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Design Review Board approves new house at 505 Bluemont Street with conditions after neighbor objections
Summary
After three hearings and extended public comment, the board approved demolition and construction of a new single-family house at 505 Bluemont Street, imposing conditions including moving the garage wall, limiting certain plant heights, tinting some windows, modifying the roof, and encouraging landscaping coordination with neighbors.
Following an extended public hearing and extensive neighbor comment, the Laguna Beach Design Review Board approved a revised plan to demolish an existing home and build a new single-family dwelling with an attached two-car garage at 505 Bluemont Street, imposing several conditions to address privacy, view equity and neighborhood compatibility.
The item had been continued multiple times; staff said this was the third hearing and summarized changes made in response to earlier board direction, including pulling portions of the structure back from neighboring property lines, reducing deck size, lowering plate heights from 11 feet to 9'-6', replacing proposed stucco with wood siding, removing a proposed pool and eliminating decorative right-of-way paving from the application. Staff also reported receiving public correspondence from three neighbors raising concerns about views, privacy, mass and scale.
Neighbors testified at length.…
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