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Milwaukie Historical Society urges updated historic inventory as city plans neighborhood hubs
Summary
The Milwaukie Historical Society told council the city’s last historic inventory dates to 1988 and urged the council to prioritize an updated survey covering nearly 4,000 now-eligible properties to preserve architectural and cultural assets during neighborhood planning.
Steve Bennett, representing the Milwaukie Historical Society, told the council he and the society are concerned the city’s planning work for neighborhood hubs lacks a current inventory of historically significant places.
Bennett said the city’s last historic property inventory was completed in 1988 and used a 50-year cutoff, meaning properties built in 1938 or earlier were considered then. He…
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