PHOENIX HISTORIC PRESERVATION DESIGN GUIDELINES UPDATE STAKEHOLDERS

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PHOENIX HISTORIC PRESERVATION DESIGN GUIDELINES
UPDATESTAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP
PHOENIX HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICEHERITAGE
ARCHITECTURE PLANNING
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We will probably be judged not by the monuments
we build, but by those we have destroyed. ---
New York Times Editorial, Oct. 30. 1963
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PROJECT OBJECTIVE
To consolidate and update the previous Design
Guidelinesdocuments into a single user-friendly
document and provide specific guidelines for each
residential district.
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

• Share information through presentation and
  break-out sessions.
• Provide overview of Design Guidelines update
  process.
• Review historic preservation standards.
• Discuss historic preservation issues that are
  relevant to Phoenix.
• Identify opportunities and challenges for the
  district-specific Design Guidelines.

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HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN PHOENIX

• OVERVIEW
• 35 Residential historic districts
• 10 Non-residential historic
  districts
• 181 Individually-listed historic
  properties on the local register
• 171 Individually-listed properties
  on the National Register of
  Historic Places

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HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN PHOENIX
Commercial historic building types range from
Skyscrapers
Warehouses
Retail Storefronts
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN PHOENIX
Residential historic building types range from
Bungalows
Cottage Apartments
Rural Estates
Apartment Buildings
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN PHOENIX
Residential house styles range from
Early Vernacular(Adobe)
Victorian
Period-Revival
Suburban Ranch
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WHAT IS HISTORIC?

• DESIGNATION CRITERIA
• Architectural merits.
• Association with a noteworthy architect, builder,
  or developer.
• Association with a famous person or event.
• Influential to community development or history.
• Contributes to a historic district.

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DEFINING HISTORIC INTEGRITY
The unimpaired ability of a property to convey
its historical significance. There are seven
aspects of integrity according to the National
Park Service

• Location
• Design
• Setting
• Materials
• Workmanship
• Feeling
• Association

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HISTORIC DISTRICTS

• Contributor
• Adds to the historic architectural qualities or
  associations.
• Built during the period of significance.
• Possesses historic integrity.
• Non-contributor
• Doesnt add to the historic architectural
  qualities or associations.
• Not built during the period of significance.
• Due to alterations, disturbances, additions, or
  other changes, it no longer possesses historic
  integrity.

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CHARACTER-DEFINING FEATURES

• Distinctive architectural features or qualities
  that are essential to the perception or
  understanding of a building a character-defining
  element is a feature that contributes to the
  special quality of a building or a site, without
  which the uniqueness is lost.

• Example Tudor Revival
• Steeply-sloped roof w/ multiple gables
• Tall stepped chimney
• Wood casement windows
• Wood louvers at gable faces
• Lack of porch

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CHARACTER-DEFINING FEATURESOF HISTORIC DISTRICTS

• Example Idylwilde Park
• Park at center of neighborhood.
• Narrow deep lots.
• Uniform building setbacks.
• Predominantly one-story.
• Predominant exterior wall materials are brick
  (painted and exposed), stucco and wood siding.
• Wood double-hung and casement windows on early
  houses, steel windows on later houses.
• Porte-cocheres, carports and similar-style
  detached garages.
• Mature traditional landscaping composed of
  shrubs, turf, and trees.

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INCENTIVES BENEFITS FOR PRESERVING HISTORIC
BUILDINGS

• Historic buildings help define the character of
  the community by providing a tangible link to the
  past.
• Increase neighborhood stability (through the
  design review process).
• Likely increase in property values.
• Ensures key landmarks are appropriately preserved
  for future generations.

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INCENTIVES BENEFITS FOR PRESERVING HISTORIC
BUILDINGS

• City Programs
• Low Income Historic Housing Rehabilitation
  Program (70-30 match)
• Exterior Rehabilitation Assistance for Historic
  Homes (50-50 match)
• Demonstrate Grants (commercial projects)
• Warehouse Threatened Building Fund

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INCENTIVES BENEFITS FOR PRESERVING HISTORIC
BUILDINGS

• State Programs
• Arizona Heritage Fund Preservation Grants
• State Property Tax Reclassification
• Residential (owner-occupied)
• Commercial
• Federal Programs
• 20 Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit
• (For buildings on the National Register)
• 10 Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit
• (For non-historic buildings constructed prior to
  1936)

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SUCCESSFUL HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROJECTS IN
PHOENIX
Exterior Rehab Grant Project
Demonstration Project
Warehouse District Threatened Historic Building
Grant
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MISCONCEPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HISTORIC
DESIGNATION

• Tours? No public access requirement.
• Must restore the property? Not required.
• Personal info? Not distributed or published.
• Alterations and additions? Permitted with design
  review.
• Interior alterations? Not subject to review.
• Landscape alterations? Structural features that
  can be seen from the public right-of-way are
  subject to review.
• Repainting? Not reviewed if painting previously
  painted surfaces.

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MODIFYING HISTORIC PROPERTIES

• Retain and maintain character-defining features
  per The Secretary of the Interiors Standards.
• Avoid relocation, substantial alteration, or
  demolition.
• Consult the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation
  Design Guidelines and other HPO documents.
• Contact HPO to start the Certificate of
  Appropriateness review process.
• To obtain or maintain the tax reclassification,
  submit plans to SHPO.
• Exterior alterations (incl. site work) will be
  reviewed for compatibility with The Standards and
  the Design Guidelines.

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PURPOSE OF DESIGN GUIDELINES

• Guide property owners in making early decisions
  regarding appropriate treatments.
• Maintain the historic character of a property or
  neighborhood while allowing modifications
  forcontemporary needs.

• Apply The Standards to the specific context of
  Phoenix so individual properties and historic
  districts can maintain designation status and tax
  reclassification eligibility.
• Provide for clear, consistent guidance through
  the process as defined by the HP Ordinance and
  supplementary HPO documents.

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THE STANDARDS

• Retain maintain the property per The
  Secretary of the Interiors Rehabilitation
  Standards (The Standards).
• 1. A property will be used as it was
  historically or be given a new use that requires
  minimal change to its distinctive materials,
  features and spatial relationships.
• 2. The historic character of the property will
  be retained and preserved. The removal of
  distinctive materials or alteration of features,
  spaces, and spatial relationships that
  characterize the property will be avoided.
• 3. Each property will be recognized as a
  physical record of its time, place and use.
  Changes that create a false sense of historical
  development, such as adding conjectural features
  or elements from other historic properties will
  not be undertaken.
• 4. Changes to a property that have acquired
  historic significance in their own right will be
  retained and preserved.
• 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes and
  construction techniques or examples of
  craftsmanship that characterize the property will
  be preserved.

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• 6. Deteriorating historic features will be
  repaired rather than replaced. Where the
  severity of deterioration requires replacement of
  a distinctive feature, the new feature will match
  the old design, color, texture, and, where
  possible, materials. Replacement of missing
  features will be substantiated by documentary and
  physical evidence.
• 7. Chemical and physical treatments, if
  appropriate, will be undertaken using the
  gentlest means possible. Treatments that cause
  damage to historic materials will not be used.
• 8. Archaeological resources will be protected
  and preserved in place. If such resources must
  be disturbed, mitigation measures will be
  undertaken.
• 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or
  related new construction will not destroy
  historic materials, features, and spatial
  relationships that characterize the property.
  The new work shall be differentiated from the old
  and will be compatible with the historic
  materials, features, scale and proportion, and
  massing to protect the integrity of the property
  and its environment.
• 10. New additions and adjacent or related new
  construction will be undertaken in such a manner
  that if removed in the future, the essential form
  and integrity of the historic property and its
  environment would be unimpaired.

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EXAMPLES OF INAPPROPRIATE REMODELS TO HISTORIC
BUILDINGS
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EXAMPLES OF INAPPROPRIATE REMODELS TO HISTORIC
BUILDINGS
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EXAMPLE OF AN INAPPROPRIATE CARPORT ADDITION
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EXAMPLES OF AN INAPPROPRIATE ADDITION?
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EXAMPLES OF AN INAPPROPRIATE ADDITION
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PRESERVING HISTORIC MATERIALS
Windows Repair vs. Replacement
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PRESERVING HISTORIC MATERIALS
Restoring Historic Wood Windows
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PRESERVING HISTORIC MATERIALS
Painted Brick Surfaces
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PRESERVING HISTORIC MATERIALS
Beware of New Stucco Coatings
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PRESERVING HISTORIC MATERIALS
Failing New Stucco
Delaminating Stucco
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

• Energy Efficiency (window replacement,
  solar panels)
• Water Conservation (landscape irrigation)
• Increasing Neighborhood Density
• Infill Buildings in Historic Neighborhoods
• Adding Square Footage
• Adding Carports or Garages
• Converting Garages or Carports into Habitable
  Space
• Kitchen Bathroom Upgrades

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A community can fall victim to amnesia, forget
where it came from, fail to recognize itself in
the mirror, lose touch with what it set out to
be. To state it more simply when we lose our
landmarks, we lose our way.

• - Dwight L. Young
• National Trust for Historic Preservation

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BREAK-OUT SESSION

• GOALS
• Discuss challenges and opportunities for the
  update.
• Produce a list of preservation priorities for
  the Design Guidelines.
• GROUND RULES
• Stay on topic historic preservation in
  Phoenix.
• Let everyone in group have an opportunity to
  speak.
• Table moderator will assemble list of priorities
  / issues / concerns.

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DISCUSSION POINTS

• Please address the following questions
• What are the major design challenges or issues
  facing historic properties that the design
  guidelines should address?
• What are the most important architectural
  features in your district that should be included
  in the district-specific guidelines?
• What information would be most helpful to include
  in the design guidelines for your specific
  district or property?