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6 <br /> �awwo' <br /> North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources <br /> James B. Hunt Jr. , Governor Division of Archives and History <br /> Betty Ray McCain , Secretary Jeffrey J. Crow, Director <br /> December 18 , 1998 <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO : Local Historic District , Landmarks , and Preservation Commissions <br /> FROM : David Brook , Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer ' L <br /> � <br /> RE : 1999 Annual Historic Preservation Commission Conference , <br /> March 26 and 27 , Hickory <br /> The State Historic Preservation Office is again proud to co- sponsor North Carolina ' s Annual <br /> Historic Preservation Commission Conference , to be held March 26 and 27 , 1999 , in Hickory . <br /> It is the only statewide conference specifically designed to meet the training and information <br /> needs of North Carolina ' s eighty local preservation commissions . For over half a century , <br /> local commissions have been a bedrock of preservation in North Carolina . <br /> We join the Hickory Historic Preservation Commission , Hickory Landmarks Society , <br /> Catawba County Historical Association , and Preservation North Carolina in inviting all <br /> commission members and staff to attend . Whether your commission deals with landmarks , <br /> districts , or both , the conference provides an opportunity to learn from state and national T <br /> experts and the experience of other commissions . The participation of your commission will <br /> make the conference complete . <br /> Keeping Character , Keeping Change , " focuses on the <br /> This year ' s theme , " Design Review : <br /> important , and sometimes difficult , design review role of commissions . Participants will gain a <br /> clearer understanding of how to safeguard the special character and visual qualities of historic <br /> districts and landmarks as these places undergo change to meet the needs of today ' s property <br /> owners . Sessions will address the character of North Carolina ' s historic architecture and <br /> settlement patterns and will show how to evaluate the important features of a building , <br /> neighborhood , community , or. landscape . Participants will advance their understanding of <br /> designprinciples , a lication of u' 'g pp guidelines , and coordination of the commission s design <br /> review decisions with building code requirements and preservation tax credit reviews . The <br /> culminating session will be a step-by- step practice in reviewing an application for a Certificate <br /> of Appropriateness using proper procedures . Focus groups will enable all participants to <br /> discuss the topics in greater detail with the presenters and one another . <br /> Thomas Hylton , a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist and author of Save Our Land, Save Our <br /> Towns : A Plan for Pennsylvania , written in . partnership with Preservation Pennsylvania , will <br /> be the keynote speaker . Mr . Hylton will address the contexts of community and landscape <br /> preservation in which commissions work . He will show how thirteen states , from Vermont to <br /> Oregon , have used the public planning process to establish goals aimed at building real <br /> communities , not sprawling development . He argues that encouraging a more neighborhood- <br /> Inn 17.. .. . T^". . Qfvaof . v .. to : ,.�. t�r,. .. ti �.. . ,y ; ., . 7^7� m � Qn� n �4 <br />