[MassHistPres] Information requested from communities that have 18 month demo delays

[Chris Skelly]

The masshistpres archive is online.  It isn't searchable but if you know the
month, it is easy to find.  Chris.

http://mailman.cs.umb.edu/mailman/listinfo/masshistpres

Christopher C. Skelly
Director of Local Government Programs
Massachusetts Historical Commission
  


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[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis De Witt
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Information requested from communities that have
18 month demo delays

Daniel

Brookline did it for NR properties only. We had long had 12 months for
everything else -- there is no list of eligible buildings and no cut off
date, all demo permit's are subject to a preliminary staff & Chair
determination of significance followed by a confirming vote (or not) by the
commission.  The NR 18 month limit was added as part of a general upgrade of
the DD law that included many changes including adding historic interiors
open to the public (meeting a restrictive set of guidelines) and partial
demolitions based on a % removal and stripping all detail to do aluminum
siding, etc.

The whole thing went through relatively smoothly with zero opposition in
town meeting.  One R.E. Atty. selectman, who claimed to have had negative
expedience dealing with Newton's DD law which had a very low trigger
threshold for partial demos, was the most serious opposition that I recall.

At one time there was a suggestion that Chris would maintain an archive of
old postings.  I'm not sure if that ever happened.  If it did, there is a
very lengthy posting re this on 11/16/2006.

Dennis De Witt
Brookline