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Pensacola ARB imposes 60-day demolition delay on 524 West Romana
Summary
Faced with limited documentation from the absentee owner, the board found potential historic significance and imposed a 60-day demolition delay to allow time for preservation interest or salvage options.
The Pensacola Architectural Review Board voted to impose a 60-day demolition delay on a house at 524 West Romana after members said the structure may be one of the few remaining examples of its neighborhood’s early-20th-century development.
Staff told the board the application triggers review under the city’s historic building demolition review ordinance because the house is more than 50 years old and appears potentially significant. The ordinance requires the board to determine whether the building meets the National Register of Historic Places criteria for significance; if so, the board may impose a demolition delay of up to 60 days to allow preservation or rehabilitation efforts to surface.
Ross, a board…
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