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Commission Memorandum
Report to: Historic Preservation Advisory Board
From: Sarah Rosenberg, Associate Planner/Historic Preservation Officer
Subject: Historic Preservation Advisory Board 2022-2024 Work Plan
Meeting Date: March 16, 2022
Agenda Item Type: Action
Recommendation: Adopt the Historic Preservation Advisory Board 2022-2024 work plan
Background:
By City Commission Resolution 5323, citizen advisory boards must produce and adopt a two-year
work plan. The Citizen Advisory Board Onboarding Manual outlines the work plan’s requirements,
timeline, and format.
The Historic Preservation Advisory Board (HPAB) has three focus areas, Education and Outreach,
Historic Resource and Inventory, and Preservation Program Development. At January 19, 2022, and
February 16, 2022 meeting, HPAB discussed the following as proposed work plan items in each
focus area.
Focus Area 1: Education and Outreach
Part of HPAB’s role is to promote public information, educational and interpretive programs about
historic preservation.
Work Plan Item 1: Preservation Month
The month of May is considered National Preservation Month. In the past, HPAB would host a
preservation month that would include events, tours, and awards. In recent years, HPAB would host
preservation awards but due to COVID, there haven’t been any awards for two years. HPAB is
hoping to revive the awards and other events during May on an annual basis. HPAB will work with
staff to set up the events during the month and promote them. Events will include the preservation
awards, tours, and guest lectures.
Work Plan Item 2: Preservation and Social Inclusion
HPAB seeks to recognize how preservation can tell the stories of underrepresented communities,
document and protect vernacular architecture, preserve sites of the recent past, and focus on the
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people who live and continue to live in those places. Preservation is not just about buildings and
structures but also intangible heritage. HPAB will work with city staff and stakeholders to identify
these stories and promote them. Examples of how this can be done are through creating cultural or
local districts, virtual storyboards, and documentation of oral histories.
Focus Area 2: Historic Resource Survey & Inventory
In the 2019 NCOD Policy Report, the City and HPAB placed a priority on updating the decades-old
inventories as well as identifying and documenting additional properties.
Work Plan Item 1: Identify most important historic resources
HPAB wishes to celebrate the distinctive story of Bozeman by identifying the most important
historic resources in the community. This could include a district, site, building, landscape, or
archaeological site. HPAB will hold discussions during their meetings and ask for the community to
participate and help identify these resources.
Work Plan Item 2: Identify areas to survey and inventory
As identified in the Bozeman Municipal Code, HPAB can advocate for maintaining and updating
survey and inventory forms of historic and prehistoric properties. The City has dedicated funds
annually to update the historic building inventory. HPAB will work with staff, stakeholders, and
community members to identify areas that need to be inventoried.
Work Plan Item 3: Fred Willson Multiple Property Submission
The City of Bozeman Historic Preservation Officer (HPO) has applied for a grant with the Montana
History Foundation for $10,000 for a city-wide survey and National Register of Historic Places
Multiple Properties Submission (MPS) to document buildings designed by Fred Willson. Results of
this grant are expected by mid-April. Beginning in spring 2022, the HPO and HPAB will complete
inventory forms for Willson buildings throughout the city. If the grant funds are awarded, to
complete and use the Montana History Foundation funds within the one-year window, the City will
contract with Metcalf Archaeology to assist in the write-up of the forms. This is a multi-year effort
to continue adding properties to it annually.
Focus Area 3: Preservation Program Development
The HPO and HPAB administer the local preservation programs to provide guidance, information,
and technical assistance to its residents, visitors, property owners, and community partners.
Although this program and the NCOD have been successful in many ways, it doesn’t support all of
the goals and trends for Bozeman. The following work plans provide the tools and methods to
better serve the community and achieve these goals.
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Work Plan Item 1: UDC Overhaul
The City Commission adopted priorities for 2022-2023 via Resolution 5368 that includes an
overhaul of the UDC. The overhaul will adopt changes to the UDC that facilitate increased housing
density, housing affordability, climate action plan objectives, sustainable building practices, and a
transparent, predictable, and understandable development review process. HPAB will provide
input to staff on the Certificate of Appropriateness and Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District
sections of the overhaul. HPAB will also research and provide suggestions for incentives and
assistance to promote preservation efforts.
Work Plan Item 2: Local Preservation Program
The Community Development Department is requesting funds to create a local preservation
program for FY2023. Altering the NCOD is recommended and supported by the 2019 NCOD Policy
Report. Local preservation programs are more effective mechanisms that municipalities can use to
tailor objectives and goals to the community. The City of Bozeman Community Development
Department will work with a hired consultant and HPAB to create a local preservation program
that could include:
Procedures and criteria for designating local historic resources
Standards for alternates to NCOD (i.e. smaller conservation overlay district, local historic
district, national register district, preservation easements)
Incorporation of incentives and restoration assistance
Procedures for the certificate of appropriateness review
Update design guidelines
HPAB power and responsibilities (i.e. demolition review, enforcement)
Work Plan Item 3: Cultural Landscape Program
HPAB seeks to establish a Cultural Landscape Program where the community can acknowledge the
importance of place beyond the structures of the built environment. This can include heritage trees,
heritage trees, parks, open spaces, or gardens. The main point is that the significance of these places
is based on their association with a historic event, activity, or person. This would be an ongoing
effort in which HPAB would evaluate the nominations on an annual basis. The desire with this
program is that it could be a collaborative effort with other advisory boards and stakeholders from
the community (i.e. MSU).
WP Item Description:Strategic Priorities
Connection:
Board Time
Commitment:
Staff Time
Commitment:Schedule:Budget Impact:
Preservation Month (May)Engaged
Community 4-5 months 4-5 months Underway,annual event $2,000
Preservation and Social
Inclusion
Safe, Welcoming
Community 1 year 1 year TBD Unknown
WP Item Description:Strategic Priorities
Connection:
Board Time
Commitment:
Staff Time
Commitment:Schedule:Budget Impact:
Identify most important
historic resources Well Planned City 4-5 months 4-5 months Summer/Fall 2022 Unknown
Identify areas to survey and
inventory Well Planned City 1-2 years 1-2 years TBD $50,000
Fred Willson Multiple Property
Submission Well Planned City 1 year 1 year Spring 2022 - Spring 2023 $20,000 (if grant is awarded)
WP Item Description:Strategic Priorities
Connection:
Board Time
Commitment:
Staff Time
Commitment:Schedule:Budget Impact:
UDC Overhaul (NCOD/COA
sections, demolition review,
incentives, assistance, etc.)
City Commission
Priorities 2022 1 year 1 year TBD $500,000
Local Preservation Program Well Planned City 1-2 years 1-2 years TBD $75,000
HPAB ADVISORY BOARD WORK PLAN TEMPLATE
Focus Area 1: Education and Outreach
Focus Area 2: Historic Resource Survey & Inventory
Focus Area 3: Preservation Program Development
Cultural Landscape Program Well Planned City 2-3 months 2-3 months Annually Unknown