HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
A Community Assessment serves as a community engagement process to identify a community’s historic preservation ethic on a scale and provides actionable steps to increase historic preservation awareness and integration in to community planning.
Phase 1 requires one local government official best suited to know what is happening throughout the community pertaining to historic preservation to take a brief on-line questionnaire.
Phase 2 begins community engagement through three site visits by MHPN staff and the opening of the community-wide online questionnaire.
Program Benefits:
Connects outside resources, like SHPO & Main Street staff, to the community through the site visits.
Provides One educational preservation program, like Preservation 101 or Researching your Old Building, at no cost to increase preservation exposure and knowledge in the community
Builds community engagement through the survey and site visit process
Strengthens programs like Main Street and CLG, if existing in the community.
Includes step-by-step action items to help the community move forward and achieve their preservation goals
Sets objectives on a preservation scale to allow for measurable growth over time
Offers opportunity to take follow-up Phase I surveys in six months and one year to track progress
For more information or for questions, contact Ellen Thackery, MHPN Deputy Director, at EThackery@mhpn.org or (517) 371-8080.