New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 12 - TRADE, COMMERCE AND BANKING › Chapter 21 - COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT › Part 3 - LENDING PROCEDURES OF THE MAIN STREET REVOLVING LOAN FUND › Section 12.21.3.19 - MSRL STANDARDS FOR REHABILITATION

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
The committee shall review architectural applications for
				  conformance with the following MSRL standards:
A. Rehabilitation standards for all eligible
				projects applying to the program provide the applicant with guidance on
				maintaining the architectural, design, historic, and main street character of
				the property, during and after the contracted restoration, rehabilitation,
				repair and work necessary to meet code requirements.
B. The following standards have been adopted
				by the committee as the standards for rehabilitation for eligible properties.
(1) A property shall be used as it was
				historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its
				distinctive materials, features, spaces, and spatial relationships.
(2) The historic character of a property will
				be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alterations
				of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property
				will be avoided.
(3) Each property
				will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes
				that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural
				features or elements from other historic properties, will not be
				undertaken.
(4) Changes to a
				property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be
				retained and preserved.
(5)
				Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction techniques or
				examples of craftsmanship that characterize a property will be
				preserved.
(6) Deteriorated
				historic features will be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of
				deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature
				will match the old in design, color, texture, and where possible materials.
				Replacement of missing features will be substantiated by documentary and
				physical evidence.
(7) Chemical or
				physical treatments, if appropriate, will be undertaken using the gentlest
				means possible. Treatments that cause damage to historic materials will not be
				used.
(8) Archaeological resources
				will be protected and preserved in place. If such resources must be disturbed,
				mitigation measures will be undertaken.
(9) New additions, exterior alterations, or
				related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and
				spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work will be
				differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials,
				features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of
				the property and its environment.
(10) New additions and adjacent or related
				new construction will be undertaken in such a manner that, if removed in the
				future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its
				environment would be unimpaired.