Fire In Downtown Santiago Destroys Victorian Era Homes

This is nothing new. the Victorian type old houses are protected by the city of santiago and cannot be altered if you want to remodel the home to a new modern style. these houses are tied to a housing code to protect the old homes and preserve their old genuine look from the past. Now here is the problem. The city does not pay a penny to the owners of the houses to restore it to it's original style and design, instead the city wants the owner to cough up the money to preserve the house to it's original style. The only solution to getting out of this trap is to burn the unit down and get divorced from the housing code which had trapped the owner indefinitely.
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We used to have a name for that procedure back in the US, but it is politically incorrect.

the patrimonio building can be changed and updated on the inside, providing you keep the outside and key parts of the construction intact. it kinda pays off to burn it down to the ground and then do a new building. see museo gregorio luperon in POP.

That "trick" can be offset by requiring that all historic buildings should be extensively photographed, especially the details of their architecture, and floor plans drawn up and have them stored at the ayuntamiento. There they should be digitized and stored digitally as back up.

Then a new law should be put in effect that requires that in case of an intentional, unintentional destruction or if the destruction is the product of an act of God (storms), the replacement building (or maybe just the facade in unimportant historic buildings, but buildings that were the setting of an important historic act or the home of a patriot, then it should apply to the whole building) should look identical to the original historic building.

Not only should this discourage such "trick" from happening again, but it will help preserve the traditional character of every Dominican historic districts.

Why describe as Victorian....when did GB influence DR architecture? Am I missing something?

sometimes its a synonim for xix century. and guess what - cultures from different countries but from the same time sometimes get inspired by each other and have some similar points

ju10prd said:

Why describe as Victorian....when did GB influence DR architecture? Am I missing something?

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