Downtown Waxahachie Design Guidelines
The long-anticipated design guidelines have been agreed upon, approved, and published both in print and electronically in pdf format for anyone to download. Note, if you click on the link it will begin to download a rather large document so think before you click. It may take a couple of minutes to complete. Download Guidelines
As stated in the Acknowledgements of the guideline: "this project has been a great challenge and labor of love." These guidelines "promote rehabilitation and redevelopment that is sensitive to the surrounding historic context and helps maintain downtown as the center of the community. By preserving existing buildings and guiding compatible redevelopment, the guidelines also help promote cultural, environmental and economic sustainability. A key goal is to support a downtown that meets the needs of residents, business owners and visitors."
If you haven't seen this gem of a resource I would encourage you to download it and take a look. Then tell others about it if they are considering any projects within the historic overlay. And actually, it has good, sound principles for any rehab plans even if they don't exist within the downtown area. Easy to read, easy to follow and understand, this is a treasure of information that all Waxahachie citizens should be very proud of.
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