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Planning commission recommends historic-preservation ordinance to City Council amid debate over scope and timing
Summary
The Vigo Area Planning Commission voted to recommend General Ordinance No. 2 (2025), which would create a seven-member Terre Haute Historic Preservation Commission empowered to survey resources and issue certificates of appropriateness, staff said.
The Vigo Area Planning Commission voted to recommend General Ordinance No. 2 (2025), an amendment to the Terre Haute City Code that would establish a seven-member Historic Preservation Commission appointed by the mayor to survey historic resources and issue certificates of appropriateness for demolition, moving, and certain new construction or exterior changes, planning staff said.
"What you have before you is a mirror of state code. It is deliberately mirroring state code so that it can be legally defensible," Todd Nation, president of the Terre Haute City Council and one of five council…
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