From: 	Helen Donaldson
To:	Will Conway
CC:	'GordonReger';  Alex Dasco;  David White;  Demetri Dasco
Date: 	8/14/2013 11:23 AM
Subject: 	follow up from PB workshop

Will, 
 
I hope you found yesterday's meeting productive.  I just wanted to follow up briefly to highlight a couple of items that, following the workshop, seem to need more fleshing out in the revised submittal.  We need:
 
1) detail on the proposed changes to the on-street parking schedule (i.e. how many spaces will be lost, will you suggest any changes to the regulations there?)
2) more information on the lighting at rear, including that for the covered parking and the uncovered parking between the building and the retaining wall, and photometric plans (with particular attention to impacts to adjacent properties to the north)
3) more detail on the area around the transformer and potential impacts to the neighbor to the north
4) a breakdown of unit sizes (i.e. how many 2-br, 3-br, etc., and SF as possible)
5) construction management details, including any planned street closures and schedule
6) design details, including:
details on height, including scalable elevations, elevation figures, and a site section showing height in relation to neighboring buildings
information on materials, including samples and colors
updated elevations and renderings (the latest version of the elevations that we have is dated 7/9, and this is what the Board had in front of them yesterday), with modifications as practicable to improve compatibility with the neighborhood, announce entrances, add interest/character to the facade, etc.
On this note, you also asked for the B-2b design guidelines, which are here:
http://www.portlandmaine.gov/planning/designmanualadopted0511.pdf
 
The above list is, of course, in addition to the other items mentioned in the board memo and the standard final plan/subdivision requirements.  
 
All in all, I think you are well on your way.  Let me know if you have questions, of course, and let me know when you have a sense of your timeline.  We'll need to plan a design review and we want to allow some back and forth as necessary before this goes to hearing.
 
Thanks, Will. 
 
Nell 

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Nell Donaldson
City of Portland Planning Division
389 Congress Street
Portland, Maine 04101
874-8723
hcd@portlandmaine.gov