Downtown Spartanburg's planned six-story Cambria Hotel examined by City Design Review Board

Summary: A new six-story hotel planned for the southeast corner of N Church and E St John streets got its first overview from the City's Design Review Board (DRB) on Tuesday. The board, citing the developer's plans to use a nonconforming material to clad the exterior of the hotel's upper floors, sent the project back to the developer for revision before preliminary approval will be granted. So what does that mean? Why regulate the form and materials used in downtown construction projects at all?