Wakeland sues over Urbana decision on Main Street home
URBANA – Developer Howard Wakeland has gone to court seeking to overturn a July 8 decision by the Urbana City Council that denied him the ability to demolish an old rooming house at 809 W. Main St. and replace it with a new house.
A complaint seeking a court review of the council's decision was filed Tuesday in Champaign County Circuit Court by Wakeland's attorney, Glenn Stanko. The complaint seeks to overturn the city council's decision denying Wakeland a certificate of appropriateness and a certificate of economic hardship to demolish the century-old house.
The house is in a city historic district covering the 800 block of West Main Street that the city council created in November 2007, but the house itself was determined by the council to be noncontributing to the historic district.
"We don't feel there's any justification for what they've done," Stanko said.
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