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Montgomery commission previews updated ARB guidelines, advances South Hull survey
Summary
City staff outlined draft revisions to the Architectural Review Board design guidelines, emphasized preserving character-defining features such as original wood windows, and said a staff-led survey of roughly 380 South Hull properties is on track for a 2026 designation report.
The Montgomery Historic Preservation Commission on a November meeting heard a detailed staff presentation on revised design guidance and neighborhood survey work, with staff urging outreach to expand designations beyond architecture to include cultural and social history.
Sean Rose, the commission’s staff coordinator, walked commissioners through an updated appendix for the Cloverdale–Idlewild neighborhood and said the city’s local register currently includes "about 74 of those" individually designated properties. He said the existing design guidelines date from 1985 and the draft will…
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