Course: BLD 163 Basic Site Assessment

Reading

Recognized Environmental Conditions

Consider the following site history:

Records show that there was a sawmill at this location in 1864. The mill was demolished in 1886 and the site remained underdeveloped. In 1940 a road was built through the center of the site. This road separated the site into eastern and western portions. Around the time the road was built residential buildings were developed on the western side and commercial building were developed on the eastern side of the property. In 1947, the commercial buildings housed a cabinet shop and an automobile wrecking facility. The southern and south eastern portions of the property were used as a junkyard that expanded to the sites entire eastern half from 1956 to 1964. By 1971 the site was entirely cleared out except for a few cars. In 1978 all of the buildings were demolished and the site remained vacant.

Today, the site is located within a mixed-use residential/commercial/retail section of town. It is situated near a park, and Joe’s Cleaner and Laundromat, Riverview cemetery, National Bank, and Family Dollar are adjacent to it.