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The Medford Historic Preservation Overlay is a zoning designation that may be applied to properties, public or private, within the City. It is the purpose of the Historic Preservation Overlay to protect, enhance, perpetuate, and improve those buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts that are of local, regional, statewide, or national historic significance. The Historic Preservation Overlay is a critical element of Medford’s residential and commercial revitalization strategy, and a keystone in the broader economic and community development strategy.

More specifically, the Historic Preservation Overlay is intended to:

(1) Affect and accomplish the protection, enhancement, perpetuation, and improvement of such buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts that represent elements of Medford’s cultural, social, economic, political, or architectural history;

(2) Safeguard Medford’s historic, aesthetic, and cultural heritage as embodied in such buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts;

(3) Complement the National Historic Preservation Act and National Register of Historic Places;

(4) Encourage private owners and public citizens to understand the value of such buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts, thus creating incentives for preservation;

(5) Foster civic pride in the beauty and accomplishments of the past;

(6) Protect and enhance Medford’s visitor and tourist attractions, and support and stimulate business and industry;

(7) Promote the use of such buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts for the education, pleasure, and public welfare of the residents of Medford;

(8) Further the provisions of Statewide Planning Goal 5 (to protect natural resources and conserve scenic and historic areas and open spaces); and,

(9) Implement the Medford Comprehensive Plan.

[Replaced Sec. 10, Ord. No. 2006-199, Sep. 7, 2006.]