Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 15 · column 6 of 6 · from the scan, no model involved
the town’s Historic District Ordinance, and has before it a draft rewritten by Zoning Administrator John McCarthy and town attorney Frank Reynolds.
Mr. Thomas8on said he feels the ordinance should include a section in its preface about the ordinance’s intent. "We keep making decisions on architecture . . . which fits between the town’s inception and 1900 . . . when in fact architecture in the town is one of the least important things . . . The fact is that people put up whatever they liked on any lot.”
In other places, Mr. Thomasson added, for example Old Town Fredericksburg, “there is a high concentration of similar buildings built in a similar style over a short period of time. We need to give some thought to how to handle the question of architectural appropriateness.”
"It has to be judged on a case-bycase basis,” Mrs. Willis replied. “The town is living history. It starts with the colonial period and works up through the Victorian to contemporary. We have to judge each case on its own.”
“Many things don’t fit from the town’s inception to 1900,” Mr. Thomasson repeated. “Many fit between 1900 and the present.”
If what you are looking for, Mr. Eldred interjected, “is a statement saying that everything done until now is appropriate - that would throw the door open to problems.”
“We have a statement of intent,” Mr. Thomasson said. “What we need is a statement of rationale.”
“You’ve got your work cut out for you,” Mr. Eldred replied.
“Maybe,” suggested Mrs. Miller, “we should deal with each property: say that whatever is done should continue things which are appropriate to that plot... this town has an individual neighborhood - like Old Town Fredericksburg - on each plot. Next door may be divergent, but not incompatible.”
“What we are talking about is compatibility, not rigid dating,” Mr. Thomasson agreed.
The board announced that its first reference book, House of Bough* is now available for loan at the county library. Also on file at the library is a folder containing the names of suppliers dealing in various aspects of restoration. The ARB’s reference file is open to the public during regular library hours.
87.3%