What Local Historic District DOES NOT do: · Does not regulate paint colors · Does not require repairs or renovations to be made · Does not increase taxes beyond normal increases for the City or County · Does not prevent additions · Does not prevent non-contributing homes from being demolished · Does not require use of historic materials or historic building methods · Does not require that you open you home to the public · Does not restrict routine maintenance of properties
What Local Historic District DOES do: · Recognizes that Oakhurst has a distinctive historic character important to the overall character of the City of Decatur · Encourages creative and compatible development with historic areas · Requires that a Certificate of Appropriateness be obtained for exterior changes to contributing properties, demolition of buildings, and new construction. · Applies only to major renovations to the exterior of your home. Interior renovations are not restricted.

Friday, June 8, 2007

Have you shared your records with staff of HPC, its members, City Commissioners or any other City employee or agent?

Have you shared your records with staff of HPC, its members, City Commissioners or any other City employee or agent? If so, was the information shared verbally or in writing? If 51% or more of the property owners in the proposed Oakhurst LHD are opposed to it & sign a petition indicating such, will you withdraw your nomination? If not, why?

This posting it taken from a comment from the most previous posting. I did not post all of the comments because it went into great detail about Arizona State Law. Please feel free to read the entire comment so you can make your own judgement and decision. Georgia State Law allows for the creation of LHD governed by municipalities. Our personal opinion is that we are pleased that the State of Georgia allows citizens to locally determine ways to protect their historic resources.

We have not shared our records with the staff of HPC, its members, City Commissioners or any other City employee or agent. We have referred to our efforts to educate and communicate with the residents of the proposed LHD and community at large. That notification can be found on the blog, on the Oakhurst listserv and in meeting minutes with the HPC.

I do not know if we can withdraw our nomination or not. A nomination for lhd does not require a petition or laborous procedure to ask the City to look into protecting historic resources. The time for input into your views of lhd is outlined in the schedule presented by Amanda Thompson in various media. Again, please request a copy at preserveoakhurst@gmail.com.

I appreciate your question regarding 51% participation in a petition regarding this subject. I ask the question back to you. If I presented a petition showing 51% of the residents approve of the lhd would you support the lhd? Or would you question its validity as you have questioned the validity of other information presented on this blog? If so, why?

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