Developer SAA-EVI, which already received approval from the Buffalo Planning Board in January to put up affordable townhomes on Ashley, Person and Peck streets near its School 44 project, has tweaked those plans with a new look, and one more unit.
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The $3.5 million, two-part project still calls for construction of four two-story residential buildings on 14 vacant lots in the Emerson neighborhood northeast of the Central Terminal, and the general layout, parking and other factors are the same, according to architects from Carmina Wood Design.
But now the plan envisions 22 three-story townhomes in all, with a slight increase in one building. And the exterior design will feature a more contemporary architecture, with a mix of brick and fiber-cement panels and a sloping trussed roof, instead of the traditional townhouse style that had been envisioned originally, with brick and siding.
The architects said those changes were based on “feedback from ownership and code compliance issues,” not neighborhood comments. “It’s more of a modern design,” said Dan Buchanan of Carmina Wood.
However, it’s enough to justify a new public hearing and review, now scheduled for Oct. 10, the Planning Board determined Monday after a brief introduction to the changes. The board was short three of its members – including Chairman James Morrell and Vice Chair Cynthia Schwartz, who had been part of the original…
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