One person’s “repair and maintenance” is another’s teardown and replace.
Since 2018, a developer has been seeking permission to renovate a rundown concrete building at 300 Cannery Row to build eight condominiums and retail and commercial space. While the City of Monterey approved a permit for the project, staffers at the California Coastal Commission recommended that the 12-member commission deny applicant The 300 LLC a development permit.
I blame the system that allowed funky old P.G. homes be doubled or tripled in size after a “P.G. Remodel” contributed to the second/vacation home craze.
Jenny McAdams, in a report to her council colleagues, said imposing a so-called “empty-home tax” on those who own homes in Pacific Grove but don’t rent them out or live in them often enough could bring big bucks to city hall and have other benefits.
Watch these once typical P,G, homes all experience a P.G Remodel festival where the triple in size and increase 800% in price.
A single parcel of land taking up one block with 15 cottage-style dwellings on it was recently sold in Pacific Grove for $10 million. According to real estate agent Debby Beck who represented the buyer, the property sits on one parcel and could only be sold as one parcel since the lots had not been split in almost 100 years.
Usually when someone buys a 600 square foot cottage and adds 3,000 square feet to it with nothing left of the original but the threshold it gets awarded with a historical building sign.
So Doctor buys building, offers to restore it and get waivers on parking spaces required. City discovers building is beyond repair and orders it torn down and parking waivers voided. City Director wants Doctor to make more low income dwellings in new plan. Doc is in it for the money, not social issues.
Doctor should be able to replicate the old building and keep the parking waiver.
“Once a historic building is demolished, it loses its historicity,” explained Pacific Grove’s Community and Development Director Mark Brodeur. That in turn changes certain parameters that accompany such a project. In this case those parameters involve parking.
“I informed the new owner that once the demolition is in place his plans as previously approved are no longer going to work because I don’t have the flexibility to allow five parking spaces off site,” explained Brodeur. Instead, Adeeb would have to change the project to accommodate eight parking spaces on site.
City Building Official John Kuehl who issued a notice and order to vacate and demolish the building located at 301 Grand Avenue because it was deemed “unfit for human occupancy.” Kuehl gave the tenants until the end of January to move out of the structure, which is listed on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory.
Specifically, the notice addressed to the building’s owner Manal Mansour noted that the building’s exterior surfaces have decayed to a point of allowing water to enter the building and that its structural members aren’t properly maintained and are in a deteriorated condition.
The two-story structure was a mixed use building that had primarily commercial and office uses on the ground floor and three apartments on the second floor, according to Mark Brodeur, the city’s community and economic development director. But Brodeur said the owner had future plans to build out the second floor because in its current capacity it wasn’t a full two-story building.
LOL, anything to justify a high price. Fine example of a PG Remodel, hardly anything original but hey it was a shed originally.
In order to fetch the $1550.00 per month rent I’d expect the yard to look a little less trashy.
You Can Live In The Shed Possibly Used By Famous Author’s Parents
Spotted by Esther
Before
Recently. It looks like a double in size.
The signature sign of a “P.G. Remodel” – leave one wall standing for historical purposes, then build a structure two or three times bigger around it.
Reviews that come in to play when a property is sold or remolded or torn down? Make the property owner foot the bill.
The City of Pacific Grove is going to pay a consultant more than $40,000 to get a better handle on the city’s historic buildings. The P.G. City Council voted Wednesday night to spend $42,400 to prepare an “historic context statement,” which will include describing how the city’s architecture evolved.
While spending $40,000 on a report in a city that is having severe financial troubles may seem superfluous, Burgess said in the long run, the report could save money for the city and residents, who must fork over from $200 to $1,000 for a historic evaluation.
A “P.G. Remodel” is one of those house modifications where 90% of the house is replaced and then the square footage increases by another 90%. The resulting structure my have a slight resemblance to the original, but there is often only about 5% of the original building there.
Over at 419 Congress Avenue, here’s the original 500 square foot structure, working toward that 10% of original building.
Looks like too much was removed, 9% of house fell into 200% of basement.
Juan The Builder – should he change the name to Juan The Destructor?
Follow up: A hysterical preservation lady spoke at the next city council meeting urging that everything possible be done to restore the damage. If they care so much why did they allow the little salt box be ‘restored’ into a forest chalet in the first place?
Inspectors are on the case of how “P.G. Remodels” are made.
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Six months ago, on the day that city inspectors found the remains of the historic house in a Dumpster on the front lawn, a stop-work order was imposed on the building project.
Several walls were supposed to be saved for a use in a larger replica of the shingled home, a design that won a historic preservation permit from the city. But after finding dry rot and termites in December, March decided to tear everything down and start a new.