People with backpacks and one with a cart of clothing in a beige shopping cart hang around the Clark Park gazebo the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 2.
Photo by Michael Whitney.
EVERETT -- The city Historical Commission on Tuesday night held off granting a certificate authorizing the alteration of Clark Park to remove its historic gazebo, a request the volunteer body already found unappealing.
Instead, it voted 6-0 to suspend making a decision indefinitely and wrote a letter to the city telling it to seek a waiver.
A waiver is more stringent type of approval called a waiver that requires the City Council’s approval to alter any of the places on the city’s historic register.
The Historical Commission is involved because the entire Clark Park was added to Everett’s Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Formally, City Hall is asking the commission for a certificate where the commission vouches it is appropriate to alter the Clark Park property.
The Historical Commission also discussed the request at its February and March meetings.
Whether or not a certificate is given has no actual weight on its ability to demolish the gazebo, city spokeswoman Simone Tarver said to the Tribune in February.
A fuller story will be in the May 1st Tribune.
