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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
401 McIntire Road,North Wing
Charlottesville,Virginia 22902-4596
Phone (434) 296-5832 Fax (434) 972-4126
August 20, 2019
Mr. Reid Murphy
BMC Holdings Group
400 Locust Ave, Ste 3
Charlottesville, VA 22902
RE: ARB-2019-84: Georgetown Hydraulic Professional Offices (TMP: 060F0000000300)
Dear Mr. Murphy,
The Albemarle County Architectural Review Board, at its meeting on Monday, August 19, 2019,
completed a preliminary review off the above-noted request to build a Professional Office Building.
The Board offered the following comments for the benefit of the applicant's next submittal. Please
note that the following comments are those that have been identified at this time. Additional
comments may be added or eliminated based on further review and changes to the plan.
1. Submit revised elevations with legible linework that accurately illustrates the brick patterns
and detailing.
2. Provide material samples (glazing and metal) for review.
3. Clarify the materials key on Sheet A201 and provide details of the corbeled bricks. Clarify
where brick arches are implemented.
4. Provide detailing of architectural relief, canopies and cornice.
5. Provide the standard window glass note to the architectural drawings: Window glass in the
Entrance Corridors should meet the following criteria: Visible light transmittance(VLT)shall
not drop below 40%. Visible light reflectance (VLR) shall not exceed 30%.
6. Provide manufacturer's specifications on the glazing for the Final Site Plan review.
7. Consider revising the tower roof detail.
8. If a refuse area is proposed, show it on the site plan and include details of the dumpster
enclosure in the site plan.
9. Substitute evergreen trees with a height over 10' at maturity for the 5 viburnums presently
proposed on the southeast corner and the 3 viburnums presently proposed on the northeast
corner of the building.
10. Provide the top-and bottom-of-wall heights for the retaining walls surrounding the proposed
ground-mounted HVAC units in the southeast and northeast corners of the building. Provide
material samples for the retaining walls and provide a detail of the walls on the site plan set.
11. Relocate the landscape island and tree at the western edge of the parking area away from
the stormwater outlet.
12. Include the mechanical equipment note on the site plan set and architectural drawings:
Visibility of all mechanical equipment from the Entrance Corridor shall be eliminated.
13. Provide a lighting plan for review that includes a photometric plan, a luminaire schedule,and
manufacturer's cut sheets for all proposed wall-mounted and freestanding fixtures.
14. Provide the standard lighting note verbatim on the lighting plan submitted for the Final Site
Plan review: Each outdoor luminaire equipped with a lamp that emits 3,000 or more initial
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lumens shall be a full cutoff luminaire and shall be arranged orsn,elded to reflect light away
from adjoining residential districts and away from adjacent roads. The spillover of lighting
from luminaires onto public roads and property in residential or rural areas zoning districts
shall not exceed one half footcandle.
15. Ensure that no proposed tree conflicts with an existing or proposed utility or its easement
and that large shade trees are placed a minimum of 7 feet from the center of a utility line. If
trees are placed in easements, provide documentation from the easement holders that the
vegetation is permissible.
16. Revise the site plan set to show all utilities and easements consistently throughout the site
plan set.
17. Provide a note that the ginkgoes planted will not be female.
18. Provide four trees in the parking area at a minimum of 2.5" caliper. Update the plant
schedule on Sheet 5 to reflect this change.
19. Ensure that no proposed tree conflicts with an existing or proposed utility or its easement.
20. Consider substituting locally native species for the non-native plants proposed.
21. Provide at least two more evergreen shrub species so that no one species of shrub
proposed exceeds, in number, one-quarter of the total number'of shrubs proposed.
22. Rectify errors in the plant schedule on Sheet 5.
23. Provide all site elements required by the Proffers and Code of Development approved with
ZMA-2006-14, including a widened sidewalk; an entry plaza with picnic tables; a bicycle
rack; and a bus shelter. Show these site elements on the site plan.
24. Provide additional vegetation on the retaining walls in the southwest and northwest corners
of the parking area.
25. Provide details of the proposed retaining walls in the site plan set and submit material and
color samples for review. Retaining walls over six feet must be terraced and landscaped.
26. Provide sufficient tree protection fencing around those trees to be preserved and clearly
differentiate between trees to be removed and those to be retained on Sheet 2 of the site
plan set.
You may submit your application for continued ARB review at your earliest convenience.Application
forms, checklists and schedules are available on-line at www.albemarle.org/ARB.
Revised drawings addressing the comments listed above are required. Include updated ARB
revision dates on each drawing. Please provide a memo including detailed responses indicating how
each comment has been addressed. If changes other than those requested have been made,
identify those changes in the memo also. Highlighting the changes in the drawing with"clouding"or
by other means will facilitate review and approval.
If you have any questions concerning any of the above, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Margaret Maliszewski
Chief of Planning/Resource Management
434-296-5832 x3276
mmaliszewski@albemarle.org
cc: CKW 2 LLC
1747 Earlysvill Road
Charlottesville, VA 22901
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