the sierra club supports historic preservation not only as a means to keep history alive but to keep the things from being torn down and being built from scratch. i would encourage people interested in historic preservation and members of the board of supervisors to weigh in on the desires of homeowners of victorian buildings when they want to convert the a ground floor and to a garage, you are altering a potential historical building. i would like to take you to low, mass. where all of the old factory buildings have been converted into housing and boutiques stores. it s the most beautiful historic district in that part of massachusetts. [tone] supervisor wiener: you talked about adding garages, but how about a summit was to convert an old automotive use into a new use which is not auto-related? sometimes historic issues can come up in terms of the evaluation. how do you or the sierra club view that kind of process? i cannot speak for the sierra club, but i would say some o
i just want to stress how important is to do something to get more people engaged in these surveys. thank you. back to public comment. just to follow on the discussion about the low attendance at some of these informational hearings. it may be because a lot of people did not understand the significance of what it means a property owner and how can affect them in the future. nothing what actually advise them of this. i hate to be harsh, but the information on the planning department website is a little rosy compared to the experience many people have once their properties are shown to be historic. maybe a little more realistic description would be helpful in generating some interest. i would also like to take issue with the idea that surveys are just technical documents. [tone] supervisor wiener: thank you. good afternoon. i m sure of the housing coalition and have 20 years in the field of architecture. what i wanted to say was when i think of something historic, i think o
historic preservation not only as a means to keep history alive but to keep the things from being torn down and being built from scratch. i would encourage people interested in historic preservation and members of the board of supervisors to weigh in on the desires of homeowners of victorian buildings when they want to convert the a ground floor and to a garage, you are altering a potential historical building. i would like to take you to low, mass. where all of the old factory buildings have been converted into housing and boutiques stores. it s the most beautiful historic district in that part of massachusetts. [tone] supervisor wiener: you talked about adding garages, but how about a summit was to convert an old automotive use into a new use which is not auto-related? sometimes historic issues can come up in terms of the evaluation. how do you or the sierra club view that kind of process? i cannot speak for the sierra club, but i would say some of the old what they cal
we have been told we have to take down our cartouche is. i love my home and i would like any and all of the to drive by. the house is spilling over with flowers. every time i walked out of the garage, and told how beautiful our home as. tourists stop and take a picture of our home all the time. i devote my life, five days a week, to trying to make this city a better place to live in. our home is a big part of that because our home is open to everyone for any charity event they want to give. i m involved with st. anthony s, where events are starting at our house to fund-raisers and get the homeless off the streets and the hungry fed. i started fence [tone] oh, mt god. supervisor wiener: just to be clear, you placed these decorative medallions on your home in the planning department sent a letter saying they would have to do a historic evaluation? they said we had to remove them with a certain time or pay $250 a day until they are removed. supervisor wiener: that is becaus
land use policy is the district s that have been coming out do not really rise to that level. i box at the third street boxing gym. to claim that eight rail yard of the slaughterhouses qualifies as a historic district because there are acute victorians their stretches the bounds of credulity for may. as an organization like fact [tone] we do not want to see a legitimate goals of historic preservation get in the way. supervisor wiener: next speaker. i am here to speak on behalf of the sierra club. the sierra club supports historic preservation not only as a means to keep history alive but to keep the things from being torn down and being built from scratch. i would encourage people interested in historic preservation and members of the board of supervisors to weigh in on the desires of homeowners of victorian buildings when they want to convert the a ground floor and to a garage, you are altering a potential historical building. i would like to take you to low, mass. where