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Spring 2020 nance, new owners were also able to help save the property. A current success story is an ongoing process at a home on South Milam Street. “An elderly couple that has lived in the house for 20plus years just needed help to keep the wooden house painted,” Hudson said. Since property values do go up when a home is in the Historic District, this elderly couple wasn’t able to afford the maintenance on the home. The board was able to use preservation grant money to keep up the painting and save the house. “This was really an example of us doing some outreach and really helping Fredericksburg’s Historic District expanded over the past year. This map shows the previous boundary and those in need,” Hudson said. the expansion area. — Submitted photo
Historic District ‘benefits everyone’ Some landowners fear
that if their property is expanded into the Historic District, it means the government is taking
full control of their land. It’s not. “It’s not really as bad as people may hear and the review is just
limited to the exterior property,”
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