[MassHistPres] Demo Delays

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Mike,
I worked on extending Newton's to 18 months while on staff there.  I found that we needed a trade off.  We took it to 18 months for buildings listed or eligible for listing (as determined by MHC) on the National Register.  Asking for every building determined preferably preserved was not going to fly.  We also loosened up the standards for partial demo allowing smaller projects to move forward without review.  The theme was catching the bigger and more important fish and letting the smaller ones go.  It still took months but did pass.

Brian LeverMedford 



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From: Roughan, Michael <Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com>
To: Mass Historic List Serve (masshistpres at cs.umb.edu) <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
Sent: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 3:08 pm
Subject: [MassHistPres] Demo Delays

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