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Holly Park

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Facts

• Project Name: Holly Park
• Year Built: 1999
• Address: blocks between S. Morgan Street and S. Frontenac Street and 28th Ave. S. amd 32nd Ave. S.
• Designer: Weinstein Copeland Architects
• Developer: Popkin Development
• Design Review Board: Southeast
• Design Review Guidelines Applied: Design Review Guidelines for Multifamily and Commercial Buildings
• Size: 110 acres with 1200 units
• Zoned: L3 and SF5000
• Project Type: multi-family

Design Guidelines Met
The Southeast Design Review Board determined the following Design Review Guidelines for Multifamily and Commercial Buildings were the most important for the designers to address:

Residential Open Space
(Guideline A-7)

Holly Park has a variety of parks and playspaces distributed throughout the site. It also includes a community center, a family center, an educational center, and a library that it shares with the surrounding community.

Streetscape Compatibility
(Guideline A-2)

New Holly's site development strategy reinstated the traditional street grid pattern. In order to facilitate an "accessible" pedestrian circulation across the site, streets and sidewalks were sloped at a maximum of 5% gradient wherever possible.

Retaining Walls
(Guideline D-3)

Holly Park eliminated the need for large retaining walls by using the unit floor plans to take up the grade. This strategy permits the front and rear yards to have minimal slope to maximize usability.

Architectural Context and Architectural Concept and Consistency
(Guidelines C-1 and C-2)

The homes were designed as a "kit of parts" to facilitate construction and lower cost. Modification, accomplished by standardized variation techniques, provided visual diversity to eliminate the perception os a monolithic housing development. By changing unit combinations, upper floorplans and roof forms, varying streetscapes were achieved without losing the visual harmony of the neighborhood. The public housing are similar in form, scale, detail and materials and are essentially indistinguishable from "for sale" housing.

Transition Between Residence and Street and Visual Impacts of Parking Structure
(Guidelines A-6 and D-5)

All the units at New Holly have 6' front porches that are oriented to the street and are visible from each unit's living spaces. Parking is typically provided in rear yard carports and accessed by an alley. Rear yards are individually fenced.

Responding to Site Characteristics
(Guideline A-1)

The site plan was configured to retain as many existing significant trees as possible. Neighborhood pocket parks and chicanes were located at these trees.