Baltimore County design panel approves recommendations for 1300 Walnut Hill Lane, sends plan to Planning with conditions

Baltimore County’s Design Review Panel voted Dec. 10 to approve recommendations that send a proposal to replace the existing house at 1300 Walnut Hill Lane back to the county Planning Department for administrative review with conditions.

Acting Chair Donald Kann opened the meeting and read the panel’s enabling provisions (Title 4, Subtitle 2, Part 1, Sections 32-4-203 and 32-4-204), then heard a presentation from Hannah Allgood of Elite Contracting Solutions, who said the applicant proposes to demolish the current nonconforming residence and build a new four-bedroom, five-bath, approximately 3,000-square-foot French/Tudor-style home centered on the lot to meet setbacks. Tierney Andrews of NW2 Engineers and Architecture was introduced as available for technical questions.

During her presentation, Allgood described site constraints: a long slope across the lot that required a tiered retaining-wall approach rather than a single tall wall, a lower roughly 5-foot wall around the parking area and a larger 8–10-foot wall farther back. She said the original single-wall concept would have been closer to 15–18 feet. She also described rear parking, plans to…