Planning Commission 04/24/2024 - Apr 24, 2024

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Prince William County Planning Commission 5h 52m 2 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 7 days ago official recording ↗

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What is the purpose of the cultural resource presentation and who is presenting?

Christopher Carroll 0:25

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Justin Patton 0:33

we go. Good afternoon, Chair McPhail. My name is Justin Patton. I'm the County Archaeologist. Tonight I'll be talking about how the county integrates cultural resource management into review of our land development applications. This is a version of the presentations that I give to all of our BCCs within the planning office, particularly the planning commission, I mean, particularly the historical commission and our architectural review board that reviews historic overlay districts. But it's tailored for the planning commission and it's also a similar presentation that I gave for staff. We'll look at, introduce our cultural resource team, we'll go through the process, and then we'll get into some terms and definitions and phases of investigation, policy application review process, and proffers and conditions.

Justin Patton 1:32

So it's kind of a high level of approach tonight, but it's designed to give you a good overview and to also allow you to ask questions. Feel free to ask questions at any time. Our cultural resource team consists of three folks and our most recent hire is Eric Griffiths right here sitting to my right. Eric was hired in December of 2023. He has a lot of above ground resources experience, architectural experience, has a ton of section 106 experience and also a lot of planning experience too. Our other team member is Emma Dietrich. She's our cemetery preservation coordinator. She was actually hired and started in January of 2023. So since December of 2022, we've increased our, we've doubled the number or tripled the number of folks that we have working on cultural resources within the planning office.

Justin Patton 2:33

I want to step back and just talk a little bit about the other preservation actors within the county because they do help staff evaluate impacts to cultural resources from our land development applications. So within the planning office, we liaise with our historical commission. As you have probably seen in the staff reports, the historical commission reviews every rezoning, special use permit application, public facility review application, and comprehensive plan amendment. Um, we also, um, work with our architectural review board. They don't play a major role in land development application review. Their focus is really on overlay districts and we only have one. Um, but they do have very specialized expertise and that's architects, architectural review.

Justin Patton 3:30

Um, and they do have architects and required to have architects on their board. So it's a very good, um, technical expertise that we have sometimes drawn on throughout a review of a rezoning, for example. The other two primary folks that we work with is our Office of Historic Preservation and Department of Public Parks and Recreation. They actually own and operate all of our county historic sites. So those are open for interpretation. And they also have a community research program that was just started about three years ago. And that looks at specific communities within the county. And we work side by side with them on lots of preservation issues. But they also at times will consult with us on rezoning and special use permit process.

Justin Patton 4:20

And then our relic room in our central community library is really the county's research repository. They have a lot of genealogical information. They have a lot of information on historic sites. They have newspaper articles. It's something that we require when we want consultants to do work in the county. We want them to go to this research repository and make sure that they're dotting their I's and crossing their T's when they're doing their archival research. And then there's other historic 501c3 groups like the Historic Preservation Foundation that we also liaise with.

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Justin Patton 5:01

Just figure out how to go backwards. So when we collaborate on proffers, historical marker, interpretive signs, oral histories, research, consultation without outside groups, archival, archeological, and architectural research, and grants and internships. We like to take advantage of the expertise that's in other departments.