OUP- How Big is the Front Building?

A frequent cricitism of the One University Place project is that it is "too big." I've spent a fair amount of time looking at the size of the buildings and tried to put them into perspective of their space and surroundings.

A good comparison for the front commercial/condo building is Oaknoll on Benton St. Visually  the new section of Oaknoll and One University Place front building are rather similar.

One University Place:

  
http://www.university-heights.org
 Oaknoll

http://www.oaknoll.com/

Here is a breakdown of their comparative sizes:

Building	Height	Width	Length
OUP front bldg	38’	62’	240’
Oaknoll	43’	225’	437.5’

Oaknoll is slightly taller and much larger than the front building.

Another good comparison is the distance from the front building to the neighboring houses. These are a measurements from structure to structure.

	Nearest Koser	Nearest Sunset	Nearest Melrose	Nearest Birkdale
OUP Front Bldg	170 ft	200 ft	200 ft	220 ft
	Nearest George	Nearest Benton
Oaknoll	75 ft	100 ft

The nearest Koser address houses are measured through their backyards, which generally already have privacy fences and mature plantings screening Melrose Ave. The nearest Sunset and Birkdale addresses will have significant plantings screening the view of One Univesity Place. These will be planted at the developer's expense. The nearest Melrose address is on the south east corner of the Melrose and Sunset intersection.

Both the Benton St. and George St. homes have their front doors opening on to Oaknoll.

My final comparions are of how far the buildings are set back from the street:

Building	Set back from street
OUP front bldg	33’
Oaknoll	25’

I don't think Oaknoll overwhelms its surroundings and it would appear that the front building of One University Place won't either.