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Originally Posted by Gladys Kravitz
God!!! I hope so. While I may disagree with a lot of the provisions of the Conservation District rules, this is one that I would support 100%. Nothing looks worse than a cheap crappy stucco job slapped up over the front of a brick building (see the monstrosity condo at Passyunk and Christian). Nothing says cheap better than stucco or vinyl.
Now, that said, I really don't support some of the more restrictive requirements such as the way they are essentially banning garages. Although Doug Heffernan managed to make his garage habitable.
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There is nothing wrong with stucco and vinyl as a building material. New stucco products are actually very efficient and can be a great exterior product for a home. Your example is a really bad looking stucco building, but I have seen others done that look very nice. It's really in the design. I'm not a big fan of how vinyl looks either, but I could care less if someone else wants to us it on their house.