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Goals and objectives for Historic Preservation
The Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission has established the following goals and objectives for historic preservation in the Township:
1.
Ensure that zoning ordinances, construction codes, and other development regulations acknowledge and permit special treatment for historic landscapes, districts, sites, and structures by providing setbacks, buffers and other design and architectural standards to prevent conflicts with their historic values.
2. Adoption of ordinances to protect historic districts, sites, landscapes and structures.
3.
Provide exceptions to Uniform Construction Code for historic properties to be considered where applicable (listed or eligible for inclusion to state and national registers.)
4.
Ensure that zoning ordinances/ zones consider their effect on historic resources.
5.
Public infrastructure improvements should be located and designed to encourage preservation, revitalization, and rehabilitation of historic resources and discourage destruction of historic resources.
State, counties and municipalities
should adopt regulations which require all departments to exhaust all alternatives for preserving historic resources before undertaking infrastructure changes or improvements which would threaten or destroy historic resources.
The
Township should require agencies/developers needing or instituting infrastructure projects to investigate whether the project affects historic resources and to coordinate this investigation with government preservation agencies. The Township
should comply with the provisions of NJ Register of Historic Places Act and Section 106 of National Historic Preservation Act.
All infrastructure projects affecting historic resources should be conducted in accordance with the
"Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Historic Preservation.”
6. Conduct surveys as a basis for nominating properties to State and National Registers.
7. Take advantage of existing programs to aid
in the identification of historic resources including from the DEPE:
- Survey and Planning Grants
- Certified Local Government Program Grants
- Technical Assistance
8. Consider rehabilitation of existing historic structures as a primary alternative to meeting affordable housing goals.
9.
Adopt ordinances which meet the Certified Local Government Program Criteria.
10. Enroll local officials in training programs which provide a base of information about value and advantage of and techniques for
preserving historic structures, districts and landscapes.
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