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NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT

HISTORIC PRESERVATION ELEMENT

PRINCIPLES

Ensure a high quality of life by identifying, promoting, and preserving the City's historic resources. The City is a Certified Local Government, and dedicated to ensuring that historic preservation is a maintained public policy through its programming and enacted ordinances.

Protect the City's culture by providing information on preserving the City's history.

2020 Advance Fort Lauderdale Comprehensive Plan 11/17/2020

HISTORIC PRESERVATION ELEMENT

GOALS, POLICIES, AND EVALUATION MEASURES

GOAL 1: The City shall prepare and adopt a long-term approach to historic preservation which identifies and evaluates the City’s historic resources.

OBJECTIVE HP 1.1: Strategic Historic Preservation Plan

Provide a long-range policy and planning document that provides appropriate guidance for historic preservation for the City of Fort Lauderdale.

POLICY HP 1.1.1: A Strategic Historic Preservation Plan will be prepared and adopted. This plan will be a long-term approach to historic preservation.

OBJECTIVE HP 1.2: Resource Identification

Consistent with the Certified Local Government agreement, historic, architectural, and archaeologically significant resources in the City of Fort Lauderdale shall be identified.

POLICY HP 1.2.1: Perform new and update existing architectural resource, archaeological, and other related cultural resource surveys of buildings, structures, and sites, which contribute to the historical and cultural development of Fort Lauderdale.

POLICY HP 1.2.2: Evaluate the historical resources of Fort Lauderdale for eligibility as historic landmarks, pursuant to the historic preservation ordinance and/or nomination to the National Register of Historic Places and develop a priority schedule.

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POLICY HP 1.2.2a: Architectural, archaeological, and other related cultural resource surveys shall be conducted pursuant to the standards and policies of the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources and/or the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act (1966).

POLICY HP 1.2.2b: Coordinate with Broward County and the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources in the update and evaluation of architectural, archaeological, and cultural resource surveys.

POLICY HP 1.2.2c: All sites identified in surveys shall be forwarded to the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources for recording and inclusion in the Florida Master Site File.

POLICY HP 1.2.3: Monitor applications within the development review process and consider the impacts of land use amendments for adverse effects to architecturally, archaeologically, and culturally significant resources.

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POLICY HP 1.2.3a: Require all development proposals that involve ground disturbing activities on archaeological sites or within Archaeologically Significant Zones as identified on the official City of Fort Lauderdale Historic Resources Map, as amended, to provide an appropriate level cultural resource study to the city that indicates the location, extent, status, and proposed impacts to archaeological or related above ground historic resources.

POLICY HP 1.2.3b: All proposed impacts to locally or nationally designated historic resources or those deemed eligible for historic designation by the State Historic Preservation Officer shall be reported to the Historic Preservation Board (HPB) for review and comment utilizing the “Criteria of Adverse Effects” as outlined within the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) under 36 CFR Part 800 and the “Seven Aspects of Integrity” as outlined within the code of Federal Regulations under 36 CFR Part 60.

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OBJECTIVE HP 1.3: Records of Historic Resources

Ensure that significant resources are recorded into a singular City database for review of renovations of historically designated landmarks and sites, structures located within designated historic districts, and properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as well as development occurring adjacent to recognized historic resources.

EVALUATION MEASURE HP 1.3.1: 1) Completion of an inventory of city-owned historic landmarks and structures located within a historic district. 2) Record of annual designations that place architectural, archaeological, or cultural resources on the local or national registers.

POLICY HP 1.3.2: Maintain a singular database that includes historic buildings, structures, and sites as recognized on the local, and national levels, as well as properties that are inventoried as part of the Florida Master Site File consistent with the Certified Local Government agreement.

POLICY HP 1.3.2a: The database should be in a format compatible with the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources framework for the Florida Master Site File to allow for intergovernmental integration.

POLICY HP 1.3.2b: Continue to maintain contact with owners of historic properties to inform them of the property’s status as a historic resource and the availability of historic preservation programs and potential incentives.

POLICY HP 1.3.3: Retrieve newly recorded and updated Florida Master Site File data from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Historical Resources for corrections, updates, and removals of listed properties on an annual basis.

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GOAL 2: Provide educational and incentive opportunities to further the City’s historic preservation goals.

OBJECTIVE HP 2.1: Incentives and Funding Opportunities

Provide incentives and funding opportunities to promote historic preservation.

EVALUATION MEASURE HP 2.1.1: Number of financial opportunities and incentives utilized for preservation purposes and new incentives established.

POLICY HP 2.1.2: The City shall monitor the availability of grants, and if feasible, apply for funding for land and property acquisition of historic structures.

POLICY HP 2.1.3: Encourage sensitive, adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of structures eligible for historic designation as a preferred alternative to demolition.

POLICY HP 2.1.3a: Provide information and encourage property owners to list structures on the National Register of Historic Places or seek local historic designation to take advantage of ad valorem tax exemptions, Historic Rehabilitation Tax credits and other financial incentives that may be available.

POLICY HP 2.1.4: The City shall evaluate and determine if a transfer of developmental rights (TDR) program is beneficial to preserving historical resources.

OBJECTIVE HP 2.2: Educational Tools

Educate the public about archaeological and historic preservation programs.

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POLICY HP 2.2.1: Update the Historic Preservation Design Guidelines to assist historic property owners to obtain information on preserving and maintaining their properties.

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POLICY HP 2.2.2: Support, as financially feasible, cultural and heritage tourism through education to make the City a heritage tourism destination.

POLICY HP 2.2.2a: Support, as financially feasible, efforts in establishing marketing and education methods that highlight the cultural and historical heritage of Fort Lauderdale.

POLICY HP 2.2.2b: Define and adopt, with input from local historical organizations, a common, Fort Lauderdale specific historic marker program with the goal of marking the locations of significant historic resources and the boundaries of historic districts.

POLICY HP 2.2.2c: Coordinate with local historical organizations to publicize heritage and cultural activities in the city, such as Historic Preservation Month, lectures, tours, etc.

POLICY HP 2.2.3: Collaborate with local historical organizations to educate the public about historic preservation and archaeological programs.

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GOAL 3: Ensure historic preservation goals are met through the coordination and implementation of various local, state, and national preservation tools.

OBJECTIVE HP 3.1: Unified Land Development Regulations (ULDR)

Continue to implement the protection of historic properties and archaeological resources in the Unified Land Development Regulations.

POLICY HP 3.1.1: Continuously update and revise ULDR criteria to address current historic preservation needs.

OBJECTIVE HP 3.2: Historic Preservation Design Guidelines

Continue to implement Historic Preservation Design Guidelines to assist with renovations, rehabilitation, restoration or additions to historic properties so that the essential form and design elements that create character are respected.

POLICY HP 3.2.1: Guidelines shall be developed for the neighborhoods which are consistent with and incorporate the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.

POLICY HP 3.2.1a: Ensure the guidelines are user-friendly and provide techniques for proper maintenance, proper restoration, and respect for the surrounding structures.

OBJECTIVE HP 3.3: Archaeological Resource Protection

Consistent with the Certified Local Government agreement, the City shall maintain archaeological protection procedures.

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POLICY HP 3.3.1: Encourage sensitive integration of archaeological resources into open spaces and green spaces as a preferred alternative to destruction and mitigation.

POLICY HP 3.3.2: Archaeologically Significant Zones as identified on the official City of Fort Lauderdale Historic Resources Map, as amended, shall be reviewed and amended using recent archaeological data.

POLICY HP 3.3.3: Develop and implement a Certificate to Dig (CTD) process that requires administrative review, comment and attachment of pertinent archaeological requirements to all proposed development on archaeological sites and within archaeological significant zone(s).

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OBJECTIVE HP 3.4: Maintain City-owned Historic and Archaeological Resources

As the largest owner of historic properties within the city, the City shall plan for maintenance of city-owned historic and archaeological resources.

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POLICY HP 3.4.1: The City shall maintain a prioritized schedule of improvements to city-owned historic resources for inclusion in the Community Investment Plan annually.

POLICY HP 3.4.2: In the de-acquisition of publicly owned historic resources, the City shall attach deed restrictions, which may include a preservation easement to the property.

OBJECTIVE HP 3.5: Resilience

The City shall adjust historic preservation and archaeological resource programs according to changing environmental conditions.

POLICY HP 3.5.1: Develop a climate and environment resiliency prioritization based on each individual resource’s susceptibility to climate and environmental change/events.

POLICY HP 3.5.2: Monitor changes in local economy and development patterns to identify impacts to historic and archaeological resources and develop a resiliency prioritization of resources that require protection.

OBJECTIVE HP 3.6: Intergovernmental Coordination

Coordinate and cooperate with local, state, and national agencies to ensure the protection of historic resources through technical support, educational resources, and funding opportunities.

POLICY HP 3.6.1: Maintain Certified Local Government status and continue to coordinate with the Florida Department of State.

POLICY HP 3.6.2: Seek guidance from the National Park Service and the Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources in developing a historic preservation disaster management plan and coordinate historic, archaeological and cultural resource planning with Broward County post-disaster redevelopment plans.

POLICY HP 3.6.3: Seek partnerships with local and regional preservation agencies and organizations such as the Florida Public Archeology Network (FPAN) and other groups to develop meaningful and productive preservation programing.

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