LPC super delay in review
Has anyone else had to wait over 2 months for LPC to approve their project? The only thing that should concern them is changing the windows on the facade which we are replacing with Marvins Landmark windows. We have waited over 2 months and losing so much money without these permits. We are thinking of…
Has anyone else had to wait over 2 months for LPC to approve their project? The only thing that should concern them is changing the windows on the facade which we are replacing with Marvins Landmark windows. We have waited over 2 months and losing so much money without these permits. We are thinking of going down to the LPC office and talking to the examiner. Has anyone done this? We are pretty desperate.
Two months is in the range of normal. Yes, LPC is backed up – the number of applications is way up, and the number of reviewers hasn’t changed in years.
Who filed the plans? Marvin? Your contractor? Your architect?
What was filed – has LPC sent you a checklist asking for more information?
Yes, you can LPC and talk to the reviewer. Ask what material is missing, where it is the queue, etc. Be nice.
BTW – the “Landmarks” in Marvin Landmarks window is meaningless. LPC is looking to see that the Marvin windows match YOUR historic windows. If ANY window manufacturer tells you their windows are “pre-approved” by LPC, they are lying. They might have been approved by LPC on another building, but that’s another building. (And I’m not saying that’s what Marvin is doing – they make nice windows, and the make nice landmark windows.)
The LPC site does have FAQs which tells you what you can and can’t do at staff level (without going to public hearing). (Its on the left side of the home page.)
The most relevant FAQ is probably the one which tells you what you and do not a permit for: http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/faqs/faq_permit.shtml
They also have detailed rules about the same.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/pubs/rules.pdf
(warning – that’s a pdf link)
That’s from the section “Forms & Publications” (also listed right on the front page).
The LPC Preservationists see the owners of properties as the enemy. they are the ones who want to modernize and alter the precious fabric for nothing more important than their family’s comfort and safety.
They don’t give ANY of the information that people always come and ask here over and over time and again about LPC, 3:10. That was my point. Their current site is useless. It’s not really what I’d provide at all.
They need a much more helpful homeowner-friendly section with FAQs.
The Landmarks Commission is becoming more dysfunctional by the day.
The delays and the red tape and the ridiculous requirements are strong inducements to just ignore the whole process. especially since they have no teeth. nothing has happened to the people on my block who put in ugly picture windows but those of us who apply to install the expensive “correct” units are made to beg and jump through hoops. especially by some of the more sadistic and unhappy staffers.
2:35:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml
It’s a little thing called…
g o o g l e
Newfangled thing, don’t know if you ever heard of it.
“Did you not know you were landmarked??”
No! I can’t imagine the OP didn’t know that! Duh. We know we’re landmarked and I had no clue it took this long for approval from LPC. No clue.
Why would I? We haven’t done any facade work yet. Judgemental and smug much, 11:35?
If LPC is okay with being a badly run organization then I guess it’s up to them. But if it were me, I think I’d create a little thing called a…
w e b s i t e
Newfangled thing, don’t know if anybody has ever heard of it. But the LPC could put all kinds of information on it for homeowners. Like you know, to be helpful. Were that actually part of their goal beyond being historic house nazis.
I had been surprised. My contractor filed to do some sidewalk work in April and it took until yesterday to get the landmark’s permit. The bottom line on their commentary didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know or weren’t planning to do: keep the exisiting bluestone, any concrete to be replaced should be tinted to match the bluestone. All the neighbor’s houses have only sparse bluestone, and the landmark district ends at the edge of my backyard, so I think little, if any, enhanced visual pleasure will be generated.
I am so totally loving this since I wouldn’t have been undertaking any sidewalk work at all if DEP hadn’t come along and busted a sizeable section of it when they replaced a leaking fire hydrant.
two months is a “super” delay?
Did you not know you were landmarked??
What makes you think you have a right to do anything to your own house? Just because you are the ones paying the mortgage doesn’t mean squat. Don’t you realize other people have to see your house when they walk by it. Shouldn’t they be able to look at it as if it were a time capsule? How selfish of you.