GREENSBORO, N.C. — A smaller version of a contested apartment project in Greensboro’s Dunleath neighborhood has cleared the city’s Historic Preservation Commission, which signed off on the plan with conditions at its meeting this week.
The site is 677 Chestnut St. Heather Bratland, the city’s senior planner for historic preservation, said the commission approved the application but did not immediately spell out the conditions attached to it.
The proposal looks quite different from the one neighbors first saw in August. The developer cut the buildings from four stories to two and dropped the unit count from 88 to 72. Bratland said the buildings were also reworked so that, rather than one large boxy base, they wrap around internal courtyards with green space.
Residents had pushed back on the first version, saying key details were missing. Parking and the loss of trees on the property were among their biggest worries.
Dunleath is one of only three locally zoned historic districts in Greensboro, along with College Hill and Fisher Park. In those districts, owners need a Certificate of Appropriateness before changing the outside of a building or property, and big jobs such as new construction must go before the commission rather than city staff.
City Council appoints the commission’s nine members, who must bring interest or experience in fields such as history, architecture or archaeology. The board usually gathers once a month, on the final Wednesday.
The project now moves to the Greensboro Technical Review Committee, whose staff will confirm the design follows the rules set for the historic district.
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