[MassHistPres] Sales/new owners in LHDs

[M/B STEINBERG]

In Marion we send a letter any time an inventoried property is sold and we attach a copy of the Form B. You could certainly add a more specific explanation of the review process for lhd properties.
Meg Steinberg
Marion Historical Commission

> On 10/06/2025 3:55 PM EDT Johnstone, Michelle via MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu> wrote:
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> Good afternoon, everyone –
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> Happy Monday! Reaching out to the greater group to ask: what you all do in your community when a property is sold in a local historic district? Do you monitor for sales and send a welcome letter? If so, do you find that this is helpful? Here in Worcester, we don’t do anything, and sometimes new homeowners find out that they are in a local historic district the first time they pull a permit on the property. Of course, sometimes no permit is pulled (and sometimes isn’t even required), which causes issues when people claim they simply didn’t know/were never told their property is in a local historic district.
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> If anyone has a great example of a letter that you send to new historic property owners, please feel free to share!
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> Best,
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> Michelle H. Johnstone
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> Senior Preservation Planner
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> Executive Office of Economic Development | Planning & Regulatory Services Division
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> City of Worcester | 455 Main Street, Rm 404, Worcester, MA 01608
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