to the staff report. Additionally, UVa is exempt from city and county zoning regulations, and it is not yet known what the heights of proposed buildings in its redevelopment of the Emmet Street and Ivy Road corridor will be.

Other conditions for the special-use permit include having a 6-foot planting bed buffer along Emmet Street, a 7-foot-wide sidewalk, on-site stormwater management and requiring all trash and deliveries take place in the garage structure.

Also in the meeting, the Planning Commission, operating as the Entrance Review Board, approved a certificate of appropriateness for approved aesthetic changes to the North Wing of Seminole Square shopping center where it fronts the extension of Hillsdale Drive and a planned trail leading to Meadow Creek. Additionally, it gave its approval for the first phase ofa proposed mixed-use complex at the site of the Tarleton Oak service station on the corner of East High Street and Ninth Street Northeast.

In June, a decision on the certificate was deferred to address concerns on issues such as the design of the portion of the building that faces High Street and the tint of the glass in the building.

The applicant, Tarleton Oak LLC, proposed three single-story pergolas with concrete benches along High Street to break up the frontage and stuck to its desire to have glass with a lower level of visual light transmittance. Several years ago, the Board of Architectural Review and the Entrance Corridor Review Board set glass with a VLT of 70 as its threshold for “clear” glass emphasized a desire for clear glass.

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