2020 Volume 85 Issue 769 Pages 615-623
1. Background and Purpose
Some of historic buildings don't comply with current standards of buildings. There is a risk that it could lose historic design because of renovating complied with the current standards. One of solutions is using exclusion from application of the current standards by the ordinance based on Building Standards Act 3.1.3. This study is aimed to clarify the enactment process and public awareness activities of the ordinance in Kyoto because the ordinance has not been used enough yet nationwide.
2. Outline about the ordinance
If City administrations enact the ordinance, historic buildings that are not designated Important Cultural Properties, also can be excluded from regulations of the Act. The ordinances are roughly divided into two types; existing ordinance type and original ordinance type. The former is the ordinances by revising the ordinance to control townscape and the ordinance to protect cultural properties and so on. The latter is new enactment of the ordinance.
3. Enactment process of the ordinance in Kyoto
In the stage of building a base of enacting the ordinance (1992-2003), some intermediary organizations were established, and they extended activities of kyo-machiya conservation. Kyoto City administration researched about kyo-machiya by public-private collaboration. The result of this research, they sorted out some tasks of kyo-machiya conservation and worked out the conservation plan. In the stage of conceiving the ordinance (2003-2008), the administration proposed original building standards of kyo-machiya as Structural Reform Special Zone to national government. The result of the proposal, the administration conceived to enact the ordinance. In the stage of considering the ordinance (2008-2012), the administration reviewed current condition of legal systems for kyo-machiya conservation, and considered to enact the ordinance. In the stage of establishing the ordinance (2012-2017), the administration enacted the ordinance in 2012 and revised it in 2013. In the stage of deploying various efforts to spread (2017- ), the administration enacted comprehensive agree criteria for kyo-machiya and worked out public awareness activities of the ordinance.
4. Public awareness activities of the ordinance in Kyoto
When the administration enacted the ordinance, they worked to public relations activities like holding explanatory meetings and making leaflets. In addition, they evolved public awareness activities into active learning session for experts of historic conservation and inspection trip of renovation cases with the ordinance.
5. Conclusions
(1) Tasks and measures to conserve kyo-machiya were sorted out through some researches and working out the conservation plan by public-private collaboration. One of these results is the ordinance. (2) Kyoto City administration held explanatory meetings and active learning sessions for experts of historic conservation. These prompted the ordinance to operate, smoothly. (3) In unused municipalities of the ordinance, it’s effective, especially, to raise awareness of the ordinance for the experts. On the other hands, in non-enacted municipalities of the ordinance, it’s effective to understand the current status of historic buildings of citywide and standards about conservation through research in public-private cooperation.
