by Preservation CT | Jul 16, 2024
The conversion of a Building to a use other than that for which it was originally designed, optimally, respecting the historic features of the...
by Preservation CT | Jul 16, 2024
Created principally to shelter any form of human activity. Examples of a Building include a house, barn, courthouse, commercial building, factory, hotel, school, and...
by Preservation CT | Jul 16, 2024
The core purpose of CEPA is to provide a public process for state agencies to identify and assess the extent to which their proposed actions may potentially affect the environment, and to evaluate alternatives to avoid or minimize such impacts. A key component of the...
by Preservation CT | Jul 16, 2024
Refers to a local government, certified or approved by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), which has an appointed commission to oversee the survey and inventory of historic resources, to review areas for historically significant structures, and to develop...
by Preservation CT | Jul 17, 2024
Connecticut Cultural Resources Information System (ConnCRIS) is an online viewer of Connecticut’s cultural resources inventory, specifically its above ground resources. These points are sourced from various inventories and registers of historic properties in the...
by Preservation CT | Jul 17, 2024
The State’s list of historic resources significant at both the state and local levels. Also includes any Site listed in the National Register of Historic...
by Preservation CT | Jul 17, 2024
Scholarly document that outlines the historic context for evaluating the significance of a historic resource.
by Preservation CT | Jul 17, 2024
One of the buildings or Site features that give a Historic District its significance – a Building that was built within the “period of significance” and that sufficiently retains its historic...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
Preservation of cultural landscapes, or areas “where the interaction between man and nature created a unique whole” or “places in nature that have acquired significant associations with human activities and human events…these landscapes seem to retain their natural...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
Allowing a Building or Structure to fall into such a state of disrepair that it becomes necessary or desirable to demolish it. Property owners have been accused of permitting Demolition by Neglect on purpose, to save on Rehabilitation...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
A component of CEPA; if the EIE and ROD are adequate, the Sponsoring Agency may proceed with the proposed action. If inadequate, corrective action is required by the sponsoring...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
A significant concentration, linkage or continuity of sites, buildings, structures, or objects united historically or aesthetically by plan or physical...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
Legal protection (recorded in a property deed) for distinguishing features of the interior and/or exterior of a property or in the space surrounding a property because such features are deemed important to be preserved. For example, a new property owner may be...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
Meets the criteria for listing in the National Register or Connecticut State Register, but not officially listed, often because the property owner has objected to...
by Preservation CT | Aug 16, 2024
The powers granted to a public agency to condemn private property, at fair market value, for specific public purposes.
