Preserving the old wooden houses
People are already getting into it regarding the old wooden homes in Village West.
This image is in the McFarlane Homestead, which is sort of in Village West, but it's in the Coral Gables section, where they preserve the homes.
It's true that if the homes become historic in Coconut Grove, that the homeowners will be hindered in what they can do with the properties and also might have problems selling the homes. Developers pay top dollar and maybe that's the solution. Perhaps the city can have first rights of refusal for the properties, so if and when the homeowner might want to sell, the city has first rights to purchase and they have to pay a decent price, a price that a developer would pay.
I'm not sure how that would be figured, but it would be fair and the house would be preserved. The city can then renovate the house and rent it out or something like that.
These houses are a big part of Coconut Grove's history and they should be preserved.
posted by Tom Falco at 9:52 AM
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Agreed
If they are part of history, then the city should buy them and make them a museum not rent them out. The city is not in the renting of houses business as far as I know.
WHY?
I've noticed that every person killed unfairly, i.e., school shooting's, person of color shot by police, world trade center, or those boys in the soccer team who got flooded in a cave, those miners several years ago in that mine in Peru, those 97,000 old dilapidated U.S. bridges, dung beadles, slime ants, buffalo, species of sharks, birds, old shoes, clothing, hats, John Wayne's boots, Hitler paintings, art, war monuments, old boats, cars, planes, guns, skulls, carved rocks, knives, books, magazines - - - - - - -we're even running short on air to breath, everything and every single life form is rare including plain old coral rock and I've read where the entire universe will someday simply go away. Jobie Steppe
This is a waste of tax dollars.
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