TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Anthea Gianniotes, Development Services Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: October 5, 2021
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ORDINANCE NO. 28-21, TO INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNATE “DOCS” AT 10 NORTH SWINTON AVENUE ON THE LOCAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. (FIRST READING)
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Review and consider Ordinance No. 28-21 on First Reading for the Individual Designation of “Doc's” at 10 North Swinton Avenue to the Local Register of Historic Places.
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Background:
The City received a privately initiated application to individually list "Doc's," located at 10 N. Swinton Avenue, to the Local Register of Historic Places.
The subject property is on the west side of North Swinton Avenue between West Atlantic Avenue and NW 1st Street and is within the Locally and Nationally Designated Old School Square Historic District. It contains Lot 16, less the south 20 feet thereof, Block 60, Town of Delray, Florida, as recorded in Plat Book 1, Page 3, of the Public Records of Palm Beach County, Florida. The property address is 10 N. Swinton Avenue and currently contains a building that was formerly occupied by a restaurant known as “Doc’s All American”, which was constructed in 1951 in the Masonry Vernacular style. Parking for the restaurant exists on the subject property and on the adjacent lot to the west.
The property is listed as contributing within the National Register designated Old School Square Historic District and the property is listed as non-contributing within the Local Register designated Old School Square Historic District. The 2009 Old School Square Historic District Resource Survey recommended that the subject property be reclassified as contributing, as the Period of Significance was being expanded to include those eligible resources constructed between 1944 and 1965; however, the owner requested that the subject property not be reclassified. Upon adoption of Ordinance No. 10-10 on June 1, 2010, the Pe...
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