CONNECT with the CityPreservation and Progress (Historic Preservation Program Update Package)
Projected Completion: 2026
This initiative will include a comprehensive update to the City’s historic preservation program that includes amendments to the General Plan Historic Preservation Element, the Historical Resources Regulations and Guidelines, and Historical Resources Board policies. It will also include the development of a new Comprehensive Historic Preservation Plan in order to more effectively and efficiently streamline processes for new homes and other uses while preserving resources of historic, architectural, and cultural significance and encouraging their adaptive reuse.
Strategic Plan Priority Areas of Focus
This initiative focuses on the following priority areas of the Strategic Plan:
Create Homes for All of Us
Updates the City’s historic preservation program to provide clear pathways for permitting more new homes and other uses on properties with historic and cultural resources while more effectively preserving and adaptively reusing these resources.
Protect & Enrich Every Neighborhood
Provides opportunities for new homes and other uses that benefit our communities, while identifying and protecting resources that tell a shared story important to the City’s architectural, historical and/or cultural history and identity and encouraging its continued progress and evolution.
Champion Sustainability
Supports adaptive reuse of existing buildings and provides clear pathways for permitting new homes and other uses in areas located near transit.
Foster Regional Prosperity
Strategically identifies, preserves and celebrates our City’s rich history, culture and heritage providing economic opportunities for generations to come.