Remarks by Larry Fox
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Go ahead. So to maybe clarify some of Jim's questions here, so in the Ward District, say east of the park, could a buyer acquire an entire half block, eight lots, and replant it to 3,000 square foot lots. Tear down all those houses and put up a bunch of little houses.
You all said the lots couldn't be divided.
The frontage might be on the alley. It could be. If you've got the back half.
So again, how do we balance that against this preservation program we're trying to do to not tear down old houses?
scenario that we were talking about my question before you can acquire four or five lots and replant them into 30 foot wide lot so you could still do that yes you had six lots that could become
Well, as we know, developers tear down the old houses and put up new stuff.
So A lot has to have street frontage, am I correct? Yes, okay, yes. It can't be fronting on an alley.
So when we talk splitting a lot north-south, you really couldn't do that?
I would certainly favor having more time to digest all this, having gotten this on Friday afternoon. It was 235 pages. I concur that we need more time to consider it and bring up good points, bad points, all that.
So you've seen and dealt with it since 2018. We've dealt with it since Friday.
It might be helpful to have it in a work session. I think so too. Some of these different sections that I haven't even looked at yet.