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Historic Preservation Commission approves draft MOA with Montgomery Housing Authority for Parks Place parking, subject to fencing details
Summary
The Montgomery City Historic Preservation Commission voted unanimously to approve a draft memorandum of agreement with the Montgomery Housing Authority to mitigate visual impacts from a planned parking lot at Parks Place (formerly Cleveland Courts), with final language to clarify fencing and buffer requirements.
The Montgomery City Historic Preservation Commission on a unanimous voice vote approved a draft memorandum of agreement with the Montgomery Housing Authority (MHA) that lays out mitigation for a planned parking lot at the Parks Place community (formerly Cleveland Courts), subject to follow-up on fencing specifications.
Commission staff explained that Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act requires federal undertakings that adversely affect historic properties to consider and mitigate those effects. Sean Rose, Historic Preservation staff, told the commission an adverse visual effect was found for the Parks Place setting and for the Southern Pride Elks Lodge across the street and summarized proposed mitigation stipulations.
The memorandum of…
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