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City Council closed out 2024 by voting 5-2 in favor of an application to create a Local Historic District around Mirror Lake. The designation is the city’s first since 2021, the tenth overall, and the second in downtown.
City Council closed out 2024 by voting 5-2 in favor of an application to create a Local Historic District around Mirror Lake. The designation is the city’s first since 2021, the tenth overall, and the second in downtown.
To some, it seemed like a race: the creation of a Mirror Lake historic district with guidelines for future development, or watching its historic structures demolished. For the past few years, demolition has been comfortably in the lead.
The effort to create a Local Historic District around Mirror Lake encountered a slight delay last month when the Community Planning and Preservation Commission (CPPC) failed to reach a quorum and was unable to vote on the application.
