A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then maybe these could be worth two thousand words at the next public hearing.
The top photo was taken on
Feb. 28, 2008 looking west along Central Park North from West
Broadway. It shows the existing Manors detached ranch condos on
the right that front onto the private access drive paralleling
Central Park North. From this perspective, you can get a feel for
how the ranch condos visually compare with respect to the two-story
homes across the street. Note how the peaks of each ranch condo
roof is barely visible over the roofline of the garages. To my
eye, the proportional setback of the peak with respect to the
lower garage roof makes it practically disappear when looking
down the street. I think this all contributes to the appearance of a
nice, wide boulevard.
The bottom photo is a digitally altered version of the top photo. Keeping the proper scale, I copied and flipped the two story homes from the south side of the street and pasted them in the proper setback position from the private access drive. I also wiped out the top of the electric transmission tower that came with them and then I copied/pasted the tree back into the right foreground. The resulting image approximates what we would see while driving west along Central Park North at East Broadway if the site plan revision is approved. However, I believe that the existing homes on the south side of Central Park North have 15 foot wide side yard spacing between dwellings while the proposed two-story detached condos on the north side would be packed closer together with only a 10 foot spacing between units.
Similar exercise using a two-photo panorama and looking east along Central Park North, March 1, 2008.
Left - rear view of Manors Unit 24, a
detached ranch condo (with loft) that fronts onto Central Park
North; taken from the back window of Manors Unit 158, a duplex
ranch condo that fronts onto Lexington Ave. South; the distance
is 80 ft. between the rear faces of these buildings because of
the utility easment corridor that runs behind the Manors Lots 1-32.
Right - view of the rear of a two-story colonial taken from the
same distance as the other photo.
Left - Kensington multi-unit ranch condo,
taken from 80 feet.
Right - Kensington multi-unit two-story condo, taken from 80 feet.
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