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Residents in Orlando’s Lake Davis-Greenwood community don’t want historic neighborhood designation
City says designation helps improve property values
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The committee pushing for the historic district designation has withdrawn its petition. Read the letter of withdrawal here.
Emotions have been running high among neighbors of the Lake Davis-Greenwood community in Orlando after a petition was signed to designate it a historic district.
“My biggest concern is that I am now vesting the city with the authority to make decisions that I can make today and I’m doing that without any benefit,” Williams Vanos, a 14-year resident of the neighborhood said. “Where is the benefit? And we have been provided with a half dozen reasons none of which really amount to anything. Reasons we’ve been given don’t really apply to this neighborhood.”
The home was built in the 1950s, designed by noted Sarasota School of Architecture founders Ralph Twitchell and Jack West, and had been marketed as either an existing structure in need of renovations or a potential beachfront teardown.
Listing agent Martie Lieberman of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, founder of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation, specializes in selling Sarasota School of Architecture style homes through modernsarasota.com.
Lieberman noted that the home was being listed for sale at land value with a hope that the buyer would ultimately renovate the home.
The original asking price was $1.895 million.
The taxable value of the 1.86-acre parcel was $1.782 million in 2020, according to the Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s website.