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Design Review Board: Prime Station Lane mixed-use plan’s mass and height draw concerns; advisory opinion tabled
Summary
Design Review Board members raised repeated concerns about the mass and perceived height of Prime Companies’ proposed Route 29 project — two large multifamily buildings and an L-shaped hotel with roughly 400 dwelling units — and asked for hotel elevations and street-level perspectives before issuing an advisory opinion.
Design professionals for Prime Companies presented a site plan for a mixed-use project along Route 29 (also called Washington) that would include a hotel and roughly 400 dwelling units. The project was before the Design Review Board on Sept. 24 at the Planning Board’s request for an advisory opinion on mass, height and scale.
Presenters James Easton (civil engineer, EP Land Services) and Svetlana Steef (Mackenzie Architects) described a layout consisting of two H-shaped, four-story multifamily buildings with internal courtyards, an L-shaped hotel at the corner, and townhouse-style row housing; the design team said they were aiming to meet the UDO’s frontage build-out requirement (70% along specified frontages) while responding to wetlands and a significant grade change…
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