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Minyard, Brian
From:Susie Taylor <susanmtaylor13@gmail.com>
Sent:Tuesday, May 12, 2020 4:24 PM
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Subject:OPPOSED: Please deny HDC2019-023 Development at 10th andRock Streets
May 12, 2020
Attention:
The Honorable Frank Scott, Mayor
Jamie Collins, Director, Planning and Development
Little Rock Historic District Commissioners
Brian Minyard, Office of Planning and Development
Hello All,
I hope everyone is staying safe and doing the best you can during these difficult times! I wanted to address each of you
as a property owner and long-time resident in the MacArthur Park Historic District. I urge each of you and the Little
Rock Historic District Commission to deny HDC2019-023. Appropriate infill development is very welcome in the District
but this 15-unit residential complex proposed at 10th and Rock Streets does not comply with the design factors set forth
in the MacArthur Park Historic District Guidelines for Rehabilitation and New Construction and will forever diminish the
District’s historic integrity and character of our amazing neighborhood.
As Im sure you can agree, new buildings should be harmonious in form, material, setting and scal e within the established
District and in keeping with the current R4-A – Low Density Residential District zoning- which allows for the
development of duplex dwellings. A 15-unit residential complex is not low density and is an intrusion that will disrupt
the continuity of the area of influence.
Relative to the MacArthur Park Historic District Guidelines for Rehabilitation and New
Construction, we stand OPPOSED to the proposed HDC2019-023 development at Rock and 10th Streets as it is clearly
incompatible with nearly ALL of the 11 historic neighborhood design requirements and is incompatible with our
current R4-A zoning. Please come visit our special neighborhood and see for yourself the adverse impact such a
development would have on this area.
I appreciate how the Historic District works hard to protect our amazing old homes from being torn down, now we just
ask they take the same thoughtful consideration in what is being built up around them, as well. We desperately need and
deserve the protection that the Little Rock Historic District Local Ordinance was created to provide so please do the
right thing and deny this application.
Thank you so much for your time and attention.
Sincerely yours,
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Susan M. Taylor
904 Rock St. Little Rock, AR 72202
501-240-3234
susanmtaylor13@gmail.com