The Historic Preservations Board is developing the city’s first Historic Resource Survey Plan. A Historic Resource Survey Plan is a document that guides communities in assessing their historic resources, evaluating previous survey work, identifying historic contexts, and prioritizing future survey projects, ultimately helping to understand, recognize, and protect heritage resources.
Key Functions:
- Look at the character and quality of previous completed historic surveys
- Meet with local preservation experts and stakeholders to find out what they view as important
- Conduct field reconnaissance (windshield survey) to observe historic character and resources with a focus upon what was surveyed I the past along with potential future survey areas and themes.
- Prepare the Historic Resource Survey Plan
About
Project Benefits
The primary function of the Historic Preservation Board is to survey historically and architecturally significant resources.
The city is required to “Maintain a System for the survey and inventory of local historic resources.”
Creates a guidebook for future surveys that builds a base of knowledge, understanding and education to make informed decisions on what resources to survey, the type of survey(s) to undertake, and strategies/actions for protection (local, state or federal).
Project Cost & Funding
This project cost $36,500 and was paid for by the State Historic Fund and City of Colorado Springs.
Public Engagement
Several in-person stakeholder meetings have been held over the past year to discuss survey planning. Numerous online meetings, phone calls, and email exchanges on the topic also took place. These involved regular discussions with senior city planner Bill Gray, along with several meetings with the Historic Preservation Board along with City Council and the Planning Commission. Two in-depth discussions were held with the Cultural Services Manager and Director of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Matt Mayberry. Members of the Colorado Springs Historic Preservation Alliance provided input at their annual Pikes Preservation Forum.
Finally, meetings were held with a group of dedicated neighborhood preservation advocates, among them citizens who have long been active in Colorado Springs in the fields of history, architecture, planning and preservation. Between the meetings, many of these people provided photographs along with historical materials about their neighborhoods and on various topics in Colorado Springs architecture and history.