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  1. Angostura
    I kind of love the idea of being able to go see a show and still be home before 10PM.
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    This is the tortilla factory (Espiga de Oro), plus a couple other lots. Across Shepherd from Heights Bier Garten/Wooster's. Given the rapid development in this corridor, and seeing as how the building it'll replace has zero setbacks on three sides, I wish they'd at least TRY and get a reduced building line (plat shows 25-ft along Shepherd).
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    I'm not sure what the word is for tearing down the ballroom of a french-themed luxury boutique hotel, but I'm pretty sure it's not "gentrification".
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    (Slightly modified) setback variance approved yesterday. Setback will be 10-ft along Washington, 5-ft along Silver, 0-ft along Center. Parking along southern face of Center now appears to be parallel instead of angle-in.
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    It's a good opportunity to extend the area exempt from parking minimums all the way to 59.
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    Setback variance won't get approved any sooner than next week. I didn't see a permit application submitted yet, either. I wouldn't expect construction to start in earnest before mid/late summer, and that's only if plans are ready to submit as soon as the variance gets approved (assuming it does).
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    I'm in favor of this, but I don't think eliminating parking minimums will actually have that big an impact on the amount of surface parking. Tenants will still want their customers to have a place to park. Zero minimums would probably allocate parking more efficiently (since locations wouldn't have to have exclusive access to parking during the entirety of their open hours). I would also support a special levy on land devoted to parking, with an exemption for structured parking, so as to discourage large surface lots in favor of shared parking structures.
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    It's pretty close to the CoH minimum, and it looks like they got there pretty aggressively. Total square footage, between the 6 buildings (2 existing, 4 additional) is just over 100k sf. That's an important number, since it exempts them from having to provide additional parking for bars and restaurants in excess of 20% of the total GFA. And bars/restaurants will almost certainly exceed 20% of GFA. Additionally, they're taking very nearly the full reduction for bicycle spaces in lieu of car spaces. With a full 10% reduction, they'd be required to provide 371 spaces. Current layout shows 383. Ideally, I'd eventually like to see the parking go vertical, which would allow development of the rest of the Center St frontage, as well as the lot just east of B&B, not to mention the handful of under-utilized properties across Washington.
  9. Angostura
    This. As long as most people drive most places, the market will demand a significant amount of parking (whether city-mandated or not). And the #1 predictor of how many people arrive at a given destination by private vehicle is activity density (the number of residents + jobs in a given area). As long as 1/2 to 3/4 of the land area of even the most valuable parts of our city are dedicated to automobiles, the activity density will never be high enough to result in people choosing other forms of transportation. So every s.f. of structured parking is a s.f. of land freed up for other development. We need to build more parking garages so that, someday, we won't need so many parking garages.
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    Here's the site layout submitted to the planning commission. A little different than the brochure.
  11. Angostura
    Some additional detail in today's planning commission agenda (the development is requesting a setback variance). There's an additional 12,750 s.f. retail building at the NE corner of Center & Silver, and the rest of the frontage along the north face of Center St looks to be reserved for non-parking use. Space count on the northern lot is now 330, not 542. There's also an additional 9000 s.f. retail building at 1900 Washington (West of the Tacodeli/Platypus building). Total retail square footage, including B&B and 1900 Wash, is just under 103k s.f.
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    Variance request for reduced setbacks on this week's planning commission agenda. Deferred two weeks.
  13. Angostura
    CoH plan review comments are a rich vein of insight into the experience of interacting with city bureaucracy. Traffic comments: "Furnish parking analysis and planning approval prior to traffic approval." Planning comments: "There must be traffic approval before our department can approve your site plan."
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    First build-out plans have been submitted for review. Looks like the barbershop and one of the restaurants. By the square footage, I'd guess it's Ripe.
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    Tower crane base is in place for the apartment building. Slabs for the small parking lot (NW corner of the site) and new building (Bldg A: Hopdoddy) have been poured on the retail site.
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    Anyone notice that 244 spaces is way, way more than the city minimums would typically require? Even at 10 per 1000 s.f., they'd only need 100 (minus the 5 onsite, plus whatever they displace) I think this is the first salvo in a major densification of this district. For example, the site next to Fitzgerald's could have three restaurants instead of one by leasing parking in the new garage.
  17. Angostura
    Some activity on this site, at the corner of 25th and Nicholson. Appears to be a 6-pack of townhouses, with a shared driveway taking access from Nicholson.
  18. Angostura
    So, Fisher and his web of LLCs and other legal entities became either illiquid or insolvent. His lenders attempted to foreclose (August 2016). Fisher sued, alleging bad faith in the structure of the loans (September 2016), and asked the court to restrain the foreclosure sale (which it did). Much legal wrangling ensued. A number of Fisher's entities declared bankruptcy (Jan 2018), at which point the case was removed to federal court. I would expect the site to remain in its current condition until the bankruptcy gets resolved and the property is sold to another buyer.
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    I believe it's the current parking lot, plus the wooded area between the parking lot and the bar fka Jimmy's Ice House
  20. Angostura
    Laneways are basically Narrow Streets for People.
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    I saw the Little Creatures logo and chuckled. I've only been to the one in Freo, but apparently there's another outside Melbourne. The Crafty Squire is also a brewpub in Melbourne.
  22. Angostura
    Could be even higher. Footprint is around 7200 sf, which wouldn't be much more than 24 spaces per level. I would guess something like 80-ft high, unless they do something like this.
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    They'll have to. Can't get a permit without demonstrating adequate off-street parking (also would put the businesses across the street out of compliance w/ Ch 26).
  24. Angostura
    This is the parking lot across from Barnabay's/Christian's. It appears like they'll do structured parking in place of the current single-story parking enclosure next to Tacos a go-go, which will open up this land for development. This is kind of huge, and may be the first of it's kind in the Heights: infill development of a surface lot by going vertical with parking. If this kind of development catches on, it could really add a lot of pedestrian activity to major commercial corridors.
  25. Angostura
    Apparently it's vietnamese food for white people. Semi transparent white people.
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