Efforts to update the Arlington County government’s Historic Preservation Master Plan continue to move forward.
“We are hopefully in the home stretch,” county staffer Cynthia Liccese-Torres said at the Feb. 15 meeting of the Historical Affairs and Landmark Review Board (HALRB).
“Our goal would be to release the plan in March,” Liccese-Torres said. Given the levels of review it will have to go through, adoption by the County Board is unlikely to occur intel fall at the earliest.
The update, when adopted, will guide the Arlington government’s efforts to preserve existing heritage – efforts that have come under criticism from some quarters in recent years, as a number of prominent homes and other structures have fallen to the wrecking ball without, critics contend, county government using existing powers to stop the razing.
Those with interest in the subject will be kept in the loop. “There will be ample opportunity to learn about the plan through the spring and summer,” Liccesse-Torres said.
Perhaps the centerpiece of the effort is a planned May 6 informational session at Central Library.
