Historic Preservation
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| Vieux Carre | 1921 French Quarter in New Orleans, designates first historic preservation commission in 1921 w/ the purppose of preserving the commercial value of the area (tourism)
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| When did Vieux Carre become a historic district? | 1937
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| Fisrt City to enact Historic Preservation Ordinance | 1931, Charleston, SC
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| Who sets the review standards for a historic preservation area? | Secreatry of Interiors - sets standards that form basis for review of changes to a designated historic building
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| What designates a historic district? | an area that generally contains a significant concentration of older properties linked by architectural style, historical development, or a past event
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| What are historic preservation ord.? | local laws through which owners of historic rpop. may be prohibited from demolishing their prop or making major alterations to it w/o local gov't approval
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| WHat are preservation ordinances allowed to protect? | landmarks, entire historic districts, or both landmarks and districts
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| What do preservation ordinances typically regulate? | design of new construction & changes to existing structures
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| Land mark preservation | similar to historic but it involves preservation of single structure or group of structures rather than whole area
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| Who has the power to designate landmarks? | historic district commission
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| Historic District Commission | aka design review board, entity w/i local gov't charged w/ administering a community's historic preservation ordinance
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| Who is typically on the historic district commission? | local citizens w/ expertise in architectural history, architecture, law, or real estate
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| What type of power does a historic planning commission have? | some only make recomendations to other gov't bodies and others have the final word on whether & how historic properties may be altered
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| State statutes | Establish commissions or committees to oversee historic districts, authority to reegulate historic preservation comes from the police power; these may standardize the historic-designation system w/i a state
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| Historic Preservation Tax Credit | allowed for rehabilitation of older structures that takes into account historic significance of a prop., typically used for properties located in a designated historic district
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| Preservation easements | used by private prop owners who are int. in protecting their historic prop.
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| Who presents the easements to the preservation org. or gov't entity? | property owner
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| Is land donated for an easement typically voluntary? | yes, but it binds current & future owners to protect the historic character of the prop subject to the easement
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| Facade easements | preservation easements used to protect only the exterior or face of a historic structure; commonly used in urban environment
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| Transfer of Development Rights | used to permit more intense development than allowed by zoning as compensation to owner for not demolishing historic structure
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| What does TDR separate? | the right to alter property from other property rights
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| What is "Fee simple acquisition of a historic landmark"? | purchase a landmark and preserve it voluntarily
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| Adaptive Reuse | creating new uses for old buildings such as recycling properties for uses other than those for which they were designed
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| Name the Historic Preservation cases | US vs. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co. 1896
Penn Central Transportation Co. vs. City of NY 1978
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| Has zoning for historic preservation purposes been upheld in courts? | yes
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| Antiquities Act | 1906 - 1st law to provide fed. protection for archaeological & historic sites, allowed areas w/i public domain that contained historic landmarks, historic structures, & objects of historic int. to be designated as National Monuments
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| Historic Site, Buildings, & Antiquities Act | 1935 required Secretary of the Interior to identify, acquire, and restore qualifying historic sites & called upon fed. agencies to consider preservation needs in their programs & plans
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| National Trust for Historic Preservation | 1949 Pres. Truman signed National Trust, this is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places & revitalzing America's communities
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| National Historic Preservation Act | 1966 est. National Register of Historic Places, this provides (Section 106) for the protection of preservation-worthy sites and properties threatened by fed. activities
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| What are the terms loook for in environmental review? | "potentially eligible for designation" as a historic landmark and "designated" as a historic landmark
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| Intermodal Surface Trasnportation Efficiency Act | ISTEA - created Transportation Enhancment fund to deal with community-wide impacts of transportation and earmarked funds for scenic byways and historic preservation
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