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 Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 7:09 pm EDT Post subject: House on bank lot |
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| I see the new house in the old bank parking lot looks like it is REALLY being built to fit in with all the 150 year old houses. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 7:21 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| It was approved by HPAC, zoning and planning. Any gripes? See them. In the mean time , its not even framed. Lets just wait and see how it looks when its done. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 7:39 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| I saw it too and the first thing I thought is whoever was complaining on this site previously that it was an McMansion was either lying, exaggerating or has a warped perspective. It looks big but not more so than some of the other houses on Main Street and hardly like the McMansions on the outskirts of town. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 9:31 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 9:44 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Instead of complaining after the fact, there must be more pressure put on the planning and zoning boards. They have been failing the townspeople for years. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 10:47 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
Your entitled to your opinion. But the person who characterized it as a McMansion was fear mongering since it clearly isn’t and the person who said it was larger than everything else on Main Street was factually incorrect. I have no idea what it will look like finished and whether it will fit. But I can see its scale and see that those statements about it were not correct. You also seem to have quite a bias against it with your statements implying that the builders must think they are the most important thing in town.
When I walk up and down Main Street I see all kinds of houses of various styles and eras of construction, some tiny, some multi-family, some very old and some from this century, and some larger than this one. That said, I wouldn’t have supported tearing down a usable house to put up a new one in the historic district. But I don’t have a problem with replacing an asphalt parking lot with a house where there historically use to be one. The parking lot was hardly a historic site in that condition. |
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| Posted: Sun, May 15 2011, 10:49 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Instead of complaining after the fact, there must be more pressure put on the planning and zoning boards. They have been failing the townspeople for years. |
You really think so? Because I think Cranbury is a pretty nice place thanks to, among other things, a lot of hard work by the volunteers of the planning and zoning boards. |
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| Posted: Mon, May 16 2011, 2:18 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Looks very similar to one of the models over on Liedtke Dr. |
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| Posted: Mon, May 16 2011, 2:49 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Looks very similar to one of the models over on Liedtke Dr. |
Some of those are over 5,000 square feet. I'll bet you this one is smaller. The current mass includes the garage in the rear it looks like. |
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| Posted: Mon, May 16 2011, 3:14 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Looks very similar to one of the models over on Liedtke Dr. |
Some of those are over 5,000 square feet. I'll bet you this one is smaller. The current mass includes the garage in the rear it looks like. |
And a cut-out it looks like for a side-yard or garden, so the interior is much narrower in the middle.
It doesn’t seem remarkably taller than the neighboring house and it is less tall than some others on Main Street. |
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| Posted: Mon, May 16 2011, 3:32 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
We don't live in Disney's Celebration, some artificially controlled neighborhood. Cranbury's Main Street is a real, vibrant place that reflects centuries of different developments. I’m glad we protect some of that history but that’s not the same as trying to make it all the same. Perhaps if you wanted to control what the lot looked like you should have bought it. Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion and thank goodness we apparently don’t have local Boards that think they can act like property owners micro-managing every design decision. |
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| Posted: Tue, May 17 2011, 5:55 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
We don't live in Disney's Celebration, some artificially controlled neighborhood. Cranbury's Main Street is a real, vibrant place that reflects centuries of different developments. I’m glad we protect some of that history but that’s not the same as trying to make it all the same. Perhaps if you wanted to control what the lot looked like you should have bought it. Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion and thank goodness we apparently don’t have local Boards that think they can act like property owners micro-managing every design decision. |
Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HPAC???????? |
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| Posted: Tue, May 17 2011, 6:49 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
We don't live in Disney's Celebration, some artificially controlled neighborhood. Cranbury's Main Street is a real, vibrant place that reflects centuries of different developments. I’m glad we protect some of that history but that’s not the same as trying to make it all the same. Perhaps if you wanted to control what the lot looked like you should have bought it. Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion and thank goodness we apparently don’t have local Boards that think they can act like property owners micro-managing every design decision. |
Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HPAC???????? |
Yep. What of it. The house was approved. |
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| Posted: Tue, May 17 2011, 7:11 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
We don't live in Disney's Celebration, some artificially controlled neighborhood. Cranbury's Main Street is a real, vibrant place that reflects centuries of different developments. I’m glad we protect some of that history but that’s not the same as trying to make it all the same. Perhaps if you wanted to control what the lot looked like you should have bought it. Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion and thank goodness we apparently don’t have local Boards that think they can act like property owners micro-managing every design decision. |
Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HPAC???????? |
Are you that dumb?
Yep. What of it. The house was approved. |
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| Posted: Tue, May 17 2011, 7:37 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | I'm glad this discussion has started again, but please explain why you think someone was lying, exaggerating or is warped? I think you people don't realize what you are looking at. That house IS completely out of scale with the surrounding historic district. It sits back and up from the house next door, it is just way too big, and even worse it is a new house right in the middle of a National Historic District. It's like now they are the most important thing in town. So yea let's wait and see what it looks like in the end, but what if we don't like it? Do you all honestly think a Lietke Drive house is appropriate there? You are probably all real estate agents. In my opinion HPC and zoning have completely failed the town. BTW I am entitled to my opinion just as all of you are. |
We don't live in Disney's Celebration, some artificially controlled neighborhood. Cranbury's Main Street is a real, vibrant place that reflects centuries of different developments. I’m glad we protect some of that history but that’s not the same as trying to make it all the same. Perhaps if you wanted to control what the lot looked like you should have bought it. Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion and thank goodness we apparently don’t have local Boards that think they can act like property owners micro-managing every design decision. |
Property owners should have reasonable rights and discretion. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HPAC???????? |
Are you that dumb?
Yep. What of it. The house was approved. |
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No, are you? What's the point of such meaningless statements? |
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| Posted: Mon, May 23 2011, 2:35 pm EDT Post subject: Re: House on bank lot |
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| Can somebody tell me where the front door is? |
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