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November 8, 2022 — Meeting Transcript
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Okay. Okay, everybody welcome to our 630 discussion session for tonight and we're going to talk about historic districts and preserving some of the. Well, one particular areas is what we're kind of focused on, which is the Williams workshops on Maryland have. And you know we've talked about a little bit before, but I just thought that we should consider. trying to find a way to protect and preserve that area's ambiance and charm. And so I will turn it over to David for an update. Great. Thank you, Mayor. So this is a continuation of a discussion that we actually started back in August of this year. So if you recall, we went through historic districts. We talked about the legislation that we have on the books and the fact that we do have historic districts pull this over here. We do have multiple areas in the city that are listed on the National Register And we do have some enabling legislation that's already been passed that would allow us to establish local historic districts. And also, we have a regulatory framework already in place for those districts with the architectural review board essentially acting as a landmarks board that could approve demolition certificates of appropriateness in review, really setting forth the design criteria. The information was requested at that last meeting was the ordinance I sent a link of.
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