Green Space Trumps Historic Preservation
Planning Commission turns down site plan for North Water Street relocation of historic Kent Wells Sherman House.
Three of five Kent Planning Commission members chose green-space preservation over saving a Civil War-era home from possible demolition by rejecting plans Tuesday for relocating the Kent Wells Sherman House to a vacant North Water Street parcel. Commission members Anthony Catalano, John Gargan Jr. and Peter Paino voted against approving a site plan for the non-profit Kent Wells Sherman House Inc., a group formed in March to save the historic structure found to have ties to the Kent family and other prominent citizens. Voting in favor of the site plan were commission members Gregory Balbierz and Melissa Long. The house relocation from East Erie Street is necessary for construction of The Esplanade extension, a Kent State University led …
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john
8:34 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
I travel too much for work, and clean too many yards to worry about cutting down a bunch of weeds in a property that personally looks like trash. If it were upto me, if would cut 80% of the stuff down and replant something worthwhile. But hey, thats me. Not to mention, everyone is talking about how wonderful and well kept the property is then why are there so many beer bottles located within? … more ›