans and prior to grading.
Mr. Hancock seconded the motion.
The motion carried by a vote of 4:0 (Wardell absent).
WORKSESSIONS
a. ARB-2018-153: Longhorn Steakhouse - Initial Site Plan (TM/Parcel 0610000013200)
Proposal: To construct a restaurant with associated site improvements.
Location: 1531 Rio Road East, on the east side of Rt. 29, just south of the Wells Fargo Bank.
The ARB held a work session on the revised design of the Longhorn Steakhouse proposal, focusing on
the pedestrian connection, the landscaping, and the architectural design. After discussion, it was the
consensus of the ARB that:
1. The revised location of the pedestrian connection was an improvement,
2. The consistent spacing of street trees along the Rt. 29 frontage is required, and
3. Additional revisions to the architectural design are required to make the building design
consistent with the previous ARB comments. Suggested revisions included, but were not limited
to, the following: further simplification of form is required; brick and stucco would be
acceptable materials; the design needs to move further out of the Southwest and into the Mid -
Atlantic.
b. Guidelines update
The ARB held a work session on the Entrance Corridor Design Guidelines. They discussed historically
significant buildings as precedents for appropriate color, material, and treatment of blank walls in the
ECs, noting why some were appropriate examples, and why others were not.
OTHER BUISNESS ITEM
a. SDP-2019-02: UVA Tennis: Timing of CofA
After considering the proposal, it was the consensus of the ARB that it was acceptable to delay approval
of the architectural design of the tennis building until after site plan approval.
Albemarle County Architectural Review Board FINAL Action Memo March 18, 2019