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Independence preservation panel reviews standards for altering historic houses
Summary
At a regular meeting, staff reviewed the city's historic preservation code (Subchapter 59) and local examples of Victorian-era house types, emphasizing the commission's criteria for evaluating alterations and a preference to "repair rather than replace."
At a meeting of the Independence Historic Preservation Commission, a city planning staff member reviewed the commission's historic preservation code and applied preservation standards to local Victorian-era house types, focusing on how the body evaluates alterations and additions to historic properties.
The presentation, which staff described as a training session, explained that Subchapter 59 of the City of Independence Development Code governs local historic review and that the commission uses two primary criteria to decide on alterations: whether work will "recreate or approximate the historic character, appearance or material composition of the original structure" or whether it is "compatible with the historic characteristics of the area." Staff cited the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation as the source of the code's…
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