Big Turnout and Overwhelming Support at South Village Hearing
Supporters of landmark designation for the South Village packed the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) Tuesday; among the scores of attendees thirty-seven people testified, virtually all in support of landmark designation, and nearly all joining GVSHP in calling upon the Commission to move quickly on its proposed designation and to consider the remaining two-thirds of our proposed South Village Historic District as soon as possible.
GVSHP presented the Commissioners with a list and images of the many sites in the South Village that have been lost, compromised, or threatened since we first began asking the Commission to consider landmark designation for the area. The Commission has not yet made any commitments about when they will consider the remaining two-thirds of our proposed South Village Historic District. They did, however, vote to keep the record on this hearing open for another month (meaning no decisions will be made before then), and in recent statements to the press LPC Chair Robert Tierney indicated that designation of this first third of the South Village might not happen until next spring.
Supporters of landmark designation for the