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City Staff
In addition to the HPC, city staff are involved with management of
the historic preservation program. Currently, the Community Devel-
opment Director oversees the preservation program and one City
Planner administers the preservation program details – staffing the
BHPC meetings, collecting 11.1 permit applications, and compiling
Case Reports to send to the SHPO, among other tasks. City staff is also
responsible for compiling the Certified Local Government (CLG) grant
application and annual report. The recent move of the preservation
program into the Community Development office created a “one-stop
shop” that, according to property owners, contractors and devel-
opers, has been a much smoother and more effective process when
submitting a permit application.

Administration Component Analysis
Issues

• More preservation staff time is needed to administer the pro-
gram. Currently, it lacks sufficient resources to oversee a com-
prehensive preservation program, which will be even more true
if additional historic resources are identified in the future.
• Other City development and sustainability policies could be
more sufficiently integrated with the preservation program.

Opportunities
• Document and highlight successes of the program for the gener-
al public, such as those that are noted in the annual CLG report
that is submitted to the state.

Main Avenue, now part of the Commercial Historic District (SD Digital Archives)

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