- November 28th, 2006, 8:18 am
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This actually looks pretty good:
City expected to decide on LU monogram today
By Ron Brown
rbrown@newsadvance.com
November 27, 2006
This rendering shows what the Liberty University monogram will look like on Candlers Mountain if the city approves the proposal.
Lynchburg zoning officials are expected to announce today whether they will approve a Liberty University monogram for Candlers Mountain.
The monogram will put the letters “LU” on the side of the mountain on land owned by the school.
Earlier this fall, the school put up test letters made of white sheet plastic on an eight-acre site where trees had been cleared.
The test letters angered some people who objected to LU’s monogram.
The new monogram proposal would significantly reduce the size of the letters and reforest land surrounding them. The new monogram would place the letters in a 500-foot circle comprised of vegetation and stone.
LU officials met with city officials earlier this month and presented the modified monogram design, which had been prepared by local landscape architect Proctor Harvey.
“We’ve used some colors that are soft and muted,” Harvey said. “We’ll let the trees soften the edges. We are trying to work toward minimal maintenance.”
The legal sticking point will be whether the letters comply with the city’s sign ordinance.
A Sept. 20 e-mail from zoning official Rob Fowler to LU representatives said letters made from natural materials fall outside the sign ordinance.
“We had a very positive meeting,” said S. Lee Beaumont, LU’s director of auxiliary services. “They said it most likely was going to be an administrative approval and it didn’t need to go to (city) council.”
City Manager Kimball Payne said Monday that Fowler will announce his ruling today. Payne declined further comment on LU’s proposal.
Under Harvey’s plan, the newly planted trees would come to the edges of the monogram’s circle, which would have green shrubbery around the outside, white landscaping stone inside the shrubbery and letters comprised of reddish bayberry plants, which will have a dark shrub shadow on the left edges of the letters.
The new trees planted to the left and top of the monogram’s circle would grow taller than trees on its right and bottom sides. The shorter trees would allow the monogram to be seen from surrounding malls and on the LU campus.
The transition between the taller trees and shorter trees would be gradual, Harvey said.
“It’s not going to be ugly when we’re done,” Beaumont said. “There’s not going to be any bald land when we’re through. It’s going to look first class. We’re just waiting for the city to respond.”
This actually looks pretty good:
City expected to decide on LU monogram today
By Ron Brown
rbrown@newsadvance.com
November 27, 2006
This rendering shows what the Liberty University monogram will look like on Candlers Mountain if the city approves the proposal.
Lynchburg zoning officials are expected to announce today whether they will approve a Liberty University monogram for Candlers Mountain.
The monogram will put the letters “LU” on the side of the mountain on land owned by the school.
Earlier this fall, the school put up test letters made of white sheet plastic on an eight-acre site where trees had been cleared.
The test letters angered some people who objected to LU’s monogram.
The new monogram proposal would significantly reduce the size of the letters and reforest land surrounding them. The new monogram would place the letters in a 500-foot circle comprised of vegetation and stone.
LU officials met with city officials earlier this month and presented the modified monogram design, which had been prepared by local landscape architect Proctor Harvey.
“We’ve used some colors that are soft and muted,” Harvey said. “We’ll let the trees soften the edges. We are trying to work toward minimal maintenance.”
The legal sticking point will be whether the letters comply with the city’s sign ordinance.
A Sept. 20 e-mail from zoning official Rob Fowler to LU representatives said letters made from natural materials fall outside the sign ordinance.
“We had a very positive meeting,” said S. Lee Beaumont, LU’s director of auxiliary services. “They said it most likely was going to be an administrative approval and it didn’t need to go to (city) council.”
City Manager Kimball Payne said Monday that Fowler will announce his ruling today. Payne declined further comment on LU’s proposal.
Under Harvey’s plan, the newly planted trees would come to the edges of the monogram’s circle, which would have green shrubbery around the outside, white landscaping stone inside the shrubbery and letters comprised of reddish bayberry plants, which will have a dark shrub shadow on the left edges of the letters.
The new trees planted to the left and top of the monogram’s circle would grow taller than trees on its right and bottom sides. The shorter trees would allow the monogram to be seen from surrounding malls and on the LU campus.
The transition between the taller trees and shorter trees would be gradual, Harvey said.
“It’s not going to be ugly when we’re done,” Beaumont said. “There’s not going to be any bald land when we’re through. It’s going to look first class. We’re just waiting for the city to respond.”
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