Sunday’s Boston Globe included this Brookline zoning dustup:
Chapel faces opposition in Brookline
Building’s design too large, critics say
Chapel faces opposition in Brookline
Building’s design too large, critics say
Those critics would be the tony Fisher Hill set, who claim a proposed new Mormon chapel on Route 9 is “far too big for the lot . . . [and] larger than local zoning laws allow.”
Not surprisingly, they’ve gotten building support from state lawmakers.
[State Representative Frank] Smizik said that in addition to concern about the structure’s size, the proposal would force too many changes on the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, we Brookline Village proles get this (via BLDG Boston) :
More (which is to say, worse):
That’s the new Korean Church of Boston something-or-other center, which looks like it held a design competition and nobody won.
So: Fisher Hill gets to pick and choose but Brookline Village gets stuck with the Horror on Harvard Street?
Gotta ask: Is more than somebody in Brookline government getting greased here?
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Yea, that growth in the Korean Church looks like a bunker.
Was the architect channeling the fears of the religious community? Are those gun ports on the upper story manned with machine guns?
It would have been better if they had knocked down the whole church and built a modern building (I do like “modern”) in it’s place, not just some double addition.
How well did community opposition work out when it was for the height of the steeple on the Mormon temple a few years ago? When you’re fighting a corporate church with deep pockets, the odds are stacked against you, regardless of any building codes that are in existence. The best they can hope is to delay things, but if the Mormons want this, there will be no stopping them.
Well the Korean Church of something or other needed a better architect.
And, you live in the poorest section of town, so don’t be so snobby.
Wait – how is it snobby to wish they hadn’t erected a world-class eyesore in the middle of your neighborhood?
David,
Snobby? I live in a considerably more affordable section of Boston that happens to be nearby, and have the misfortune of seeing the Bunker several times a week.