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Online Form Submittal: Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Agenda Public Comment
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Land Use Board Design Review Board
Name Richard Fenton
Email Address fenton@nycap.rr.com
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Address 23 Lefferts St
City Saratoga Springs
State NY
Zip Code 12866
Phone Number 5184217098
Project Name 30-30 1/2 Caroline Building Expansion
Project Number 20240720
Project Address 30-30 1/2 Caroline Street
Comments After an overwhelmingly negative review by the public, the
Preservation Foundation, and a majority of Board members,
the developer has the gumption to return with no visible change
to the hideously bleak design of the proposed building beyond
changing the left half from bare brick and black to completely
black. Why don't they go all in and just paint a huge face with
angry red eyes and a sinister grin with bloody fangs? Health,
History, Horses, and Halloween? This building has no place
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anywhere, let alone in the Victorian heart of Saratoga, on one
of its most iconic streets. It is too tall and massive for its setting.
It has no ornamentation, no design elements that anyone would
consider attractive. It looks like it's intended to enclose interior
space at the lowest cost. Developers should expect to invest
more in the quality and appearance of everything they build
here. The Board cannot, must not approve this profound insult
to our community aesthetic. They must send the developer
back again and again, until we can see the promise of a
building that, instead of scaring people away, would make them
go out of their way just to see it.
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