If you won't shoot macro much then you won't need a macro lens -- except that macro lenses are so SHARP and nifty to have, so maybe you need one after all.
Then between the 35mm and 70mm you are considering, you might think about AOV (angle of view). For a 35mm lens on an APS-C sensor, that about 46 degrees, and for the 70mm lens it's about 23 degrees. For comparison, a 'normal' 28mm lens has AOV of about 57 degrees. Or so my spreadsheet tells me. So, just how much AOV do you want and need?
And you say "...combination of close and mid distance I will also want to use the dof to highlight specific elements." To me, that sounds like a job for the 70mm lens.