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Oregon Heritage adviser urges Dallas commission to pair design review with outreach and incentives
Summary
At a meeting of the Dallas Historic Preservation Commission, Curry Gill of Oregon Heritage outlined how CLG grants, tax incentives and outreach tools can support the city’s downtown preservation and urged the commission to plan for design-review practice and public education as it pursues local designation of the national-register district.
Curry Gill, grants and outreach coordinator for Oregon Heritage, told the Dallas Historic Preservation Commission that the panel should pair any new design-review authority with sustained public engagement and incentives to make preservation easier for property owners.
Gill said the certified local government (CLG) program, which is administered by the National Park Service and coordinated at the state level by the State Historic Preservation Office, is intended to help local communities “document, designate, and care for their historic properties.” She added, “We are required to award about 10%. We award around 25% of the funding that we get.”
The commission focused on several practical tools Gill recommended: targeting CLG grant dollars toward façade designs and preservation plans, creating a contractors/consultant list, promoting available tax programs and using outreach to build community support. Gill said a recently passed state special-assessment program for commercial…
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