William
2007-07-16 21:50:58 UTC
Recently in Minneapolis house owners have been tearing down there hand
built 100 year
old houses and building McMansions in replacement. This may benefit
the owner of the newly built McMansions who obviously does not
appreciate history and old hand built architecture, but to the
community and the city as a whole, it does not. They swallow up the
whole yard, front and back, they don't fit with the community of
beautiful old houses around it, they tower over the whole
block and stick out like a sore thumb and it's like destroying the
history of the city. Here are the policies the city is making to fight
back.
http://www.planetizen.com/node/25252
built 100 year
old houses and building McMansions in replacement. This may benefit
the owner of the newly built McMansions who obviously does not
appreciate history and old hand built architecture, but to the
community and the city as a whole, it does not. They swallow up the
whole yard, front and back, they don't fit with the community of
beautiful old houses around it, they tower over the whole
block and stick out like a sore thumb and it's like destroying the
history of the city. Here are the policies the city is making to fight
back.
http://www.planetizen.com/node/25252