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DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
723 West Markham Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1334
Phone: (501) 371-4790 Fax:(501) 399-3435
www.littlerock.gov
Certified mail: 7017 3380 0001 0551 5433
Return receipt requested
February 14, 2020
Rayford Tackett and Shannon Case-Tackett
618 Rock Street
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
Re: 618 Rock Street
Greetings,
The tax assessor of Pulaski County shows you as the owner of Lot 3, MacArthur Place
Subdivision of the City of Little Rock known as 618 Rock Street. This property is within the
MacArthur Park Local Ordinance Historic District and is subject to all rules and regulations of
that district.
Please accept this letter as formal notice that construction activity at 618 Rock Street was also
carried out in violation of state law requiring that a Certificate of Appropriateness (“COA”) be
obtained prior to making alterations to a structure located in a local ordinance historic district.
Our records show that a new roof was installed in violation of this COA requirement.
Work that was performed can be administratively approved by staff under the maintenance
guidelines. However, neither you nor the roofing contractor contacted staff for that
administrative approval. Your contractor did not obtain a building permit (which is required). If
they had, they would have been informed that this needed to be approved by the Staff of the
HDC.
To bring your property into compliance, please contact this office to discuss what work was
done in association with the roofing project. You can then request that I sign off on the work and
a building permit can be issued.
Please call me on my direct line at 371-4789 to get this matter resolved. I see that the property
has been sold. If this property was not in your possession on February 7, 2020 when the roof
was installed, please let me know so that I can contact the new owner.
Sincerely,
Brian Minyard
Historic District Staff
Cc: Kevin Newcomb, Janet Jones Co
Garcia and Son Roofing