Residential additions...a plus?
The Sun had a great letter to the Editor yesterday. All we can say is that we agree, 100%.
Hot housing market a mixed blessing
As a city resident, I am happy to see unprecedented growth in the city's housing market ("Gap gives city its chance," July 25). However, this comes as a mixed blessing. One only has to walk through one of the "hot" neighborhoods like Canton to observe that the once pleasant rhythm of brick, marble and formstone two-story rowhouses is being defiled by the vulgar additions of third and fourth floors, roof decks and cheap, out-of-scale windows and vinyl siding.
Growth is fine but the city should impose design standards for construction and renovation that today's developers seem to be sorely lacking.
If the designers and builders of the famous Baltimore rowhouses could do it right for so many years, why can't today's developers follow suit?
Daniel Kuc
Baltimore
1 Comments:
Sadly, because most developers are only interested in getting up buildings cheap and fast - not in preserving the historical value or dignity of a neighborhood. I agree we need stricter building codes to help with the problem.
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