New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 12 - TRADE, COMMERCE AND BANKING
Chapter 21 - COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Part 3 - LENDING PROCEDURES OF THE MAIN STREET REVOLVING LOAN FUND
Section 12.21.3.19 - MSRL STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATION
Universal Citation: 12 NM Admin Code 12.21.3.19
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
The committee shall review architectural applications for conformance with the following MSRL standards:
A. Rehabilitation standards for all eligible projects applying to the program provide the applicant with guidance on maintaining the architectural, design, historic, and main street character of the property, during and after the contracted restoration, rehabilitation, repair and work necessary to meet code requirements.
B. The following standards have been adopted by the committee as the standards for rehabilitation for eligible properties.
(1) A property shall be used as it was
historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its
distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
(2) The historic character of a property will
be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alterations
of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property
will be avoided.
(3) Each property
will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes
that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural
features or elements from other historic properties, will not be
undertaken.
(4) Changes to a
property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be
retained and preserved.
(5)
Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or
examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be
preserved.
(6) Deteriorated
historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of
deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature
will match the old in design, color, texture, and where possible materials.
Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and
physical evidence.
(7) Chemical or
physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using the gentlest
means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials will not be
used.
(8) Archaeological resources
will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed,
mitigation measures will be undertaken.
(9) New additions, exterior alterations, or
related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and
spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be
differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials,
features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of
the property and its environment.
(10) New additions and adjacent or related
new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the
future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its
environment would be unimpaired.
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