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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
MEMORANDUM
TO: Faruk Hesenjan
FROM: Margaret Maliszewski(434-296-5832 x3276 mmaliszewski@albemarle.org)
RE: SDP-2018-42: Westminster Canterbury Minor Amendment
DATE: June 27, 2018
I have reviewed the plan with revision date of 6-4-2018 for the above referenced project and have the
following comments:
1. A separate sign application is required for the signs illustrated on the site plan amendment.The
sign location and design are not approved with the site plan amendment. If you choose to keep the
sign information on the site plan amendment drawings, include a note indicating your
understanding that the sign is not approved with the amendment and will be applied for under
separate permit.Please see the zoning ordinance chapter 18 section 4.15 for sign regulations. In
particular, see 4.15.9 and 4.15.12. Also see the Entrance Corridor Sign guidelines which apply to
signs in this location.Note that the ARB will require a level of coordination among the
freestanding signs in the vicinity of this entrance and along the Rt. 250 frontage.
2. The ground-mounted up-lights must emit less than 3,000 lumens.This proposed lighting can be
included with the sign permit application.Add information indicating the maximum lumens
emitted by the fixtures.
3. Entrance Corridor sign guidelines require that ground-mounted fixtures be screened from the road
by landscaping. Please include this landscaping in the sign application.
4. The existing landscaping shown west of the entrance road does not appear to reflect the current
condition. Revise the plans to show the current condition, including tree line, shrubs, and signage.
Show that the proposed landscaping is coordinated with the existing landscaping.
5. Provide additional detail on what"selective tree cutting"means,west of the entrance road.
6. Provide additional detail on what"existing landscaping to be trimmed and removed"means on
Sheet L-key.
7. Please add anticipated locations of relocated junction box and traffic control cabinet to the plan
and add landscaping to screen the view of these items from Rt. 250.
8. Add a note to the plans clarifying that no changes are being made to the relocated pole lights and
that the pole lights meet all requirements of the lighting ordinance(4.17).
9. Add the standard lighting note to the plans:Each outdoor luminaire equipped with a lamp that
emits 3,000 or more initial lumens shall be a full cutoff luminaire and shall be arranged or
shielded 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.
10. Increase the planting size of trees on Pantops Mountain Road to 2'/2"caliper minimum.
11. Add the standard plant health note to the landscape plan: "All site plantings of trees and shrubs
shall be allowed to reach, and be maintained at, mature height; the topping of trees is prohibited.
Shrubs and trees shall be pruned minimally and only to support the overall health of the plant."
12. Proposed grading encroaches into the landscaping at the base of the Commonwealth sign. Revise
the grading or note on the plan how the loss of plants will be mitigated.
13. 72 Ilex are drawn on the plan; 73 are listed in the plant schedule.Please resolve the discrepancy.