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  1. You should be a politician. You crawfish so well.
  2. You are the one that said it DID NOT include other Greater Heights neighborhoods.
  3. Your math doesn't support your claim. You state The Heights, so lets review The Heights numbers. I could care less about other neighborhoods as I do not live there and am only concerned with where I have called home for a VERY long time. 170 houses in 18 months does not equal 200 per year. That works out to be 9.44 houses per month. Over a 24 month period that equals 226.66 homes, or 173.34 homes short of your 200 home per year claim. Going forward, If you take the 324 total as you state in March 2008 and subtrace the 170 in 2006, that equals 154. 146 short of your 200 per year claim.
  4. Show me 200 addresses that bungalows were demolished in 1 year in The Heights. I'm tired of reading this untrue statement.
  5. I'd like the ordinance repealed ONLY due to how it was initiated. A "Survey" was not the proper way to conduct who is for and who is against. There were restrictions, albeit block by block, that prevented multi-family dwellings and homes that consumed an entire lot. (minimum lot size and setback) MOST of the so-called historic houses that were torn down needed to be torn down because they were far beyond repair. Until someone is paying my mortgage and taxes, I'll put up one hell of a fight before being told what I can and cannot do to my house that I've owned for 18+ years, LONG before the Hysterical Ordinance was ever someones wet dream. I find it extremely entertaining how some people can move into the Heights, live here for 2+ years and try and force their opinions on what is best for us that have lived here for over 20 years. I too have done an expansion over 8 years ago and it is also listed in the "how it can be done book". To me, that is what Historic Preservation is all about. Keeping the look and feel of the existing neighborhood WITHOUT the known impass of your plans by the idiots on the review board.
  6. Sounds like the same process that "rammed" through with much opposition which now results in my house being in a Hysterical District. Maybe they sent out "surveys" and you didn't return yours in time which then meant an automatic YES for the 380 and WalMart.
  7. Geez...now I feel horrible about having all the knob and tube electrical lines removed from my house and that has now taken away part of it's historical importance. Maybe I should have it all reinstalled, as it still is up to code, but I'd have hell finding an insurance company that would be willing to sell me a homeowners policy.
  8. "Hardy plank all over an old bungalow with block and beam foundation will just mean foundation problems for the foreseeable future. Hardy plank is too heavy for block and beam." Hardie siding weighs approximately 1-1.5lbs more per sq ft than traditional wood lap siding. I would like to see a bungalow in the Heights that has never had issues with it's piers, specially brick and mortar ones (which most are). And about all of this this Histerical District Vote nonsense...how could the COH ever consider what they did as a vote when the envelope said SURVEY and any SURVEY that was NOT returned was an automatic YES?
  9. And where will the vagrants that live under it relocate to during construction?
  10. We've always cared, but those of us that have lived here long before the McMansion invasion all know that anything South of I-10 is NOT The Heights.
  11. Great. The Yale Street bridge will end up just like when the Heights bridge was repaired, a huge pissing match with what style ballisters needed to be used (which the majority of them are all cracked now and look nasty) and the amount of money that was wasted on the "historic looking lights" which have all disappeeard..probably to the scrap yard on Center Street. Another thought, how many HUGE (I'm talking 60 to 80 feet) steel beams went across that bridge? (yes..the former habitants of the property where WalMart is being built for those of you who just moved here and think they know what's best for The Heights). Get over it. WalMart is being built and there is NOTHING you can do about it. Just like those of us that were SCREWED on the Historic District "Survey".
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