As the rezoning request of the Amherst Street corridor last week highlighted, Winchester’s local historic district and National Register district currently have different boundaries.\u00a0 What does this mean for property owners? Currently, the Amherst corridor has\u00a0 the regulation of the local Board of Architectural Review, but none of the financial incentives available to other properties that fall within both the local and national districts.<\/p>\n
Dave Shore, a Planning Commission member who served on the Historic District committee, said he thought the panel\u2019s intent was to seek expansion of the national district to mirror the local district.<\/p>\n
That would provide economic incentives for property owners to improve buildings currently subject to BAR governance but without the fiscal advantages of being in the national district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The hope is that the incongruities noted in the survey will drive the redrawing of the city’s historic district, potentially contracting the district from “non-contributing” resources and expanding to include contributing resources currently ineligible for tax benefits.<\/p>\n
To read more about the potential boundary changes from the architectural and cultural resource survey, visit Vic Bradshaw’s article at The Winchester Star Online.<\/a> (Login required.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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