Conway Selectboard Mary Kate Ryan NHDHR 7 June 2016 What is Preservation At a community level historic preservation is identifying features of the built landscape that help define your towns ID: 680225
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So You’re Interested in Preservation
Conway
Selectboard
Mary Kate Ryan, NHDHR
7 June 2016Slide2
What is Preservation?
At a
community level
, historic preservation is identifying features of the built landscape that help define your town’s
sense of place
and working to
manage change
so that this sense of place is not lost.
The Conway Master Plan suggests balancing growth with the needs of the community.
This can be preservation
.Slide3
Why should the Town be Involved?
SENSE OF PLACE
is community-wide
All policies and regulations are made by the town
What other organization represents all of the constituents of a place?
Town sets land-use laws and makes land-use decisions.Slide4
What are the tools?
Survey – historic architectural, archaeological
National Register/State Register of Historic Places listing
Local Historic District(s)
Tax incentives: RSA 79-D,RSA 79-E, Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentive
Certified Local Government
Building codes/Local Land Use Planning
Main Street programs
Scenic Roads/Scenic Byways
State grant programs: Moose Plate, LCHIP, NH Preservation Alliance
Master plan chapter, Hazard Mitigation plan
Conservation and agricultural commissions and designations
THERE ARE MANY OPTIONS
Where do you start?Slide5
Heritage Commission
Enabling legislation: RSA 674:44A
Town-wide
Advisory body
Duties include:
Researching existing information on town resources and
preservation strategies
Working with or consulting professionals, as needed
Holding meetings, doing public outreach and
education
Advising other town organizations
and commissionsSlide6
What do you already know?
What histories have been written?
What documents do the town hall, the libraries, the historical societies have?
What has been surveyed? (DHR’s files)
What maps exist of town?
What are citizens
interested in
?
A heritage commission can pull together all known information about cultural resources in town as a starting place to identify gaps, unknowns, potentially threatened resources
And can then identify appropriate tools for the town to consider.Slide7
Where to start – 1 suggestion
2002 Master Plan Land-Use chapter:
Identified “Village Character” as important
What defines the character of Conway’s villages? Will be different for each village. Look at:
Form and massing of buildings
Setback and streetscape elements
Materials and styles
Interactions between public/private and pedestrian/auto spacesSlide8
Questions as you Begin?
Mary Kate Ryan
State Survey Coordinator
NH Division of Historical Resources
marykate.ryan@dcr.nh.gov
603.271.6435