[MassHistPres] Ideas for a Demolition Delay Workshop

[Phyllis Halpern]

Chris,
We have discussed creating a "significance" rubric to try to develop a
clear-cut way of determining significance, but we never followed through
with this.   We do not usually need to defend our decision whether to call
something significant or not, but without a defined protocol, it can be
questionable sometimes.  Knowing how others determine significance or if
someone has developed a system for it would be helpful.
Phyllis Halpern
Weston Historical Commission


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:42 AM, WHC <WHC at city.waltham.ma.us> wrote:

>  Hi Chris,
>
> Sorry to follow up a bit slowly on this, but we'd still love to host
> this.  I think that a session that covers the basics of how material should
> best be prepared in advance of such a meeting, and following one, and then
> a fairly open amount of time for questions would suffice.  Our commission
> sees a range of questions that truly run the gamut--procedural (our DDO
> allows a 15 day period after the hearing for the filing of a decision, but
> doing this would seem to violate the open meeting law), to the substantive
> (how does one substantively think through the idea of "significance" and
> "preferably preserved".)  Perhaps a handful of case studies would be a good
> way to do it.
>
> Best,
>
> Laurence "Alex" Green
> Chairperson
> Waltham Historical Commission
> www.city.waltham.ma.us/historical-commission
>
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> Laurence "Alex" Green
> Chairperson
> Waltham Historical Commission
> www.city.waltham.ma.us/historical-commission
>
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> *From:* masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu [masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu]
> on behalf of charaden at comcast.net [charaden at comcast.net]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:30 PM
> *To:* masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [MassHistPres] Ideas for a Demolition Delay Workshop
>
>   Hanover would be interested in participating in this discussion as
> well. One question we are struggling with is how to be proactive with the
> demo delay process. Our bylaw spells out specific steps that must be taken
> after a demo permit is applied for, which means we come into the process
> very late, after the owner already has decided to tear down the structure.
> We also get inquiries from potential buyers of historic homes needing work,
> looking for an opinion about whether "we're going to make them wait" for
> the delay period. We're looking for ideas to make the process more
> user-friendly and more useful as a preservation tool, not just a stop-gap
> measure that sends people scrambling to see what they can do.
>
>  Thanks for bringing up this topic!
>
>  Chris Haraden, Member
>  Hanover Historical Commission
>  charaden at comcast.net
>
>
>
>
>
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>    4. Re: Ideas for a Demolition Delay Workshop -- yes! (Brandon Wilson)
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