ABR, landscape team highlight added screening and stormwater changes for Rivian site
Landscape architect and ABR reported the revised design reduces frontage parking, increases street trees and a meadow in the RPZ, and uses quadrant bioretention basins for stormwater; ABR found the revisions generally compatible and requested additional detail at final ABR review.
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Chris Gillen, the project landscape architect, walked commissioners through design changes made in response to ABR input: removal of several frontage parking spaces in favor of expanded planting strips and trees along Hollister, a small display plaza (described as a "jewel box" showroom area), and a seeded meadow in the runway protection zone seeded with native grasses and wildflowers under temporary irrigation. Gillen described a stormwater approach that divides the site into four drainage quadrants, each flowing to a bioretention basin that will be resized to reflect the reduced parking footprint.
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