Albany NY Historic Preservation Plan
/What Is a Historic Preservation Plan?
The City adopted The Comprehensive Plan in 2012 and a new Zoning Ordinance in 2017. It is now time for Albany to have a Historic Preservation Plan that addresses the historic character of the City, and the ordinances and practices that protect and enhance them.
Preservation planning is the rational, systematic process by which a community develops a vision, goals, and priorities for the preservation of its historic and cultural resources. The goal of Albany's Historic Preservation Plan is to strengthen the City’s existing preservation policies, ordinances, and program (Historic Resources Commission and Preservation Planning Staff). This will be accomplished by reviewing and editing the current policies, creating practical new policies, and developing achievable goals for improving the historic resources review process to further preservation ethic within the community.
This Planning Process Has Already Begun...
The City's consultant firm, the Lakota Group, held five open houses throughout the City last week to begin to get feedback for the plan.
How To Be Involved
We know that you all have lots of wonderful thoughts and ideas to share and want your voices to be heard. The materials from the open houses is available on the website created for the plan. An online survey is also available the site. We encourage everyone to participate! Take a look at the materials, complete the survey, and send feedback. The consultant firm is currently taking comments through a comment box on the site.
You can also sign on the above site to receive emails about the process, as well as the upcoming open house to be scheduled in August.
Historic Albany's Role
Cara Macri from our staff is on the steering committee working with the City and the consultant to ensure our concerns are heard. Our staff and board are attending public meetings. Historic Albany has met with the consultant in a stake holder session and will be submitting written comments on the process and content. Stay tuned for more updates on the plan - steering committee meetings are open to the public. You may attend and observe.
