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HRC adopts five-year survey priorities, names East Lawrence top target and establishes biennial review
Summary
The HRC accepted a Historic Surveys Subcommittee recommendation to prioritize five neighborhoods for future surveys — East Lawrence, Babcock, Pinckney, North Lawrence and Brook Creek — and voted 4-0 to adopt a biennial reassessment process.
The Historic Resources Commission on Feb. 20 adopted a prioritized five-year survey plan that names East Lawrence as the top priority for future historic surveys, followed by Babcock, Pinckney, North Lawrence and Brook Creek. The commission also approved a biennial reassessment of survey priorities.
Commissioner Cayan presented the Historic Surveys Subcommittee’s recommendation and noted the subcommittee had earlier identified 12 neighborhoods and subsequently consolidated a top five. The subcommittee recommended reassessing priorities every two years to take into account older surveys that may be out of date, an essay prepared in 2010 titled “Living in East Lawrence” and a forthcoming capital improvement plan referenced by staff that would survey homes built before 1980.
Public comment included support for elevating East Lawrence as the top priority; a commenter said, “I feel like the cat that swallowed the canary, but, I'm very pleased that East Lawrence has been moved up to number 1. And, now we just need to find some money.” The commission then voted 4-0 to accept the proposed hierarchy and the biannual review and to adopt the plan as the HRC’s survey plan.
Staff and the subcommittee said the chosen five neighborhoods would guide survey work over the next five to six years and that the HRC could reassess priorities sooner if circumstances change.
