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Planning board reviews material, sign and parking details for 110 South Grand Avenue church addition
Summary
Architects outlined exterior finish changes, signage constraints and parking/landscaping adjustments for a proposed addition and youth center at 110 South Grand Avenue; the board requested manufacturer samples and final engineering before bringing the item back for a resolution.
The Poughkeepsie City Planning Board heard details on a site plan application for an addition to a church and renovation of a youth center at 110 South Grand Avenue, with the applicant’s architect describing exterior finish changes, a revised cross feature and adjustments to parking and landscaping.
The discussion matters because the project sits adjacent to residential properties and includes visible façade changes, new signage and a reworked parking layout that require staff review and confirmation from the city engineer before the board will finalize approval.
Michael Berta, the architect for the applicant, told the board that the team raised the cross up to the underside of the cornice to reduce a gap that had become “a place of a lot of bird habitat” and to avoid multiple penetrations through the exterior…
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