?'s on Historic Overlays and Documentation-Photography wise

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

I may get a project (photo wise) dealing with the renovation of a large structure with an historic overlay and I do know that the Project Manager will need some sort of base photo documentation to prove that certain things in the structure were either damaged or in poor condition before he does any major work. It involves over 16,000 sq ft on a structure pre 1930 that has an historic district overlay on it.

Has anyone dealt with one of these overlays in reguards to documenting things? I assume that I will have to be submitting affidavits and stuff. Can I do some of the work with medium format film and do detail work with digital? Or does it all have to be film?

I know some shots will be film because I know they will want to make large prints from some and it is the best way to go (I have the equipment for MF).

I posted this under City life and had only a few views and no responses (I am supposed to meet up with the Developer later to day onsite).

There are be architectural details that have damage that I know that I will have to shoot and I probably will need to use a scissor lift to get to some shots.

A ballpark estimate on his project I would bet would be in the $2.5 to $3.4 million range.
Right now he has a permit to do things other than strutural in nature to the building. So far they have just been doing minor trash hauling out of the building.

There is a large open area inside of the current building that they will be building into but there are no structural changes allowed to the building so far. I believe that they may be able to get a variance to turn the basement into garage space for the tenants use since he has little to no parking space which would require putting in a steel beam entry and taking out the lower part of one wall and some land excavation work to ramp down to the basement (May buy an empty lot right across the street but tenants are not super crazy about having to cross a street to get home after they park.)

Nice thing about the location is that I can see it from my front porch! MY PROPERTY VALUES WILL GO UPPPPPPPPPPP!

So has anyone dealt with Historic Overlays on properties as far as documentation required on a rather large project?

[Casper]

Interesting project and questions, I would like to know as well.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

I left one of the labor crew my card to give to the boss but didn't get a chance to see him today I will be going by again over the next several days to see him.

I've been looking on line trying to find something specific on the subject without a lot of results. A member has PM'ed me some contact info for a couple people and I may write them over the weekend to see what they have to say.

See I am thinking about the "legal" view on digital captures vs film and how that hasn't been nailed down by the courts quite yet in areas like this.

Today the labor crew was just scraping wooden window frames and other outside wooden pieces so nothing is changing much to the site yet.