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The City Commission voted unanimously Monday to demolisha condemned houseand log cabin in South Frankfort but spared athird structure on the lot in hopes it can be saved.
Commissioners votedto have the main structure anda log cabin at 311 West Third St. torn down afterneighbors complained of the smell and deterioration and planning and zoning officials deemed them not fit to live in.
Commissioner Rodney Williams moved that the potentially historically significant carriage house on the property be spared the wrecking ball.
Director of Planning and Zoning Gary Muller said the carriage house would still need to be boarded up to preventvagrants from using it.
Williams acknowledged the possibility that the carriage house would need to be torn down in the near future but said he hoped the demolition could put a new face on the property for potential buyers.
One citizen who spoke on behalf of neighbors of the dilapidated homes asked that all three structures be demolished. "They could probably bottle this and bring it around so you could smell it," he said of the carriage house's pungent odor.
Muller previously told The State Journal vagrants had lived in the carriage house and used one room as a toilet.
Roger Stapleton, chairman of the Architectural Review Board, said he was grateful for more time in determining the possibility of restoration for the carriage house, calling it "an important piece of Frankfort's streetscape."
Stapleton said the overwhelming cost of restoring the main structure had likely prohibited buyers from taking a closer look.
Hopefully, Stapleton said, the partial demolition would "give investors a new look at the property."
Also at Monday's meeting:
Commissioners voted to give full-time regular city staff members a bump in salary this year, despite what city officials have acknowledged is a tight fiscal budget.
The commissioners voted unanimously with little fanfare and no comments from citizens to increase staff salaries by 3 percent for 2008-09 fiscal year.
Mayor Pro Tempore Lynn Bowers ran the meeting in the absence of Mayor Bill May. The salary ordinance, which received its first reading May 19, passed 4-0.
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Posted by whoshotmandy June 24, 2008
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Recently, I discussed these three houses with a couple from another community and they said that a Historical Fund had been created for saving these types of buildings. Does anyone know if this avenue has been explored? Is there such a fund available?
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Posted by perplexed June 24, 2008
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What is ironic about this deal is, there is house on west Todd street with the roof partially off and the house is leaning with collapse imminent and not a word has been mentioned about this house, which is in much worse condition than any of this property on third street.
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