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DRC conditionally backs First Methodist Church color change to 'alabaster,' warns against unintended precedent
Summary
At case 251412 the commission discussed a color-change request for an 18,360-square-foot church building. Staff and commissioners debated whether 'alabaster' qualifies as an "off-white" under design guidelines and proposed using light-reflective-value metrics to guide administrative approvals; commissioners broadly supported the church's request but asked for defensible justification to avoid precedent.
The commission reviewed case 251412, a color-change request for The Park at Houston Landing (First Methodist Church) involving an under-construction, roughly 18,360-square-foot building. Staff presented mock-ups and paint panels and explained that the approved development agreement specifies Edgecomb Gray; the church requested permission to use either Benjamin Moore "Calm" or "Alabaster" on trim and selected painted surfaces.
Architects and applicant representatives argued that Alabaster or Calm would better match…
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