Page 64 - Brookings, SD Historic Preservation Plan

Management Tools Component

Goal: The City of Brookings promotes high quality design.
Policy 1: Ensure property owners and residents in historic dis-
tricts understand proper maintenance of historic and poten-
tially historic structures, and of appropriate infill development
in a historic district.
• Action A: Expand the available design guidelines for residen-
tial and commercial properties to assist property owners
in making appropriate changes to their historic structures.
These guidelines should be illustrated to show appropriate
examples. They will build upon the established Secretary of
the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Prop-
erties.

• Action B: Incorporate images of good examples of quality
infill development in residential and commercial historic
districts into the design guidelines document(s).

Goal: Management tools promote historic preservation
goals and support an overall preservation system.
Policy 2: Ensure consistency between the City’s Code of Or-
dinances and current preservation goals.
• Action A: Complete a thorough review of the Code of Ordi-
nances to identify opportunities and constraints regarding
historic resources.

• Action B: Identify zoning standards that conflict with preser-
vation goals and policies, and determine strategies to miti-
gate them.

• Action C: Ensure that the zoning of historic resources is com-
plementary to the goals of historic preservation in Brook-
ings.

• Action D: Address code restrictions that exist when convert-
ing an existing detached structure into a secondary unit.

• Action E: Consider incorporating flexibility to zoning regula-
tions to promote historic resource preservation.

• Action F: Consider ways to encourage non-retail businesses
to occupy upper floors in downtown buildings in order to
reserve retail and active use spaces to the ground floor with
windows.
Policy 3: Utilize the established Local Register in order to
protect historic resources from demolition.
• Action A: Talk with property owners in the National Regis-
ter districts to determine potential interest in local district
designation. If there is interest, the same district boundaries
could be utilized, unless new survey data indicates other-
wise.

Policy 4: Consider developing a conservation program for
neighborhoods that may not be eligible for historic district
designation.
• Action A: Explore the use of Conservation Districts in the
residential areas of Brookings (Note that a Conservation

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