Today, for the reading of ordinances, our City Council voted unanimously for item 32 on the agenda, deleting Section 20.20.080.A.1 of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which purported to regulate…
Item 32 of the City Council Agenda for October 24 deletes Section 20.20.080.A.1 of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance, which purports to regulate properties that are on the National Register…
Dear Mayor and City Council, In 2017, the El Paso County Commissioners Court conducted an architectural survey of Downtown El Paso and the adjacent barrios, and in 2020 they unanimously…
Dear Friends and Media: City Attorney Karla Nieman, at the behest of five members of City Council, and Joe Gudenrath, Executive Director of the Downtown Management District (DMD), are attempting…
Dear Media and Friends, Assistant City Attorney Russell T. Abeln is legal counsel to the City’s Historic Landmark Commission. During yesterday’s City Council meeting, he made a presentation under agenda…
Dear Friends, Today’s City Council meeting starts at 3:30pm. Item 35 on the agenda calls for discussion and action on the City ordinance that purports to regulate National Register properties.…
Dear Media and Friends, Tomorrow our City Council is taking up the controversial ordinance which, according to some, stands in the way of establishing a National Register District in our…
Dear Media and Friends, Here is the latest news about the County’s effort to establish a National Register historic district in downtown El Paso that would confer generous federal and…
Dear Media and Friends, Here is the video from my discussion last night with Richard Dayoub and Saul Saenz about the proposed Downtown National Register Historic District. I was given…
Dear Friends and Media, In 2014, River Oaks Properties, led by Adam Frank, demolished five historic buildings at the southwest corner of Mesa and San Antonio. The buildings had been…
