Austin Walsh/Daily Journal Ashley Canty lives at 1128 Douglas Ave. in Burlingame, where a 29-unit apartment complex is slated to be built.

The house at 1128 Douglas Ave. is the former home James and Jessie Murphy and is recognized as a historical site in Burlingame. The house is proposed to be moved to a property on Oak Grove Avenue to make way for a new residential development, which some neighbors oppose.

Burlingame residents fighting the proposed relocation of a historic house from Douglas Avenue and development of the property into a 29-unit apartment building said they are worried the project would forever alter the character of their downtown neighborhood.

Those living near the single-family homes at 1128 and 1132 Douglas Ave. expressed their frustration with the proposed construction of a five-story apartment complex that would offer rental rooms during a Planning Commission meeting Wednesday, March 24.

To make way for the project, builders have suggested razing the residence at 1132 Douglas Ave. and picking up the historic house next door at 1128 Douglas Ave. to move it about half a mile away to a location on Oak Grove Avenue.

The house located at 1128 Douglas Ave. is the former home of James Murphy, who served as an early city stationmaster and later worked as city clerk before his death in 1940. His wife Jessie Murphy served as a park commissioner and helped develop Burlingames identity as the City of Trees, according to a city report.

The building, built in 1903 and relocated to its current location in 1914, is recognized by the city as a historic resource.

To preserve the home through the proposed development of the sites on Douglas into an apartment complex, the builder has offered to move the historic building to 524 Oak Grove Ave.

There is a single-family home currently located at the site on the property at Oak Grove Avenue that would need to be demolished to make way for the relocation of the home from Douglas Avenue.

But residents living near the site of the proposed development on Douglas Avenue say the neighborhood is unfit for such a large-scale residential project, and fear the traffic and parking impacts by adding nearly 30 more apartments.

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