Staff recommends trimming century-old rules-and-procedures document to avoid duplication with county code

May 27, 2026

Staff advised commissioners to excise outdated or duplicated material from the Historic Preservation Commission's rules-and-procedures document and instead rely on Title 40 (Unified Development Code) and adoption-by-reference of standards, with commissioners to review annotated deletions.

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Bart (staff) told the commission that much of the existing rules-and-procedures document is duplicated in the county27s Unified Development Code (Title 40) or is outdated and potentially in conflict with current code and practice. He proposed returning commissioners a marked-up version that strikingly shows deletions, identifies where the code already covers the material, and explains why particular sections are proposed for removal.

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