Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Should Evansville have a more stringent Historic Preservation Ordinance?

The uniform code being drafted by the Residential design subcomittee has inserted the following: in section 6.4


"Consider ameding the historic preseervation ordinance to give the Evansville Historic Preservation Commission (EHPC) the power to prohibit alteration of buidings in the historic district."

The felt so strongly about it, it is repeated verbatim in section 6.9

From this wording, it would apply to residential historic as well as downtown, and under this change, the historic commission would get the VETO power over any residential proposals, whereas right now, they have the power to delay modifications.

Some of these ideas may go to planning commission, so if you have thoughts on this, share it with your alderman.

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