Architects, developer explain trade‑offs: lower heights, more units, mix driven by HUD financing
Architects and the developer described revisions that reduced building height and redistributed massing to a neighborhood scale while increasing unit count from about 135 to 166; they said HUD RAD funding and rent mix force certain unit and income trade‑offs.
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Architects and developer representatives explained to the Planning Board why the design evolved from an earlier, taller concept to the current multi‑building, four‑story arrangement. The architect described strategies to break the massing into pedestrian‑scaled bays and to preserve a human scale on the street while providing the required unit count.
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