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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
July 22, 2015
Michael M Campbell/Dominion Realty Partners
101 N 5th Street, Suite B
Richmond Va 23219
RE: ARB201500066 Fifth Street Place
Dear Mr. Campbell,
The Albemarle County Architectural Review Board, at its meeting on July 20, 2015, completed a review of the
above -noted request to construct multi -family housing consisting of 200 apartment units in 5 buildings with
associated site improvements. 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. Note the height of the mechanical equipment located at each building. Revise the landscape plan and
schedule to identify the screening plants proposed for the equipment. Ensure that the plants will fully
screen the equipment from view.
2. Add the standard mechanical equipment note to both the architectural and site plans.
3. If exterior building -mounted lights are proposed, include them in the lighting drawings.
4. Provide the 20 scale landscape plans to cover the entire development. Be sure all utilities and
easements are shown on the landscape plan.
5. Check and correct the quantity of CK and PL in the plant schedule and on the plan.
6. Clarify the reason for the off-site CK located at the west end of the 5t" Street frontage. Off-site
grading and planting require easements.
7. Shift utilities to eliminate conflicts between landscaping and utilities/easements without reducing
the quantity of proposed plants.
8. Add a large shade tree to fill the gap in street trees between buildings 3 and 4, or clarify why the
gap is required.
9. Indicate how the landscape on the slope down to buildings 3, 4 and 5 from the EC will be handled.
10. Limit the number of proposed plants for any one species to 25% of the total proposed for that plant
type (tree, shrub).
11. Provide retaining wall details on the plans.
12. Identify on the plan top -of -wall and bottom -of -wall elevations for the retaining walls.
13. Coordinate the tree save and grading shown south of the clubhouse.
14. Provide site sections showing the building profiles and topography at each condition around the
perimeter of the site that fronts on an Entrance Corridor. Perspective views should be provided in
order to more accurately describe the relationship of the buildings and landscape to the EC.
15. Reconsider elevations of Building 5 to be more in keeping with the earlier color rendering presented at
the previous meeting. All building elevations fronting on the EC require the same appropriate level of
detail.
16. Applicant has indicated that satellite dishes will not be allowed on the building.
17. Revised drawings addressing #s 14 and 15 may return for a work session.
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 call me.
Sincerely,
Margaret Maliszewski
Principal Planner
Cc: Gambit LLC & Snow Paws LLC
Po Box 6846
Charlottesville Va 22906
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