A four-story infill building is proposed for a vacant lot south of Colorado Boulevard: 12 stacked townhome-style dwellings, seven ground-floor parking spaces, a rooftop deck, and density bonus incentives.
Project: four-story building with 12 townhome-style units and seven ground-floor parking spaces.
Design: contemporary, boxy massing with flat roof and parapet walls, repeated floor plates and stacked floor plans.
Entitlements: applicant is seeking density bonus incentives to allow double the otherwise permitted density.
A developer wants to build a four-story infill building at 36 S. Berkeley Avenue in Pasadena. The plan calls for 12 townhome-style dwellings arranged in a stacked configuration. Ground-floor space will be largely open and will provide seven parking spaces. The central portion of the roof is proposed as a shared roof deck.
Burnham Nationwide is listed as the architect in the agenda for the Pasadena Design Commission. Trojan Land, LLC is listed as the property owner. The proposal and design details were presented in a staff report to the Pasadena Design Commission.
The building is described as contemporary in style. Key design elements in the staff report include a flat roof enclosed by parapet walls, a boxy and linear appearance, repeated floor plates, and stacked floor plans. Two enclosed lobbies are called out as exceptions to an otherwise open ground floor.
Parking is limited: the ground floor will provide seven spaces. The central portion of the roof will be designed as a roof deck to serve as a shared outdoor space for residents.
The project's entitlements include requests for density bonus incentives. Those incentives would allow roughly double the number of units that the standard zoning would permit on this site.
The site is a vacant lot located just south of Colorado Boulevard. It sits directly south of a property at 2000 E. Colorado Boulevard where Meta Housing Corp. has plans for a 144-unit affordable housing complex. That proximity places this proposal within an area seeing multiple housing projects.
This proposal is an example of small-scale infill near a commercial corridor and an upcoming larger affordable housing project. It uses density bonus incentives to increase unit yield on a small site and proposes shared open space via a roof deck rather than private yards, fitting a compact urban infill approach.
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