Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 110 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 110-37 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION › Subject 110-37-6 - GEORGIA STATE INCOME TAX CREDIT PROGRAM FOR REHABILITATED HISTORIC PROPERTY › Rule 110-37-6-.06 - Standards for Evaluating Significance

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) The Standards for Evaluating Significance
				shall be used in determining the significance of all properties for which a
				Part A- Preliminary Certification is received by the Department.
(a) Properties that consist of an individual
				building are reviewed by the Department to determine if they appear to meet
				Georgia Register criteria for significance and possess historic integrity by
				applying the Criteria for Evaluation of Properties for the Georgia Register,
				Rule 110-37-6-.02.
(b) Some properties consist of multiple
				buildings or structures whose concentration or continuity possesses greater
				historical significance than many of their individual component buildings and
				structures.
1. Properties that comprise
				multiple buildings will be reviewed by the Department to determine if they
				appear to meet Georgia Register criteria for significance and possess historic
				integrity by applying the Criteria for Evaluation of Properties for the Georgia
				Register, Rule
				110-37-6-.02.
(i) This review will include a determination
				as to whether the property is most appropriately evaluated as a historic
				district or an individual property for the purposes of meeting Georgia Register
				criteria for significance. This determination will be made based on an
				assessment of the concentration or continuity of resources that comprise the
				property and the relationship of those resources, including but not limited to:
(I) Whether there are identifiable primary
				and secondary hierarchical and/or proportional relationships;
(II) Whether the property comprises multiple
				tax parcels;
(III) Whether the
				property is composed of elements with separate owners;
(IV) The acreage of the property and the
				relationship of that acreage to the property's historical
				significance;
(V) The relationship
				of the association between the property's resources to the property's
				historical significance; and
(VI)
				Additional related factors, as determined by the
				Department.
2.
				Buildings must be determined contributing to the significance of the individual
				property or district for the purposes of this program.
(c) Properties located within Georgia
				Register-listed or potential historic districts are reviewed by the Department
				to determine if they contribute to the significance of the listed or potential
				district.
1. A property contributing to the
				significance of a district is one which was present during the district's
				period of significance and which, by integrity of its historic location,
				design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association adds to the
				district's sense of time and place and historical development.
2. A property not contributing to the
				significance of a district is one which was not present during the district's
				period of significance; or one which does not add to the district's sense of
				time and place and historical development; or one where the location, design,
				setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association have been so altered
				or have so deteriorated that the overall integrity of the property has been
				irretrievably lost.
3. In the case
				of a Georgia Register-listed historic district for which no defined period of
				significance has been documented, properties that have been constructed within
				the past 50 years generally shall not be considered contributing to the
				significance of the district unless a strong justification concerning their
				historical or architectural relationship to the district is provided in the
				district's Georgia Register nomination documentation, or the significant
				historical attributes of the district are documented to be less than 50 years
				old and the property is documented as contributing to that
				significance.