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Appeals board upholds denial of Certificate of Appropriateness for 247 West 16th Street addition
Summary
The Houston Historic Preservation Appeals Board on July 14, 2025, voted unanimously to uphold the Historic and Architectural Commission’s denial of a Certificate of Appropriateness for a proposed two-story rear addition and garage at 247 West 16th Street in Houston Heights West.
The Houston Historic Preservation Appeals Board on July 14, 2025, voted unanimously to uphold the Historic and Architectural Commission’s (HHC) decision to deny a Certificate of Appropriateness for a proposed two-story rear addition and garage at 247 West 16th Street in the Houston Heights West subdivision.
The project applicant proposed a two-story rear addition and a garage with conditioned space above. Staff described the proposal as a first-floor addition of about 750 square feet, a second-floor addition of about 1,215 square feet and a 501-square-foot garage; staff calculated the total conditioned area as roughly 3,483 square feet and concluded the proposal exceeded allowable floor-area-ratio (FAR) when the garage was treated as attached.
The central dispute before the appeals board was whether the garage was…
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