PORTLAND, Ore. – A 120-year-old house in the Sunnyside neighborhood was recently demolished, and will be replaced by a new single family residence.
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The house was located at 3301 SE Madison. Built in 1894, it was 1,852 square feet in size, on a 6,666 square foot lot.
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The property sold in August for $512,000. In September the city received an application for demolition, making this the third-highest priced house purchased for demolition profiled by the Portland Chronicle, eclipsing a home in Eastmoreland demolished earlier this year. The highest remains a house in the Northwest district, while the second-highest is a home on NE 39th Couch.
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The demolition was exempt from the K-1 demolition delay.
In place of the 120-year-old home, the developer has applied for a three-story single family residence with an attached garage. The permit lists the “total square footage – display only” as 3,307 square feet.
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Although the property is located within an R2.5 zone, meaning there can be one home per 2,500 square feet of land, and the lot is 6,666 square feet in size, the developer has not applied for a lot partition, and appears to be replacing the demolished home with one house.
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Splitting the lot at this time would be an exploitation, if not a direct violation, of the K-1 demolition delay exemption, which only exempts houses from demolition delay when they will be replaced by a single new home.
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The owner of the property is CKW Construction LLC, registered in Milwaukee, Ore. to Amanda Williams. CKW Construction LLC, also the contractor on the Madison project, demolished a one-story single-family home at 4046 SE Caruthers earlier this year, and has replaced it with a two-story single family home.
CKW Construction LLC had purchased the Caruthers house for $226,000 in February 2014, and sold the new house for $619,000 in September 2014.
The applicant on the Madison project is Kevin Partain of Urban Visions.
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