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Board approves detached garage at 9201 Big Bend with design conditions and pergola details
Summary
The Architectural Review Board approved a resubmittal for a detached garage at 9201 Big Bend Boulevard with conditions requiring matching grille patterns, a narrower gable trim board, and specified pergola construction; fence height will be reviewed for corner-lot regulations.
The Webster Groves Architectural Review Board approved a resubmitted plan for a detached garage at 9201 Big Bend Boulevard, imposing several design conditions and requesting follow-up on fence regulations for the corner lot.
Board members questioned details of the garage gable and how it would relate to the existing house. David Yates (volunteer architect, board member) and others noted the house’s stone gable transitions without an overhang and asked whether the new garage should replicate that effect or retain a small overhang for durability. The applicant’s team said they would match the house as closely as possible while addressing practical concerns about overhangs.
The board’s approval included these specific understandings: side-elevation garage windows will include grills that match the house; the garage gable window will match the house gable window; the horizontal trimboard at the bottom of the garage gable will be made narrower than originally submitted; and the pergola will be stick-built of wood, stained, with 6-by-6 posts and a simple base trim at the patio juncture. The applicant and the architect confirmed the pergola will be a simple, pressure-treated or finished wood structure sited on the deck.
The applicant raised the fence-height question: because the property is a corner lot and the fence faces the street, the board and city staff agreed to check whether the applicable regulation holds the fence to a 4-foot height for street-facing exposures; the transcript records that staff will review and notify the applicant of the correct standard. The motion to approve included the listed conditions and passed by voice vote; the transcript does not provide a roll-call tally.
Nut graf: The board combined stylistic guidance intended to tie the new garage visually to the existing home (window grills, gable proportions, stone matching) with construction details for the pergola, and left an outstanding administrative question about corner-lot fence height for staff to resolve.
During the hearing the applicant agreed to modify the submittal to reflect the board’s conditions and to supply final details to staff for permit review.
