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Palo Alto ARB recommends facade refresh for 164 Hamilton Avenue, sets follow-up technical checks
Summary
The Architectural Review Board voted 5-0 to recommend approval of facade modifications to a downtown Hamilton Avenue office building, while asking the applicant to return to an ad hoc committee to refine joint lines, window mullions, ventilation and canopy supports.
The Palo Alto Architectural Review Board on Thursday recommended approval of proposed exterior updates to 164 Hamilton Avenue, a 10,150-square-foot office building near the downtown Caltrain station, and asked the applicant to return with technical clarifications and details.
The board voted 5-0 to recommend approval to the Director of Planning and Development Services, subject to the findings and conditions in the staff report and additional items the board requested be resolved by an ad hoc committee before final sign-off.
The project would replace the building's ground-floor stone cladding with neutral-colored brick veneer, resurface upper façades with smooth cement plaster in a warm gray, replace single-pane windows and metal awnings with new storefront glazing and thin aluminum plate canopies, and install new wall-mounted sconces. Staff said the project is exempt from additional CEQA review under standard downtown guidelines and that interior tenant improvements are being handled via separate building permits.
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