DEPARTMENT: Office of Historic Preservation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Shanon Shea Miller
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Adoption of the Mission Historic District Design Manual
SUMMARY:
This memo regards the adoption the Mission Historic District Design Manual. The Office of Historic Preservation, in partnership with the World Heritage Office, has worked with a volunteer steering committee and six focus groups representing stakeholders, community members and consultants, The Lakota Group, Inc., to create the draft of the Mission Manual.
OHP had coordinated a series of meetings with the steering committee, focus groups and community during the development of the draft manual. Engagement and participation opportunities for community members included the distribution of a visual preference survey in English and Spanish, staffed tables at the World Heritage Open House and the OHP Historic Homeowner fair. Additionally, OHP Staff attended neighborhood association meetings to provide progress updates and to seek public input. The draft also includes information collected through oral histories and cultural mapping with members of the mission neighborhoods and mission descendants. The Office of Historic Preservation recommends the adoption of the final Mission Historic District Design Manual into the UDC.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City of San Antonio's Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) and World Heritage Office (WHO) contracted the Lakota Group, Inc., and Heritage Strategies LLC., to create a "Design Manual" specific to the Mission Historic District and Historic Landmarks within the World Heritage Buffer Zone for the City of San Antonio. The Manual will act as district-specific design guidelines for the Mission Historic District, serve as a consolidated resource for design requirements within District, articulate the unique and character-defining features of the district, and demonstrate best-practices concerning land development in...
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