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The design team at on Thursday got positive feedback from the Portland Design Commission for the firm’s revised plan for a mixed-use project called the Glisan Commons.

鈥淚t went very well,鈥� Holst principal Jeff Stuhr said. 鈥淲e got a very good response.鈥�

It was the second time Holst had presented its design for the project, which is being developed jointly by , , and . Phase one includes the construction of 67 units of workforce housing, while phase two would see 60 units of senior housing.

During the previous meeting in December, Stuhr said the commissioners requested Holst review the design of six architectural items. Their biggest concerns were the southeast corner of Northeast Glisan Street and 100^th Avenue and the building’s use of a single, gray-metal siding material. Stuhr said the team revised the design to include more color and larger windows.

鈥淚t just opens it up a lot more and brightens it up,鈥� he said.

Commissioners also had early concerns with the location of the building’s public plaza and its access to sunlight. Holst has since re-oriented the courtyard to a sunnier position.

Stuhr said the area’s Urban Renewal Advisory Committee and the Hazelwood Neighborhood Association have both signed off on the proposed design, but not everyone at the meeting was happy with the plans. Stuhr said some neighborhood members had issue with the property’s parking code and questioned whether the future building’s use of vans and buses would violate it.

Stuhr said those objections, while unfortunate, are not uncommon for residential neighborhoods that have been rezoned to include larger developments.

鈥淭here are always these tensions and pressures with the scale of development and it causes heartburn for some people I would say, to put it lightly,鈥� he said.

During the meeting, Stuhr said one of the opponents requested that the public record remain open, so commissioners could not take a vote on the development’s design. He said another hearing has been scheduled for June 7.