Before & after view from North Cap when passing by the proposed multifamily building and grocery store #NewMcMillan pic.twitter.com/9ja8YkKcUP
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Franklin st looking North from N Cap before & after view w proposed multifamily building & grocery store #NewMcMillan pic.twitter.com/sDu8kKRfbA
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Before & after view - South Side of Evarts Looking North w proposed multifamily building & grocery store #NewMcMillan pic.twitter.com/kexv46ZfrM
— Vision McMillan (@VisionMcMillan) August 5, 2014
Before & after view - South Side of Evarts Looking North w proposed multifamily building & grocery store #NewMcMillan pic.twitter.com/kexv46ZfrM
— Vision McMillan (@VisionMcMillan) August 5, 2014
7 comments:
Funny how the neighborhood thinks this is an abomination and yet additions to homes that are unsympathetic to the existing pattern on our streets due to poor design or incompatible material use are not seen as affecting the neighborhood's character in the long run.
Amen!
I disagree - I very much think those homes in your second example do affect the neighborhood's character. Unfortunately, the current status quo is that one you can do something about since there's public forums to voice opinions. The other, as angry as one can be, unfortunately doesn't have a zoning hearing or require ANC approval, you just need a good permit expediter with friends in DCRA.
So true. thats why we need to come together and support the regulations that are being offered for the R-4 District or push for the conservation district tools in order to exercise some control on the designs and material use that some developers believe fit with the neighborhood's character. There just needs to be some compatibitiy.
Very well said by Citizenalpha.
In one case we're talking about something for which the community should have some say, as it's public land. In the other, we're talking about a person's private property with no mechanism to oppose a project.
I get the sense that Bloomingdale will actively pursue establishing a conservation district but, as representatives from the Office of Planning stated last month, we cannot do so until those laws are put into place. That could be 6-months or it could be 2-years.
Mat
The first rendition looks like a mausoleum. The second is a monstrosity of another sort. Both are totally out of scale with the neighborhood and the character of this historic property.
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