Capitol Hill neighborhood officials are recommending to a city panel that tweaks to a proposed development near Eastern Market don’t go far enough. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission, which held a special meeting Tuesday night, passed the resolution 6-3 and is sending it to the Historic Preservation Review Board, set to take up the project on June 30.
The development by Georgetown’s Stanton-EastBanc is a little larger than one square block on Capitol Hill and includes new retail, apartments and office space. At the HPRB meeting this spring, the board agreed with neighbors that the development’s tallest building on Pennsylvania Avenue and Eighth Street was too intrusive. The board asked the developers, among other tweaks, to help mitigate that impact such as setting back the top floor, which makes the building appear shorter from the street.
The ANC commissioners’ memorandum asks for further refinement of the site, located on the old Hine Junior High School. The historic review board already has given approval for the site’s layout but delayed ruling on the size of the project’s buildings.
