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The applicant, identified in the meeting transcript as Greg Bridal, vice president of Ameristar Homes, presented the home as “a farmhouse style 4 bedroom unit with 2.5 baths” and described the building’s footprint, exterior materials and parking provisions. The package included finished living area on the first and second floors, a finished basement and a two-car garage with an additional 20-by-22-foot parking pad and a 12-by-57-foot driveway leading to it.

Panelists and the community reviewer raised concerns about the width of the driveway and the prominence of the two-car garage on the narrow lot, and urged more coordination among three nearby lots being developed together. Denise Watkins, the residential reviewer, said the driveway and front paving “seem to be a lot of pavement taking up, I would say, almost 50% of the front yard,” and recommended a narrower driveway and more landscaping to reduce the visual dominance of paving.

Panel comments and recommendations concentrated on five areas: driveway width and amount of impervious surface; garage size and proportion relative to the narrow lot; front porch proportions and the porch roof; side elevation treatment/fenestration; and the landscape palette and plant sizes. Watkins and other panelists favored fiber-cement or higher-quality siding over vinyl where feasible, and encouraged use of native plant species. Several panelists suggested architectural adjustments to reduce the apparent dominance of the garage on the primary elevation, including alternative garage-door styling and reinforcing the front porch as a stronger visual element.

The panel’s motion, made by Denise Watkins and seconded by Mr. Sala, approved the design subject to revisions to be reviewed administratively by Department of Planning staff. The conditions recorded in the motion were: provide a one-car garage with a narrower driveway; enlarge the front porch and adjust porch-roof proportions to match the construction documents’ preferred illustration; provide the optional side windows (or add equivalent facade articulation) so the broad side elevation is not a blank wall; and provide additional, larger native trees and shrubs in the plant palette.

Greg Bridal told the panel the home would be built on spec if approved, and said he was “open to being able to work with whatever I need to do in order to bring the house up to approval status.” Panelists and the applicant agreed the revised drawings addressing the conditions would be submitted for administrative review rather than returning to a public DRP meeting.

Clarifying details recorded during the meeting: the proposed house was described as approximately 1,915 square feet finished on the first and second floors with an additional ~752 square feet finished in the basement; the front porch footprint was listed as just under 400 square feet in the presentation; the proposal includes a two-car garage and a 20-by-22-foot parking pad, with a 12-by-57-foot driveway. The panel’s motion required changing the two-car garage to a one-car garage as a condition of approval.

Next steps: the applicant will revise plans to address the panel’s conditions and resubmit them to the Department of Planning for administrative review consistent with the motion. If the revisions meet the conditions, the Department will complete the review administratively; if not, further review steps would be determined at that time.

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The developer’s team — led in the presentation by Peter DiPrinzio of Seawall and land-use attorney Chris Mudd of Venable — described the larger Armory redevelopment as an intergenerational destination for recreation, arts and culture. The portion before the panel focused on the new arrival boulevard, pedestrian and bicycle connections and a proposed two-bay, roughly 400-space parking garage located on the west side of the Armory campus.

“The whole idea for this project came out of actually a public input session,” Peter DiPrinzio told the panel, noting a 2016 governor’s commission process and more than 1,500 community inputs that shaped the overall vision. Chris Mudd told the panel that county legislation facilitating the redevelopment “actually requires the placement of structured parking here to accommodate the use.”

Design highlights presented to the panel included: a new curb cut and arrival boulevard off Milford Mill Road that provides a vehicular approach and pedestrian boulevard to the Armory’s historic facade; a 400-car, two-bay structured garage with a park-on ramp and stair-tower feature intended to signal the garage entry; a perforated-metal/finned screen on primary facades that the team said will balance natural ventilation and daylighting with visual screening; a solar-panel canopy on the western bay of the roof; and landscape proposals that use urban-hardy street trees and native plantings.

The Department of Planning read a staff report referencing the Comprehensive Manual of Development Policies, the Pikesville Revitalization Action Plan, the Pikesville Commercial Revitalization Guidelines, the Baltimore County Landscape Manual and Bill 98-23. Staff recommended approval of site and architectural form subject to conditions including: showing proposed solar panels on the upper level, labeling light fixtures on elevations, providing a circulation diagram for pedestrian and vehicle flows (including bike lanes), labeling bike racks and seating, and submitting a detailed landscape plan with a plant legend.

Public comments at the meeting were broadly supportive but urged refinements. Denise Watkins, speaking as a Sudbrook Park resident, praised the project but asked for stronger pedestrian priority along the arrival boulevard and better wayfinding to transit. Susan Williams of the Pine Hill community and Tom Faketa of the Pikesville Revitalization Committee both endorsed the project and urged the team to take advantage of the garage facade as a public-art opportunity rather than a typical precast face. Williams requested larger planting areas to allow combined stormwater features and tree canopy.

Panel discussion focused on five recurring topics: alignment between the garage and the event lawn to the north, the design density and orientation of the perforated fins on the garage facades, stronger pedestrian and bicycle connections to the south/Slade Avenue, the opportunity to use permeable paving and other stormwater best practices, and reconsidering portions of the surface parking layout so the on-grade stalls do not fragment the pedestrian experience. Several panelists also asked the team to consider refined facade treatments so the garage reads well from both Slade Avenue and from nearby residential streets.

Scott Walters moved that the panel recommend approval with conditions; Mr. Kerjekar seconded. The motion listed the considerations above and also asked that the design team implement the recommendations of the Department of Planning staff. The motion carried with no recorded opposition. The panel’s approval was a design-level endorsement subject to further refinement; the team will pursue the required front-yard setback variance and subsequent development approvals.

Clarifying details recorded during the meeting: the garage was presented as a roughly 400-space, two-bay structure with a park-on ramp; the solar panel array was described as being located on the western bay of the garage roof; the proposal requires a variance for front-yard setback to align the garage face with existing buildings along Slade Avenue; two existing buildings at 116 and 122 Slade and the Mersen building were noted for demolition in the site plans shown to the panel. The Department of Planning’s staff report included multiple required submittals (lighting and signage details, circulation diagrams, bike parking labeling and a detailed landscape legend).

Next steps: the panel’s approval is a design recommendation; the applicant will incorporate the panel and staff conditions into revised drawings for administrative review and will pursue a public hearing for the zoning variance required for the garage setback and then file for development approvals.","Baltimore County’s Design Review Panel recommended approval of the proposed parking garage and arrival boulevard for the Pikesville Armory redevelopment, subject to design refinements on facade articulation, pedestrian/bicycle circulation, stormwater strategies and consolidation of some surface parking. The approval was conditional and staff will","actionData","errors"]

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