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Staff backs adaptive reuse of Galbraith School for 44 housing units with conditions to ensure accessibility and preservation
Summary
Planning staff recommended approval of a plan-development application to convert the historic Galbraith School into 36 affordable apartments and eight townhouses, citing historic preservation and public-art benefits; staff proposed conditions for ADA paving, crosswalks, and driveway paving.
Planning staff recommended approval of a plan-development application to adaptively reuse the vacant Galbraith School campus at 4333 Galliprey School Road for residential housing, preservation and public art. The staff presentation described the project as a two-phase plan on a 2.6-acre lot: adaptive reuse of the 1930 Galbraith School (designed by Frank O. Barber) into 36 dwelling units (one-, two- and three-bedroom units) and an additional second phase with eight townhouses on cleared open space. Staff said the application would require…
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