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COMMUNITY OUTREACH
The Heritage Preservation Plan update began in January of 2018, kicking off
with a public workshop, stakeholder committee meeting, and city department
interviews to understand the dynamics of the current preservation program.
A website was created to inform community members about the project
throughout the process that provided information about upcoming events,
reported results from past events, and offered links to online mapping. Two
additional workshops were held to seek additional public input as the plan
developed. Additional outreach efforts included:
A Public Workshops A Letters to Owners of Potential
Heritage Resources
A City of Plano Twitter City of Plano Facebook
A City of Plano Website A NextDoor More Information
A Preservation Plano 150 Website A Preservation Review Newsletter Additional information about the
A Potential Historic Assets A workshops and other public outreach
Crowdsourcing Map A SAGE Newsletter materials used throughout this

A Email Blast A Plano City News update process can be found in
A Flyers A Plano History Focus Group Appendix D.
A Survey (both online and hard A Historic Downtown Plano
copy at libraries) Association (HDPA) Monthly
A Public Hearings at Heritage Meetings
Commission & City Council

16 Workshop #1 Attendees Workshop #2 Attendees 36 Workshop #3 Attendees

The first public workshop was held on January 31, A second workshop was held on May 10, 2018 The third workshop was held on August 30, 2018
2018 and introduced participants to the Heritage to update the public on initial online survey and included a presentation of the draft Heritage
Preservation Plan, its goals, and the project results, the historic assets survey, and initial Preservation Plan and an updated Potential
process. Participants were also invited to provide recommendations for the heritage preservation Heritage Resources list. Members of the public that
feedback about Plano’s existing heritage resources, program moving forward. attended the workshop had an opportunity to
the current preservation program, and the review the updated timelines and goals, policies,
opportunities and challenges the program faces in and actions matrices.
the near future.
GREAT IDEAS

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