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ARB begins entrance corridor addenda work; members debate when wooded buffers should be preserved
Summary
Albemarle County planning staff led a July 7 work session of the Architecture Review Board to define how the entrance corridor addenda should treat wooded buffers, asking which corridor segments should be identified as having a wooded‑buffer character and what guidance the addenda should offer.
Albemarle County planning staff led a July 7 work session with the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to refine the entrance corridor design addenda, focusing on how the document should treat "wooded buffers" — where and when those buffers should be preserved, and what technical standards (if any) the addenda should recommend.
Staff told the board the addenda aim to identify corridor‑specific features that are important to preserve and to provide guidance where the existing guidelines are too general. "Are there corridors or portions thereof where deep or dense wooded buffers should be maintained? Staff's recommendation is, yes," a planning staff member said, asking the board whether it agreed.
Board members broadly supported the idea of identifying wooded buffers as a defining feature on particular corridor segments rather than imposing blanket numeric requirements everywhere. Several members said…
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