[MassHistPres] demolition and 'partial demolition'

[Daniel Bibel]

Mr Worden - thanks for the reply. I have seen language like that in other Massachusetts communities- but wonder how this is measured or by whom? 
Daniel Bibel 

Please excuse odd autocorrects 
 On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, jworden at swwalaw.com <jworden at swwalaw.com> wrote:



Arlington's by law defines demotion as a change to more than 25% of any façade of a listed building.  I believe this definition has been adopted in several other communities.

John  Worden, Arlington HDC




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 The bylaws in the Town of Medfield (and those in a number of other Massachusetts' cities and towns) refer to 'demolition and partial demolition' as defined in the State Building Code ("SBC"). 

We have been informed by the current Building Commissioner in Medfield that the current edition of the SBC no longer has a definition for 'partial demolition.'  As a result, his attitude is that he will only forward to us applications for the total demolition of structures.

How are other Historical Commissions dealing with this?  A large number of the reviews which we have done over the past dozen years have dealt with major changes to the exteriors of building, but were not total demolitions. I would imagine this would also be true for other Historical Commissions. 
 
Daniel Bibelco-chair, Medfield Historical Commission
dbibel at verizon.net


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