A Man of Reason in Windover Heights

"My desire to be removed from the historic district is very simple: I am not in an historic district in any meaningful sense, since all the houses which surround me were constructed in the past 15 years. I am bounded on one side by Lawyers Road, and on the other sides by relatively new houses. Furthermore, my own home can hardly be described as old, since more than half of it was constructed in 1957. The normal zoning and engineering review processes of the Town are more than adequate to protect the existing, non-historic neighborhood in which I live, quite apart from the fact that I am hardly likely to want to destroy my own property values by some outlandish action. It seems totally unnecessary that I should have to face an additional level of review to those already in place. In other localities, where historic preservation is being promoted, there have been advantages to the preservers, such as special tax breaks for rehabilitation of older buildings, In the case of Vienna, we seem to have all the negatives without any of the incentives."
William C. Ide
February 15, 1990