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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, so much effort on HPRB. Where I went to college, being a double-major meant you satisfied the credits for both majors.  I am not sure where 18:57 gets that it is only 1/2?

18:57 also brought up the Secretary of Interior Standards.  Clearly these folks have the qualifications necessary to serve the city.  Maybe they should ask the Historic Preservation Office for the justifications if these folks aren't qualified.

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You keep responding with untruths. The current HPRB does NOT meet Dept of Interior standards. In fact, they have had their funding cut as a result because their membership is lacking the following required professional representations on the board to review histori cpreservation cases: 
1) a Masters prepared historian, who is published and regarded as an expert in related history ( for teh District that woyld be 1700-earlt 20th century
2) an Historical presrervation Engineer, with a Masters i  Engineering
3) An anthropologist ( masters prepared)
4) A Landscape Historian

Yes, the HPRB needs to have at least 1 architect, but not 6/9 of the seats and , no, the Dept of Interior guidelines definitely do NOT say that an Urban planner can serve as the sole " historian". And no partial credits as an undergrad do not qualify one to call themselves a "historian" . You need a PhD for that and you need to be published

The current  HPRB aren't magnanimously volunteering of their time. They still work full time for all the big architecture fims building in town in their day jobs and , yes, they follow their orders on what to approve ( they approve EVERYTHING these days, but if you live in a historic district they dont give a damn what hideous pop up gets built or if someone builds  a "bay window" on all 3 stories of new construction sticking out into the public space  and then fiils hat "bay"  with a bedroom in the public space or even a bathroom, nearly on the sidewalk. Or a pop up sticking up like a middle finger right in the center of a block. No, all they care about is that building permits be issued cha ching[/quote]

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