Landmarks Nominations Workshop

Struggling to understand Seattle’s historic preservation ordinance?

• Disturbed by insensitive new construction in your neighborhood?
• Grappling with the provisions of local zoning?
• Seeking procedures for dealing with local historic properties?
• Who is on the City's Landmarks Board anyway?

Historic Seattle provides a full-day workshop so that you can learn from Seattle's top experts about what you can do to protect the community's built environment and honor your neighborhood's heritage.

The details …

• The workshop is conducted from 9:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m.
• Advance reservations are required.
• The fee for participation is $25 for members of Historic Seattle and $30 for the general public.
• In 2008 the workshop is offered twice; Saturday, April 26, and Saturday, October 28th

Items covered in the workshop include, but not limited to:

WHAT ARE HISTORIC PROPERTIES? Presenters will provide an overview of Seattle’s diverse and unique historic resources including the distinctions between “eligible” and “designated” landmark sites.

NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT AND OPPOSITION. Want to know more about rallying local residents for preservation issues? What should you do if the owner opposes the landmark designation? What are the alternatives to designated historic buildings and neighborhoods?

SUCCESS STORIES from neighbors who landmarked properties in the south park and capitol hill neighborhoods.

COUNTY, NATIONAL AND STATE PRESERVATION PROGRAMS. Seattle and King County preservation legislation is different, but how? What are the advantages of listing on the Washington Heritage Register or the National Register of Historic Places?

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES. Funding help is out there, but you need to find out if your historic building qualifies.

Presenters will include:

• Staff for the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
• Local consulting historians and architects
• Former members of the Seattle City Landmarks Preservation Board
• Staff from the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
• Staff for the King County Landmarks program
• Staff from 4Culture

Please call 206/622-6952 for more information.