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Opus Corporation will present a redesigned project at tonight's NPU-F meeting, which will start at 7:00 PM at Hillside, 1301 Monroe Drive. Tonight's meeting will take place in the Gymnasium, which is toward the back of the property, to the left of the building in which the meetings are usually held. Overflow parking will be available on Courtenay Drive. Parking will be limited, so please walk or carpool if you can.
IMPORTANT: You must reside within NPU-F to be eligible to vote tonight and may be asked to provide some sort of proof of residency. Go the the NPU-F website here to see if you live within its borders if you plan on voting tonight.
Architect David Green has redesigned the parking deck to keep the height under the 35 foot limit set by the MLPA Board last Monday night. In fact, he has removed an entire level of parking. This is really good. He has also redesigned the residential structure at the south end of the project to keep within the 35 foot limit. Again, excellent progress on the design here. (The yellow area above shows the height of the previous design.)
While the residential part of the structure at the north end of the project remains about 60 feet high, that part of the structure has a much wider buffer between it and the Morningside neighborhood than the southern part. In looking over their site plan and designs, there just does not seem to be any practical way to make that structure any lower and build the number of residential units that will make the entire project economically feasible.
Our recommendation is to vote to approve this design with the conditions already agreed upon between the developer and the neighborhood as approved by the MLPA Board last Monday night and as further refined at the NPU-F meeting tonight.
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