HomeMy WebLinkAboutARB202200017 Action Letter 2022-03-22V
March 22, 2022
Margaret Maliszewski
County of Albemarle mmaliszewski@albemarle.ora
Community Development Department - Planning Telephone: (434) 296-5832 ext. 3276
Craig Kotarski
The Timmons Group
608 Preston Avenue, Suite 200
Charlottesville, VA 22903
RE: ARB2022-17: Rio Point (TMP: 06100-00-00-16700 and 061000000167C0)
Dear Mr. Kotarski,
At its meeting on Monday, March 21, 2022, the Albemarle County Architectural Review Board
unanimously voted to forward the following recommendations on the above -noted Initial Site
Development Plan to the agent for the Site Review Committee:
• Regarding requirements to satisfy the design guidelines as per § 18-30.6.4c(2), (3) and (5) and
recommended conditions of initial plan approval:
o The ARB recommends approval of the Initial Plan with the following condition:
1. Move the stormwater facility located north of Buildings 8 and 9 out of the landscape buffer
and to a location that will not have a negative visual impact on the EC.
• Regarding recommendations on the plan as it relates to the guidelines: None.
• Regarding conditions to be satisfied prior to issuance of a grading permit:
1. Maintain grading outside the driplines of trees to remain. Show tree protection fencing on, and
coordinated throughout, the grading, landscaping, and erosion and sediment control plans.
• Regarding the final site plan submittal:
A Certificate of Appropriateness is required prior to final site plan approval. The following items
and all items on the ARB Final Site Plan Checklist must be addressed:
1. Include architectural designs with the next submittal.
a. Include all items on the ARB submittal requirements checklist.
b. Address the "building architecture" requirements of the approved Application Plan.
c. Indicate how the 8/19/19 ARB architectural comments have been addressed.
d. Provides specs on proposed window glass with the architectural designs.
e. Add the standard mechanical equipment note to the architectural drawings: "Visibility of
all mechanical equipment from the Entrance Corridor shall be eliminated."
2. Provide a complete lighting plan with the next submittal.
a. Include the standard lighting note on the plan: "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."
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3. Provide a landscape plan with the next submittal.
a. Include all items on the ARB submittal requirements checklist.
b. Include the park design.
c. Include all items necessary to meet the ARB's 9/3/2019 landscaping comments.
d. Provide a naturalistic configuration of street trees along the Parkway, with a quantity and
density equivalent to the standard EC frontage planting requirements.
e. Provide landscape screening west of Building 9 to mitigate visual impacts of lighting.
f. Move the stormwater facility located north of Buildings 8 and 9 out of the landscape buffer
and to a location that will not have a negative visual impact on the EC.
g. Include the designs of the trailhead park and the northwest amenity area in a landscape
plan as part of the next submittal.
4. Include bottom -of -wall and top -of -wall elevations, and materials and colors for all retaining
walls. Provide information to clarify the appearance of the retaining wall on the northeast side
of Building 8.
5. Consistently show existing trees/tree lines and new tree lines on the plans.
6. Show tree protection fencing on the grading, landscaping and E&S plans.
7. Note that demolition permits are required prior to demolition and the Albemarle County Historic
Preservation Committee policy is to seek property owner permission to document historic
properties before they are demolished.
If you have any questions concerning any of the above, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Margaret Maliszewski
Planning Manager, Department of Community Development
434-296-5832 x3276
mmaliszewski(Walbemarle.orq
cc: Rio Point, LLC
200 Garrett Street, Suite 0
Charlottesville, VA 22902
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