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HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Deferred Owner Not Present Jacque & Mary Raymond, owners. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition. This house was gutted, there must have been problems after the house was gutted.

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET RESULT: Approved Thu L. Nguyen, owner. Housing Unit Demolition Task Force, applicant. Proposal for demolition While I was taking pictures of this burned out corner store , the neighbors asked me to take a picture of a house nearby […]

HISTORIC DISTRICT LANDMARKS COMMISSION 9:30 A.M. MAY 11 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL 1300 PERDIDO STREET *APPROVED* The Sixth Baptist Church, owner/applicant. Proposal for demolition. This creole cottage would have had a lot of potential. It is near the new Saint Thomas projects and there is a lot of positive development in that area of […]

Tuesdays paper had an interesting article about demolition. Having spent the better part of a year trying to piece together the policy of demolition I was pleased to see an “article”:http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/demolish_or_save.html in the paper. Private demolition Lake Vista What we have in this City is a desperate desire to move forward. A City where the […]

LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY ANNOUNCES 2007 MARTHA ROBINSON LECTURE EVENT The Louisiana Landmarks Society announces its 26th Martha Robinson lecture to be held on Monday, May 7, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Williams Research Center at 410 Chartres Street in the French Quarter. This year’s guest speaker is New York-based author and urbanist Anthony M. […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 14, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall *APPROVED* Owner Howard Herbert has applied to demolish this altered raised basement single shotgun to be replaced with a vacant lot. This was the last house in the immediate area and it is so isolated from the rest […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 14, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall Owner Mary Vega has applied to demolish this contemporary commercial structure to be replaced with a vacant lot (the slab foundation will remain in place to be used for parking, according to application)

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 14, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall *APPROVED* Owners George and Florence Hamilton have applied to demolish this altered Arts-and-Crafts style double shotgun to be replaced with a single-family residence of no specific type or design (no redevelopment plans submitted with application) .

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 14, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall *APPROVED* Owner James Morse has applied to demolish two-story contemporary building at the rear of the property to be replaced with a landscaped garden of no specific design (no site plan included with application) . This owner was […]

Housing Conservation District Review Committee Agenda 10 a.m. May 14, 2007 Room 7E07, 7th Floor, City Hall *APPROVED* Owner Sonja Young has applied to demolish this single-family residence to be replaced with a three-bedroom, two-bath residence of no specific design or type (no redevelopment plans submitted with application) .