Historic Preservation Board - Regular Meeting

Can you hear me now? Yes. Yes. No, it was my mistake.

Oh, no, no, no. It was my mistake. I got it.

I think about it, if it's going to be reopened, you're gonna work on these zoning things. It should be the first probably so that we can look at the actual final design once everything gets implemented.

The plans were less developed than now. They are now much more developed and much closer, I would say, to the final, but there are some issues still that they have to address with zoning and FAR. They are not our province, really, those sort of things, right? But they could affect, you know, the way the architectural solution to this, although in general it's almost, you know, it's following something already. But, you know, that's why I'm thinking, you know, that way they don't have to come here several times.

No, there's a rendering in the first. In the cover sheet? Yeah, in the cover sheet, yes. There's two renderings, yes.

All right. Yeah, they give a better idea than last time when it came before us. It was without the rendering, so it's more, you know, it's more alive this way.

Yeah. One rendering, right? And one rendering elevation.

Yeah, of course. Well, in general, let me say something. Okay, the selection of the materials, I think, is good, you know, to me. The coral palette, too. Probably, I assume, I'm not sure because I don't look at the plans. I assume that the new windows are matching the existing windows that were recently, probably recently replaced, you know, and it seems to be that they're going to be the same color, I think. So it's going fine, it's just that it might be that because of this FAR and other zoning issues, they may have to change this even more, you know?

No, I think with that aspect, you know, I'm fine. You know, it's kind of like a little flourish there at the entrance. to give a certain distinction. One thing that, the only thing that, like I say, you know, it's better than the last time I came here. The only thing is why, and it just bothers me a little bit, if you look at the re-elevation, right, why it couldn't be the new porch, the arches in the new porch, centered on the existing doors. Why that couldn't happen? And, you know, I can't.

Yeah, if you look at the sheet A202, the north elevation, there's a new porch in the existing house, right? Yes. There's a new porch, right? There were two existing doors, and the new porch is projecting in front of it, and there's arches right in front of those doors. Correct. If you go to A202, you're going to see. And for some reason, the arches are not aligned with the total length.

No, I know. It's kind of like a skewed view.

Yeah, because it would have been easy just changing a little bit the thickness of the columns in between the arches, and then you go, boop.

It's just that one tends to want those things. I understand that the new porch is a screen and separated from the doors, and you're never going to be able to really see it. you know, right away, but, you know, it was just a little intervention.

Yeah, I think it would be easy to center, yeah. I thought there had to be a reason, because the first impulse is to center it. Okay, that was my only intervention. I'm fine with the way it has been done, altered really and the little flourishes here and there are fine you know they're like a little bit the signature of the the new architect you know and it's fine you know i think like i said to me you know the color palette you know the the selection of the tile which is very prominent um you know the other thing is the new windows they are going to be matching, I assume, the existing ones, ri

I think those are important things, and they are addressed here, so... You know, the little parapet in between then is a creative way of joining these two things, which is difficult to do. So I think it's fine, you know.