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June 30, 2024
Example, the early 2000s, the park service was not able to fully discuss slavery as the basis for the civil war. So, that took a transition in. He park service a reopening, as the secretary has talked about, so there will be these tensions. And who knows what we can say at this point . But there will always be people who care deeply in the park service who i am sure will continue to tell the full story. Question. My name is zach. I work at president lincolns cottage. Secretary babbitt, thank you...
June 30, 2024
Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. Of the executive director us icomos. Panel, us today on the we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State university who is coordinating the civil rights World Heritage nomination. Rant leggs brent leggs. , and patricia sullivan. First, a little bit about us icomos and why i am listed as session, glennis eskew is the architect of this session. I am here to provide context for the significance of the investments of...
June 30, 2024
Next, we continue our coverage of this weekends meeting in washington, d. C. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us this late on a saturday afternoon. I am the executive director of us icomos. I will describe who we are and set a little context. Welcome to the session on World Heritage and the New Birmingham National Civil rights monument. Joining us today on the panel, we will be doing brief introductions. Glenn eskew from Georgia State universi...
June 30, 2024
Resistant walls and weatherization. It speaks to the disconnect we find there and that comes from the project Design Professionals and percolates down to ending up with something that is maybe a little beyond but, you know, some of them we see a little bit beyond, but again, the universe with 49 hopkins projects, its pretty small. Just want to make that clear. I spoke about the facade, its not difficult to preserve stuff like that. Shoring and bracing. We dont see any reason as inspectors why it...
June 30, 2024
Is the Code Enforcement fees and orders of abatement, that takes it into thousands of dollars for assessment of Code Enforcement. Referral to the City Attorney for litigation and possible financial penalty, we have evidence of that here. Our unlawful demolition code prohibits the project from proceeding for five years, in consideration of 317 of the planning code, where theres a bit of a contractor. I think whats important to understand about our code section regarding unlawful demolition, it st...
June 30, 2024
From spain and portugal, they fled to where they could worship, where they could work. Us 10 people left barb betos, but instead of going to new york or wanted to go they to rhode island. In 1636, a gentleman by the name of Roger Williams founded rhode island. He had come to the colonies from england seeking religious freedom, and 20 years after the founding of rhode island, those people in barbados said this is where they wanted to come. She was the most famous woman lighthouse keeper in the Un...
June 30, 2024
For example and they do an extra 1,000, its two times based on the 1,000. Its limited and thats what the code allows for. We cant go beyond our code. Those are the tools we have. The nine times of course is we hardly see this, but when somebody were to go out there and completely tear down a building and have no permit at all. I dont know if i have ever seen that. Monetary penalties as were saying are typically small based on work valuations. What does add to the penalties is the Code Enforcemen...
June 30, 2024
Building in the United States of america. It has a wonderful 600 year story. First of all, it is most important for you to understand that above all, the synagogue is a house of worship. We have services here all year round, a fulltime rabbi, a congregation of about 120 members, and it is orthodox in its service. That is what we are doing today. The story starts in 1492 in spain, when eating of ferdinand and clean isabella issued and Queen Isabella issued a decree. It was they wanted a purely ga...
June 30, 2024
Development unit. The question raised to have an expert on staff who is able to look demolitions more from an architect side, structural engineer, is there any way to augment that position by 1. 5 positions to do both . I think that the short answer, we think we have enough to financially support one person to just to be devoted to adu, but when those issues come up, other planners get involved. So Historic Preservation planner would look at if there is a preservation issue. At this point, the m...
June 30, 2024
Positions to do both . I think that the short answer, we think we have enough to financially support one person to just to be devoted to adu, but when those issues come up, other planners get involved. So Historic Preservation planner would look at if there is a preservation issue. At this point, the mayors budget request to all departments was not to add any positions so were pushing the envelope a little bit, because we think we can justify it based on the fees, but when the issues come up. I ...