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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Date Wed 4/9/2025 4:43 PM
To Mark Graham <Mark.Graham@saratoga-springs.org>; beige.berryman@saratoga-springs.org
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
SUBMIT COMMENTS REGARDING CITY PROJECTS
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project file in the Planning Department.
Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name Barbara Trypaluk
Email Address trypalukb@gmail.com
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Address 211 Circular St
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 5185834487
Project Name 30-301/2 Building Expansion
Project Number 20240720
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Comments This proposed design for 30 Caroline St. is incompatible with
the existing Victorian-style buildings and the scale of it is too
much for the location. Sperry's Restaurant ends up getting
swallowed up by the 5-story proposed building behind it.
The design of 30-301/2 is very bland and unattractive, just like
most of the buildings going up in Saratoga Springs. The whole
thing lacks character and does not fit in the historic district. The
Design Review Board is completely ignoring recommendations
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made by the Foundation and the NYS Preservation Office
regarding the fact that the new design only preserves the
facade of Caroline St. and that the addition of piers to the east
"does not the traditional charactoer of the historic district." I
would hope that the DRB will require the developer to improve
the design making it more in scale to the surrounding buildings
by lowering it to a 3/4 story building and change the design to
make the design more in keeping with the turn-of-the-century
existing buildings. I'm honestly shocked by the low aesthetic
quality of buildings being built in our fair city (i.e. the new
"luxury" apartment building on Henry St.) and hope you'll
seriously consider my suggestions.
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