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1. Slide 1: Design Review Board • Know Your Ordinance • Build Community Support • Management & Procedures for DRB • Guidelines for Your Ordinance
2. Slide 2: What Does National Register Listing Mean? •Primarily National Register Listing is an honorary recognition of the importance of the site in our history •It makes an income producing property eligible for 20% rehabilitation tax credit •Section 106 Review when federal money or Permits
3. Slide 3: Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation Retain original building Repair decorative materials use, or new use that rather than replace minimizes alterations Use the gentlest means Avoid removal of historic possible to clean surfaces materials Protect, preserve and Respect the period and document archaeologi-cal resource style Construct new additions that Preserve distinctive are compatible but differentiated features, finishes and from the old construction techniques Build new additions that Are Retain major alteration Compatible with original form with their own historic and scale significance
4. Slide 4: COMMON ISSUES • Modern Materials • “Property” Rights • Demolition • Maintenance • Commercial/residential zoning • ADA
5. Slide 5: AND COMMON QUESTIONS Why can’t we be trusted with our property to do the right thing? No one is being singled out for his or her actions or inactions. However, you can either maintain the downtown you’ve earned by working together, or you will have the downtown you deserve by failing to act.
6. Slide 6: AND COMMON QUESTIONS Isn’t a zoning ordinance enough? Zoning is a tool in the toolbox for maintaining and growing a community, but just like a saw is great for trimming a couple 2x4s, it’s lousy at hammering the nails to connect those 2x4s. The design review ordinance does what a zoning ordinance cannot do: namely, protect your community’s identity.
7. Slide 7: AND COMMON QUESTIONS Change is inevitable…you can’t stop progress! Change is certain, “progress” isn’t, and stuff happens. Design review allows for compatible change and real sustainability, not random change. How about encouraging growth that respects the past and the local economy?
8. Slide 8: AND COMMON QUESTIONS This will just raise my property taxes! For most people, the purchase of property is the biggest investment in the future. I don’t think that’s a bad thing when your neighbor’s building gets a higher selling price because you have local protections.
9. Slide 9: AND COMMON QUESTIONS What do you mean, historic? George Washington never slept here! Significance is more than famous people and age. It’s about the local history that happened here, it’s about the buildings that help us visually trace our legacy.
10. Slide 10: AND COMMON QUESTIONS My property should be excluded. For the better, residents can’t just opt out of a zoning policy because they want to. Voluntary exclusion is bad public policy, not to mention tantamount to spot zoning. What if your neighbor opted out of his residential zoning in favor of SOB zoning so he could open “Bad Bob’s Sin Palace”? Talk about public consequences ! Talk about fairness!
11. Slide 11: AND COMMON QUESTIONS Design Review violates my personal property rights! Property rights aren’t absolute, and they don’t trump basic political rights, including our right to make laws regarding property. Jurisdictions at every level have weighed in regarding the legality and constitutionality of enacting design review (including the Supreme Court, upholding design review), and that’s good enough for me at this point.
12. Slide 12: Building Commission Expertise OHPO/CLG National Alliance of Preservation Commissions Heritage Ohio Historic Preservation Plan-Goals Survey-Nominate
13. Slide 13: Introduce Commission To Community The “Community” Property Owners Contractors/Builders Designers City Staff Main Street Suppliers
14. Slide 14: Community Involvement • Awards • Markers • Educational Seminars • Tours • Brochure • Professional List Service
15. Slide 15: Management By-Laws, Rules of Procedures Regularly Scheduled Meetings Open Meetings, Notice of Meetings Minutes of Meetings Selection of Commissioners Regular Training for all Commissioners Ethic - Conflict of Interest Attend Meetings
16. Slide 16: Work of the Commission Ordinance/ Guidelines Available Not opinion based, ordinance based decisions Application Flow Chart of Process Timetable Equitable Due Process Emergency Procedures Appeals Process Penalties
17. Slide 17: APPLICATION PROCESS Preliminary Consultation Application Form Attachments-required drawings Pre-Review by Staff or volunteers-Be Prepared Commission Meeting Using the Ordinance and Guidelines Providing Design Assistance Decision
18. Slide 18: Decisions •Acceptance •Consultation •Penalties/Non-compliance •Mediation •Appeals •Litigation
19. Slide 19: Dayton
20. Slide 20: Galion
21. Slide 21: Mansfield
22. Slide 22: Mansfield
23. Slide 23: Piqua
24. Slide 24: Greenville
25. Slide 25: Toledo
26. Slide 26: Lima
27. Slide 27: Lima