BIKE: preserving historic structures?

[Richard Ryan]

> But please don't use that the accuse the people of OWANA of not having a serious regard for saving historic structures in our neighborhood.  - Dick Ryan

I lived in OWANA, and I'll gladly make that accusation. The people of OWANA are more interested in keeping multifamily out of the neighborhood than they are in historical preservation; i.e., the same anti-infill 
sentiment exists there that is particularly virulent where I live in NUNA.

There's plenty of crummy non-historic single-family housing in OWANA just like there is in NUNA. Replacing these buildings with high-quality multi-family (like the deSaligny condos, for instance) would be a win for the city and a win for pedestrians, and no historic stuff would be 
lost. But rather than focusing on compatibility standards which actually make SENSE, the neighbors have (since the planning effort ended several years ago) retreated into more typical obstructionism.  -  MD

I live in OWANA and I have a very serious regard for saving historic resources.  And I also own a multi-family apartment house in OWANA and obviously have nothing against multi-family.  As a matter of fact, we have quite a few historic multi-family apartment buildings in OWANA, and I do everything I can to save them.  I suffered pain when the Brownstone Apartments were tore down to be replaced by (less dense) new townhouses which have not proven to be an economic success.  The historic apartment houses between 12th and Endfield are an important element to the history of the development of OWANA.  Dick Ryan


No, it's not. At the core of almost every successful urban 
revitalization project is additional residential development, and it HAS to be multi-family.

- MD

If you look at successful urban revitalization projects, you will see that they almost always have successes in historic preservation  BEFORE residents will move back into the area.  DR




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