[MassHistPres] Demo Delay-Length of Delay

[Skelly, Christopher (SEC)]

I've received a half dozen updates to this list since posting it yesterday.  Here is the latest.  Chris




Acton   18 months
Agawam  6 months
Amesbury        18 months
Amherst 12 months
Andover 12 months
Arlington       12 months
Ashburnham      6 months
Ashland 9 months
Barnstable      12 months
Becket  6 months
Bedford 12 months
Belmont 12 months
Berlin  6 months
Beverly 12 months
Billerica       6 months
Bolton  6 months
Boston  3 months
Bourne  12 months
Boxborough      12 months
Brookline       18 months
Burlington      6 months
Cambridge       6 months
Canton  6 months
Carver  6 months
Chatham 18 months
Chelmsford      12 months
Chilmark        6 months
Concord 12 months
Danvers 12 months
Dartmouth       6 months
Dennis  12 months
Dighton 6 months
Dover   6 months
Dudley  12 months
Dunstable       9 months
Duxbury 6 months
East Bridgewater        4 months
Eastham 12 months
Easthampton     6 months
Easton  12 months
Essex   4 months
Fall River      6 months
Falmouth        12 months
Foxborough      6 months
Framingham      6 months
Franklin        12 months
Freetown        12 months
Georgetown      6 months
Greenfield      12 months
Groton  6 months
Halifax 6 months
Hanover 12 months
Harwich 12 months
Hatfield        12 months
Hingham 6 months
Holliston       30 days
Holyoke 4 months
Hopkinton       6 months
Huntington      6 months
Ipswich 12 months
Kingston        6 months
Lakeville       6 months
Lawrence        9 months
Leicester       6 months
Leominster      6 months
Leverett        18 months
Lexington       12 months
Lincoln 6 months
Littleton       6 months
Longmeadow      9 months
Lunenburg       6 months
Lynn    5 months
Lynnfield       12 months
Malden  12 months
Marshfield      12 months
Maynard 18 months
Medfield        18 months
Medford 6 months
Medway  9 months
Mendon  6 months
Methuen 6 months
Middleborough   18 months
Middleton       6 months
Millis  30 days
Milton  24 months
Nantucket       30 days
Natick  6 months
Needham 6 months
New Bedford     12 months
Newbury 9 months
Newburyport     12 months
Newton  18 months
Norfolk 6 months
North Adams     12 months
North Andover   12 months
North Attleborough      6 months
Northampton     12 months
Northborough    6 months
Norwell 6 months
Oak Bluffs      6 months
Orleans 12 months
Peabody 3 months
Pembroke        3 months
Pittsfield      6 months
Plymouth        12 months
Plympton        18 months
Provincetown    6 months
Randolph        6 months
Reading 12 months
Rowley  9 months
Salem   6 months
Saugus  21 days
Scituate        12 months
Sharon  12 months
Sheffield       Unknown
Somerset        6 months
Somerville      9 months
Southborough    9 months
Springfield     9 months
Stockbridge     12 months
Stoughton       6 months
Sturbridge      12 months
Sudbury 6 months
Swampscott      9 months
Taunton 6 months
Tewksbury       3 months
Topsfield       6 months
Truro   12 months
Tyngsborough    6 months
Upton   12 months
Wakefield       6 months
Walpole 6 months
Waltham 12 months
Ware    9 months
Wareham 6 months
Watertown       12 months
Wellesley       12 months
Wellfleet       18 months
Westborough     6 months
Westfield       3 months
Westford        6 months
Weston  12 months
Westport        6 months
Westwood        6 months
Weymouth        6 months
Williamstown    3 months
Winchester      12 months
Woburn  12 months
Worcester       12 months
Wrentham        12 months
Yarmouth        6 months


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: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:36 AM
To: Blever3043; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Demo Delays

Brian,

Thanks for the information. Both Medford and Brookline have similar NR-eligible criteria for the extended delay. I believe this is appropriate for Hopkinton as well and intend to write this into the proposed bylaw.
Is there a definitive statement on NR-eligibility that I can use?

….Mike

Michael Roughan, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP, ACHA

D +1.617.357.7725 M +1.617.784.6463


From: Blever3043 [mailto:blever3043 at aol.com]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:27 PM
To: Roughan, Michael <Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com>; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Demo Delays

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 Lever
Medford


-----Original Message-----
From: Roughan, Michael <Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com<mailto:Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com>>
To: Mass Historic List Serve (masshistpres at cs.umb.edu<mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>) <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu<mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>>
Sent: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 3:08 pm
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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