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Home My WebLink AboutARB201700025 Correspondence 2017-04-034/3/2017 Email communication.htm From: tobey@tobeyspawn.com Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 4:28 PM To: Heather McMahon Subject: Re: Sign permit application -- CoA approved Thank you, Heather. You are now officially my favorite public servant. Tobey Bouch www.tobeysoawn.com (434) 296-7296 (PAWN) On Apr 3, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Heather McMahon <hmcmahon&albemarle.org> wrote: Hello Mr. Bouch, Please find attached your Certificate of Appropriateness and copies of the approved drawings for Tobey's Pawn Sign (ARB2017-00025), which you submitted on 3/30/17. A hard copy of the letter was posted in today's mail. Thanks, Heather McMahon, Senior Planner Albemarle County Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-296-5832 x3278 hmcmahon&albemarle. org From: tobeyCcDtobeyspawn.com [mailto:tobey tobeysspawn.com] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 2:36 PM To: Heather McMahon <hmcmahon(@albemarle.org> Subject: RE: Sign permit application -- incomplete Heather, Just left you a vm, but hoping to clarify a little more here. I have attached a jpeg of the lettering. It is black and the dimensions are included in the pic. The decal is vinyl and is completely opaque ... there are no transparent elements at all. It will be adhered to a hard acrylic backing and inserted exactly the same way the existing sign is. I will gladly bring the vinyl decal to get more specific with colors. Let me know when you will be in the office. Tobey -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Sign permit application -- incomplete From: Heather McMahon <hmcmahon(dalbemarle.ora> Date: Thu, March 30, 2017 9:00 am To: "tobey(atobeysDawn.com" <tobeyCd)tobeysDawn.com> Hi Tobey, fi le:///I:/D EPT/Comm unity%20Developm ent/Planning%20D ivi si on/Design%20Planni ng/ARB/action%201etter/2017/Signs/ARB%202017-25%20Tobey's%20Paw... 1/4 4/3/2017 2. 3. Email communication.htm I am sorry I missed you when you came into the County Office Building today to submit additional materials and your ARB processing fee; I was in an hour-long meeting from 9:30. In future, if you give me an idea of when you might come in, I can let you know if I will be available or I will ensure that I don't schedule anything that conflicts. I'm particularly sorry that I didn't catch you because there still are missing details that we need in order to process your application. If it's easier for us to speak in person or over the telephone, please let me know. I will still write here what information we need on your application: If you are including new wording in a new font on that white panel below the green sign, that is part of the existing sign which you propose to change and you need to provide an illustration of that just as you provided an illustration of the green part of the sign. Please write the font choice (Quando) as well as the dimensions of the whole sign on the illustration. The materials you are using need to be written on the illustration as well; you wrote in your email that you "will be adhering the attached decal to acrylic inserts." Please write that on the illustration page. The Entrance Corridor requirements that were highlighted on the application still need to be addressed. Opacity: the entire sign needs to be opaque which means that no light can spill through, or that there is no translucence. In other words, no one should be able to see the light bulb(s) within the cabinet. You wrote that "The sign will be opaque except for the Tobey's lettering;" Even the lettering needs to emit no light, so if the letters are white they won't emit light; if they are clear, they will emit light. Please clarify that on the illustration. The actual colors used need to be identified by a standard system with color -chart numbers, such as Pantone, Benjamin Moore, etc. If you would like to come in, we have a Pantone (and other) charts; you can identify which green/yellow/white/black you intend the sign to use and we can write those numbers down on the application. Just so you know, my personal office is getting new furniture within the hour and I will likely take my lunch during that move. If I don't answer the telephone, I will call you back, but it may be easier to reach my by email until my office situation is worked out. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have further questions and if you would like to meet to further discuss these application requirements. Thanks, Heather McMahon, Senior Planner Albemarle County Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-296-5832 x3278 hmcmahonC@albemarle.orF- From: tobey(@tobeysspawn.com [mailto:tobey(@tobeysspawn.com] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:38 AM To: Heather McMahon <hmcmahon(cDalbemarle.org> Subject: RE: Sign permit application -- incomplete Heather, fi le:///I:/D EPT/Comm unity%20Developm ent/Planning%20D ivi si on/Design%20Planni ng/ARB/action%201etter/2017/Signs/ARB%202017-25%20Tobey's%20Paw... 2/4 4/3/2017 Email communication.htm The panel below will be lettered with "Changing Pawn ... for Good" in black Quando font. The color of the cabinet will remain the same. The building siding material is being replaced and the existing lettering on the building will not be replaced with any of my signage. The sign currently has lights. Thanks! Tobey -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Sign permit application -- incomplete From: Heather McMahon <hmcmahon(a)albemarle.org> Date: Wed, March 29, 2017 2:04 pm To: "tobey(abtobeyspawn.com" <tobey(dtobeyspawn.com> Hi Tobey, Thank you for your quick response. I will look forward to receiving your completed application and fee tomorrow. I have looked at the attached graphic and the color choices (and use of three colors) comply with the ARB design criteria; I still wonder what (if anything) you intend to do with the lower (bottom), white portion of the cabinet sign, which currently reads "Celebrating 35 Years of Service" — do you intend to keep that? Do you have plans to add or change the signage on the building itself? And does your application answer the question I raised about interior or exterior illumination (do you intend to light the sign, or does the sign currently have lights)? Thanks, Heather McMahon, Senior Planner Albemarle County Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-296-5832 x3278 hmcmahon@albemarle.org From: tobeyCcDtobe sspawn.com [mailto:tobey@tobeyspawn.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 4:57 PM To: Heather McMahon <hmcmahonC@albemarle.org> Cc: Stewart Wright <swright2(@albemarle.org> Subject: RE: Sign permit application -- incomplete Heather, I will be down tomorrow to submit the completed application and $129 ARB review fee. In the meantime, I wanted to provide you with the graphic for the sign. I will be adhering the attached decal to acrylic inserts and replacing the green portion of the existing sign. The sign will be opaque except for the Tobey's lettering. This URL will also take you to the decal specifics: https://www.sicins.com/design/?id=996al84b-897c-48b5-b882- a4e52ce20778 Please let me know if you need any other details and I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks! fi le:///I:/D EPT/Comm unity%20Developm entIPlanni ng%20D ivi si on/Design%20Planni ng/ARB/action%201etter/2017/Signs/ARB%202017-25%20Tobey's%20Paw... 3/4 4/3/2017 Email communication.htm Tobey -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sign permit application -- incomplete From: Heather McMahon <hmcmahon@albemarle.org> Date: Wed, March 29, 2017 12:06 pm To: "tobey@tobeyspawn.com" <tobey@tobeyspawn.com> Hello Mr. Bouch, I am writing to you in reference to the Application and Checklist for Sign Permit which you submitted to our office on Monday, March 27. As the property in question is located on one of the County's Entrance Corridors, any changes to the exterior appearance (including signage) must undergo Entrance Corridor review by ARB staff. One reason that the application was deemed incomplete is that the processing fee of $129 for ARB review has not been remitted; however, there are also gaps in the application itself that need to be addressed. For more details, please see the letter attached to this email, which has been posted today. You have 15 business days (i.e., until April 19, 2017) to submit the additional and corrected documents and supporting materials so that your application for a permit can move forward. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at this email address or at my telephone number below. Thanks, Heather McMahon, Senior Planner Albemarle County Department of Community Development 401 McIntire Road Charlottesville, VA 22902 434-296-5832 x3278 h mcma hon Cala l bema rle. org <ARB2017-00025 RESUBMITTED Application with APPROVED DRAWINGS 3-30-17.pdf> <ARB2017-00025 CoA signed.pdf> fi le:///I:/D EPT/Comm unity%20Developm ent/Planning%20D ivi si on/Design%20Planni ng/ARB/action%201etter/2017/Signs/ARB%202017-25%20Tobey's%20Paw... 4/4