ANC6B Signs Off on Revised Plan for Preserving the Shotgun House – First Look at New Design

SGA Architect’s revised plan for preserving the Shotgun House approved by ANC6B on Tuesday night. 

SGA Architect’s more controversial plan for preservation of the Shotgun House submitted to ANC6B Planning and Zoning Committee on July 1.

Sassan Gharai of SGA Architects says the new design “is more in keeping with the character of the block.”  Click to enlarge.  

ANC6B Signs Off on Revised Plan for Preserving the Shotgun House – First Look at New Design

by Larry Janezich

At its July 1 meeting, ANC6B’s Planning and Zoning Committee had reservations about SAG Architect’s historic preservation design for the legendary Shotgun House at 1229 E Street, SE, reporting that “most committee members {agree] that the proposed design doesn’t work well.”  Committee members proposed some tinkering with the plan and sent the project to the full ANC for consideration by a 3-2 vote with one abstention.  See Capitol Hill Corner post here:  http://bit.ly/29buF8j

SGA Architects went back to the drawing board and produced a substantially new design for the project that more clearly delineates the two residential structures planned for the site, and which, in the words of Sassan Gharai of SGA Architects “is more in keeping with the character of the block.”

At the full ANC6B meeting on Tuesday, July 12, the revised plans were well received and the Commission approved the design unanimously.

Gharai also informed the ANC that he had incorporated suggestions of members of the Planning and Zoning Committee regarding the design of the 119 residential unit project (with first floor retail) in the 1200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.  The historic preservation designs for that plan were approved without objection earlier in Tuesday night’s session.

Work could begin on the Shotgun House before the end of the year, if HPRB signs off on it and permits can be obtained.