Downtown Area Design Guidelines, City of Lawrence

Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission; Lawrence Historic Resources Commission

From introduction: "This document represents a revision and expansion of the “Downtown Design Guidelines” that apply to the Conservation Overlay District and were adopted by the City on September 5, 2001 (Administrative Policy number AP-82). At that time, Lawrence’s Downtown Historic District (see map, Figure X) had not yet been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places. The historic district’s nomination to the National Register in 2004 introduced two new requirements: first, that all exterior alteration, construction, or demolition proposals inside its boundaries be reviewed for appropriateness against the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, in addition to any other standards; and second, that projects within the environs of the historic district also be assessed for their impact. Thus some important goals of this 2007 revision are: To acknowledge and account for the presence of Lawrence’s Downtown Historic District, now listed in the National Register of Historic Places; To incorporate The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation into the guidelines and design review processes; To establish standards for design review that are applicable to the Conservation Overlay District, the Downtown Historic District, and the Historic District environs; To illustrate the geographic boundaries within which proposed projects are subject to design review; To help clarify and simplify understanding of the laws, policies, and standards to which design review oversight in downtown Lawrence must comply." Project funding was provided in part by a 2006 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Lawrence (project number KS-06-005) administered by the Kansas State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 20-06-21519) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Lawrence, Kansas is a Certified Local Government.

Downtown Area Design Guidelines, City of Lawrence

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