CITY RECONSIDERS PLAN TO DEMOLISH HISTORIC HOME HOUSE MAY BE MOVED INSTEAD OF LEVELED.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer Preservationists have urged officials to spare a historic 1906 house, once owned by relatives of the city's pioneer Lopez family, that had been slated for demolition to build a senior housing complex. City officials said they will reconsider re·con·sid·er v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers v.tr. 1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision. 2. plans to level the structure and will look at possibly moving the house. Their decision this week comes less than a month after community groups criticized the city for acting too slow to adopt an ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been that would protect such homes. ``If we had not ... brought this information to the public, we fear it could have slipped through the cracks,'' said Manuel Godoy, a member of the city's Historical Commission. The 1906 American Folk home at 1311 Pico Street is one of 16 dwellings the city wants to level to make room for a $14 million affordable senior housing project that will span 2.8 acres on two separate sites. But city officials, who have yet to purchase the property, on Tuesday said they would consider moving the home to another location. ``Preservation had not been at the forefront of our community before,'' said Mayor Maribel De La Torre La Torre is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 357 inhabitants. . Now, she said the council is attempting to move more carefully before tearing down old structures. Though not architecturally significant, the house originally belonged Geronimo Lopez, the patriarch patriarch, in the Bible patriarch (pā`trēärk), in biblical tradition, one of the antediluvian progenitors of the race as given in Genesis (e.g., Seth) or one of the ancestors of the Jews (e.g. of one of San Fernando's pioneering families, said John Brooks For the British life peer, see . For the officer in the US Marine Corps, see . John Brooks (May 4, 1752 – March 1, 1825) was Governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823. , an amateur historian and docent at the Lopez Adobe, the former Lopez family home and the oldest standing building in the city. When Lopez died in 1921, the house went to his daughter, Louisa Lopez. She allowed her aunt, Isabel Villegas, to stay in the home. Villegas was a descendant of the first Spanish explorers to come over to California in what was later known as the Portola Expedition The Portola expedition was led from 1769 to 1770 by Gaspar de Portolà and was the first known attempt by Spain to explore Upper California by land. The purpose of the expedition was to secure territories in Upper California before the Russians. of 1769, Brooks said. Rachel Uranga, (818) 713-3741 rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com |
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