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2 MINUTE HARDSHIP APPEAL FEES AND DISGUST DESIGNATED HISTORIC PROPERTIES
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My name is Fran Mires-Diederich. I tvi,
I co-own with my husband 3758-60 Frow Avenue
3475 Hibiscus Street
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1 am standing here to tell you clearly and firmly that the historic designation of our 2 properties
last week by the HEP board is already causing us major financial hardship. I am dead against
our properties being designated Historic. It is a hijacking of our rights and I am upset, sickened,
sad and angry that the sneaky, unprofessional HEP board and their absurd 3 tear criteria
which I believe is baseless, unscientific and quickly thrown together with zero transparency nor
methodical process was forced down our throats, without due process, vote of the people or
fairness for all.
The board gave us 15 days to appeal. This appeal fees you are hearing about today will cost
me over 4 thousand dollars which I cannot afford. I carefully budget my financial life for my
family of 5 and it does not have an extra pad of 4 thousand dollars to pay for an appeal that
should be our right for free. The fee is so outrageously high I am labeling it Extortion. If we
don't pay the fee, then we cannot appeal. The HEP board wins by default. a leve that is their
end game ... poor people cannot fight like the rich.
Hardship. Pure and simple. I cannot afford to pay this extreme fee that should never have been
asked in the first place.
Commissioners... I am formally asking that this commission today eliminate the outrageous
appeal fees entirely, and ask the mayor to signtom, so that we ,the people ,can appeal the
unjust designation of our properties Historic.
Comissioners!!.Please carefully listen to those of us who d(NOT want historic designation. I feel
this outrageous appeal Fees is the tt of the iceberg... wh come next at the whim of this
out of control HEP board? If this was YOU commissionerst would you do to protect
yourself and your properties for your famalies?
Thank you
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