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Our first project in the city of Sacramento, Newton Booth, got approval from Design Review yesterday. Kudos go out to Vanessa, David Mogavero, and his team at MNA for all their hard work getting to this point.
Planning Commission Hearing
We’d love to have any and all fellow eco-urbanists show up for support at the Planning Commission Hearing. We’re thrilled with some of the new thought we’re able to bring to Sacramento with this project, not only in new forms of urban architecture, but also the level of eco-friendly building and design we’re working to integrate.
Thursday, May 24th, 5:30pm
Historic City Hall, 2nd Floor
If you have any questions about this project, feel free to post them below.
2 responses so far ↓
1 wburg // May 18, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Is it a full Design Review Commission hearing or another staff hearing? I ask because normally board meetings other than City Council are in the old city hall building rather than the new one.
Sorry I had to leave the meeting early–how did things work out with the solar panels?
2 Vanessa // May 18, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Thanks for showing up at our hearing Bill!
We got our full Design Review approval in that meeting (under the new “design director level hearing” status), and now we are onto our Planning Commission hearing.
And you’re right, it is in the historic building, 2nd floor. That was my fault that it was wrong in the post- I passed bad information on to Jason.
I’ll revise it right now…
I think we got things all straight with solar panels- typical arrays on the flat roof where they wont be seen and some sort of integrated system on the sloped roof (though those wont be seen much either). The main concern in the end seemed to be what that sloped roof would look like in the unlikely case that solar panels don’t end up going up there. They put some back-up language in the conditions of approval to cover that scenario.
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