ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses personal perspective as a preservation planner and realize that many of the ideas are likely to exist in scholarly literature, primarily in relation to communicative planning theory. It also discusses the ideas are very important for other practitioners to learn about because they are examples of how evidence from a community can be used to guide a local municipality's preservation planning program. The chapter deals with the Banfield's planning process by documenting the city's current processes and codes. The interactive process to develop Salem's new historic preservation plan involved and incorporated feedback from a variety of groups including neighborhood associations, travel Salem, heritage organizations, the chamber of commerce and the homebuilders association. Based on the results from the Round-Table, the technical advisory committee determined that two surveys were to be developed, one for historic property owners and one for historic landmarks commissioners.