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Staff invokes emergency clause for collapsing house at 1007 Rhode Island; city commission to review demolition
Summary
Historic resources staff determined 1007 Rhode Island Street is structurally unsafe, used the emergency clause in Chapter 22 to approve an emergency certificate of approval and will forward the matter to the City Commission for a final determination.
Historic Resources Administrator Lynn Braddock Zollner told the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission on May 15 that an occupied or vacant house at 1007 Rhode Island Street has reached a point of structural failure and that staff used Chapter 22’s emergency provisions to issue an emergency approval to address public safety risks.
Zollner said the brick structure was stuccoed in the past and that the stucco application had been scored into the brick, which accelerated water infiltration and freeze‑thaw damage. Staff and a structural engineer documented extensive wall collapse and wide structural cracks inside rooms;…
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