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Local preservationist urges council to ease permitting delays for historic properties
5122098 · July 2, 2025
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Summary
A longtime steward of Chantilly Mansion told the council that landmark and permitting timelines will delay restoration work and asked the city to consider ways to speed approval so restoration work and a fence can proceed sooner.
Deborah Darrington, a preservationist who said she restored Chantilly Mansion and cared for it for 30 years, told the council on July 1 that recent work to restore the Sunken Gardens at Leroy Echols’ home uncovered original materials and that permitting timelines are delaying restoration work.
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