Over the summer, we told you about a plan to construct five new homes on the 1900 block of League Street, the last street in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood before you hit Washington Avenue. At the neighborhood meeting when those homes were first proposed, the SOSNA Zoning Committee as well as near neighbors expressed concerns that the homes were overbuilt, that they didn’t have the necessary rear yard space, and that they were too tall. In spite of neighborhood opposition, the project received approval at the ZBA and foundations have been poured.

Foundations

At last week’s SOSNA zoning meeting, a new project (apparently from a different developer but using the same architect with very similar drawings) came before the community for ten new homes next to the five homes that were approved a few months back.

Zoning notices next door

Rendering of the project next door, but the ten home project looks pretty similar. From Harman Deutsch.

As you might imagine, the community and the Zoning Committee were not at all enthralled with another project pretty much identical to the one they didn’t support several months ago, but this time twice the size. From what we’ve heard, the first five homes (the foundations) have hit a bit of a legal snag and that’s why we haven’t seen progress there in the past few months.

Hopefully, the developers of the ten additional homes will be willing to make some compromises to accomodate light and air for rear neighbors, and these homes will get built sooner rather than later. To think, this block was a barren wasteland just a few months ago and could soon have fifteen new homes. It’s truly amazing just how far this neighborhood has come.