[MassHistPres] Demo Delays-Town Meeting Materials

[Skelly, Christopher (SEC)]

Attached is an example from Falmouth, used at their town meeting.  If anyone has other informational material used at their city council or town meeting, please send them to me and I will compile them.  Chris.

Christopher C. Skelly
Director of Local Government Programs
Massachusetts Historical Commission
Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us<mailto:Christopher.Skelly at state.ma.us>

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From: MassHistPres [masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] on behalf of Roughan, Michael [Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 11:39 AM
To: Mass Historic List Serve (masshistpres at cs.umb.edu)
Subject: [MassHistPres] Demo Delays

Thanks to the counsel of Dennis De Witt and Gretchen Schuler, the Hopkinton Historical Commission is looking to extend our Demo Delay from 6 months to 18 months. The rationale is 18 months is sufficient time to create a single structure Historic District, if that is the course Town Meeting wished to take. We have one significant property that the applicant has submitted a demolition application for, the Davis House. This structure was built in 1794 and has a long list of events that occurred on the property.

Does anyone have any information they have prepared for their Town Meeting to support a Demo Delay? What I was thinking is a list of questions i.e. Why extend the demo delay? How will it affect my property? Etc. or stories about properties lost.

Also is there a list anywhere of the Ma. towns with their current demo delay length?

Regards,

….Mike

Michael Roughan, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP, ACHA
Chairman - Hopkinton Historical Commission

Town of Hopkinton
18 Main Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748

D 617.357.7725 M 617.784.6463


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