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Bristol, Rhode Island

Enabling Legislation, Mandated Planning

• Enabling Legislation: legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law. WordNet search 3.0
• Comprehensive Planning as per the Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act 45-22.2, Rhode Island General Laws, Chapter 45-22.2)

Examples of Local Organizations and their Initiatives

• Preserve Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island
• Providence Preservation Society, Providence, RI
• West Broadway Neighborhood Association, Providence, RI
• Preservation Worcester, Worcester, MA
• Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE), New Bedford, MA
• Cape Cod Preservation Commission, Barnstable, MA
• Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation, Saratoga, NY

Preservation at the Muncipal Level:

• Department of Planning and Development, Providence, RI
• The Department of Cambridge Community Development, Cambridge, MA
• Meetings, Bristol Historic District Commission, Bristol, Rhode Island

Historic Preservation [Review] Commissions, Historic District Commissions

• National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC)
  • Online Design Guideline
• Working on the Past in Local Historic Districts, National Park Service (link broken 111122)
• Heritage Commissions: Why Your Town Needs One (New Hampshire Preservation Alliance), NH Office of Energy and Planning
• A Comparison of the National Register of Historic Places with Local Historic Landmark and Distrioct Designations, North Carolina SHPO
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Treatment of Historic Properites
  • Terminology of treatments, NPS
  • Rehabilitation NPS

Certified Local Governments, NHPA section 101(c)

• The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, As Amended (2000)
  • CLG re NHPA sec 101
• Certified Local Government (CLG)
• Preserving Your Community's Heritage Through the Certified Local Government Program (PDF file)
• Certified Local Government Grant Program, Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission (SHPO)

Community Development Corporations and other initiatives

• Community Development Corporations (CDCs), Community-Weath (The Democracy Collaborative)
  • Community Works Rhode Island (formerly Elmwood Foundation and Greater Elmwood Neighborhood Services)
  • Blankenship, Tim. Celebrate the new Community Works Rhode Island!, Providence Daily Dose, January 21, 2009.
  • HousingWorks RI
  • Mosaico CDC, Bristol, RI
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
  • Rhode Island LISC
    • A Community-Police Partnership Transforms Olneyville, Rhode Island, LISC
• The Enterprise Foundation

Early Local Preservation extra

Old and Historic District [The Battery], Charleston, South Carolina (1931)
Municipal Ordinance of March 3, 1937 (No. 14,538 C.C.S.)

• Charleston’s Old and Historic District, Preservation Society of Charleston
• Charleston and Historic Preservation, NPS

Vieux Carré, New Orleans, Louisana (1937)

• Vieux Carré Commission, City of New Orleans
• Historic Districts Map & Neighborhood Information, Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans
• The Second Battle of New Orleans: Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway (I-310) by Richard F. Weingroff, US FHA
• Gulf Coast Recovery: An Update from the Preservation Resource Center and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, August 24, 2006

Old and Historic Alexandria, Alexandria, Virginia

• Historic Preservation, Department of Planning and Zoning
• Guide to Historic Districts (PDF file)

Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts (1955)
Massachusetts General Court (Chapter 616 of the Acts of 1955, as amended)

• General Guidelines, Historic Beacon Hill District (PDF file)
• Locally Designated Historic Districts, City of Boston
• On the Road Program for Local Communities, Massachusetts Historical Commission

Additional Reading

• Murtagh, William J., et al. Historic Preservation and Urban Neighborhoods (PDF file), Monumentum, Vol 13, No 7, US/ICOMOS
• Historic Overlay Zoning in Connecticut, Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation