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S <br /> . Page 11 <br /> and Capital Area Preservation , the conference drew 145 registrants representing thirty-six <br /> local preservation commissions (nearly half the total) from throughout the state who came to <br /> hear national experts and to draw upon one another s experience . <br /> Frank Gilbert of the National Trust for Historic Preservation delivered the keynote address , <br /> focused on • the community-building role of commissions . He and Patsy Meldrum , assistant <br /> city attorney with the city of Asheville , spoke about the legal underpinnings of commission <br /> authority and activity . Philip Morris , editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, guided the <br /> conferees through a fascinating slide tour of the state and described the special character of the <br /> ilandscape and historic resources . State and local experts addressed such topics as saving <br /> buildings from demolition , the new state tax credits , keeping design review focused on <br /> alterations that really matter , and commission cyberspace . -Melinda Coleman <br /> PRESERVATION THROUGH OPEN SPACE PLANNING FEATURED AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE <br /> idential subdivisions in <br /> Designing res <br /> such a way that beautiful natural areas <br /> and historic resources are preserved was S <br /> the subject of a session at Preservation <br /> North Carolina ' s 1997 Annual <br /> Conference , held September 25-28 , in ; <br /> Rocky Mount and Tarboro . The <br /> presentation featured the Open Space F <br /> Open Space <br /> Design Guidebook Albemarle-Pamli <br /> : co <br /> Estuarine Region, written by Randall Design G � ldebOOk <br /> :� ,. <br /> Arendt with Marvin Collins , AICP , " Albemarle-Pamlico ]Estuarine Region <br /> and Anne Valentine . The guidebook ¢ `' <br /> was published by the North Carolina <br /> Association of County Commissioners <br /> in partnership with the HPO , the <br /> North Carolina Department of <br /> Environment, Health , and Natural Resources , and Orange , Craven , and Currituck Counties . <br /> Recognized as a unique intergovernmental cooperative effort to link natural and historic <br /> resource protection in a practical " how-to " manual , the guidebook received the 1997 large <br /> community comprehensive planning award from the North Carolina Chapter of the <br /> American Planning Association , <br /> Presenters Jack Simoneau , AICP , director of planning and inspections , Currituck County; <br /> Gregory Sekula, AICP , former city planner and administrator, New Bern Historic <br /> Preservation Commission ; and Don Belk, AICP , preservation planner , Orange County, <br /> described the guidebook ' s innovative , low-technology process of laying out lots and streets to <br /> achieve allowable density yet not destroy valued natural areas , views , and historic and <br /> archaeological resources and their settings . The process was illustrated by applying it to actual <br />