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DRB approves 1 Main Street pocket park; asks applicant to refine lighting and edge with adjacent Firebird parcel
Summary
The board approved the city’s site plan for a pocket park at 1 Main Street (Gabe and Diane Handy Park) but asked for further work on the lighting scheme and recommended the city consider improvements at the parcel boundary with the adjacent Firebird Café.
The Essex Junction Development Review Board on April 17 approved a site plan for a new pocket park at 1 Main Street — the parcel given to the city by Gabe Handy — and asked staff and the applicant to refine the lighting plan and consider additional treatments along the park’s boundary with the adjacent Firebird Café parcel.
David Burton of Ginkgo Design presented a modular, flexible design intended to limit below‑grade disturbance on a parcel with a history as a gasoline station. The plan uses an asphalt overlay and movable elements (planters, benches, trellis features and canvas shade sails)…
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