Design Review Board Votes to Recommend Design for Pinehurst Safeway

The Northeast Design Review Board Final Recommendation for the Pinehurst Safeway is available here.

The design was approved by a 3 to 2 vote subject to the following recommendations:

1. Wrap transparency around corner at 15th Avenue NE and 123rd NE and add additional visual interest at this corner.
2. Provide DPD with schedule of delivery and trash collection hours allowable for the site.
3. Add taller plantings at the rear for the Urban Garden to provide better screening for the parking lot. Relocate proposed trees from inside the seating areas to areas in between the seating areas such that they alternate in relative location with the street trees.
4. Refine the design for the façade along 15th Avenue NE to better establish the “village” street concept by introducing varied window treatments and materials to more clearly differentiate between “storefront” elements.
5. Simplify materials pallet by reducing (or eliminating) the use of stone and employing increased and varied use of brick.
6. Increase landscaping (taller and denser) on all blank wall facades for better softening effect.
7. Explore the possibility of adding some transparency on the 16th Avenue NE façade while minimizing any light spillover that may affect adjacent residential uses.
8. Add more pedestrian lighting along NE 123rd and 16th Avenue NE; add downcast lighting on parking lot wall along 16th Avenue NE; add step lighting on stairway accessing parking lot on 16th Avenue NE.
9. Employ the use of a greater number of native species in landscape areas where long-term survival will be best.