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Traffic and parking continue to top the concerns of Towson residents who attended a community input meeting with the developer of 101 York, a student housing and retail project proposed for York Road near Burke Avenue.
About 100 people crowded into a basement meeting room at the Towson Library on Tuesday eveningto air their apprehensions about the $75 million planned unit development project.
Residents questioned the project's number of parking spaces as well as how increased traffic would affect an already clogged intersection at York Road and Burke Avenue, among other concerns.
Construction on the 13-story development with 248 units and 611 beds could begin as soon as next summer with occupancy by September 2017, according to David Schlachman, of DMS Development, which is developing the project.
Under the county's PUD laws, developments are allowed above a property's designated zoning density, provided there is a need for that development, a community benefit is included in the project and there is community input on the project.
Four levels of parking would contain 495 spaces with two levels underground and two levels behind 9,300 square feet of retail.
"You won't be able to see them from York Road," said Matthew Bishop, of Morris & Ritchie Associates Inc., a landscape architect on the project.
Baltimore County requires dormitory buildings to have one parking space per four beds, according to William Monk, of Morris & Ritchie.
"That is a Baltimore County regulation," Monk said. In fact, that regulation would require only 153 parking spaces for students, he added.
Residents questioned the allotted number of parking spots.
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In a rare recognition of golf course architecture, the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FLASLA) awarded David Ferris, RLA and Sanford Golf Design its top honor, the Award of Excellence, for their work at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, Bronx, N.Y.
"The FLASLA Design Awards program honors projects that blend environmental and artistic principles, emphasizing beauty, function, and the environment. We recognize projects that demonstrate an inspired use of landscape architectural practices in an imaginative combination that adds to the body of the Landscape Architecture profession by bestowing it the Award of Excellence" said Jeff Brophy, FLASLA president. "Recipients are truly exceptional, unique and innovative."
The Award of Excellence was given to Sanford Golf Design and Ferris for their reclamation and transformation of New York City's longtime derelict site into a unique Irish links inspired public golf course that utilizes the Whitestone Bridge, the East River, and the Manhattan skyline as its backdrop. The project needed to address methane gas-venting, settlement, site monitoring, neighboring storm drainage and water conservation.
"I don't think that there has been another golf course project that has received this award from the Chapter," Ferris said. "This award of Excellence is our first landscape architecture design award, and I think it's extra special when a golf course project wins such a high honor."
Ferris, who has a Master of Landscape Architecture Degree and a Bachelor Degree in Turf Management from Cornell University, has been a Senior Design Associate at Sanford Golf Design for 17 years. In addition to his work at Ferry Point he has worked with John Sanford on Granite Links Golf Club, more than a dozen new, renovated or restored golf courses in Florida, as well as projects in Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Japan, the Canary Islands, and Egypt.
The Ferry Point Park landfill, which had been an eyesore and dumping ground since the 1940s, is now home to a golf course built atop a treeless 185-acre site. The 18-hole layout, set along the East River and adjacent to the Whitestone Bridge, is scheduled to open to the public next year.
The design of the golf course at Ferry Point was a collaborative effort with Jack Nicklaus. The project had special challenges, such as infrastructure, landfill closure requirements, permit approvals, methane venting and monitoring, differential settlement, erosion control during construction, post grow-in runoff, wetlands creation, and water quality.
Changing environmental regulations during the design and construction phases made the process even more complex. In addition, excavation had to be kept to a minimum to reduce the impacts of Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) requirement for all unearthed municipal solid waste to be removed from the site. In order to meet this challenge and create landforms that emulate an Irish links course 2,400,000 cubic yards of fill and sandy topsoil were imported over a 14-year period.
In addition to designing the facility, Sanford Golf Design was the project manager. Ferris was in the forefront of that effort as the firm's only New York Registered Landscape Architect. This did not go unnoticed by design competition jurors who were impressed by the breadth and depth of the project's scope performed by the firm and the landscape architect.
"The comments I received offered praise for not only the design but for taking on the huge role as project manager on such a large project that included oversight of the 10 design and construction management sub-consultants in our contract," Ferris said. "Also well received by the jury was our team's commitment to keep environmental stewardship at the forefront from the start of the project through completion."
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The Chicago Park District has tapped acclaimed architect Jeanne Gang to help it develop a long-range plan for the Museum Campus, the district will announce Wednesday.
The plan takes on added import because Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to give Star Wars creator George Lucas 17 acres just south of the lakefront campus for the filmmakers proposed museum of narrative art. On the peninsula just to the east, the district continues to transform Northerly Island, site of the former Meigs Field airport, into new parkland.
Citing those two projects, the district said in a news release that its the ideal time to define the vision and aspirations for this central space and economic engine.
The district and Gang will work with a recently-announced group of policy experts and lakefront stakeholders that Emanuel has charged with proposing transportation improvements for the campus, which includes the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Adler Planetarium.
Envisioned as a serene respite from city life, the campus often suffers traffic bottlenecks when there are Chicago Bears game or concerts at Soldier Field, which is just south of the Field Museum.
In July, Lucas announced that he had selected Chicago-based Gang to design the landscape around his museum as well as a pedestrian bridge linking the building to Northerly Island. Gang, winner of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant and the designer of the Lincoln Park Nature Boardwalk, is also part of the design team that has remade the peninsula with new hills and wetlands.
Beijing architect Ma Yansong is designing the Lucas museum building.
In its news release, the park district said that the long-range campus plan would focus on recreation, education, access and sustainability. The planning effort will also include interviews, panel discussions, workshops, surveys and online research.
The district has previously used long-range plans, which are known as framework plans to guide the growth of Burnham Park, Grant Park and Northerly Island.
The museum campus was created in the mid 1990s when the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive were shifted west of Soldier Field. That opened a continuous swath of parkland connecting the three museums.
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