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Lafayette design panel approves Panorama house expansion subject to darker color and tree mitigation
Summary
The Lafayette Design Review Commission approved the design review and grading permits for HDP 16‑25 (1280 Panorama), allowing additions and a new garage while requiring a darker main stucco tone and mitigation planting for three protected trees; the planning commission had already approved hillside and variance findings.
The Lafayette Design Review Commission on Nov. 10 approved design review and grading permits for a substantial renovation and expansion at 1280 Panorama, finding the project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act and adopting DRC Resolution 2025‑18 with conditions.
Nicole, a staff planner, told the commission the project would add roughly 2,875 square feet to the existing one‑story house — including an approximately 874‑square‑foot garage, a 169‑square‑foot first‑floor addition and a 958‑square‑foot second‑floor addition — and would reduce the front setback to about 4 feet 10 inches. The site sits in a Class 2 ridgeline; planning commission review in October had already approved the hillside development and variance permits that allow exceptions to the 15‑degree declination standard and some…
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