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Originally Posted by kemachs
Also if the mayor/city council really cared about preserving history, they'd enact overlays/policies in historic districts to prevent demolitions, instead of relying on neighbors scrambling at the 11th hour to fight property owners. The piecemeal approach to landmarking doesn't work in the long run (look at how much the city has lost and continues to lose), and it just builds resentment within the community.
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There's a set percentage of the community that bemoans anything that was built in this city post-1995. They moved to a single family neighborhood right outside of downtown and nothing should ever change in that neighborhood, by god. Developmental Luddites might be an appropriate term.
The neighbors of Camden Court who were so vested in preserving the building certainly can be considered Developmental Luddites. Of course their passion promptly dried up when they couldn't bend the council to their will. If they were truly passionate they would have started looking at how much funding they could raise to counter Hines' offer. But that would entail a greater risk than merely getting dirty looks while walking your lab.
It's similar to the people bemoaning the El Oasis Garden land sale. Making a webpage is one thing- raising $100K-200K with the specter of more would probably cause DUG to pause the sale to see if things how things would shake out.