Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Plan, 2014-2019

Arnold, Amy

From introduction: "The creation of a five-year, statewide historic preservation plan is a federal requirement for state historic preservation offices to receive funding through the federal Historic Preservation Grant Fund. State historic preservation planning is an on-going process. The staff of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is constantly assessing the opportunities and threats facing historic preservation in Michigan and looking for ways to address them. Public participation is critical to the development of the statewide preservation plan. In the fall of 201 [sic] the SHPO held a series of five 3-hour public workshops across the state in the communities of Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Midland, and Traverse City. The workshops were free and open to the public and were facilitated by a private consulting firm. Targeted invitees included historic district commissioners and city historic preservation staff, mayors, city managers, city planners, city council members, preservation related nonprofits, preservation consultants, building officials, developers, Main Street managers, Downtown Development Authority directors, and community/economic development directors with a fifty mile radius of the workshop location. In addition, the workshop information was published in local newspapers, placed on the MISHPO list serve, and broadcast through the state’s GovDelivery email newsletter, which reaches about 1600 subscribers. As a result of the workshops, the SHPO was provided with a report that included a draft vision statement and raw data on the participants input for potential goals and objectives, critical issues, and threatened resources... This plan will serve Michigan until 2020. Formal efforts to collect public input for the next planning cycle will begin in 2018. However, the public is always welcome to provide insight and comment via the State Historic Preservation Office website at www.michigan.gov/SHPO." Funding was provided in part by a 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office (project number MI-14-031, grant number P14AF00081) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Plan, 2014-2019

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