LaVilla Shotgun Houses On Verge Of Being Demolished?

[m74reeves]

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/mostpopular/story/Historical-LaVilla-homes-face-possible-demolition/60A3q6P3m0WI0MeSbvcKZQ.cspx

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[sheclown]

Urban core CPAC voted in support of the landmark designation tonight at its meeting.

[sheclown]

Moving them out of LaVilla defeats the purpose.

[Springfielder]

Moving them out of LaVilla defeats the purpose.

+ 1000! It's a matter of historical value to save them and keep them where they belong, in LaVilla!

[Debbie Thompson]

What's a "more fitting location" than LaVilla?  Oh, I know!  When the City parked them there and ignored them instead of restoring them (like they promised) they didn't realize they were going to build a Taj Mahal oops Courthouse right nearby.  Now they don't want them near their beautiful new Taj Mahal oops again...Courthouse.

[If_I_Loved_you]

What's a "more fitting location" than LaVilla?  Oh, I know!  When the City parked them there and ignored them instead of restoring them (like they promised) they didn't realize they were going to build a Taj Mahal oops Courthouse right nearby.  Now they don't want them near their beautiful new Taj Mahal oops again...Courthouse.

+1000

[sheclown]

show your support for the shotguns

Committee Meeting Location / Time

Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.
City Hall - St. James Building
Council Chamber - 1st Floor Atrium
117 W. Duval Street

[sheclown]

from April's HPC meeting minutes.

Alan Bliss, is a teacher of US History at UNF.  He speaks for the shotguns, saying:

"They are reflective of a distinctive pattern of housing, detached housing in working-class neighborhoods in cities of the American south in the early 20th century.  They reflect a distinctive pattern of social relations, private and public life among working class people in settings like this, and they're very distinctive from all the patterns of single-family development and housing that have typified American housing through the rest of the 20th century.

Each house merits preservation because of its own authenticity, as you have just heard, but I'm particularly concerned with, and I particularly advocate their preservation in the cluster, in the arrangement in which they stand because their density is a snapshot of neighborhood authenticity all taken together.
.....
It's lamentable that there is just a  small snapshot of this community remaining in Jacksonville, but let's hold on to what we've got and make the best of it.  I encourage the board to act favorably."

13:10-15, 14:1-13

[Cheshire Cat]

show your support for the shotguns

Committee Meeting Location / Time

Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.
City Hall - St. James Building
Council Chamber - 1st Floor Atrium
117 W. Duval Street

[Cheshire Cat]

from April's HPC meeting minutes.

Alan Bliss, is a teacher of US History at UNF.  He speaks for the shotguns, saying:

"They are reflective of a distinctive pattern of housing, detached housing in working-class neighborhoods in cities of the American south in the early 20th century.  They reflect a distinctive pattern of social relations, private and public life among working class people in settings like this, and they're very distinctive from all the patterns of single-family development and housing that have typified American housing through the rest of the 20th century.

Each house merits preservation because of its own authenticity, as you have just heard, but I'm particularly concerned with, and I particularly advocate their preservation in the cluster, in the arrangement in which they stand because their density is a snapshot of neighborhood authenticity all taken together.
.....
It's lamentable that there is just a  small snapshot of this community remaining in Jacksonville, but let's hold on to what we've got and make the best of it.  I encourage the board to act favorably."

13:10-15, 14:1-13

Yes and yes.   

[thelakelander]

If anyone is going to the meeting this afternoon to speak on behalf of landmarking the shotgun homes, there's no reason to defer the effort to a later meeting.  It appears that if enough people speak in support of preserving them, they'll be landmarked.

[strider]

Gloria will be going for PSOS and for UC CPAC

[Cheshire Cat]

Great news Strider.  Gloria, please do a mini blog if you can.

I just got off the phone with Lori Boyer!   

Keep to the program folks.  Show your support now and in a continued fashion.  We are being heard loud and clear~

[Cheshire Cat]

Ennis, check your email. 

[m74reeves]

They are discussing right now...

Interestingly, Lumb is asking about Genovar Hall and the approx $1M that was spent. Can't be demo'ed now without having to repay all the various grant funds....