Statements, press releases, and plain-English explainers from the front lines of Plainfield preservation.
Our attorney cross-examined the city's planner; our own licensed planner testified that the statutory standards were not met. The Planning Board granted a continuance.
A city-owned house inside a designated historic district, headed to redevelopment without Historic Preservation Commission review.
Three steps — a rule change, a redevelopment designation, an exemption — and a protected building is no longer protected.
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