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EQUITY-BASED PRESERVATION PLAN Historic Landmark Commission briefing—September 7, 2022 Cara Bertron, Rocio Peña-Martinez, Julia Brookins, Meghan King PRESERVATION PLAN WORKING GROUP Michelle Benavides Jolene Kiolbassa Mary Reed* Noel Bridges Julia Brookins* Ursula A. Carter Mary Jo Galindo* Jerry Garcia Hanna Huang* Kevin Koch Lori Renteria Kelechi Madubuko Gilbert Rivera Brenda Malik Maria Solis* Alyson McGee Erin Waelder Leslie Ornelas Brita Wallace* Emily Payne Bob Ward Linda Y. Jackson Rocio Peña-Martinez* Caroline Wright Meghan King* Misael Ramos* *Drafting Committee member 2 PRESERVATION PLAN WORKING GROUP 12 months 22 working group and drafting committee meetings 1,100 hours 3 GOAL Replace Austin’s 1981 preservation plan with an inclusive, equity-focused, and community- oriented process and outcome ) t h g i r ( l i i n o s u c n I l a c o S d n a n o i t a v r e s e r P , ) r e t n e c d n a t f e l ( n i t s u A f o y t i C / r i a h C n e p O : s e g a m I 4 COMMUNITY-BASED PROCESS Equity-based preservation plan WHAT Draft plan • Vision • Draft recommendations Engage community • Refine/expand framework • Timeline and metrics • Partners ENGAGEMENT Preservation Plan Working Group, with targeted input Grounded in broad, inclusive community engagement WHEN GOAL 2021-22 Draft framework 2022-23 Plan adoption 5 COMMUNITY-BASED PROCESS Equity-based preservation plan WHAT Draft plan • Vision • Draft recommendations Engage community • Refine/expand framework • Timeline and metrics • Partners ENGAGEMENT Preservation Plan Working Group, with targeted input Grounded in broad, inclusive community engagement WHEN GOAL 2021-22 Draft framework 2022-23 Plan adoption July ‘22 ULI Technical Assistance Panel Fall ‘22 - Summer ‘23 Community outreach & engagement around draft plan 6 COMMUNITY-BASED PROCESS Professional facilitator Icons from the Noun Project: Community by Gan Khoon Lay, focus group by mikicon, committee by Adrien Coquet 7 COMMUNITY-BASED PROCESS 8 COMMUNITY-BASED PROCESS ✔ Affordable housing advocate ✔ Archaeologist ✔ Architect ✔ Attorney ✔ Business owner ✔ City board or commission ✔ Community member ✔ Contractor ✔ Developer Economic development organization (withdrew) ✔ Educational institution ✔ Engineer ✔ Heritage organization Heritage tourism professional (withdrew) ✔ Historic property owner ✔ Historical commission (City, County, State) Landscape architect (withdrew) ✔ Neighborhood association ✔ Preservation organization ✔ Preservation consultant ✔ Religious institution ✔ Social justice organization ✔ Urban planner/planning organization 9 10 • 170 responses to community heritage survey • 19 community members in 3 focus groups • City staff from 12 departments 11 COMMUNITY-BASED VISION Historic preservation in Austin actively engages communities in protecting and sharing important places and stories. Preservation uses the past to create a shared sense of belonging and to shape an equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and economically vital future for all. 12 CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS 13 EQUITY FRAMEWORK Does the proposed recommendation… 1. Reinforce the plan’s vision? If Yes, does the proposed recommendation… 2. Respect community-based knowledge? Is it based on community-identified needs and input? 3. Increase equitable access to information about historic preservation and equip people to take action? Is it clear to people without previous preservation experience? 4. Recognize and honor the cultures, historic assets, traditions, and stories of historically marginalized communities in meaningful ways? 5. Ground its reasoning and expected outcomes in good practices around equity, including racially disaggregated data? 6. Balance big-picture thinking with specific, actionable, measurable items that recognize and redress historical inequities, both isolated and systemic? 7. Improve access to preservation policies, programs, tools, and incentives for communities of color and low-income communities? 8. Avoid creating financial or other burdens for communities of color and low-income people? If yes, are there opportunities to mitigate these impacts? Does it place responsibility on institutions to address historical disparities in historic preservation policies, programs, and tools? 9. Advance affordability, economic opportunities, and environmental sustainability for everyone, and especially for communities of color? If not, are there opportunities to do so? 10. Engage and empower historically marginalized communities to actively participate in implementation? Yes / No - 0 + No / Neutral Yes / harms benefits 14 CREATING DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS DIRECTION CREATION REVIEW REVISION Preservation Plan Committee (HLC) Drafting committee Working group Working group Focus groups Drafting committee Added to draft plan equity framework Staff Technical Advisory Group Staff Dept. leadership 15 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Goals 1. Tell Austin’s full history 2. Recognize cultural heritage 3. Preserve archaeological resources 4. Stabilize communities 5. Support environmental sustainability 6. Engage and empower communities 7. Support people doing the work 8. Engage new partners 9. Proactively identify important places 10. Follow good designation practices 11. Support stewardship of community assets 12. Be strategic with review 13. Protect historic resources 14. Implement the plan collaboratively What we preserve Who preserves How we preserve 16 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 1. Tell Austin’s full history 2. Recognize cultural heritage 3. Preserve archaeological resources 4. Stabilize communities 5. Support environmental sustainability Goals 17 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 1 Tell Austin’s full history Images: Lung House National Register nomination, Montinique Monroe for The Austin Chronicle, Austin LGBT Coalition on Aging 18 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 2 Recognize cultural heritage Strongly support iconic longstanding legacy businesses that contribute to Austin’s unique character and heritage. Economic Development Department activities like the Legacy Business Relief Grant offer a strong baseline. Ensure that legacy businesses benefit from existing and new programs by providing coordinated marketing/promotion, technical assistance, and streamlined regulation for a wide variety of legacy businesses; offering dedicated need-based funding and tax relief; and creating a "legacy business” points category for funding opportunities. Conduct focused outreach to businesses owned by people of color about opportunities and work with them and other stakeholders to identify gaps. 19 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 3 Preserve archaeological resources 20 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 4 Stabilize communities • Retain more older buildings and encourage ADUs through flexible zoning and a streamlined development review process • Support low- and moderate-income property owners, especially seniors and families who want to stay in an inherited property Images: UT News (center), Public City (right) 21 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS What we preserve 5 Support environmental sustainability Image: The Cielo Property Group (right) 22 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Who preserves 6. Engage and empower communities 7. Support people doing the work 8. Engage new partners Goals 23 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Who preserves 6 Engage and empower communities Images: Buffalo’s Young Preservationists (left), City of San Antonio (center) 24 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Who preserves 7 Support people doing the work • Highlight local craftspeople and career pathways • Ensure that commissioners, community ambassadors, and City staff have access to regular trainings and resources • Reduce participation barriers to City boards and commissions Images from the Noun Project: Construction worker by IconTrack, group by mikicon, conversation by ProSymbols, person with tablet by irene hoffman25 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS Who preserves 8 Engage new partners Image: Funeral for a Home/Temple University 26 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 9. Proactively identify important places 10. Follow good designation practices 11. Support stewardship of community assets 12. Be strategic with review 13. Protect historic resources 14. Implement the plan collaboratively Goals 27 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 9 Proactively identify important places surveyed areas Image: Austin History Center (left) 28 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 10 Follow good designation practices • Keep the bar high for historic landmark designation--while creating better pathways to recognize properties that tell important stories but are not architecturally significant • Reinforce historic preservation and displacement prevention goals with a time- limited incentive for newly designated historic landmarks and districts • Allow scattered resources joined by a significant theme to be designated together Images from the Noun Project: Buildings by P Thanga Vignesh, street by Laurent Genereux 29 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 11 Support stewardship of community assets • Provide people with clear information about preservation and rehabilitation when they need it • Ensure preservation incentives support preservation and rehabilitation in an effective and equitable way • Explore how a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program could support preservation of smaller-scale historic buildings 30 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 12 Be strategic with review 31 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 13 Protect historic resources ● Clearly communicate requirements ● Be proactive ● Follow through 32 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS How we preserve 14 Implement the plan collaboratively Graphic: Community Commons 33 • Prioritize outreach and listening to historically marginalized communities • Hire community ambassadors • Continue consulting with working group WHAT COMES NEXT? Raise awareness of historic preservation “Grow the tent” for more in-depth engagement Engage community to refine draft plan Identify gaps, refine and prioritize recommendations Develop timeline, identify partners and metrics Estimate costs for priority recommendations Plan adoption Presentations to boards and commissions Presentation to Council Adoption by Council 34 • Prioritize outreach and listening to historically marginalized communities • Hire community ambassadors • Continue consulting with working group WHAT COMES NEXT? Soft launch (fall 2022) Raise awareness of historic preservation Provide the draft plan for community feedback Board and commission briefings Invite community members to help inform effective engagement Recruit community ambassadors Outreach and engagement campaign (spring 2023) Broad, inclusive outreach Public meetings and presentations to community organizations Events, tours, focus groups & more 35 WHAT COMES NEXT? Sign up for the project email list Tell us what’s important to you in the community survey (coming soon)! Watch for the formal release of the draft this fall www.bit.ly/ATXpresplan 36 WHAT COMES NEXT? www.bit.ly/ATXpresplan 37 www.bit.ly/ATXpresplan 38