The Design Review Board on Wednesday postponed until its August meeting a decision on a request by Artisan Builders to demolish a building next to Town Hall – at 212 S. Main St. – to make way for a multistory mixed-use building.

Town planner Parviz Moosavi said some members of the board wanted to wait until after Artisan presents its plans for the site at a public planning workshop next Thursday, July 30. The board will take up the issue – technically a “certificate of appropriateness” to demolish the building – at its Aug. 19 meeting.

“Some board members didn’t feel comfortable approving a certificate of appropriateness without know what is going in there,” Mr. Moosavi said.

Read more about the planning workshop and the proposed building, to be known as Mooney’s Corner, in our July 20 report, “Retail/office building proposed next to Town Hall.”

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July 2009 letter to neighbors announcing the July 30 workshop. (PDF, requires free Adobe Reader software)