To identify, evaluate
and record historic resources for the purposes of creating a historic
district(s) in the City of Rochester, in compliance with preexisting state and federal
guidelines.
-- Mission of the Rochester
Historic District Study Committee
What is a Historic District Study
Committee?
According to Michigan's Local Historic
District Act, Public Act 169 of 1970, as amended, any time a local historic district is
established, modified or eliminated the local unit of government with jurisdiction over
the district must appoint a Historic District Study Committee. The City Council
appoints a Historic District Study Committee whose members are interested in or
knowledgeable about historic preservation for the purpose of conducting a historic
resource survey, identifying contributing and non-contributing resources within a proposed
historic district(s). Members do not have to reside in the City of Rochester and are
appointed by the Rochester City Council.
What Does the Committee Do?
- Conducts a photographic inventory of
resources within each proposed historic district following procedures established by the
State Historic Preservation Office;
- Conducts basic research of each proposed
district and the historic resources located within that district;
- Determines the total number of historic and
non-historic resources within a proposed district, and the percentage of historic
resources of that total. In evaluating the significance of historic resources, the
committee shall be guided by the selection criteria for evaluation issued by the United
States Secretary of Interior for inclusion of resources in the National Register of
Historic Places, as set forth in 36 C.F.R. part 60, and criteria established or approved
by the State Historic Preservation Office, if any;
- Prepares a preliminary Historic District
Study Committee report that addresses, at a minimum, all of the following: the charge of
the committee; the composition of the committee membership; the historic district(s)
studied; the boundaries for each proposed historic district in writing and on maps; the
history of each proposed historic district; the significance of each district as a whole,
as well as a sufficient number of its individual resources to fully represent the variety
of resources found within the district, relative to the evaluation criteria.
