Monstrosity on 25th street

[yayaya]

Somebody is building a 1 bedroom house on 25th street east of Lewis.  It has a 4 car garage, and looks to be 3 stories high.  Workers said that the top floor is going to have a dj booth and dance floor, and that the tops of the garages were being reinforced so people could dance on them....WHERE IS PRESERVE MIDTOWN ON THIS THING... I walked past the thing last week and about threw up

[TUalum0982]

quote:Originally posted by yayaya

Somebody is building a 1 bedroom house on 25th street east of Lewis.  It has a 4 car garage, and looks to be 3 stories high.  Workers said that the top floor is going to have a dj booth and dance floor, and that the tops of the garages were being reinforced so people could dance on them....WHERE IS PRESERVE MIDTOWN ON THIS THING... I walked past the thing last week and about threw up

If its not violating any homeowner association rules, I dont see a problem with it.  People have free will on how and what to build in their house.  The only thing that would drive me nuts is if they are up late at all nights of the house playing their music.  I can assure you if I lived in that neighborhood, it wouldnt last long.

[yayaya]

oh ya-my friend lives on the street-she has seen a Bentley that she thought was a Chysler(funny) and a yellow Corvette.

[pmcalk]

quote:Originally posted by yayaya

Somebody is building a 1 bedroom house on 25th street east of Lewis.  It has a 4 car garage, and looks to be 3 stories high.  Workers said that the top floor is going to have a dj booth and dance floor, and that the tops of the garages were being reinforced so people could dance on them....WHERE IS PRESERVE MIDTOWN ON THIS THING... I walked past the thing last week and about threw up

Is it over 35 feet high?  If so, its violating zoning ordinances.

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by yayaya

Somebody is building a 1 bedroom house on 25th street east of Lewis.  It has a 4 car garage, and looks to be 3 stories high.  Workers said that the top floor is going to have a dj booth and dance floor, and that the tops of the garages were being reinforced so people could dance on them....WHERE IS PRESERVE MIDTOWN ON THIS THING... I walked past the thing last week and about threw up

Framework for what appears to be a third story started going up this week.  This is a teardown of what had been a modest one-story brick home in the Bryn-Mawr neighborhood of mostly single-story homes with mature trees (which have since been bulldozed).

The builder is La Bella Homes (Julius J. Puma) 298-6700.

[MichaelBates]

I took pictures. Click the photo to see the whole set on Flickr:

[TheArtist]

I am not quite ready to cry foul just yet. I am still wondering what the style will be, the scale of windows, type of detailing. etc.  Though I must admit, at the point it is at now, even I cringed when I drove by it today to take a peek.

I really hope there are some windows on the street side of the garages. If not, thats not good at all. However I would rather see the garages, if they insist on them being in front, facing towards an inner "courtyard" rather than the doors facing the street. With the right architectural design it could be made to look like the "stables" facing the courtyard of a manor house or something. In other words, it can be classically styled though one would even in this case prefer them be in back or along the sides somehow. They do look like they stick out closer to the street than the other houses on the street do.   La Bella does some nice "suburban, Mc Mansion type homes, some of which would fit nicely in an older neighborhood. Some of which would not.

Just because a home is really large doesn't neccessarily mean it has to be a bad fit. However, at this point its not looking promising. Everyone knows I lean towards the "in favor of larger homes infill" side of the issue, and was leaning towards the "oh it cant be that bad" frame of mind, but I honestly cringed when I drove down that street lol.

[Breadburner]

He has built some of the ugliest homes in Tulsa....They are not hard to spot.....

[yayaya]

uh--my friend that lives on the street said the deign is supposedly "very modern and all white"
I did hear that the owner is a plaintiff medical mal practice atty.
glad it is not on my street

[TheArtist]

Typical Mid-town neighborhood circa 2030 []



Note the "nonconforming house" in the center.

[Conan71]

Where the heck is that, Beirut? []

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Where the heck is that, Beirut? []

Close, its Los Angeles. Was posted on another forum as an example of some of the infill Los Angelis is seeing. This type of infill can be seen as a positive for them though.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by TheArtist

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Where the heck is that, Beirut? []

Close, its Los Angeles. Was posted on another forum as an example of some of the infill Los Angelis is seeing. This type of infill can be seen as a positive for them though.

Actually, don't you think that's a little "drecky" even for LA?

[yayaya]

My friend protested and got the building stopped-if you do care, watch the incog list and go down and protest when the builder asks for a variance
I am going to try to go-the next meeting will be held Tuesday at 1
It is WAY over the height restriction-

[izmophonik]

...I read the whole thread.  This really seems like a case of someone that just needs to mind their own business.  The poster doesn't even live on that street and likely not in that neighborhood.  The picture of that house looks like another $2,500.00 per year in property taxes going to the City of Tulsa.  Nothing more or less.