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1/General Info.Pages HISTORIC DISTRICT GUIDELINES FOR THE TOWN OF SCOTTSVILLE GENERAL INFORMATION 1 based on nationally developed and recognized procedures, and have been adopted by numerous Historic Districts, as well as the National Park Service. Consultation with an architect, architectural historian, or historic preservationist is highly recommended, as well as with Scottsville's Architectural Review Board and the Town Zoning Administrator. History of Scottsville’s Historic District Designation Scottsville is unique. It is a town, but has the intimate Overview scale of a village. It has one of the finest collections of The purpose of this Guideline Collection is to provide relatively untouched historic buildings that span a simple yet comprehensive “dos” and “don’ts” for period from the late-1700s to the 1920s in Virginia. Its properties within Scottsville’s Historic Overlay District. early association with the river brought commerce to Properties are not static. Buildings do eventually the town, resulting in the construction of mercantile deteriorate and require upkeep and maintenance. warehouses. The hills surrounding the town contain Furthermore, older buildings often need new additions pristine examples of residences with various or on-site amenities, such as a code compliant fire stair architectural styles, from late Colonial through Greek to provide egress from upper story spaces. New Revival and Queen Anne, and some unique pre- and dormers and skylights might be needed in the roof to post-World War II workers’ housing. The commercial take advantage of an underutilized attic space. There area, primarily on Valley and Main Streets, contains a also are instances in which a vacant parcel is available collection of mid-1800 to early-1900 business and for appropriate development, and a new building mercantile buildings, each with its own unique constructed on that site should be compatible with its character-defining and stylistic elements. Their high neighbors. style and concentration in one location make Scottsville’s buildings especially noteworthy. These Guidelines are grouped into four pamphlets: (1) General Information, (2) Rehabilitations, (3) New The Scottsville Historic District and Architectural Construction, and (4) Building Site, Paint, and Amenities. Review Board (ARB) date to 1972, with the Town’s adoption of an Architectural Design Control Ordinance We emphasize that these are guidelines and are not to that created a review board and established a designated be considered mandatory; they always are open to design district in the area of the Scottsville Museum. In specific building and site interpretations. The recom- 1976 the U.S. Department of the Interior recognized the mendations for rehabilitation and new construction are outstanding character of Scottsville's historic buildings TOWN OF SCOTTSVILLE GENERAL INFORMATION • 1 by adding the entire downtown area of Scottsville to the Procedures National Register of Historic Places. In 1984 the Town ordinance was expanded to include the entire 1. If you are planning work on the exterior of your downtown area, and in 1987 and 1996 the Town building, and your property is located in the Historic Council amended the zoning ordinance to create the Overlay District or the Entrance Corridor Overlay present Historic Overlay District. The purpose of this District, please contact the Scottsville Zoning Historic Overlay District is described as follows: Administrator’s Office at (434) 286-9267 in advance. The Scottsville Architectural Review Board (ARB) is From the Scottsville Zoning Ordinance adopted tasked with reviewing many exterior projects prior to May 20, 1996: the issuance of a building permit. While minor changes are exempt from review by the ARB, it is better to 18.0 HISTORIC OVERLAY DISTRICT - H check in advance prior to commencing your project. 18.1 PURPOSE OF THE DISTRICT 2. If the Zoning Administrator determines that a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) from the ARB is The purpose of the historic overlay district is to required, he will provide you with a simple application provide for protection against destruction of or form. The ARB meets once a month and applications encroachment upon historic areas, buildings, must be submitted prior to the deadline for the next monuments or other features, or buildings and meeting. If you are planning a major project, you will structures of recognized architectural signif- benefit from meeting with the Chair of the ARB for a icance, which contribute or will contribute to the pre-application meeting. cultural, social, economic, political, artistic or architectural heritage of the Town of Scottsville 3. The application form clearly indicates what must be and the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the submitted to be reviewed by the Architectural Review purpose of the district to preserve designated Board. Adding a fence to your property might require historic areas and historic landmarks and other only a small sketch, whereas a new building would historic or architectural features, and their views require detailed plans and exterior elevations. The Town and surroundings within a reasonable distance, Zoning Administrator and/or Chair of the Architectural from destruction, damage, defacement and Review Board can assist you with your application. obviously incongruous development or uses of 4. Once the application is submitted, it will be land and to ensure that buildings, structures, forwarded to the Architectural Review Board for review streets, bridges, waterways, walkways, or signs at a regularly scheduled meeting. The Board requires shall be erected, reconstructed, altered or restored that you or a representative attend the meeting to so as to be architecturally compatible with the present the project and be available to answer any character of the general area in which they are questions. Many projects require only one meeting. In located and with the historic landmark buildings the event that yours is a complex project, or if the or structures within the district. design you submit is in conflict with the Scottsville Historic District Guidelines, more meetings may be The 1996 Zoning Ordinance amendment directed the required. ARB to prepare design guidelines for building restoration 5. Upon approval by the ARB, the building permit and new construction in the historic district and entrance proceeds through the normal process for new corridors. Based on well-established U.S. Department of construction, in conformance with state and national Interior and Virginia Department of Historic Resources building codes. models, the Scottsville Historic District Design Guidelines were adopted by Town Council in 2001— If you are denied a Certificate of Appropriateness, you and updated in 2016—to assist both the ARB and may return to the Board with suggested alternatives that property owners in the combined efforts to preserve and the Board may wish to consider for approval. You also protect the architectural character of the Historic District. may appeal the Architectural Review Board’s decision TOWN OF SCOTTSVILLE GENERAL INFORMATION • 2 to the Town Council. The Town Administrator can 4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic provide you with the necessary directions and significance in their own right should be retained and information regarding appeals. preserved. The Town of Scottsville encourages you to maintain 5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and your historic property and to use these guidelines for construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship any repair, maintenance, additions, or new construction that characterize a property should be preserved. within the historic area. Scottsville’s architectural legacy is an important chapter in Virginia’s history. 6. Deteriorated historic features should be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration Standards For Rehabilitation requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature should match the old in design, color, texture, The Scottsville Historic District Design Guidelines and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing apply the general standards for historic preservation features should be substantiated by documentary and established by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s physical evidence. Guidelines for Historic Preservation to the specific building styles found in Scottsville. 7. Chemical or physical treatments, if appropriate, should be undertaken using the gentlest means possible. These standards pertain to historic buildings of all Treatments that cause damage to historic materials materials, construction types, sizes, and occupancy, and should not be used. encompass the exterior of the structure, related landscape features, and the building’s site and 8. Archaeological resources should be protected and environment as well as attached, adjacent, or related preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed, new construction. The standards are to be applied to mitigation measures should be undertaken. specific rehabilitation projects in a reasonable manner, 9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new taking into consideration technical feasibility. It is construction should not destroy historic materials, important to note that similar standards have been features, and spatial relationships that characterize the adopted by many other Historic Districts. property. The new work should be differentiated from Standards 9 and 10 also should be followed for new the old and be compatible with the historic
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