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write a new Historic Ordinance “that will establish within legal limits design review standards for development in the town which are compatible with Washington's Historical, small town character.”
The need not only grows out of the Worley lawsuit, but in general, of an existing ordinance which categorizes all buildings as historic in the town. This came about in 1985 when the Virginia Landmark Register and National Register of Historic Places designated the town, but not any individual buildings, as “perhaps the best preserved of the Piedmont’s county-seat communities,” according to the National Register of Historic Places.
Indeed, while the town is a landmark, no individual buildings or structures are designated by anybody as historic landmarks.
According to Washington Mayor Eugene Leggett, a new ordinance should attempt “to make sure it is effective to do what it is meant to do,” specifically with respect to determining what will and will not be allowed within the town’s historic district.
At the present time, every structure in the town, because of the town’s landmark designation, can be thought of as historic. As Ed Barton, chairman of the town’s Architectural Review Board, pointed out, “The designation of historic is being extended to everything within the incorpo
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