This is nonsensical. However Duda and Tolliver are going about it all wrong.

That being said the white home and others were for sale for nearly a decade. If the neighborhood cared so much for them someone would have bought it and lived in it.

They have all the rights in the world to tear down what they own, there's nothing legally stopping them. If I owned a house and it wasn't protected (like most of Springfield) you can't stop me.