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Seventh‑day Adventist church returns with lowered roof, stone and brick detail; committee wants simpler canopy and refined windows
Summary
The church’s design team presented a revised civic building intended to read more like traditional church architecture with reduced peak height, stone base and arched vertical windows; staff and commissioners praised the reduced height but asked for simpler canopy design and for fenestration details that read as traditional divided lights rather
Representatives for the Franklin Seventh‑day Adventist Church returned to the Design Review Committee with a reworked design for a civic‑scale addition and plaza at 1753 Players Mill Road. The applicant, represented by Brandon Priddy, said the most recent design reduces peak height from previously approved plans and replaces a long horizontal canopy with a more vertical gabled facade and a narrower front canopy.
Planning staff (Elizabeth) told the committee the revised design lowered the building from an approved 51‑foot peak to a principal facade peak near 40 feet and that the new form uses…
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