[MassHistPres] Ideas for a Demolition Delay Workshop

Fri Jul 11 14:11:14 EDT 2014

The Lincoln Historical Commission would be very interested in attending and participating in a meeting concerning Demolition Delay issues.  We have not experienced any real problems with determinations on significance, though sometimes "'preferably preserved" determinations can be difficult.  We have also had attempts to create a "vacant lot" despite our 12-month delay and discussions with applicants.
Lucretia Giese
Lincoln Historical Commission  

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From: Phyllis Halpern <halfix at gmail.com>
To: WHC <WHC at city.waltham.ma.us>
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Sent: Fri, Jul 11, 2014 9:05 am
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Ideas for a Demolition Delay Workshop

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
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Waltham Historical Commission
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 2:30 PM
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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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