The HARB Agenda is up on www.lowermerion.org:
MEETING NOTICE
TOWNSHIP OF LOWER MERION
HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD
Notice is hereby given that the Historical Architectural Review Board of Lower Merion Township will hold a meeting on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 8:00 A.M. in the Caucus Room on the Second Floor of the Township Building, 75 East Lancaster Avenue, Ardmore, PA. The Board will review the following applications beginning at 8:30 A.M:
Application 07-05
Property: 254 Righters Mill Road, Gladwyne
Applicant: Fred B. Fromhold
District: Gladwyne
This is an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness to remove and replace an accessory building, demolish a detached garage, demolish rear portions of the three-unit apartment house and erect an addition.
Anyone interested in reviewing the applications and plans submitted by the applicant may review this information in the Building Regulations Division of the Building and Planning Department at the Lower Merion Township Building (Monday-Friday, 8:15 AM - 4:30 PM).
Anyone requiring special accommodations to attend this meeting should contact this office at 610-645-6200.
Board Members:
Philip Franks, Chair
J. Charles Lattif, Vice-Chair
Lorna Hoopes Hardt
Jean Wolf
Melanie Piltch
Jeffrey Levine
A. Gilmore Smith
Michael R. Wylie, Secretary
#1 It's NOT AN APARTMENT HOUSE. It's an old house that has three apartments in it, but doesn't have to!!!!
#2 No one needs this development
#3 If this were approved it would be choo, choo all about the McMansion Train
#4 It is a class one resource in a triple covered historic district.
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The "addition" noted above consists of TWO 3500 sq ft townhouses and THREE 2-car garages. If you ask me the word "addition" is a bit misleading, don't you think?
Also to be built is a separate single home with another 2-car garage.
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permalinkThe neighbors and many other interested parties are against this development because of the loss of much of an historic property as well as the excessive density of the project. And more importantly, because if this development of is allowed under the umbrella of preservation offered by not only a locally and nationally designated historic district, as well as individually being classified as a Class 1 property, then those protections are pointless. It’s a very dangerous precedent.
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permalinkNicely written. I hope you don't mind, but I split out your comment into a separate blog entry and bumped it to the front page.
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