[MassHistPres] Demo Delay-Length of Delay

[jonathan barnes]

Hi Chris,

I’m sorry I missed this earlier.  Reading’s demolition delay bylaw now unfortunately provides only 6 months.

Jonathan Barnes
Chair, Reading Historical Commission

> On Jan 15, 2019, at 12:02 PM, Skelly, Christopher (SEC) <christopher.skelly at state.ma.us> wrote:
> 
> I've received a half dozen updates to this list since posting it yesterday.  Here is the latest.  Chris
> 
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>                                   
> 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>
> 
> From: MassHistPres [masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu <mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu>] on behalf of Roughan, Michael [Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com <mailto:Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com>]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 9:36 AM
> To: Blever3043; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu <mailto: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
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> 
>  
> From: Blever3043 [mailto:blever3043 at aol.com <mailto:blever3043 at aol.com>] 
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:27 PM
> To: Roughan, Michael <Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com <mailto:Michael.Roughan at hdrinc.com>>; masshistpres at cs.umb.edu <mailto: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
> 
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