(Editor's note: This story was changed from its original publication. A business was incorrectly named. It should have been Rooster's Breakfast Club.)

Nearly 50 people packed into the Ballard High School library at a Feb. 23 design review meeting to voice their opposition to a planned development at 6010 Phinney Ave. N.

During the course of the design meeting, the second for the project, residents brought up concerns over the size and design of the proposed building, demanded that the building not be allowed to move forward, and even questioned the legitimacy of the design review board.

At the end of the meeting, which ran two hours over schedule, the board unanimously called for a third recommendation meeting to be held after Kilburn Architects have a chance to consider concerns raised by the board and the public.

The proposed building is a four-story, mixed-use development that includes two retail spaces on the ground level, 19 residential units and underground parking for 23 vehicles.

The site currently contains the Phinney Ridge Cleaners, Chef Liao, Rooster's Breakfast Club and the former Daily Planet Antiques and Collectibles. Across the street is a similar, four-story Roy Croft building, built in 2005.

The evening's combative tone was set early in the evening when members of the public seated toward the back said they couldn't hear the board members, leading to heated arguments about whether or not speakers would stand or sit, the process and purpose of design review meetings and the board members credentials.

Critiques of the building from the board related mostly to the number of materials used, six to seven, on a relatively small building, the treatment of the building's corner on Phinney and North 61st Street, and the lack of glass used on the north side of the building.

The public echoed the board's sentiments on the many materials, which one man said could make the building look out of date in a matter of years, especially on the north and south walls where vertical towers of at least six different materials are lined up right next to each other.

Members of the public also wanted to make sure the commercial spaces would be viable for restaurants and not just empty office space and could not come to a consensus on whether the underground parking entrance should be located on Phinney or 61st.

Many of the public present asked that the building not be built at all, with one attendee asked what he specifically could do to stop it.

"(The developers) aren't giving us anything," one resident said. "Give them nothing. Turn them down. Send them back to Bellevue. Send them back to Mercer Island."

After their deliberation, the board asked the architects to consider reducing the number of materials, removing a few of the balconies and working on the presentation of the building's corner. It was decided that the garage entrance should remain on 61st.