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Originally Posted by Brainpathology
Someone should start a kickstarter to get him enough money to retire IF he closes and boards up the building immediately.
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No, an attorney should volunteer to represent Tom who should go after all of the applicants on the hostile designation personally, the public body of the landmark preservation commission, and each commissioner personally through the courts. This is so messed up. I 100% support preemptive historic designations, but not once a development plan is made/proposed - that truly is infringing on constitutional rights IMO. Once a designation is made, any lost density from a building being designated should be transferable ANYWHERE, allowing the property owner to recoup some of the "public value" they lost.
As someone who has also done historic tax credits, preserved historic buildings by choice, and who owns historic buildings currently, it's BS that it's too much work to do a preemptive designation (as some critics might suggest). Any building that actually contributed meaningfully (ie not just some no-name dead person's house) typically has a TON of information readily available through print or photo. In our tech age, it's so easy to pull up the info. If we can't remove the hostile designation BS, we should make applicants submit a full Part 1, completed and without error, if they are to have any chance of obtaining a hostile designation. Complete garbage how easy it is today.