Where should the landmarks commission draw the line when limiting homeowners' ability to make changes to their historic homes?
"Like many homeowners in this upscale neighborhood of flagstone paths and huge old trees, sheltering early-1900's Tudor, Colonial and Mediterranean houses, [one homeowner in the Fieldston neighborhood in the northwest Bronx] was adjusting to a new reality. On Tuesday, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to make Fieldston a historic district, limiting the changes homeowners can make to their houses' exteriors in a 140-acre area comprising 257 houses."
"'Landmarks says this light is historic,' [he] said. 'What they're signaling is, "Hey, when you want to change this, we want to weigh in. You can't just change it."' He paused. 'That's the stuff that I personally find the most annoying, the little stuff. You don't get the benefit of owning a house.'"
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