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�o. <br /> 1 APPENDIX D <br /> 2 <br /> 3 <br /> � 4 The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation <br /> 5 <br /> 6 A national set of standards for the preservation of historic buildings was developed by the United <br /> 7 States Department of the Interior in 1976. The ten standards which address the rehabilitation of <br /> 8 historic buildings provide guidance to preservation commissions across the country, including the <br /> 9 Orange County Historic Preservation Commission. The Rehabilitation Branch of the North Carolina <br /> 10 Division of ArchiVes and History (the State Historic Preservation Office) uses the Secretary of the <br /> 11 Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation when reviewing rehabilitation tax credit applications. It should <br /> 12 be noted, however, that although Standard#1 addresses building use, use is not reviewed by the <br /> 13 HPC. The Secretary's Standards, as they are often referred to, are listed below in their most current <br /> 14 version (1992). <br /> 15 <br /> 16 1. A property shall be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change <br /> 17 to its distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships. <br /> 18 <br /> 19 2. The historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive <br /> 20 materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property shall <br /> 21 be avoided. <br /> . 22 <br /> 23 3. Each property shall be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes that <br /> z4 create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from <br /> 25 other historic properties shall not be undertaken. <br /> 26 <br /> 27 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right shall be retained <br /> 28 and preserved. <br /> 29 <br /> 30 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship <br /> 31 that characterize a property shall be preserved. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 6. Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of <br /> 34 deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in <br /> 35 design, color, texture, and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features shall be <br /> 36 substantiated by documentary and physical evidence. <br /> 37 <br /> 38 7. Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, shall be undertaken using the gentlest means <br /> 39 possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials shall not be used. <br /> 40 <br /> 41 8. Archaeological resources shall be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be <br /> 42 disturbed, mitigation measures shall be undertaken. <br /> 43 <br /> 44 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials, <br /> 45 features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated <br /> 46 from the old and shall be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, <br /> 47 and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner <br /> 50 that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its <br /> 51 environment would be unimpaired. <br /> 9/27/2010 Draff Orange County Design Standards 72 <br />