Northern Light
Superstar
Not my usual type of App. reporting, more of an @AlbertC special.
A bit bigger than 'missing middle' but only slightly.
But a relatively ambitious ask.
This is a proposal for a 4-storey, 16-unit, purpose-built rental, that would exist on what is currently one single family home lot with Neighbourhood zoning.
The lot is, however, beside an existing, low-rise, purpose built rental and less than 1/2 a block from the Main Street bus route.
Site as is:
Given how deep and woodsy the lot is, I wanted to get a better shot than this and had to go back to April 2009:
Note the extreme depth here, and that this home and those adjacent are all backing onto a ravine.
Aerial Pic:
That said, the App:
From the Docs:
* note the significant error above, the unit total is 16, not 116!
Comments: I support the idea here, but I would imagine an objection from the neighbours, the 13M height ask, plus the removal of several trees (though all the removals are non-native, invasive, except for a dead tree), plus relatively low parking provision, will likely draw hackles.
My only personal negative is that driveway which I feel really diminishes the front and the landscaping potential of this building; but there is no practical way to address that without removing the parking entirely. (the lot is insufficiently wide to permit rear surface parking, and no one will support a parking lot out front.
I wonder if the front couldn't be reduced to a single parking parking pad reserved for carshare? Hmmm.
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The proposed building would not encroach on the ravine land, and the stewardship plan is broadly reasonable (predominantly native planting is proposed).
A bit bigger than 'missing middle' but only slightly.
But a relatively ambitious ask.
This is a proposal for a 4-storey, 16-unit, purpose-built rental, that would exist on what is currently one single family home lot with Neighbourhood zoning.
The lot is, however, beside an existing, low-rise, purpose built rental and less than 1/2 a block from the Main Street bus route.
Site as is:
Given how deep and woodsy the lot is, I wanted to get a better shot than this and had to go back to April 2009:
Note the extreme depth here, and that this home and those adjacent are all backing onto a ravine.
Aerial Pic:
That said, the App:
From the Docs:
* note the significant error above, the unit total is 16, not 116!
Comments: I support the idea here, but I would imagine an objection from the neighbours, the 13M height ask, plus the removal of several trees (though all the removals are non-native, invasive, except for a dead tree), plus relatively low parking provision, will likely draw hackles.
My only personal negative is that driveway which I feel really diminishes the front and the landscaping potential of this building; but there is no practical way to address that without removing the parking entirely. (the lot is insufficiently wide to permit rear surface parking, and no one will support a parking lot out front.
I wonder if the front couldn't be reduced to a single parking parking pad reserved for carshare? Hmmm.
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The proposed building would not encroach on the ravine land, and the stewardship plan is broadly reasonable (predominantly native planting is proposed).
