Those are questions currently being considered in the borough.
Recently, members of the Narberth Planning Commission hosted a meeting over Zoom with state and county officials to discuss what could be part of an ordinance.
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Depending on its details, an ordinance could range from giving the council the ability to prohibit some building demolitions to mandating how a facade might look.
Cory Kegerise, community preservation coordinator for Eastern Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, explained the two ways local communities can enact preservation ordinances. One method would be designed to protect individual properties.
His recommendation to Narberth was to use the second method and create a historic district through the state's Historic District Act.