At odds were private property rights versus historic preservation. After hours of discussion, the city’s planning commission splits vote down the middle, effectively tossing out the application for historic designation.
It took nearly three hours, almost 20 speakers and dozens of impassioned speeches, but the Lakewood Planning Commission finally voted — in a split decision — that the Heideloff property should not be designated a historic property. The home at 13474 Edgewater Drive is expected to be demolished to make way for a new $2 million lakefront home. Members of the planning commission deliberated for about 45 minutes on Thursday, and with a new member encouraged to abstain, the vote ended with a 3-3 decision. That effectively denied the motion to make the property “historic” under city ordinance. At the center of the debate was the issue of private property rights versus historic preservation. The neighbors, not the property owners, submitted the …
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The city's commission must now vote on whether the property should receive the official designation, which may keep it from a wrecking ball.
The 98-year-old Heideloff mansion was officially deemed eligible to become a historic landmark per the city’s ordinance on Thursday night. But that’s not the end of the process. The city’s planning commission must now decide whether the property at 13474 Edgewater Drive should get the designation as Lakewood’s fourth-ever historic landmark. That meeting is slated for next month. It doesn’t appear as if it will be an easy decision. At odds is historic preservation versus private property rights. The neighbors of the property — not the property owners — submitted the paperwork to make the mansion a historic landmark. The property owners, Michael and Stacey Semaan, then proposed to demolish the home. Dozens attended the city’s planning …
Meanwhile, neighbors are proposing to make the 98-year-old house the city’s fourth-ever historic landmark.
After neighbors recently submitted paperwork to make the Heideloff mansion on Edgewater Drive a historic landmark, the property owners have proposed to demolish the 98-year-old home. The owners of the home, Michael and Stacey Semaan, submitted paperwork to demolish the home at 13474 Edgewater Drive. That proposal will be heard at the city’s architectural board of review next Thursday. Meanwhile, neighbors are attending the planning commission meeting Thursday looking to make the property the city’s fourth-ever historic landmark. That proposal must first get the green light from the city’s planning commission in two public hearings. The designation means that demolishing the 98-year-old home would be next to impossible. Under the city’s …
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ian king
5:28 pm on Sunday, March 3, 2013
THANKS so much Neighbor for comments that so many of us Lakewoodites feel. It is absurb that this process has gotten as far as it has. I guess being President of the Historical Society gives some more insider power access and treatment than us mere Lakewood tax paying mortals. Having lived in Philadelphia, in the Society Hill area, there were at times a very contemporary townhouse next to an 18th… more ›