What’s wrong with the Landmarks Preservation Commission?

A design for the “Gansevoort Row” project at 60-74 Gansevoort St. in the landmarked Meatpacking District, which the community overwhelmingly opposed but which the L.P.C. approved.
BY ANDREW BERMAN | This is a question many in the Village, including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, have been asking of late. A string of controversial approvals at 11 Jane St., 145 Perry St., and 60-74 Gansevoort St. seem to undermine the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s very purpose to preserve and protect the historic character of landmarked districts like Greenwich Village.
There’s no denying that the L.P.C.’s decisions to approve a very…