Challenged by neighbors and the City alike, albeit for very different reasons, plans to double the size of the 2,200-square-foot Nob Hill home which sits on the front of a 3,571-square-foot lot at 1151 Washington Street, adjacent to the Betty Ong Recreation Center’s playground, have been shelved. And significantly bigger plans for the site have now been drawn.
As designed by MACY Architecture, the new plans for the site would yield ten (10) four-story townhomes, not including their penthouse levels and walled roof decks, with a 2,065-square-foot, three-bedroom unit fronting Washington and nine 9390-square-foot, two-bedroom condos behind.
The project as proposed would technically rise up to 40 feet in height across the site, which is zoned for 65 feet, but the “40 foot” height doesn’t include the penthouse levels and deck walls which rise another 10 feet in height and the project team is planning to leverage a State Density Bonus to entitle the development as proposed, much to the chagrin of the uphill neighbors, particularly for the owners and occupants of 1155 Washington Street (which was built to the property line at the rear of the site).
We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in.
1157 and 1155 Washington are on essentially mid-block flag lots behind 1165 Washington. Why would the owners of those properties ever dream the mid-block space behind 1151 Washington would not be built on?
What would let them build with no open space at all?
The aforementioned State Density Bonus (Law), the invocation of which would also allow for the penthouse levels and unit sizes as proposed and in exchange for which only one (1) of the ten (10) units would need to be sold at below market rates (BMR) as the allowable density of the parcel is only nine (9) units as zoned.
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