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CAR to consider 5 new buildings this month
03/20/2017 7:31 AM by John M
- 718 North 27th Street – Screen in existing rear porch on new residence.
- 808 N. 21st Street – Construct a multifamily structure on a vacant lot. (BELOW)
- 2623 East Broad Street – Paint rear of the building
- 730 North 23rd Street – Replace siding, windows, doors, roof and fence.
- 2101 East Broad Street – Install new front stair railing and replace roof with TPO.
- 611 North 22nd Street – Install shed in the rear yard.
- 517 North 29th Street – Install new front yard fence and walkway.
- 2702 East Franklin Street – Construct a shed in the rear yard.
- 813 North 24th Street – Construct one single family dwelling on a vacant lot. (BELOW)
- 2900 East Leigh Street – Construct a new single family dwelling. (BELOW)
- 717 North 24th Street – Construct a rear addition
- 708 North 24th Street – Construct a new single family dwelling. (BELOW)
- 3625 East Broad Street – Construct a new single family dwelling. (BELOW)
- 101 North 29th Street – Rehabilitate an attached single-family dwelling and construct a rear addition.
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708 North 24th Street
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3625 East Broad Street
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2900 East Leigh Street
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813 North 24th Street
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808 N. 21st Street
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808 N. 21st St.
This buildings design, as submitted, appears to be more in-line with surrounding construction. It’s proposed length, height, exterior construction materials, appear to blend. Required parking spaces in rear.
Thanks to Danil Kleyman and his team for reevaluating and submitting these modified plans. Thanks to UHCA for it’s vigilance and backing, and kudo’s to CAR for its work in these historic districts. As proposed, this building will provide tenants, owner(s), and community many years of favorable service. The number of bedrooms per unit does not concern me, that is the owners decision.
Forgot one, thanks to John Murden and Church Hill News for publishing and keeping us all informed of what’s going on and proposed in our community!
Spoiler alert: CAR will approve anything being put through by a developer no matter if it meets guidelines while simultaneously holding private residents to the strictest possible standards.
@Jay – for real though, this is the 3rd attempt for 808 North 21st Street
It’s like they require new construction to be ugly
If it’s ugly CAR probably has something to do with it 🙁
@4 you were not at the last CAR hearing. You did not witness the flogging two young homeowners (in Union Hill) received when they asked to put a new door on their home with (gasp) a fixed pane of glass on it.
We were stunned after CAR beat up the humble homeowners over a door light, and then voted to approve two humongous multi-family new construction projects book-ending the Union Hill neighborhood.
True, I was not there. I was simply pointing out that the larger development projects are not just rubberstamped.
@7 urbngrilla- And yet countless homeowners throughout the historic district ignore CAR altogether and just install any old door they want. Hideous examples can be found on just about every block…cheap, box-store Craftsman style doors on a Victorian house…ugh! And where is CAR?
John,
The 101 N. 29th street application is not just a simple addition, but four stories with an elevator. Might this not be worth a picture? Could be the easternmost residential elevator in Church Hill.
http://richmondva.legistar.com/gateway.aspx?M=F&ID=cb7b8396-3e31-4859-833b-67f94c8f91c9.pdf
Nice work Danil, looks fantastic. Keep up the great work!
John, I think Robert R meant to say “thanks you so much for all the hard work you do to list these projects on CAR’s agenda, and thanks for adding pictures at all. But…” to the beginning of his post. keep up the great work bruh.
@Richard – Good catch, that’s kind of huge
Ghastly. . . No, how about abomination? (101 N. 29th street proposal, pictured above. . .the one that looks like a barge wedged into a bog).
Readers should know this tasteless, brutal grafting of early 21st century banality to sturdy and modest early 20th century design is courtesy of Margaret Freund and Fulton Hill Properties.
Here’s my message to CAR: If you approve this, then also retire the silly pretense of this neighborhood’s designation as a historic district.
p.s. don’t forget the cup holders for the theater seats!
@14…absolutely…this is a complete bastardization of this building. What the hell is wrong with these people???
If this is what CAR is advocating, this commission should be stripped and gutted- horrendous!
@9 when you say “where is CAR” one can only presume you mean something like “where is enforcement of CAR Guidelines?”
For you and others who might be wondering, CAR doesn’t go out looking for violations on private homes. The city staff that works with/on behalf of CAR relies upon citizens complaints about specific violations.
So, if you are really pissed off about “inappropriate doors on historic homes” then you’re gonna have to report each address to City Staff.
That would be followed by the city staff inspection and issuance of a formal notice of violation with a request to amiliorate the non-compliant architectural element(s). If the homeowner doesn’t comply, then he/she is goes before CAR to plead his/her case.
@16 Thank you for the accurate description of how to assist with enforcement. CAR can also take a case to court, if the owner doesn’t comply. The staff person to contact is Marianne Pitts, and she is at 646-7550.
@15, there is no indication that CAR is advocating this, it is simply a plan put forth by an owner and her architect. I can’t imagine that CAR would approve it as it is now.
I don’t think the porch portion of the addition on north 29th street look that terrible, really. It’s always been relatively common practice to add on to homes up here by building out the area where the porch used to be, and the French casement Windows will probably look much nicer in real life than in the rendering.
I just hope the owner realizes that they could do the rear addition in materials that match the porch addition. Would look much nicer
I do not understand how “dusk till dawn LED lights” which add light pollution to the backyards of an entire block are getting approved. They’ve ruined the night time atmosphere for nearly everyone who lives in the square of E. Leigh Street, Clay and 26th and 27th. This needs to be changed.
Man, the 101 N. 29th St. proposal–nice way to completely bogart the view from your neighbors.
That addition totally blocks the viewshed (and the southern exposure/sunlight) from everyone else down the block. It has the same effect as a spite fence–I would be furious.