Public Township Council Meeting — Packet

DRAFT PROPOSED REVISIONS – OCTOBER 2011 8. Copies of the list of designated Historic Districts and Landmarks shall be made public and distributed to all municipal agencies reviewing development applications, building permits and housing permits. b. Criteria for Designation. The historic inventory and survey shall be used as a basis for identifying properties worthy of designation as Historic Landmarks and Districts. The criteria for evaluating and designating Historic Landmarks and Districts shall be in accordance with the National Register Criteria, which are as follows: 1. The quality of significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, landmarks, sites, buildings, structures and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association, and; (a) That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or (b) That are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or (c) That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or (d) That have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history. (Ord. No. 904-88 § 25-6.9C; Ord. No. 1007-90; Ord. No. 1584-98 § 2; Ord. No. 1728- 00 § 1) c. Designated Landmarks. The following sites have been designated as Historic Landmarks: Comment [PG89]: added to make ordinance more user-friendly 1. Block 39, Lot 56 (29 South Valley Road). 2. Block 39, Lot 61.01 (21 South Valley Road). 3. Block 60, Lot 2 (13 Main Street) 4. Block 66, Lot 1 (177 Main Street) 5. Block 89, Lot 68 (Llewellyn Park Gate House) 6. Block 115, Lot 30.01 (Edison National Historic Site) 7. Block 177.08, Lot 20 (695 Eagle Rock

Block 66, Lot 1 (177 Main Street) 5. Block 89, Lot 68 (Llewellyn Park Gate House) 6. Block 115, Lot 30.01 (Edison National Historic Site) 7. Block 177.08, Lot 20 (695 Eagle Rock Avenue) 8. Block 177.12, Lot 60 (757 Eagle Rock Avenue) 25-30.4 Review by Historic Preservation Commission. a. Purpose. To accomplish the purposes of this section, the Township has adopted provisions for design review, intended to: 1. Encourage the continued use of historic landmarks and facilitate their appropriate reuse; 2. Maintain and develop an appropriate and harmonious setting for the historic and architecturally significant buildings, structures, sites, objects, or districts within the Township; 3. Foster beautification and both private and public reinvestment; 4. Manage change by preventing alteration or new construction not in keeping with a historic character of Landmarks or Districts; 182