1985 Boundary Change Request
The first petition to be removed from the District was in 1985. This petition was a direct result of the Town allowing a transitional office building (243 Church Street) to be built in the District next to the petitioner's property:
- Before: 243 Church Street (Rear of 230 Lovers Lane, Laine Hyde, in the distance).
- After: 243 Church Street (Compare light poles with Before picture).
- After: 243 Church Street (Full length).
- After: 243 Church Street (Rear of 222 Lovers Lane in the distance).
- After: 243 Church Street (Precedent setting construction).
This building was never approved by the Windover Heights Historic District review board, but remained in the District until Town Council removed it in 1991. In 1985 Frank Lillis argued to deny the petition:
To take the property out of the historic district would make no sense at all. In addition if the request were approved, how could the Council refuse all the other requests which would surely follow.
Francis Lillis
September 13, 1985
Interestingly, today in 2005 George Lovelace tries to pass off an entirely different explanation for this request to be removed from the District.
