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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS
Thank you for submitting your comments. Your feedback will be forwarded to the
City's Planning Department and Land Use Board members. NOTE: Comments
submitted later than 12:00 noon on the day before the Land Use Board meeting
may not be reviewed prior to their meeting. All comments will be added to the
project file in the Planning Department.
Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name caroline burke
Email Address caroline.cardone@gmail.com
Business Name top rail interiors Ilc
Address 20A HUTCHINS ROAD
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 5182107345
Project Name 30-30 1/2 caroline street
Project Number Field not completed.
Project Address 30-30 1/2 caroline street
Comments To DRB members: This project needs special attention, as it is
making a mockery of historic Caroline Street. To have a new 5-
story mixed use structure fully engulf a hostoric building from all
sides is beyond inappropriate for the street and the
nighborhood; it is a joke. Clearly, the motivation here is simply
to maximze leasable square footage. To rectify the situation,
the architects need to start over. This project should be
designed to appear as two or three discrete buildings within
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their respective narrow lots, using scale, style, color, and
materiality to differentiate one from another. This will hopefully
lessen the appearance of a singular massive structure
overwhelming Sperrys from the right, left, and top. In this
neighborhood the streetscape is typically comprised of brick
brownstone type structures, one to each lot. For this project to
take over two lots (and surround a smaller building) with the
same design is inconsistent with the historic character of
Caroline St. I'm attaching an example of how multiple styles of
structures are typically laid out in the neighborhood.
Regardless of building height or interiior use, the exterior of the
project must be reimagined in a way that aspires to this type of
variation. No more revisions; they need to start over. Please do
our downtown a favor and fight for this one.
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