our neighborhood might be landmarked soon. i’m generally in support of landmarking. and while we don’t have much money and aren’t considering any major renovations…we’re wondering if anyone has any advice about simple (perhaps inevitable) projects to consider doing prior to landmarking? before you all go nuts on me, let me say that we have no desire to change the exterior appearance of the home, but we’ve thought about, for example, replacing the windows or the gate or undoing some bad fixes made by prior owners. we’d like to do this in a way that enhances the historical appearance, but would also like to avoid unnecessary expense. <\/p>\n
we’ve heard that even these kind of simple projects can be made much more expensive and time-consuming because of the approval process. is this true? and if so, what might you recommend we consider doing now, rather than post-landmarking? (i am not overly concerned with a few weeks or a few dollars, but months and thousands would be distressing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
our neighborhood might be landmarked soon. i’m generally in support of landmarking. and while we don’t have much money and aren’t considering any major renovations…we’re wondering if anyone has any advice about simple (perhaps inevitable) projects to consider doing prior to landmarking? before you all go nuts on me, let me say that we have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-20310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/03\/prelandmarking\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"pre-landmarking renovations?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/03\/prelandmarking\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/03\/prelandmarking\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Landmarks","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"i disagree"}],"creator":["i disagree"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-03-26T14:53:03Z","datePublished":"2008-03-26T14:53:03Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:53Z"},"rendered":"