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L <br />Elluyisville <br />Department of Planning and Building Safety <br />749 Main Street # Louisville CO 80027 , 303.335.4592 # www.louisvilleco.gov <br />COLORADO•SINCE 187S <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Historic Preservation Commission Members <br />From: Saving Places Subcommittee of the HPC <br />Subject: Saving Places 2023 Conference Resources <br />Date: February 27, 2023 <br />Lynda Haley, Gary Dunlap, and Amelia Brackett Hogstad attended the 2023 <br />Saving Places Conference on Historic Preservation in Colorado earlier this <br />month. Below are some themes, general ideas, and resources from the <br />conference. <br />Themes <br />These are some of the main themes that were repeated during the conference by <br />panelists, attendees, and speakers. <br />• Preservation is a way of telling stories about people through buildings. <br />• Not everyone's stories have been told, or can be told, through the built <br />environment. <br />• Centering the "why" behind why we preserve is important. <br />• Outreach is a central part of preservation programs and engaging <br />storytelling is a key method to effective outreach. <br />• Combination of policy and adaptive reuse incentives can be effective part <br />of addressing affordable housing, sustainability, and economic justice <br />initiatives. Evaluating the role of regulations and processes as <br />disincentives alongside incentives is important to a functioning adaptive <br />reuse program. <br />• People make marketplace choices that favor preservation, according to <br />Donovan Rypkema's session on "revealed preference analysis" of local <br />communities. The marketplace choices people actually make carry more <br />weight than opinions they might express. The analysis shows that historic <br />preservation can provide more housing density and affordability, more tax <br />base per amount of area, more "economic integration" avoiding <br />gentrification. As Rypkema put it, "You can't build new and rent cheap." <br />Also, Historic districts are more valuable generators of city taxes and <br />11 <br />