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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">ITEM 5.02&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Departure
of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain
Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">On July&nbsp;14, 2008, the Board of Directors of AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc.
voted to appoint W. Edward Walter to the Board of Directors, effective September&nbsp;16,
2008.&#160; A press release announcing his
appointment is attached as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Walter will serve as an independent director and has not been
appointed to any Board committees at this time.&#160;
Upon joining the Board, Mr.&nbsp;Walter will receive a stock award of
812 shares of Common Stock, to be awarded under a restricted stock agreement in
substantially the same form used for current non-employee directors of the
Company.&#160; Of such shares, 20% will be
vested immediately, and the remaining 80% will vest in four equal annual
installments on May&nbsp;29 of each of the next four years.&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Walter will also receive the same
cash compensation as is paid to other directors of the Company after September&nbsp;16,
2008.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In
connection with Mr.&nbsp;Walter&#146;s appointment to the Board of Directors, Mr.&nbsp;Walter
and the Company will enter into an Indemnification Agreement in substantially
the same form previously filed as an exhibit to the Company&#146;s Annual Report on Form&nbsp;10-K
for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2007.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">In
connection with this appointment, the Board of Directors also changed the size
of the Board to nine directors.</font></p>

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  9.01</font></b></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Press
  </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Release of AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc. dated July&nbsp;14, 2008</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">. (Filed
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">SIGNATURES</font></u></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:10.5pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly
authorized.</font></p>

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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AVALONBAY
  COMMUNITIES, INC.</font></p>
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  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Bryce Blair</font></p>
  <p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt -2.0pt;text-autospace:none;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;Chairman and Chief Executive Officer</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 24.7pt .0001pt 0in;text-autospace:none;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">For
Immediate Release</font></u></b></p>

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<h4 align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC.
ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF W. EDWARD WALTER AS NEW INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR</font></b></h4>

<h4 align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;text-align:center;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></h4>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">ALEXANDRIA, VA (July&nbsp;14, 2008) &#150; AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc.
(NYSE: AVB) </font></b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">announced today that W. Edward Walter has been
appointed to the company&#146;s Board of Directors, effective September&nbsp;16,
2008.&#160; Mr.&nbsp;Walter will serve as an
independent director of the Company.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mr.&nbsp;Walter
has served as President and CEO of Host Hotels&nbsp;&amp; Resorts,&nbsp;Inc. (&#147;Host&#148;),
a premier lodging real estate company, since October, 2007.&#160; From 2003 until October, 2007, he served as
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Host.&#160; From 1996 until 2003 he served in various
senior management positions with Host, including Chief Operating Officer.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&#147;Ed
brings significant relevant experience to the AvalonBay Board from a long and
successful career in the real estate industry,&#148; said Bryce Blair, Chairman of
the Board and CEO.&#160; &#147;AvalonBay will
benefit from Ed&#146;s business and investment expertise.&#148;</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-autospace:none;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">About
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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As
of June&nbsp;30, 2008, AvalonBay Communities,&nbsp;Inc., headquartered in
Alexandria, Virginia, owned or held an ownership interest in 180 apartment
communities containing 51,119 apartment homes in ten states and the District of
Columbia, of which 20 communities were under construction and 10 communities
were under reconstruction.&#160; AvalonBay is
in the business of developing, redeveloping, acquiring, and managing apartment
communities in high barrier-to-entry markets of the United States.&#160; More information on AvalonBay, an S&amp;P 500
company, may be found on the Company&#146;s Web site at http://www.avalonbay.com.</font></p>

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