[MassHistPres] Demolition delay

[Chris Skelly]

Tris, you can find a compilation of demolition delay success stories in the
MHC publication, Preservation through Bylaws and Ordinances.  It is not a
comprehensive listing of every success story but provides a good overview.
Chris.

 

Christopher C. Skelly

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From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Tristram Metcalfe 3
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 5:09 PM
To: David Temple
Cc: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Demolition delay

 

I think 18 months should be the minimum. We have only a 12 month delay and
its not much of a road block to destruction of history since planning a
development is most likely well over a year anyway. 

 

We may soon be loosing an important part of our built history and the 12
months just pushed the project over the winter into the next building
season. This is a common occurrence to save on costly cold weather
construction, which can be caused by many other reasons in development.

 

It would be nice some day to have a state wide compilation of all the
successes  of demo delay. It could really help inform to convince opponents.
We have a very nice example so far in our young DD ordinance that would be
in such a document.

 

Tris Metcalfe

Northampton

 





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