Historic Forest Hill Neighborhood
Yesterday Kerri O’Brien of WRIC attended the combined board hearing and created the following segment for the 5 & 6:00 news:
We are in the process of requesting the full roll from the hearing. If we’re able to obtain it, we’ll post it here with their permission.
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Today the Historic Designation committee had the opportunity to present the Forest Hill historic district nomination at a joint meeting of the State Review Board and the Historic Resources Board. More than 20 neighborhood residents also attended the meeting, and 11 gave 2 minute prepared remarks to the boards.
The State Review Board voted unanimously against recommending the nomination as written for listing in the Virginia Landmarks Register, echoing Virginia Department of Historic Resources staff concern that: the period of significance of 1804-1961 was unsupported by existing resources, the boundaries included a discontinuous architectural character and that criterion D, archeology, was unsupported by the existing research.
The Historic Resources Board voted unanimously to defer the nomination to the National Park Service for an intensive level review.
The Historic Designation committee was allowed 15 minutes to present 37 new historic sites and structures requested at the December 16 2010 Board hearing.
We will begin posting additional information regarding the proposed boundaries, period of significance and architectural character here next week, as well as clarifying the path forward for Historic District status.
If you support historic designation for the area, please sign our petition!
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