Forest Grove, Oregon Preservation Plan, 2017-2026

Historic Preservation Northwest; Niederer, Bernadette; Pinyerd, David

From introduction: "In 2015, the City of Forest Grove and its Historic Landmarks Board (HLB) set out to create a ten-year plan for the City’s Historic Preservation Program. The plan would integrate the disparate activities of the HLB into a comprehensive set of goals. A list of activities would then be created to serve those goals. The activities would be sorted into a calendar in a logical and attainable sequence. The finished report would be the HLB’s ten-year plan for 2017 through 2026. The following is the result of that project. Forest Grove’s historic preservation program was created in 1980 with the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance. This ordinance established the Historic Landmarks Board which consists of seven members, plus a student advisory member, and meets monthly. Also present at the meetings are a City Council liaison and the City Preservation Officer. At their meetings, HLB members review pending applications for alterations to contributing and landmark structures, review applications for a grant offered by the HLB, work on active projects, and plan upcoming projects and events. Forest Grove’s first historic resource surveys began in 1982, and while many resources were listed as local landmarks, the City’s first National Register Historic District, the Clark District, was not fully realized until 2002. The Painter’s Woods District followed in 2009, and the Walker- Naylor District in 2011. The City achieved Certified Local Government (CLG) status in 1996. In 2015, Historic Design Guidelines and Standards were adopted for applicability within the historic districts and the outlier historic landmark sites. The HLB offers Historic Preservation Renovation Grants to owners of individually listed, district listed, or locally listed resources. The funding for this matching grant is through the City of Forest Grove. Since 1996, the HLB has been presenting the annual Eric Stewart Award to recognize local supporters of the Historic Preservation Program." Funding was provided in part by a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Forest Grove (project number OR-15-08) administered by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P15AF00043) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Forest Grove, Oregon is a Certified Local Government.

Forest Grove, Oregon Preservation Plan, 2017-2026

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