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COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Planning&Community Development
401 McIntire Road,Room 218
Charlottesville,Virginia 22902-4596
(434)296-5823
Fax(434)972-4012
January 27, 2003
Dan Ryan
Omnipoint Communication
12050 Baltimore Ave
Beltsville, MD 20705
RE. ARB-2002-14 Wright&Turner (Omnipoint/T-Mobile) (Joshua Run)
Tax Map 32, Parcel 41
Dear Mr Ryan-
The Albemarle County Architectural Review Board, at its meeting on January 21, 2003, completed a
preliminary review of the above-noted request to add 9 panel antennas to an existing lattice tower
telecommunications facility The Board forwarded the following recommendation to the Planning
Commission.
The ARB expresses no objection to the Special Use Permit, subject to the following conditions.
1 All equipment attached to the tower shall be painted dark gray to match the tower The cables
themselves may remain black
2. The protrusion of the antennas from the tower shall be no greater than that of the existing antennas
and shall be minimized as much as possible.
3 Remove the note "The size and height of the antenna shall be adjusted to meet RF requirements"
from the drawings.
4 Plantings shall be considered especially if the 200-foot perimeter of'no tree cutting' is violated.
5 This fourth addition of antenna panels to the tower shall be the final addition.
You may submit your application for final ARB review at your earliest convenience Application forms,
checklists and schedules are available on-line at www albemarle org/planning
Revised drawings addressing the comments listed above are required. Please include a memo outlining
how each comment has been addressed. If changes other than those requested have been made,
identify those changes in the memo also
If you have any questions concerning any of the above, please feel free to call me.
Sincerely, -
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Margaret Maliszewski
Design Planner
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