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Planning Department launches multiyear 'SF Survey' to map citywide cultural resources
Summary
The Planning Department outlined a phased, equity-focused citywide cultural resources survey that will use Arches software to compile an online inventory, pair field survey with community-driven intangible cultural heritage work, and publish draft findings by neighborhood phases for public review.
The San Francisco Planning Department on June 23 unveiled the SF Survey, a multi-year program to document and evaluate the city’s built and intangible cultural heritage and to integrate findings into a searchable public inventory.
Marcel Boudreaux, survey and designation team lead, told the Planning Commission the survey’s purpose is to “make the unknown known” by assigning CEQA-related historic-resource status to age-eligible parcels and by recording community-identified intangible cultural heritage. The department will use Arches, an open-source cultural-heritage platform, to store site histories, biographies, photographs…
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