[OldNorth] Board Meeting Monday 6pm; Last Weds. Summary

[Old East Davis]

Reminder!  Board Meeting (others welcome) at 
Barb's 223 J on Monday 6pm with Esther Polito 
speaking.  (Food is not on the agenda.).  Message 
from Barb on Weds. Planning meeting below:

From: "Barb and John" <nondual at omsoft.com>
To: "'Old East Davis'" <oldeastdavis at omsoft.com>, <Old.East.&.Friends>
Subject: RE: Tonight!  Wednesday Planning Commission Meeting
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:29:48 -0700

The Wednesday Planning commission was 
fascinating. On the agenda was request to throw 
the design guidelines out the window for two 
projects on B Street. The first is between 2nd 
and 3rd on B Street next to the Architect¹s 
house/business. Turns out Maria O owns the 
property next to her and proposed to scrape the 
small house, subdivide the property into 4 (!) 
and put up four 3-story homes on that property.

The design broke many, many of the guidelines as 
well as the minimal land plot zoning. Both city 
staff and the historical resources commission 
strongly opposed the project. The Planning 
Commission, however, approved it on a 4-3 vote!! 
Two beautiful bungalows are next to the proposed 
project. The votes for the project reasoned that 
those homes would no longer be there in 10 years 
anyway. Why not throw all the guidelines out the 
window so that ³infill Œ can happen. There was 
lots of posturing about how wonderful this 
property owner is to provide 4 potential 
owner-occupied homes in the city center.!!!!

The second project was another proposal to scrape 
a small home on B between 3rd and 4th Streets. 
The same architect, different owners, same 4 
units subdivided on a lot. This one was denied 
4-3. We really need to talk to Jennie Baker. She 
was a consistent vote to ³scrape and stuff². 
These projects will be presented to City Council. 
We need to be there.

See some of you Monday at my house‹223 J Street. 
( Just look for the monster party house).

Barb