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File #: R-136-18    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 7/20/2018 In control: Metro Council
On agenda: 8/9/2018 Final action: 8/9/2018
Title: A RESOLUTION OVERTURNING THE DECISION OF THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3700 DUTCHMANS LANE IN LOUISVILLE METRO AS A LOCAL LANDMARK (CASE NO. 17DESGNATION1002) (AMENDMENT BY SUBSTITUTION).
Sponsors: Barbara Sexton Smith (D-4)
Attachments: 1. R-136-18 V.2 FABS 080918 Overturn Landmark Designation at 3700 Dutchmans Ln 17DESGNATION1002.pdf, 2. R-136-18 PROPOSED FABS 080918 Resolution to Overturn Landmarks Designation at 3700 Dutchmans Lane(amend by sub)(8-8-18).pdf, 3. 17DESIGNATION1002.pdf, 4. R-136-18 V.1 072618 Overturn Landmark Designation at 3700 Dutchmans Ln 17DESGNATION1002.pdf, 5. RES 119 2018.pdf
RESOLUTION NO. ____________, SERIES 2018
TITLE
A RESOLUTION OVERTURNING THE DECISION OF THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3700 DUTCHMANS LANE IN LOUISVILLE METRO AS A LOCAL LANDMARK (CASE NO. 17DESGNATION1002) (AMENDMENT BY SUBSTITUTION).
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SPONSORED BY: COUNCILWOMAN BARBARA SEXTON SMITH

WHEREAS, the Legislative Council of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (the "Council") has considered the evidence presented at a public hearing held by the Landmarks Commission (the "Commission") on March 22, 2018 and the record reviewed at the public meeting held by the Council's Planning, Zoning and Annexation Committee on July 17, 2018; and
WHEREAS, the Commission found that the petition did partially meet four of the nine criteria (LMCO 32.260(E)(1)(a), (b), (e), and (f)), and also found that the petition did not meet five of the nine criteria (LMCO 32.260(E)(1)(c), (d), (g), (h), and (i)); and
WHEREAS, this designation petition was approved over the objection of the property owner in an internal dispute within the Anshei Sfard Congregation; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to LMCO ? 32.260(G), the Council disagrees with the decision of the Commission dated March 22, 2018 designating 3700 Dutchmans Lane as a local landmark and makes the following findings of fact:
(1) Anshei Sfard, like all religious congregations, is highly valued in our community and certainly is a part of the community's collective heritage. However, as the Commission itself found with respect to LMCO 32.260(E)(1)(a), these particular property/structures "[do] not appear to be individually distinctive for the development of the City, Commonwealth, or the United States."
(2) As the Commission has found with respect to LMCO 32.260(E)(1)(b), "[d]ue to changes in the surrounding context over time . . . the associations with setting, feeling, and association have diminished." Mid-Century architec...

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