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Page 4 Look at the perimeters of your district so as not to isolate your area and to be able to use and control administratively the surrounding area. Use incentives to encourage buildinq remodeling and maintenance. Stop not only demolition for economic reasons but also demolition by neglect, by having the city bring a home or building up to code levels and then put it as a lien or the -property to either force an absentee owner to take care of the property or sell it. The area was sold to the public by its quality of life, economic potential, etc. Litigation Saturday (Murphy) - Historic zoning has been proven successful and upheld in the courts. Has same value or standard over.the entire area not according to property lines. It also stays there permanently. Local Government is subject to local Historic zoning and not like common zoning. Case upheld in Maryland courts. Case concerned black church sold to county govern- ment and saved from demolition. Historic zoning is unique and in a class of its own with a unique value. Morrison New Orleans -vs- Bergman - (1923 or 24) Superior Court decision by Justice O'Neil said every building in a historic zoning area is subject to control and under its jurisdiction. Citizens to Preserve Overton Park Memphis -vs- Overton U.S. Superior Court Secretary of Transportation had not done his work - You cannot build a highway in a Historic zoning area unless you try to preserve it. Port of New Orleans -vs- Vic Carey - (1974) had nothing to do with flood control in a historic district. Look up landmark Law in New York - upheld by Superior Court - Manhattan Club case. New York had right to declare a building a landmark over the disapproval of the private owner. , Anderson ? Crown Zellerch -vs- Dallas City Council - (1973) Swiss Avenue Area - Highly specialized 8 black residential area - had the grandest homes in Dallas and so some of the most. famous people of the past, lived there. In time 1.11e area around it lost its elegance and apartmelits e11CI-OdChed in the next street. Meantime, Swiss Avenue started to revitalize. 1972 Plan Commission decided to preserve the area by changing the zoning to single family zoninci by the Historic method but first the Dallas law had to be changed to have the right to declare a Historic zoning area and