tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post1239082093242437155..comments2024-03-28T11:21:19.200-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Friday Morning at the HPCCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-36807600602554705922014-01-26T11:45:18.770-05:002014-01-26T11:45:18.770-05:00The HDC is non-governmental, whereas the HCDPA is ...The HDC is non-governmental, whereas the HCDPA is a state-enabled Urban Renewal Agency:<br /><br />http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/LAWSSEAF.cgi?QUERYTYPE=LAWS+&QUERYDATA=@SLGMU0A15-A+&LIST=LAW+&BROWSER=BROWSER+&TOKEN=24452233+&TARGET=VIEW<br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-75421253260894762342014-01-26T08:42:36.377-05:002014-01-26T08:42:36.377-05:00Shouldn't HPC have as much power as HDC?Shouldn't HPC have as much power as HDC? 1Riparianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17248602693560230557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-77020563146464913602014-01-25T20:36:17.770-05:002014-01-25T20:36:17.770-05:00Is there anyone who doesn't believe he knows e...Is there anyone who doesn't believe he knows exactly what he's doing? unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-26571739573606511002014-01-25T18:58:55.235-05:002014-01-25T18:58:55.235-05:00Peter--The whole saga of this house is one that is...Peter--The whole saga of this house is one that is a sore point with some members of the Historic Preservation Commission and with me. In May 2012, the HPC granted a certificate of appropriateness to move the house that had stood at 900 Columbia Street for almost two hundred years INTACT to the three vacant lots at 215 Union Street. At that time, a site plan was requested by the HPC, but there is no evidence--at least none that I can uncover--that a site plan was ever presented to be part of the certificate of appropriateness. The certificate of appropriateness granted in May 2012 only recognized that the house would be appropriate to its new setting, and the assumption was that it was being moved intact because the application named the mover that would be used--who had moved major houses in other places in the Northeast.<br /><br />In September 2013, however, they started to demolish 900 Columbia Street. Alerted by a reader, I rushed to the site, saw what was happening, and called Daniel Kent, who told me at that time that the house was being "disassembled" and would be "reassembled" on Union Street.<br /><br />As the house was coming down, it became increasing clear that this house was not being taken apart to be reassembled exactly as it had been. Rather they were going to build something new using salvaged bricks and some other elements.<br /><br />Long about November 2013, the foundation starts being constructed at 215 Union Street. They have a building permit, issued sometime between when Peter Wurster resigned and Craig Haigh officially became code enforcement officer, but the building permit was issued without a certificate of appropriateness from the HPC--which they now need because they did not move the building intact to the site. As Rick Rector said, "Even if they had numbered all of the bricks and were planning to reassemble it exactly as it had been, with the same window sash and everything else, the mortar would be different, and they would still need a certificate of appropriateness."<br /><br />My biggest problem with this building is its placement on the lots, and that just slipped by the HPC, because it doesn't seem that a site plan was presented in May 2012 when it was requested, and the cellar was dug and the foundation already built before the HPC had any input. Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-52672130621778801382014-01-25T18:28:26.146-05:002014-01-25T18:28:26.146-05:00Sorry, I had overlooked this sentence from your re...Sorry, I had overlooked this sentence from your report: "Rector reiterated that the building, even though it will use salvaged materials from 900 Columbia Street and was originally described as the "reassembling" of that building, was a new building." I asked this question in a previous comment, but wasn't the permission to "move" 900 Columbia based on the promise to "reassemble" it? If so, this is a serious breach of a contract and the City needs to start charging Galvan for the costs of its breach. Peter Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12627451247693034161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-42917952600099295942014-01-25T18:27:40.592-05:002014-01-25T18:27:40.592-05:00Sorry, I had overlooked this sentence from your re...Sorry, I had overlooked this sentence from your report: "Rector reiterated that the building, even though it will use salvaged materials from 900 Columbia Street and was originally described as the "reassembling" of that building, was a new building." I asked this question in a previous comment, but wasn't the permission to "move" 900 Columbia based on the promise to "reassemble" it? If so, this is a serious breach of a contract and the City needs to start charging Galvan for the costs of its breach. Peter Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12627451247693034161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-3355895497691671052014-01-25T17:49:24.963-05:002014-01-25T17:49:24.963-05:00Is the 215 Union house that we're going to tal...Is the 215 Union house that we're going to talk about the one from 900 Columbia that Galvan was going to "move"? If so, what's the problem? If he was going to move that house to 215, then wouldn't all of this site business approval been done already? Or is the house proposed for 215 Union a different one?Peter Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12627451247693034161noreply@blogger.com