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Overall Goals, Policies and Actions

Goal: A livable community with a strong sense of history.
Policy 1: Integrate Brookings’ historic resources into commu-
nity planning efforts.
• Action A: Encourage neighborhood-level preservation and
conservation programs.

• Action B: Promote preservation of public and institutional
facilities that have historic significance.

• Action C: Promote good stewardship principles among pub-
lic and private property owners.
• Action D: Promote Brookings’ preservation successes, while
learning from the shortfalls and documenting the losses.
• Action E: Promote all properties and buildings within the
historic districts as providing and promoting the livability of
the neighborhood.

Goal: A sustainable community supported by preservation
efforts.
Policy 2: Promote preservation’s role in community sustain-
ability efforts.
• Action A: Provide tools to encourage cooperation between
advocates for historic preservation and sustainability.

• Action B: Provide information about the environmental ben-
efits of preservation of existing buildings.

• Action C: Use historic structures to highlight green building
practices.

Policy 3: Include sustainability objectives in an update to the
City’s historic design guidelines.
• Action A: Ensure preservation design guidelines include in-
formation about solutions for the compatible application of
sustainable technologies (such as solar panels, wind turbines
and other energy-generating tools) on historic properties.
• Action B: Incorporate design guidelines regarding sustain-
able landscaping techniques.

Goal: An economically vibrant community supported by
preservation.
Policy 4: Encourage active use of historic buildings.
• Action A: Promote the adaptive reuse of historic properties.

• Action B: Promote tax incentives, loans and grant programs
to keep historic structures in use.

• Action C: Evaluate zoning regulations and the building code
to determine changes that may assist in the reuse of historic
structures.

Policy 5: Leverage the economic development opportunities
provided by Brookings’ historic resources.
• Action A: Market Brookings for heritage tourism.

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