Tomorrow we vote on our first submittal for the Downtown Review Board that is the governing body for warrants from the form-based code. The project is an auto body shop who desires to fill an approximately 20-ft void between buildings. The addition to the building will meet the architecture of the building and will eliminate one parking stall. It will include one garage door opening. I will reserve my thoughts on the matter for tomorrow’s meeting and will post the results and my opinion on the matter afterwards.
Our first submittal went through today. It was voted in favor with a vote of 7-2. It was actually filling a void of only 10-ft, but the 10-ft opening consisted of a 8-ft roll-up door. This was my concern on the submittal and I felt that it could have been a bit more friendly toward the pedestrian, similar to a roll-up door at a restaurant such as Jose Muldoon’s. All and all, the code did it’s job today and made the process for such a small addition easy for the applicant. I am pleased with the way it all turned out (even though I was one of the two votes against it). I have to stand my position in the name of good urbanism.