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Teaching > RWU HP202 Preservation Planning > Assignments > Zoning
Below, questions to consider with reference to your own home town (which may not be in one of your "adopted states") or a town (municipality) in one of your "adopted" states. The municipality must have a Historic District Commission. Zoning for any municipality is complex so this is just an introduction. The idea is peruse the zoning regulations, maps, overlay zoning, historic districts, related regulations to facilitate class discussion of zoning in general, guided by location-specific examples.
Historic district "zoning", sometimes refered to as "overlay zoning", is part of zoning. Historic districts, and their regulation under Historic District Commissions, ideally have typical zoining regulations that are in congruity with the preservation goals. For example: an historic district that is residential in characted would likely not benefit from having zoning that permits commercial uses within its boundaries.
The for cultural resource stewardship to work, the Planning and Zoning Commission and zoning Commission must develop a preservation-oriented policy and communicate it to the public — as exemplified by the Department of Planning & Zoning, Howard County, Maryland. And the commission must communicate at many levels with the Historic District Commission (if there is one), which provides "comments to the Planning & Zoning Commission — as exemplified by the Historic District Commission, Greenwich, Connecticut. Typically the role fo the HDC does not "impair" that of other planning commissions (see Chapter 10 Article XVIII, § 10-42, Historic District and Historic District Commission, Code of the Town of Wethersfield, Connecticut.)
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