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SURVEYS for LOCAL GOVS A Context for Best Practices

SURVEYS for LOCAL GOVS A Context for Best Practices. Marie Nelson State Historian II OHP-Survey/CLG Coordinator www.ohp.parks.ca.gov Oct 04 -CCAPA. What is a historical resource?. National Register California Register CEQA Local criteria. National Register.

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SURVEYS for LOCAL GOVS A Context for Best Practices

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  1. SURVEYS for LOCAL GOVSA Context for Best Practices Marie Nelson State Historian II OHP-Survey/CLG Coordinator www.ohp.parks.ca.gov Oct 04 -CCAPA

  2. What is a historical resource? • National Register • California Register • CEQA • Local criteria

  3. National Register • Buildings, Structures, Objects, Sites, Districts • Local, State, or National significance • in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture

  4. California Register • Buildings, Structures, Objects, Sites, Districts, Area, Place, Record, or Manuscript • Historically or Archaeologically significant • Significant in the architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, agricultural, educational, social, political, military, or cultural annals of California.

  5. CEQA • Resource listed in or determined eligible by the SHRC for listing in the California Register • Resource included in a local register of historical resources, or • Identified as significant in an historical resources survey (status codes 3-5) shall be presumed to be historically or culturally significant • Any B,S,O,S,A,…which a lead agency determines to be historically significant…

  6. What is a Historical Resources Survey ? • Systematic process for • Gathering information about a community’s historical resources. • Identifying and • Evaluating the quantity and quality of historical resources for land-use planning purposes. • Foundation upon which preservation planning is built.

  7. SURVEY TASKS EVALUATE IDENTIFY HISTORIC CONTEXT PLAN

  8. Reconnaissance Survey Goals • Identify the kinds of historic properties within the surveyed area • Identify neighborhoods or potential historic districts – concentration of historic resources • Identify areas where no historic resources are present • Identify potentially significant individual buildings or areas which merit further identification and evaluation

  9. Intensive Level Survey Goals • Identify district contributors and individually significant resources. • Identify essential character–defining physical features that convey the resource’s significance, including landscape features, setting or other factors pertinent to resource’s integrity. • Define essential physical features, also called character-defining features, that must be present to represent the property’s significance. • Document all historic buildings, structures, sites, objects and potential districts in sufficient detail to permit their evaluation and registration.

  10. Survey Update Goals • Identify resources not previously surveyed • Evaluate significance within additional contexts • Evaluate with current understandings and methodology • Evaluateintegrity and current condition • Evaluate as contributor to district or neighborhood • Electronic database – public access

  11. SURVEY PRODUCTS • SURVEY REPORT • HISTORICAL CONTEXTS • INVENTORY – ALL identified and evaluated • REGISTRATION – Significant Resources • National Register • California Register • Local Register or Designation • PUBLICATIONS

  12. Why do Local Governments need surveys?

  13. How is survey information used by Local Governments?

  14. Zoning and Planning • Conservation Districts • HPOZs • Historic Districts • Design Guidelines and Review • Permits • Historic Building Code

  15. Historic Preservation • Local designations • Nation, state and local registers nominations • Facilitate use of Federal Historic Preservation Investment Tax Credits • General Plan Element • Preservation Ordinance

  16. Environmental Reviews • CEQA • Local Preservation Ordinance • Permit Review Process • Section 106 for federally funded, licensed, and permitted projects including cell towers

  17. Heritage Tourism Initiatives • Develop and Enforce Design guidelines to retain the character of historic districts and neighborhoods • Develop walking/driving bicycle tours of historic areas • Promote and develop business attractions compatible with historic districts • Prescribe Maintenance Practices • Identify Compatible Adaptive Reuse

  18. Community Development • Foster pride of place and appreciation of cultural heritage • Maintain and enhance property values • Establish eligibility for federal funding and tax incentives • Provide economic incentives to promote conservation and preservation • Sustain or improve quality of life by maintaining neighborhood character • Identify zones for redevelopment & revitalization

  19. Affordable Housing andAdaptive Reuse • Establish eligibility for federal funding and tax incentives • Identify Buildings suitable for Adaptive Reuses • Develop plans for the adaptive reuse of existing housing stock • Develop design guidelines for compatible infill for historic and conservation districts or neighborhoods • Prescribe Maintenance Practices

  20. Transportation Planning • Know where the historic resources are before planning transportation paths. • Plan to avoid adverse impacts to historic districts and neighborhoods when possible.

  21. Disaster Planning & Response • Identify significant historic resources before disaster strikes. • Response to disaster is different for historic buildings. • PRC 5028 – NR/CR/Local Registers • Prevents demolition of buildings that could /should be preserved.

  22. National Register • California Register • Local Criteria Surveys: A Multi-Purpose Tool

  23. What information do surveys need to provide to be most useful to local governments?

  24. Need to Know • What resources are there? • Where are they? • Why are they significant? • What are the character-defining features? • How do they need to be treated?

  25. HISTORIC RESOURCE?

  26. HISTORIC RESOURCE?

  27. HISTORIC CONTEXT

  28. HISTORIC CONTEXTS THEME PLACE TIME Describe the significant aspects and broad patterns of an area’s history and cultural development

  29. CONTEXTS FOCUS ON PROPERTY TYPES* • Identifythe types of properties expected within the geographical limits. Group them into types most useful in representing important historic trends • Identify characteristics each property type needs to represent the property type within the context • Predictlocational patterns • Defineintegrity thresholds • Permitdevelopment of plans for identification, evaluation, and treatment even in absence of complete knowledge of individual properties. *Groupings of individual properties based on shared physical or associative characteristics

  30. HISTORIC CONTEXTS Built Environment History Patterns People Values

  31. CONTEXTS FOR SURVEYS • Synthesize information about significant historical patterns, events, people, groups, and values • Define Property Types and Locational patterns • Establish Integrity Thresholds • Identify Information Needs • Recommend Goals and Strategies • Evolve as additional information is acquired

  32. CONTEXTS For decisions about identification, evaluation, registration and treatment of historic properties

  33. IDENTIFY

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