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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-07-14 email blair1 Minyard, Brian From:Amber Jones <ambercj@swbell.net> Sent:Tuesday, July 14, 2020 9:44 PM To:Minyard, Brian Subject:Fw: Opposing the 10th & Rock infill Proposal ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Welch-Blair, Sharon <sharonbwelch@eaglestrategies.com> To: holderheuvel@yahoo.com <holderheuvel@yahoo.com>; lindseymboerner@gmail.com <lindseymboerner@gmail.com>; lfrederick@hosto.com <lfrederick@hosto.com>; rob@hcglawoffice.com <rob@hcglawoffice.com>; ambercj@swbell.net <ambercj@swbell.net>; jeremiah@roguearch.com <jeremiah@roguearch.com>; gcollins@littlerock.gov <gcollins@littlerock.gov>; peckcapi@gmail.com <peckcapi@gmail.com>; lrzoning@littlerock.gov <lrzoning@littlerock.gov> Cc: rhblair@swbell.net <rhblair@swbell.net>; Jill Elaine Judy (jillandmarkbrown@yahoo.com) <jillandmarkbrown@yahoo.com>; Frances McSwain <missymcswain18@gmail.com>; Boyd Maher (Boyd.Maher@arkansas.gov) <boyd.maher@arkansas.gov> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 06:58:29 PM CDT Subject: Opposing the 10th & Rock infill Proposal All: With the greatest respect, I want to add my name to the list of folks opposing the 10 th & Rock infill currently being proposed. I certainly concur with Tommy Jameson’s remarks. And I’m frustrated that we continue to see inappropriate infill proposals approved throughout the historic districts. The original mission statements and intent of those statements was that any infill properties should be appropriate by recognizable standards of the Victorian, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Cape Code, Neoclassical, Tudor Revival. French Revival and Craftsman. Not structures that often look like trailer houses on foundations sitting right next to a beautiful late Victorian house as we see by the “baby doll” house. Yet this is what we continue to see because our property is cheaper downtown and because we are an electric and diverse group that has not pushed to oppose the minor changes that keep chipping away at our “historic” resolve. It is certainly appropriate we are inviting good infill. It is not appropriate that we are willy nilly allowing our standards to be chipped away in the name of progress. The whole Paris Towers issue is a perfect example of this debacle, a total disgrace! That building is not worthy of being designated an historic building. It is devoid of striking features and looks like a Russian 2 gulag!! But because it will make a developer rich by using state and federal tax credits, and bring “progressive growth” to the area, some people in government and in the historic district are willing to ignore pertinent facts about senior housing that other states and cities have already conceded to, and divest themselves of their principals rather than look for better options for those they serve. The shady underhanded dealings that with went along with that issue will not be swept under the rug. Nor forgotten! I encourage you to pull out those original mission statements; read them and apply them while we still have the majority of our historic neighborhoods intact. We all want GOOD infill. We do not want something to be ashamed of in the name or progress. We had enough of that in the 50’s and 60’s for several lifetimes!! With the greatest respect for what you do and the time you give, Sharon Welch-Blair Sharon Welch-Blair,CLU©, ChFC©,www.EmpireFinancialArchitects.com EMPIRE FINANCIAL ARCHITECTS "BUILDING THE EMPIRE; SAVING THE LEGACY" Financial Adviser-Eagle Strategies Corp* 501-375-1701 fax:501-375-4537 1620 Main Street Little Rock, AR 72206 Financial Advisor offering investment advisory services through Eagle Strategies, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor. Member Agent. Registered Representative offering securities through NYLIFE Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Empire Financial Architects is not owned or operated by Eagle Stategies, LLC, or its affiliates. If you do not wish to receive e-mail communications from Eagle Strategies, LLC and/or Empire Financial Architects, please reply to this e-mail, using the words "Opt out" in the subject line. Please copy the e-mail to email_optout@newyorklife.com, and mail to Eagle Strategies, LLC 51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010. 3