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By Michele Smith
The Times 

Historic Districts Likely to Change

Second vote will allow property owners to choose between dissolving districts or making them advisory

 


DAYTON—Matt Zanger and Mike Smith from the Dayton Historic Preservation Commission, along with Byron Kaczmarski from the Dayton City Council, met at City Hall on Monday night to count advisory ballots from property owners in two historic districts in Dayton.

Ten validated ballots were submitted from the Washington Street Historic District. Seven of those ballots were cast to dissolve the WSHD, two were cast to retain the WSHD, changing the process to advisory review, only. One vote was cast to retain the WSHD as is.

There were 60 validated ballots from the Southside Historic District. Thirty-seven of those ballots were cast to dissolve the SSHD, 15 were cast to retain the SSHD, changing the process to advisory review, only, and eight were cast to retain the SSHD, as is.

At a special meeting of the DHPC following the ballot count, the commissioners said that because a 75% supermajority vote for one choice was not reached in either historic district, they will move forward with a run-off vote for the top two categories: to dissolve the district or retain the district, changing the process to advisory review only.

“Nothing was decided today,” Zanger said. “We’re going to go to a second round.”

Commissioners said the second ballot will be mailed to property owners in both districts, and that was tentatively set for May 13.

The final advisory vote will be forwarded to Dayton City Council for their consideration, along with future proposed historic preservation policy and/or code amendments, according to the DHPC and City Planner Karen Scharer.

Dayton Historic District Advisory Vote Count

Washington Street Historic District

Choice Vote Count

Disolve District 7

Retain District as Advisory 2

Retain District as-is 1

Southside Historic District

Choice Vote Count

Disolve District 37

Retain District as Advisory 15

Retain District as-is 8

 

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