Featured Image Courtesy Peter Lyons; Alma College Site, 2023 Preservation Design Award Winner, https://californiapreservation.org/awards/alma-college/
Primer on Historic Preservation Law
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be introduced to the history of preservation law in the United States through a discussion of the purpose, content, scope and timing of national, California state and local statutes.
- Participants will learn how enabling regulations and procedures for planning, preservation and environmental review have created a robust, albeit clumsy, regulatory framework to protect historic resources.
- Participants will learn how case law has clarified, modified and extended the legal framework for preservation.
- Participants will understand how planning, preservation and environmental review interact before and during project review and how mitigation monitoring completes the process during and after construction.
Speakers
- Deborah Rosenthal, Esq.,FitzGerald Yap Kreditor