{"id":143730,"date":"2025-08-14T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143730\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T00:34:08","slug":"residents-of-phoenixs-willo-neighborhood-oppose-law-that-could-destroy-historic-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/143730\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Phoenix\u2019s Willo neighborhood oppose law that could destroy historic homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, residents of Phoenix\u2019s Willo neighborhood gathered to oppose a law that could destroy historic homes and allow duplexes, triplexes and townhomes to be built in their place. <\/p>\n

Opal Wagner is the co-chair of Save Historic AZ.<\/p>\n

“In addition to Willo, there’s the Encanto-Palmcroft neighborhood, the FQ Story neighborhood, Coronado Historic district, Fairview Place, Margarita place, Del Norte,” <\/b>And the list goes on, she said. <\/p>\n

Wagner\u2019s talking about the nearly two dozen historic neighborhoods, potentially impacted by a law that would allow middle housing \u2014 like duplexes \u2014 to be built in and around downtown.<\/a><\/p>\n

What that means for historic neighborhoods like the Willo, “A developer could, in fact, bulldoze a historic home and build a fourplex.”<\/p>\n

Wagner says her organization is not opposed to more housing. “But we do want development that responsibly considers these historic neighborhoods and how best to preserve them.”<\/p>\n

Wagner says over the years, the Willo has supported the development of hundreds of nearby apartment units. <\/p>\n

“So, we’re hoping that we can educate our legislators a little bit more about the value of historic neighborhoods and Arizona’s rich and remarkable history. And we’re hoping to get an exemption passed through the legislature for historic districts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, residents of Phoenix\u2019s Willo neighborhood gathered to oppose a law that could destroy historic homes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-143730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115024315362187537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}