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Council splits on Euclid Church appeal after months of debate; adaptive‑reuse appeal fails to win approval
Summary
After a lengthy quasi‑judicial hearing with more than 50 public speakers, council voted 4–4 on an appeal of a CPPC denial of adaptive‑reuse for the Euclid Church; the motion to grant the appeal failed and a map‑amendment vote was not moved.
A divided city council failed to overturn a Community Planning and Preservation Commission (CPPC) decision on Feb. 5 after a marathon quasi‑judicial hearing over proposed adaptive reuse of the historic Euclid Church on Tenth Avenue North.
Derek Kilborn, manager for Urban Planning and Historic Preservation, explained the process: because the building is a locally designated landmark the CPPC heard a bundled certificate of appropriateness and an adaptive reuse proposal that included special‑exception uses (an event/meeting hall and a bed‑and‑breakfast) and a preemptive future land‑use map amendment request tied to a potential future increase in corridor FAR. CPPC approved the certificate of appropriateness for exterior changes but…
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