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• Action B: Coordinate preservation efforts with support for
local businesses.
• Action C: Use historic districts, and conservation districts, if
adopted, as ways to enhance property values.

Goal: Brookings’ preservation program employs nationally
recognized best practices.
Policy 6: Incorporate new trends and issues in preservation
and neighborhood conservation.
• Action A: Explore alternative tools for historic preservation
that maintain neighborhood character such as the use of
conservation districts, design overlay districts and form
based codes.

• Action B: Horizontally integrate historic preservation into
other City planning efforts.
Policy 7: Promote ease of use, transparency of administration
and predictability in the preservation program.
• Action A: Focus on employing solution-oriented preservation
tools.

• Action B: Provide clear guidance for the treatment of desig-
nated historic resources.

Goal: Preservation is integrated with community goals and
policies.
Policy 8: Integrate historic preservation policies in citywide
planning efforts.
• Action A: Coordinate short-range and long-range planning
with preservation policies.
• Action B: Coordinate capital facilities management with
historic preservation policy.

Goal: Historic resources are integral features of the public
realm.
Policy 9: Promote best practices in the City’s stewardship of
historic resources.
• Action A: Implement a program for public action when a
highly valued historic property is threatened.

• Action B: Actively manage and rehabilitate City-owned his-
toric properties according to best practices.

• Action C: Promote public access to significant historic re-
sources.

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