Charleston REALTORS® Help Shape Common-Sense Historic Preservation Code

The city of Charleston, South Carolina has the oldest historic district in the nation, and the area’s REALTORS^® well understand the importance of historic preservation.  But when Charleston County proposed overly restrictive amendments to its Historic Preservation Code early this year, the 4,150-member Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS^® (CTAR) couldn’t support it. The association tapped into NAR’s Land Use Initiative to provide an analysis of what would and wouldn’t work, which prompted the county to appoint a task force, with CTAR’s past president to chair it.

• Read about CTAR’s success in shaping the historic preservation code (352K PDF)