[MassHistPres] informative mailing

[annelusk at gmail.com]

Dear All,

   I propose that the Guidelines for owners of LHD homes that Greer just suggested offer additional information.  Now, the information can appear punitive, i.e., you own a historic home, so these are all the things you can’t do to your home because it is in an LHD.  

    Climate change is here and, I perceive, that people are eager to do something that lessens the impact. 

The owner could be given the Guidelines and told:

1.	Their historic home is the greenest building ever built because of its one-time stored carbon (lumber already cut, milled, and trucked).
2.	The grounds around their historic home lessen climate change because the grass, trees, and gardens pull down and store ever increasing amounts of carbon each day whereas new houses involve cutting trees, removing topsoil, adding more square footage of building and hardscape, and digging out the deep established root systems. https://www.salk.edu/science/power-of-plants/

    With this added information, the owner of a historic property could be heartened to know that they are addressing climate change with their building and by maintaining the grass, trees, and gardens (ideally vegetable gardens to lessen driving).

Thanks everyone,

Anne

 

Anne Lusk, Ph.D. 

18 Hart Street, Brookline, MA 02445 

Boston University Metropolitan College Lecturer – Urban Agriculture

617-879-4887 h

617-872-9201 c

 

 

From: MassHistPres <masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu> On Behalf Of M G Hardwicke via MassHistPres
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 1:01 PM
To: Alisa Struthers <alisa_55 at verizon.net>
Cc: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] informative mailing

 

Alisa-

 

In Brookline, we once sent out LHD Guidelines to every owner.  You could also send out jazzy postcards.

 

We also tried to get in touch with Realtors to let them know about the LHD. Once upon a time, we gave a talk at their meetings or lunches.

 

Good luck.

 

Greer Hardwicke

 

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:53 AM Alisa Struthers via MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu <mailto:masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> > wrote:

Time and time again the Townsend Historic Districts Commission are faced with the comment" I didn't know I lived in a Historic District". A project on our to do list is to create an informative mailing to each of our 100 property owners that reside in the districts. I am seeking input from any other Commissions that have done anything like this. 

Thank you much

Alisa Struthers

Chairman

Townsend Historic Districts Commission

 

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