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ADR recommends approval for 101 Upper Road resubmittal, applicant to preserve engineered review
Summary
The Architectural Design Review (ADR) Committee recommended that the town council approve a resubmitted landscape and hillside project at 101 Upper Road that includes a new pool and retaining walls; committee members asked for continued engineering review and confirmed building-permit soils and drainage checks will be required.
The ADR Committee recommended the town council approve a resubmittal for 101 Upper Road that proposes landscape improvements including a pool, spa and retaining walls higher than six feet.
Staff introduced the item and described the proposed elements: "Proposed features include a pool and spa, pool equipment, a patio, fire pit, outdoor kitchen, retaining walls over 6 feet in height, and an outdoor shower," staff said. The applicant, Lexi Verpaev, said the package is largely unchanged from prior approvals and noted a mandatory roof change: "There's no real changes except for the roof, has gone from a linen roof to a crushed, gravel roof."
A nearby resident raised concerns about hillside stability and drainage, citing past slides. In response, staff explained the limits of ADR and the role of the building-permit process: "They have to submit all sorts of soil soils engineers, structural engineers, civil engineer, drainage, you know. They are very well vetted before they can build something like that," the vice chair said. The committee emphasized that geotechnical and structural reviews are part of the building-permit checklist and that the ADR recommendation does not replace those reviews.
Committee members queried details such as the ADU relationship to the main house and the visibility of the proposed roof changes; the applicant and her designer said the new work is intended to tuck into the hillside and be visually unobtrusive. After discussion and confirming prior engineering submittals had been done for the earlier permit cycle, the ADR members voted to recommend approval to the town council.
The ADR recommendation includes the usual condition that projects proceed through building-permit review (including soils and drainage checks) before work is permitted. The next step is formal submission of the ADR recommendation to town council.
