PORTLAND, Ore. – Two new residences have taken shape on the site of a demolished 91-year-old home in the Eastmoreland neighborhood of Southeast Portland.
Located at 3030 SE Rex St., the former Colonial-style house was built in 1924 and sat on a 9,700-square-foot corner lot, while the house totaled 1,896 square feet in size.
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Last spring the house sold to Tualatin-based Eden Enterprises for $645,000, who turned around and sold it to Lake Oswego-based Renaissance Custom Homes for $750,000.
Eden Enterprises LLC is registered to Charles Thomas and Dean Reynolds, while Renaissance Custom Homes is registered to Randy Sebastian.
Renaissance Custom Homes applied to demolish the house, and while the neighborhood association succeeded in delaying the tear-down for 60 additional days, the house was ultimately razed in September.
Photo submitted by Britt Dawkins
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Two new houses built by Renaissance Custom Homes are under construction on the site, utilizing the underlying lot provisions that allow reopening lots of record without applying for a new land division.
If the underlying lot provision weren’t available, the 9,700-square-foot lot would likely be limited to one new residence (or a duplex, utilizing a corner lot provision that allows additional density for attached housing) as it is located in an R5 zone that allows one unit per 5,000 square feet in new land partitions. Reopened lots of record, on the other hand, must only be 3,000 square feet in size to be developed.
With the reopened lots of record, there are now two separate lots with addresses 7607 SE 31st Ave. and 7611 SE 31st Ave. One lot is about 5,400 square feet in size, while the other is about 4,200 square feet.
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In December the two new house addresses were both registered as “green projects” on the “Green Building Information Gateway.” There is no information yet listed on the details that went into this registration.
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