Heritage for the Future: Maine's Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2016-2021 Edition

Introduction: "The Maine Historic Preservation Commission, which serves as the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in Maine, is responsible for developing a Comprehensive Statewide Historic Preservation Planning process. As stated in the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Fund Grants Manual “The State Plan is used by the State Historic Preservation Office and others throughout the State for guiding effective decision-making on a general level, for coordinating Statewide preservation activities, and for communicating Statewide preservation policy, goals, and values to the preservation constituency, decision-makers, and interested and affected parties across the State. As such, the State Plan is not an office management plan for the SHPO office. The State Plan provides direction and guidance for general-level decision-making, rather than serving as a detailed blueprint for making place-specific or resource-specific decisions.” In putting this plan together we started by evaluating existing conditions and considering what Mainers valued about their state and how they envision the future of preservation. Then we asked them to identify the opportunities they see for preservation and the obstacles that exist. The public was then asked to suggest goals for the future and strategies for obtaining these goals." Funding was provided in part by a 2015 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Maine State Historic Preservation Office (project number ME-15-006, grant number P15AF00025) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Heritage for the Future: Maine's Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2016-2021 Edition

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