October 29, 2014, Wednesday - Breakfast with a Preservationist at the Mill City Museum
Time: 8:00am to 9:00am
Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Conference Room: 6th Floor, 710 South Second Street
Breakfast With a Preservationist: Conservation Districts
It may be easy to call conservation districts “historic preservation lite,” but this subject deserves our studied public attention. What, exactly, are conservation districts? In what ways will they (and, for that matter, in what ways WON’T they) affect neighborhoods and city planning and development?
Join us for our next Breakfast With a Preservationist to learn more about conservation districts, through a panel discussion featuring John Smoley, senior planner for the Minneapolis’s department of Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED), and two Prospect Park residents, Joe Ring and Bob Roscoe, members of their neighborhood’s committee whose study of conservation districts led the current effort to enable CPED to undertake the ordinance enactment.
Minneapolis conservation districts would be both similar and different to historic districts. The regulatory aspect of conservation districts address how proposed design changes of a property would affected neighborhood physical character instead of obeying a particular building’s architectural style – a broader and more flexible approach than historic districts.
The program begins at 8AM. Typical presentations take 40 minutes, which always transition into very thoughtful questions by audience members. The event stops at exactly 9AM.
Please bring a contribution for the coffee and bakery goodies.
Parking is available in a ramp across the street or along 2nd Street South’s metered spaces. Coffee and bakery will be available, as will the usual great questions and commentary. We stop exactly at 9AM.
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