Sorry for your trouble

Have a great day

Dodson built a house where they literally completely changed the plans they were following from what CAR approved. We appealed and they did nothing. I’m not mad that there’s a process; I’m mad that it puts actual homeowners in a bureaucratic nightmare while it lets big money developers do whatever they please.

We’re sick of CAR. They don’t deliver anything but hassle and frankly very little is historic about our neighborhood. The impunity with which the commission acts is really mind blowing but most people don’t know just how unappealable their arbitrary taste-based, subjective decisions are.

I had to do a presentation before this board to put up a picket fence. It’s ridiculous.

Ain’t nobody got tax credits, but keep making things up. The neighborhood wanted to prevent condos and apartments from being built Willy nilly, it was a mistaken move that didn’t really work, a d now we’re stuck with it while the folks who voted it in moved out long ago

At this pt there’s only one architect but that has not been the case in the past. “Historic preservationists” with unchecked power are just as bad. History is only one factor in many of the issues neighborhoods face, and CAR is historically atrocious at balancing these issues fairly.

Sorry you don’t like my opinion.

Nope I’ve been to many CAR meetings and seen it first hand.

Emphasis on “feel”.

They absolutely do cruise around looking for things. Not the commission themselves — those folks are fancy architects — but their staff in city hall.

Completely arbitrary rules, yes.

I live in the Springhill historic district and can confirm that CAR’s inconsistency is the big problem. They allow developers to flout their own plans and do whatever they want, but homeowners have to justify replacing a window. It really is out of hand — it’s like what would happen if you gave the art kids in high school absolute dictatorial power. Their aesthetic opinions become law.

Our neighborhood confirmed that if you can get over 50% of owners to sign a petition you can start removing the old and historic district designation from your neighborhood. Don’t expect city hall to be nice about it though. CAR and their staff are very disrespectful and think our lives are their personal ideaboards.