This weekend at the Rockridge Out and About, FANS will sponsor a booth as a way of promoting our belief that an appropriately scaled Safeway store is essential to the future of our pedestrian oriented, small shop community. The proposed Safeway store is simply too large and inconsistent with the neighborhood. We will have two alternative proposals to discuss that we have been working on for some time.
Each proposal solves the boundary conditions that surround the site and address things in need of repair including: new landscaping and trees, new signage, and street improvements such as benches, trellises and wider sidewalks.
The proposed buildings on the site differentiate the two drawings. One shows a renovated, or rebuilt, building on the footprint of the existing store, with the possibility of a modest addition. The other proposes; new shops along College to mirror those on the other side that most clearly personify 'Rockridge'; and a new grocery store on Claremont. Proposal 1 Proposal 2
We welcome neighborhood comments.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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