- ‘Renaissance Custom’ Razing Vernon Home for Multiple Units
- Vernon Home Vanishes for Multiple New ‘Renaissance’ Units
PORTLAND, Ore. – A modest 1,082-square-foot home in the Vernon neighborhood of Northeast Portland will be razed and replaced by multiple new residences.
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The 87-year-old house, located at 5804 NE 11th Ave., was built in 1928 on a 5,000-square-foot lot. City records state the house and property sold in May 2014 for $209,000 to Lloyd Development LLC.
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Lloyd Development LLC is registered to Garner Moody. Shortly after purchasing the property Moody applied for a land division to result in two new lots for detached housing. In September Diane Hale of the Bureau of Development Services sent out notice that the partition was approved.
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However, on March 27 the city received an application for demolition of the house, citing Renaissance Custom Homes LLC as the contractor. While the city still shows Lloyd Development LLC as the owner and most recent purchaser, the county has recorded a sale to Renaissance Custom Homes LLC on April 3 for $285,000, which is $76,000 more than Moody purchased it for just 11 months prior.
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The house is under demolition delay with the permit listed as “ok to issue” on May 4. There have been no construction permits issued yet.
Renaissance Custom Homes LLC is registered to Randal Sebastian at 16771 Boones Ferry Road in Lake Oswego.
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The house to be demolished is located in an R2.5 zone, meaning the two new units will comply with the site’s zoning. But it is also located within an “alternative design density” overlay zone, some of the goals of which are to “focus development on vacant sites” and “preserve existing housing.”
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Demolition would seem to be counter to the language of the overlay zone.