21 5 / 2009
Preservation can get ugly. (Often and much, actually.)
Dispatch from Inside the Outside Lands, of the awesome Western Neighborhoods Project.
I’m sure any press coverage of this would be apt to blame the “crazy neighbor” for meddling in the permit process. Of course, the property owner/project sponsor is never the crazy one; oh no, it’s perfectly sane to spraypaint giant bible verse on wood planks obscuring a beautiful 1914 Craftsman. Compromising the integrity of a house like this decreases its value; historically sensitive treatment increases it. Maybe you should just throw some money into your toilet? Or better yet, write me a check for a few G’s? Only a crazy neighbor would do that.
