Savannah City Council made a historic move Thursday by creating a new local conservation district, providing local preservation protections to a neighborhood south of DeRenne Avenue for the first time in city history. This installment of On Our Radar will detail those protections and the neighborhood impacted.
Also, council was provided an update on its progress towards items in the Housing Savannah Action Plan, and the rest of the year is shaping up for council to make moves addressing Savannah’s housing crunch. This piece will provide an update on the city’s progress.
Kensington Park now under local conservation status
Savannah is a town known for its picturesque vistas, and a stroll through its vast neighborhoods shows the distinct characteristics of each. In the Kensington Park/Groveland neighborhood, overhanging live oaks frame winding streets lined by mid-century ranch-style homes.
It’s that distinctive streetscape, highlighted by broad, often one-story homes that the newly approved Kensington Park-Groveland Conservation Overlay District is designed to protect. The district was approved by city council Thursday, creating a preservation tool designed at protecting homes from demolition, in what is the first neighborhood preservation protections south of DeRenne Avenue.