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Angie Master details LPC staff's role in preparing landmark proposals
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Angie Master, a Commissioner of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, elaborates on the role of LPC staff in preparing landmark proposals. She explains the process of how buildings and districts are selected for review by the commissioners.
- Master emphasizes that LPC staff continuously surveys and reviews potential landmarks
- She notes that staff considers both architecturally significant structures and those with cultural and historical importance
- Master explains that by the time commissioners review a proposal, it has already been thoroughly researched and prepared by the staff
Angie Master
1:00:23
Yeah.
1:00:23
Thank you for that question.
1:00:28
The list of, I guess, buildings or historic districts that come before us to be reviewed is really prepared by the landmarks preservation staff.
1:00:39
I think that they continually do surveys.
1:00:42
They spend a lot of time and energy kind of reviewing their list of, I think, architecturally significant.
1:00:51
And in the last two years, a lot of landmarks that have been culturally and historically significant as well.
1:01:01
So by the time we see it, it's already been kind of proposed, and, you know, we kind of look at it on the merits once it's been researched and proposed to us.
1:01:13
So I'm sorry that something in your district that was culturally significant was not able to be on the list and, you know, forwarded in time that we could see it.
1:01:25
But, you know, by the time we get the proposal, you know, the staff has really gone through the process that you're talking about.