Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2011 02 07

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i. Preservation and restoration. These projects include measures directed towards sustaining the existing form, integrity, and materials of a historic property, including preliminary measures to protect and stabilize the property. ii. Rehabilitation. These projects include measures directed toward adapting a property to make efficient contemporary use of it while sensitively preserving the features of the property, which are significant to its historical, architectural, and cultural values. Sensitive upgrading of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems and other code-required work to make the property functional is appropriate within a preservation project. This category also includes the restoration of a property to a specific, significant point in its history. iii. Routine maintenance is an allowable expense as a project. iv. Routine maintenance includes painting, refinishing and exterior cleaning. v. Pre-development. These projects include assessments of past and present historical features of a property for the purpose of properly and adequately documenting these characteristics. This includes assessing the physical condition of any existing historic features. Grants for this purpose will be available to individuals desiring to do restoration and renovation projects. The applicant could use the entire $5,000 incentive grant for general “Preservation and Restoration” purposes. ALTERATION CERTIFICATE CRITERIA: Louisville Municipal Code § 15.36.120.C lists eight criteria to be considered by the Historic Preservation Commission in reviewing an Alteration Certificate application, which follow. The Historic Preservation Commission is authorized to place conditions on their recommendation of approval, if they believe those are necessary to comply with all of the criteria. C. The commission will use the following criteria to determine compatibility: 1. The effect upon the general historical and architectural character of the structure and property. 2. The architectural style, arrangement, texture, and material used on the existing and proposed structures and their relation and compatibility with other structures. 3. The size of the structure, its setbacks, its site, location, and the appropriateness thereof, when compared to existing structures and the site. 4. The compatibility of accessory structures and fences with the main structure on the site, and with other structures. 4