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ARB approves church expansion and two new buildings with conditions to protect trees and refine landscaping
Summary
The board approved ARB352024 for an addition and two new buildings at 6300 East Dublin-Granville Road, subject to conditions requiring material matches, staff approval of mounting and wet-basin design, lighting controls, a 10-foot public access easement and an engineering requirement to avoid net loss of trees.
The New Albany Architectural Review Board on July 8 approved a certificate-of-appropriateness for a multi-building expansion at 6300 East Dublin-Granville Road, subject to conditions focused on materials, landscaping and protection of existing trees.
Staff told the board the project (applicant Scott R. Harper) proposes one addition, two new buildings (a parish community center and a parish life center) and a maintenance storage building, with materials intended to match the existing church. Staff recommended conditions ensuring the new buildings use matching brick, mortar and window design, that roof and brick colors stay within the existing palette, and that certain hardscape elements and future items such as signage and gates return to the ARB for separate approval.
Applicant Scott Harper and the design team said they revised the landscape plan to reflect accurate existing tree counts, added a meandering mound with shrubs along the proposed fire access lane, and would return for additional design approvals for gates and signage. Tom Rufski, a civil engineer with Prime, told the board the dry basin would be converted to a wet basin; he said full engineering is incomplete but preliminary estimates indicate the pond might increase in size by about 10 percent while the team intends to preserve existing trees. Board members pressed for a firm commitment that tree loss would be avoided.
The board approved the application with a set of conditions that require staff approval of revised design drawings, matching material color families for brick and roof, window design consistency, updates to landscape data including street-tree quantities, staff approval of mounting and wet-basin engineering, lighting designed as cut-off and downcast fixtures, a 10-foot public access and streetscape easement on Morgan Road, exclusion of certain hardscape areas from the current approval, and a condition that any engineering that would cause tree loss return to the ARB for further review. The motion passed unanimously.
The approval allows the applicant to proceed with the next steps of the project subject to the listed conditions; the ARB noted that additional items (signage and gates) will be reviewed separately.
