Marbella currently has a mix of green and gray windows. Photo by Mary Thurwachter
By Margie Plunkett
A glass company fighting the city’s thumbs down on green impact windows it had already installed at the oceanfront Marbella Condominium withdrew its appeal.
Continental Glass Systems, which was scheduled to appear before Council Sept. 27, said it expects to work with the condominium to resolve the issue, according to Deputy City Manager George Brown.
Before going forward with another plan, the company would have to apply for a permit and would be subject to Community Appearance Board review, Brown said.
The CAB in July denied Continental’s request to change the color to green from gray at 86 units at the 150-unit Marbella, 250 S. Ocean Blvd., after the glass company had already changed windows at the condo.
More than a year earlier, Continental had applied for a permit to install new windows that matched the old, which were gray. But in February 2011, the City Code Compliance Division received a complaint that green glass was being installed.
Continental later applied for the color change as the city requested, but was turned down in a 5-2 vote.
The dissenting members said they couldn’t support the change even if it were made to the entire building, according to a city memo, because the Marbella would not look good with green glass.
Of the total 150 units at the Marbella, 49 had earlier replaced glass with matching gray windows as permitted by the CAB. The work was done by various contractors. Continental replaced 86 windows with green glass. And 15 other units still have grey glass, although they haven’t applied for window permits, the memo said. Ú
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