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accepted ... The commission will make all reasonable efforts to expedite resolution of the <br />application or request." <br />This property is currently under review with the Planning Division for a Plat and a Planned Unit <br />Development (PUD) to redevelop the property for additional housing units. <br />STAFF RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends approval of the demolition request. <br />HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: <br />Information from Bridget Bacon, Louisville Historical Museum <br />The Social History Report identifies seven historic structures at the 421 East Street Property <br />built between the 1880s and the 1940s. Pasquale Romano and Filomena Mancini Romano <br />acquired property in this area in 1906 and divided it among their three daughters. They <br />conveyed ownership of this particular tract to their daughter, Mary Romano. Ownership has <br />passed down to her descendants, with the result being that descendants of the Romano family <br />have owned it for about 111 years, or five generations. Family members lived in some of the <br />houses on the tract, and some of the houses were rentals. The Social History Report included in <br />the packet was written in 2017. The Romano family (Lars Weiss -Seidel and Christopher Seidel) <br />have since sold the property, in 2021. <br />Most, if not all, of the structures on the parcel were moved in from other locations, possibly from <br />mine camps. Records as to exactly when this occurred do not appear to have been kept, but the <br />most or all of the relocations appear to have taken place between the 1940s and the early <br />1960s. A number of the structures were rentals. According to many current Louisville residents, <br />for a long time there were more people interested in purchasing houses than there were houses <br />to purchase. As a result, many people in Louisville rented or lived in temporary housing. Census <br />records show that it was common for a family to rent a house, and that it was also very common <br />for people to live in the outbuildings of relatives or to rent outbuildings. Likewise, if one owned <br />Demolition Review 2 <br />