Typically, concerns about historic preservation involve new properties encroaching on the old. At 115 Granite St. in Frisco, however, the opposite has happened, with a log cabin built in the 1930s starting to lean against the side of an adjacent condo building.
The Victoria Lodge Homeowner’s Association, concerned about the creeping cabin, has pressed the town do something about it. The Lodge, however, hasn’t exactly been the best neighbor, either; for years the three-story building has stored snow by dumping it on the roof of the old cabin, causing it to sag, town staff said.
that is entirely within the Victoria’s rights under the town code. Built on a zero lot-line parcel, it sits directly on the property line just feet from the unoccupied cabin. Therefore, it’s free to load the cabin’s roof with excess snow every winter.
“They’re dumping all their snow on that roof,” town buildings foreman Keith Bilisoly said. “With that zero lot-line, it just made that OK. I fought that and fought it, but … I’ll leave it at that.”
Since Frisco owns the cabin and approved that snow storage arrangement when the Victoria was built in 2007, the onus is on the current town council to remedy the situation.
Read the full story
