Alan Lloyd

Alan Lloyd

Seattle School Board Director, District 7

RESPONSE RECEIVED: September 1

1. Why is historic preservation important?

Historic Preservation is important to preserve the history of our city and our culture. It is also important to preserve land and buildings in the public trust so they cannot be used for private, money making purposes.

2. What should government’s role be in local, state, and national preservation issues, concerns, and opportunities?

 Governments role should be to determine which buildings, land, cultural pieces, equipment, should be preserved for the public interest, through preservation commissions.

3. What is your track record of supporting local historic preservation programs?

 I voted for the preservation of the Pike Place Market and voted for school levy's that preserve historic school buildings and edifices.

4. Local government entities own many historic properties, both designated as well as eligible for designation as landmarks. What is your position on the stewardship of these properties? What amount of funding for maintenance and rehabilitation would you support for these properties?

 Historic properties and landmarks should be kept in the public trust and not used for private for profit purposes. They should not be sold for private for profit purposes. I would support the amount of funding for maintenance and rehabilitation that is needed to maintain these properties. I think it is a travesty that the funding is not being provided to maintain school buildings.

5. What policy changes would you support to strengthen protections for designated landmarks?

A policy to ensure that school levy's provide the needed funding to protect designated school landmarks.

6. What policy changes would you support to strengthen protections for buildings which have previously been surveyed and were determined to be eligible for a landmark designation?

 Policy changes to ensure that landmark designation was given to those buildings.

7. What policy changes would you support to strengthen protections for older buildings which have not yet been surveyed and have not been evaluated for eligibility for a landmark designation?

  Policy changes that ensure that buildings of a certain age are automatically surveyed for landmark status.

8. In communities across the nation, public funds have been used to survey the historic integrity of neighborhoods. In what ways would you support a comprehensive survey to identify, evaluate, and potentially designate properties as historic landmarks?

  I would support City Council action to include funding through Dept of Neighborhoods grants to conduct  neighborhood comprehensive surveys.

9. Some community plans call for protection of architectural character and historic buildings with the establishment of conservation districts and design controls. What actions would you support to sustain community character?

  I would, in serving on the Seattle School Board, work to ensure through policy and implementation that community plans are respected and followed. I firmly believe that to preserve our neighborhoods we must follow the neighborhood plans developed by each neighborhood. To do otherwise would be disrespectful of the work that many community members put in.