Fort Pierce board approves certificate of appropriateness for 8-unit development at 1204 Avenue E

The Fort Pierce Historic Preservation Board on a 5-0 roll-call vote approved a certificate of appropriateness (PZCOA 20250015) for an eight-unit residential development at 1204 Avenue E in the Lincoln Park Historic District, subject to four conditions including a landscaping plan, a tree survey and mitigation plan, a solid-waste arrangement agreed with Public Works, and a requirement that the application return to the board if variances are needed.

The vote followed a staff presentation from Kevin Freeman, director of the Planning Department, who described the property as a vacant, non-contributing parcel in the Lincoln Park Historic District (parcel number 240482300070507) and said the application proposes two four-unit buildings on a 0.73-acre site zoned R4 with a future land-use designation of residential medium density. "We are recommending that additional architectural features such as decorative shutters [and] a differentiating color banding be incorporated into the final design to better compose with the…