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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS
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City's Planning Department and Land Use Board members. NOTE: Comments
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project file in the Planning Department.
Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name James P. Martinez
Email Address Martinezarchitecture@gmail.com
Business Name Martinez Architecture
Address 15 Fifth Avenue
City Saratoga Springs
State New York
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 518.944.0003
Project Name James P. Martinez
Project Number Field not completed.
Project Address 33-35 Caroline Street
Comments Saratoga Springs is not a museum village. The Saratoga
Springs Preservation Foundation was founded with a mission
to protect and advocate for properties deemed worthy as the
city was mandated to maintain an ongoing survey to protect
those other structures that would later become endangered
while not within the original historic districts. The city
designated the urban core as a transect zone some 30 years
ago to centralize development.
Mr. Sigsby’s paint store and the adjacent garage infill building
are not historic structures. The immediate area has seen two
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hotels constructed and other structures proposed to the
approved transect building height and were not relegated to
design their structures to appear a collection of smaller
buildings that once occupied their plots.
The honesty of a contexual contemporary structure within a
historic setting is a standard that has been handed down from
the Federal Guidelines, state authorities and local participating
organizations. The rhythm and scale of one- and two-story
buildings cannot necessarily dictate the proposed design of a
larger permitted five story building, easily, if at all. Mimicry of
and the cloning of 19th and early 20th century details on
contemporary architecture reduces its value and diminishes the
importance of our surviving historic resources.
There are many creative ways to contextually design and
construct new buildings, that represent their function and form
(in that order). Also, there are many good examples in this city
how that was accomplished. Unfortunately, the city in its recent
past has denied arbitrarily the constructions of several
legitimate proposals based on scale, yet they were sited
adjacent to previously approved full height structures within the
urban core. The vocabulary of contemporary building should
not be so challenging that our new approved constructions end
up looking like clones of an earlier time, much like the new
structure planned for Broadway.
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