[MassHistPres] LHD administration

[Dennis De Witt]

Ralph

Maybe someone can confirm or correct, but I'm not sure you need to have a combined LHD and Historical Commission to have all the LHDs overseen by one LHD commission.

Otherwise your points are all well taken -- including that with a merged commission the Historical Commission function gets short shrift.

Dennis  De Witt


On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, <slater at alum.rpi.edu> <slater at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:

> Springfield has 8 districts (2 are single-parcel districts) and has a single historical commission that administers all of them. 
> 
> Pros of having a single commission is that it can be consistent across all districts, and that you don't have to find a separate set of 7 volunteers to administer each district. There is also no competition between HDCs since there is just one (no feeling that one district is more important than another - my understanding is that in a neighboring town, they have a HDC that is separate from a HC, and the existing HDC is not happy about the creation of a new district because they feel their early 19th century district is more important and historical than the proposed early 20th century district). 
> 
> Cons is that with a merged historical commission, the focus of the commission is largely on administering the districts rather than on general historical functions (awareness, etc). Also, the meetings have the potential to be long and tiresome depending on how many proposals for changes you get. 
> 
> Ralph Slate
> Springfield, MA
> 
> 
> <-----Original Message----->Good morning:
> > 
> >North Reading is in the process of establishing a second historic district. How
> >do towns with more than one LHD administer these areas? Are there separate
> >commissions for each district or is their one commission that administers both
> >areas?
> > 
> >Happy DiFranza, chairman
> >North Reading Historic District Study Committee
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