2018-016 Amending Ordinances Creating Historical Overlay Districts to Incorporate Design Standards for the Historic Districts

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The Secretary of the Interior's The Secretary of the Interior's Standards, for Rehabilitation Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties are common- sense principles in non-technical 1. A property will be used as it was language. They were developed to historically or be given a new use that help protect our nation's requires minimal change to its irreplaceable cultural resources by disfinctive materials, features, spaces, promoting consistent preservation practices. and spatial relationships. The Standards may be applied to 2. The historic character of a property will all properties listed in the National be retained and preserved. The Register of Historic Places: removal of distinctive materials or buildings, sites, structures, objects, alteration of features, spaces, and ,and districts. spatial relationships that characterize a The Standards are a series of property will be avoided. concepts about maintaining, repairing and replacing historic 3. Each property will be recognized as a materials, as well as designing physical record of its time, place, and new additions or making alterations; as such, they cannot, use. Changes that create a false sense in and of themselves, be used to of historical development, such as make essential decisions about adding conjectural features or elements which features of a historic from other historic properties, will not property should be saved and be undertaken, which might be changed. But once an appropriate treatment is selected, the Standards provide 4, Changes, to a property that have philosophical consistency to the acquired historic significance in their, work. own right will be retained: and There are Standards for four preserved. distinct, but interrelated, approaches to the, treatment of 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, historic properties — preservation, and construction techniques or rehabilitation, restorafion, and examples of craftsmanship that reconstruction, characterize a property will be Source: National Park Service preserved. 6. Deteriorated historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a, distinctive feature, the new feature will match the old in design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and physical evidence. 7. Chemical or physical treatments, if Design Standards for the City of Paris, Texas 18