QuoteAt-Large, Group 5
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER
ROBIN LUMB
INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A
TOWN HALL MEETING
REGARDING
SPRINGFIELD HISTORIC PRESERVATION
The purpose of the meeting is to provide the community
an opportunity to be heard and to discuss how historic Springfield
homes can be saved from demolition.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:00 p.m.
The Lynwood Roberts Room
First Floor, City Hall
117 West Duval St
This is an issue that will affect the future of Springfield.
All interested parties are encouraged to attend.
For more Information call 630-7144
my hero.
Agree !
Be there, Timkin!
We probably have more really smart people on the Council right now than we have in a long time and Mr. Lumb is one of them.
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This Thursday night.
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Butts in seats.
This is important.
Springfield is important.
Sent this letter tonight to CM Lumb.
I look forward to a meeting about preservation and saving the houses. Hoo Rah.
Councilmember Lumb,
I have I expressed my thank you recently? Thank you. THANK YOU!!!! I am sure you understand how important you are to Springfield right now, and if you don't know, I promise you you WILL know. We need love and attention and in many ways are starving for it, while that sounds slightly pathetic, I am not embarassed to say we need it and we are grateful for your support. (And as an aside, that's a big HOO RAH!!!) I am confident that a number of folks will attend the meeting on Thursday. I am also confident that they will be excited and eager to get your attention on a number of topics beyond preservation. Maybe you will be able to leave time at the end of the meeting to address other needs and concerns from Springfield residents and friends? It's been a bit of a rough week for violence in Springfield, 2 murders within the week. One behind my house that my dad lives in, and the other around the corner in front of a friend's house. I would hope that the city would react to this with increased police presence to protect the neighbors in Springfield. The houses, the ones in need of love in Springfield, often become the scapegoat to the reason why violence erupts. This is not my argument (as I think it is beyond ridiculous,) but it is some folks argument. The houses are not the problem in this example, the people, the ones who break the law, are the problem. I mean really, what did the house do?
It is my opinion that we have a duty to protect them. To love them. I am deeply passionate about the houses (now THAT I know you know,) and it is this passion that continues to drive forward the willingness to make personal sacrifices to save the houses. It's hard to describe passion. It's just in you. Takes over you. Dictates to you what to do and how to do it. I can't control it and most of us "married" to saving the houses, (all of them by the way) can't control it either. But I tell you, I love every minute of it. Even the uncomfortable minutes, even the confrontational minutes. They all have in the end saved the houses.
It is with this meeting that I hope the dialogue can begin that can elevate us to the step beyond mothballing, somehow, some way, getting ahold of those forgotten houses and placing them in the hands of a willing and capable owner. It's a win-win-win (owner, neighborhood, city.)
Have I told you about my first Springfield house? Bought gutted and condemned in 2007? Sat vacant and unloved for 12+ years? I love my little house and it loves me. My dad is living there and had custom milled trimwork made to match the little bit of salvaged trim I found in the garage for all the interior doors and windows. He has built the most beautiful headers and framed in all my windows, transoms, and doors with that custom millwork and his craftsman skills. Everytime I walk in my house I'm telling you she hugs me and says "thank you." I feel it, I know it. And the quirky truth? I hug her right back. Our houses have stories to tell, and my sweet house will have many more to tell within the walls of love I have created and brought back to life. Each of our forgotten houses need this chance to. And for this opportunity, I thank you.
With admiration,
Nicole Lopez
Preservation SOS
President
P.S. Attached is the list I used from code enforcement to write to 73 homeowners to catch their attention in hopes to save their home. It's marked up with my notes as each was individually researched prior to sending handwritten letters.
Rest up tonight, tomorrow night you have plans!
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6:00 City Council, Lynwood Roberts Room.
I have been sick the last couple days but will try to attend. :)
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It's a new day for preservation in Springfield.
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...a packed house speaks with one voice, one beautiful voice.
Councilman Lumb did a great job facilitating the meeting and really seems to understand the issues.
Yes, he did, and he does. It was an excellent turn out, with lots of good ideas. The room was energized. Preservation SOS attendees left feeling hopeful as well.
Thanks to our computer superhero, one can go here:
http://forum.preservationsos.org/signup/march22ndmeeting.html
and listen to an audio recording of the meeting.
Great meeting with Councilman Lumb this afternoon.
He is working on preservation, meeting with different folks and departments. I'll post more about the meeting soon. But it looks like right now, Pearl Street is safe, at least for the time being.
Awesome news, Sheclown !!! :)
Getting used to being chopped liver...
Quote from: ChriswUfGator on April 17, 2012, 02:35:53 AM
Getting used to being chopped liver...
Oh Chris...you are pate!
Chris was instrumental in setting up this meeting, has lead Preservation SOS through the process with the city, and we are ETERNALLY grateful to have you as a board member.
Oh I'm just kidding with you, I was as happy with the outcome as you were, and that's what counts.