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Special Projects:
2009-10 Upcoming Historic Home Tours
Here's a list of upcoming historic home tours in
several Phoenix historic districts.
For more specific information about these events, visit the neighborhood organization Web site.
Historic Preservation
Design Guideline Update
The Phoenix Historic Preservation Office continues to work with Heritage Architecture & Planning, to update the city's General Design Guidelines for Historic Properties (phoenix.gov/historic/permits.html) and its Historic Homes of Phoenix book (available in hard copy only). The goal is to have the updated design guidelines completed by June 2010.
The purpose of the project is to consolidate the two existing
historic preservation documents into a single set of illustrated design
guidelines. This new user-friendly document will guide decision making for
historically designated properties in Phoenix in the future, providing property
owners with straight forward guidance on how to best maintain the historic
character of historic properties and to sensitively modify and expand properties
to meet modern needs.
The final report will provide both general design
guidelines for historic properties as well as more specific design guidelines
for each of the city's 35 residential historic districts. Issues such
as energy conservation, post World War II construction, historic landscapes
and signage for commercial buildings also will be addressed in more depth
than in the existing documents.
The Phoenix Historic Preservation Office and Commission
are seeking public input at various stages throughout the project. In
late August, the consultant team hosted two stakeholder workshops to solicit
input of from historic property owners in Phoenix, to discuss design issues
that come up in historic neighborhoods and to identify areas of concern
for the various historic districts. The workshops were a great success.
Many property owners attended and voiced their opinions regarding the
issues that are most pressing within their districts. Please take a few
minutes to review the Stakeholder's
Workshop Results, which are the results of the breakout sessions at
the workshops. That information will be incorporated into the updated
design guidelines.
We anticipate posting a draft of the updated design
guidelines on the city Web site for public review and comment in early 2010.
As we did with the Stakeholder's Workshops, we will send postcards to
historic property owners announcing its arrival. Historic Preservation
Office staff also will be available to make presentations on the draft
design guidelines to neighborhood associations upon request. The Historic
Preservation Commission will announce when it will hold a formal public hearing
on the proposed design guidelines prior to their adoption.
For additional information or questions, contact
Erika Finbraaten, project manager, at 602-262-4076.
National Register Nominations
for Historic Districts
On March 5, 2008, the Phoenix City Council approved a contract with a private consulting firm, Preservation Central Inc., to prepare a nomination to list 10 Phoenix neighborhoods on the National Register of Historic Places. The 10 neighborhoods to be listed on the National Register are as follows:
1. Campus Vista (generally bounded by Osborn and Thomas
roads, Seventh and 15th avenues);
2. East Evergreen (generally bounded by McDowell Road, Interstate
10, Third and Seventh streets);
3. Encanto Manor (generally bounded by Thomas Road, Windsor Avenue,
Seventh and 15th avenues);
4. Encanto Vista (generally bounded by Windsor Avenue, Encanto Boulevard,
Seventh and Eighth avenues);
5. Garfield (generally bounded by Roosevelt, Van Buren, Seventh and
16th streets);
6. Los Olivos (located along Monte Vista Road between Third and Seventh
streets);
7. North Garfield (generally bounded by Interstate 10, Roosevelt
Street and Seventh and 16th streets);
8. Villa Verde (generally bounded by Monte Vista and Granada roads,
19th and 20th avenues);
9. Woodlea (generally bounded by Glenrosa Avenue, Mackenzie Drive,
Seventh and 15th avenues);
10. Yaple Park (generally bounded by the Grand Canal, Turney Avenue,
Third and Seventh avenues);
All 10 of these neighborhoods currently are listed
on the Phoenix Historic Property Register
(find maps) but have not yet been listed on the National Register.
Preservation Central Inc. began work on the National
Register nomination on April 1, 2008 and has completed draft versions of all of the nominations.
City of Phoenix staff is working with them to finalize these nominations for submittal the the
Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for review and comment by Oct. 30, 2009.
At that time, SHPO staff will review the nominations to determine if they
are ready to be placed on the agenda of the Arizona Historic Sites Review Committee (HSRC). We
hope to get these nominations on the late January/early February 2010 HSRC agenda, but this
depends on how many other nominations are submitted to the SHPO.
Once the nominations are placed on the HSRC agenda, they are sent to the
city in which the properties are located for review by their Historic Preservatio Commission (HPC).
Once approved by the HSRC, and any corrections or comments are addressed, the SHPO will forward the
nomination to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places at the National Park Service
offices in Washington, D.C. for review. Once the nomination is received in D.C., it takes 45 days
to process. If the process goes according to schedule, these districts could be listed on the
National Register of Historic Places by early April 2010.
When the neighborhoods are listed on the National Register, owners will be able
to apply for a property tax reduction. To qualify for the tax reduction, a property must be 1) owner-occupied
and 2) contributing to the historic district. Information regarding this
tax reduction program is available.
The city of Phoenix also is completing a National Register nomination for the
Brentwood neighborhood (generally bounded by McDowell Road, Interstate 10, 16th and 20th streets)
already listed on the Phoenix Historic Property Register.
If you are a property owner or resident in one of
these 11 historic districts, we encourage you to share the above information
with others in your neighborhood. If you have any questions, contact Historic
Preservation at 602-261-8699 or e-mail at historic@phoenix.gov.
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