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A significant advantage to designing the expansion this way, Mr. O’Connell pointed out, is that neither the dining room nor the inn operation will be affected during construction, since all the building is going on behind the present Inn.
Rather than parking in front of the building on Middle St., with overflow on the Trinity Church lot, guests would leave their cars at the new Main St. entrance, to be parked by valet on a 40-car lot planned on the LOMP (formerly Stuart) property behind the Health Department. Another employee lot with space for 30 cars is also planned.
Among the options being considered for the parking lots, Mr. Lynch said, is a metal grid placed atop a gravel bed. Sod is laid on top of the grid, so that cars can be parked on what appears to be a grass lot without sinking into the soft ground.
“We recognize,” Mr. Lee said, “that parking lots can be unsightly. Landscaping can be a wonderful tool to screen things that are unsightly.” In addition to softening the impact of the parking lots, grass has several other advantages, he said. Rainwater soaks in instead of running off, and it allows a septic drainfield to be put under the lot.
He confirmed that a new drainfield will be necessary to serve the expanded bedrooms, and said that the plan calls for that to be placed on one of the lots across the street.
Mr. Lee explained that the structure, although apparently massive in the two-dimensional architectural drawings, has been designed to blend into the streetscape. There are three distinct masses in the length of the addition, linked by recessed connectors, known as hyphens.
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