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RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION'S DECISION TO DENY A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE DEMOLITION OF THE STRUCTURE AT 102-108 EAST SUPERIOR STREET.
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CITY PROPOSAL:
RESOLVED, that the city council finds as follows:
(a) That on May 18, 2022, ZMC Hotels, through its agents Veit & Company, Inc. and North Creek Investors II, LLC, submitted an application (Heritage Preservation Commission File No. "PL 22-090") for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of its structure at 102 to 108 East Superior Street; and
(b) According to the "Historic Resources of Downtown Duluth, Minnesota, 1872-1933," submitted to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, this structure was constructed in 1905, and was known as Duluth Marine Supply, but it now is commonly known to citizens as the old Astoria Hotel, as well as the Old Town Antiques, Chinese Dragon, and the Bullseye Building; and
(c) This structure has, since 2006, been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing structure to the Duluth Commercial Historic District; and
(d) Under Minn. R. 4410.4300, Subp. 31, which is an Environmental Quality Board regulation implementing Minn. Stat. ? 116D.01 et seq., demolition of the structure is not allowed unless there is an environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) or unless an exception to the EAW requirement is shown. One such exception is review by a certified heritage preservation commission; and
(e) No environmental assessment worksheet has been prepared; and
(f) That pursuant to Section 50-37.14 of Chapter 50 of the Duluth City Code, as amended, such application for Certificate of Appropriateness for a demolition was duly referred to the heritage preservation commission, which is appropriately certified, and such commission gave due notice of public hearing to be held by the commission on June 13, 2022; and
(g) That pursuant to Section 50-37.14 of Chapter 50 of the...
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