i Oregon Historic Preservation Plan 2018–2023 Oregon State Historic Preservation Office Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................1 Issue 5: Information Sharing and Accessibility ...........................................18 Creating the 2018–2023 Oregon Historic Preservation Plan ......................3 Issue 6: Identification and Designation of Cultural Resources .................20 Purpose of the Plan ...........................................................................................4 Issue 7: Preservation, Rehabilitation, and Integration with Other Plans ...........................................................................4 Protection of Cultural Resources ............................................................23 SHPO Role and Priorities .................................................................................5 Issue 8: Grants and Funding ..........................................................................25 The Role of the Heritage Community .............................................................7 Issue 9: Economic Development ...................................................................27 Issue 10: Statutes, Ordinances, Codes, and Processes ................................29 Issues, Goals, and Objectives .........................................................................9 Issue 1: Government Partnerships ................................................................10 Implementation and Conclusion ................................................................31 Issue 2: Advocacy and Heritage Partner Networking .................................12 Appendix I: Oregon’s Cultural Resources ....................................................32 Issue 3: Public Outreach and Education .......................................................14 Appendix II: Bibliography .............................................................................38 Issue 4: Professional Preservation Education .............................................16 Front Cover – Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center Below – Redmond City Hall re-opening in former High School 1 Introduction Oregon’s special places connect us to When the SHPO published the 2011–2016 II that threatened agricultural and forest our past by creating physical continuity Oregon Historic Preservation Plan, the lands, natural spaces, and livability. Led over generations and space for public nation was just coming out of one of the by Republican Governor Tom McCall, conversations about our values and identity. worst economic downturns in recent history. Oregonians proactively managed the change The ongoing process of recognizing and Development pressure on historic properties through citizen-driven land use planning. interpreting these places must be a local one, and archaeological sites lessened during this The 1973 Oregon Land Conservation driven by inclusive public participation. The period, especially in urban areas. The years and Development Act, Senate Bill 100, Oregon State Historic Preservation Office since the Great Recession brought a period introduced the first and only statewide (SHPO) enables these community-driven of sustained, if uneven, growth. The U.S. comprehensive land use planning system projects by creating a favorable environment Census reported Oregon’s population at just in the nation. Later adopted under the Act through statewide leadership and the over 3.4 million in 2000. Oregon’s population was Goal 5, which addressed over a dozen effective administration of federal and state grew to an estimated 4.1 million residents in types of resources, including historic places. programs and grants. The SHPO offers 2017 according to Portland State University’s Compliance with the revised Goal 5 Rule its many partners information, technical Population Research Center. Most of the adopted in February 2017 is optional for assistance, funding, and networking and increase came from people moving to the local jurisdictions. Communities may no collaboration opportunities to achieve their state. Oregon welcomed over 60,000 new longer regulate properties or sites listed own preservation goals. citizens between July 2016 and July 2017 in the National Register unless the local alone, many of whom are drawn by the state’s jurisdiction separately adopts additional The 2018–2023 Oregon Historic Preservation beauty and opportunity. protections through a public process or they Plan distills the ideas and comments are locally listed. But communities must collected through a broad outreach effort Growth brings benefits and, in some cases, review a proposed demolition or relocation. led by the SHPO staff. Participants spanned jarring change. Infrastructure development, With these changes, the core idea of Goal 5 Oregon’s heritage community. This included demand for housing, and other factors put is still intact: communities should engage in the SHPO’s traditional partners and pressure on cultural resources. Participants a public process to identify and protect their those involved with museums, archives, in public outreach meetings and through important historic resources. cemeteries, and local historical societies, an online survey identified threatened among other organizations, and anyone with resources as diverse as tribal sites statewide, The purpose of preservation, Goal 5, and an interest in Oregon’s culture and history. the Oregon Trail in the northeast, Central our state’s many heritage programs is not to The response was clear: Oregonians want Oregon’s irrigation canals, Astoria’s historic prevent change. Instead, preservation is a resources to carry out their local projects waterfront, southern Oregon’s Chinese sites, tool that manages change by naming those and a more thematically representative state and Portland’s neighborhoods. Participants physical pieces of the past that are critical inventory and National Register of Historic also raised the special challenges of to our story. It is a tool to ensure that these Places list. Participants emphasized the preserving historic landscapes, cemeteries, important places serve their communities need for better public education about what ships, planes, and railroad locomotives and equitably, productively, sustainably, and the heritage community does and why it is rolling stock, among other unique resources. economically into the future. important. They also expressed overarching Oregon has experienced this kind of change Concrete solutions exist to meet the concern about the impact of rapid change on before. The state saw rapid population challenges facing the heritage community, Oregon’s special places. growth and development after World War but they are not easily accomplished. The 2 | Oregon Historic Preservation Plan 2018–2023 heritage community must take responsibility collections, and practices must be saved. This proposal will likely be demolished. Historic for sharing the value of its work with the means we experts must let go of academic landscapes and archaeological sites can public. The effort requires coordination explanations and exclusive terminology. be saved through thoughtful attention to and individual commitment, qualities that Popular media can help, too. Experts tend their unique preservation challenges. When are well-represented throughout Oregon’s to write back and forth to each other in appropriate, well-interpreted landscapes and heritage community. To that end, the SHPO industry publications. To reach a broad sites are important community educational offers these guiding principles for preserving audience, the heritage community needs assets. what matters most in our changing state. to use popular media, such as newspapers, Span professional disciplines and lifestyle magazines, advertising campaigns, jurisdictions. Working toward a common and digital media. goal alongside other disciplines and at all Save what matters most. Preservation is levels of government is critical for success. a physical connection to the past. Those It does not help organizations or the buildings, sites, documents, or artifacts resources the heritage community cares from years ago can create here-and-now for to be territorial and competitive about conversations about how we remember and a project. Blurring established professional understand our history. But not every old and jurisdictional boundaries and learning building or artifact has the same significance other viewpoints often leads to better to the community. Overriding values or results than drawing a bold line in the sand. other needs are more important in some Working with housing, environment, and cases. Communities can build support by sustainability advocates and others offers focusing on those resources that truly matter exciting opportunities. to them. The heritage community will build The heritage community’s mission is even trust and credibility with the public by more important now. With the public helping guide these conversations. leading the way, professionals across Create a future for our special places. The disciplines can assist communities in long-term preservation of our special places identifying and managing their special Petersen Rock Garden, Redmond rests in finding a community use for them. places. Together, we can ensure that our past While some may become museums, cultural is preserved, interpreted, and used so that attractions, or funky breweries, most will be it is culturally and economically