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Applicants revise 201 Oak Avenue design after committee feedback; dumpster placement remains open question
Summary
At a Feb. 14 Project Review Committee meeting, applicants for 201 Oak Avenue presented facade and roof design changes responsive to prior board comments; committee members praised aesthetic moves but pressed the team to find alternatives for a trash enclosure and to reduce upper-story massing adjacent to a neighboring building.
Applicants seeking project review for 201 Oak Avenue presented updated facade, roof and site details to the Project Review Committee on Feb. 14, saying the latest design responds to comments from the previous planning-board review.
The design team showed a raised masonry base, enclosed second-floor porch walls, deeper window recesses and a darker blue monochrome siding palette intended to reduce the appearance of a single large white mass. They also modified dormers to a peaked form to reflect vertical elements in adjacent buildings. "We brought the base up to the underside of the First Floor windows just to create kind of a stronger band," the applicant said during the presentation.
Committee members generally welcomed the aesthetic changes. Emily Petrina, chair to the board,…
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