Memorandum

City of Lawrence

Planning & Development Services

TO:	David L. Corliss, City Manager
FROM:	Lynne Braddock Zollner, Historic Resources Administrator
CC:	Scott McCullough, Director PDS Sheila Stogsdill, Assistant Director Planning
Date:	May 22, 2012
RE:	Historic Preservation Fund Grant Award

I. Please include the following item on the next available City Commission agenda:

Accept a Historic Preservation Fund Grant in the amount of $7,200 to update Lawrence’s Multiple Property Documentation Form and authorize the City Manager to execute a project agreement with the Kansas Historical Society.

II. Historic Preservation Fund Grant Requests

The Kansas State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) administers the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) to finance activities that will contribute to planning for the preservation of our built environment and archeological resources. The Historic Preservation Fund is a grant program funded by the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior. The funds are passed through the Kansas Historic Preservation Office to local governments and organizations to pay for historic preservation activities on the local level. Up to sixty percent of the cost of eligible activities can be funded through this program. Eligible activities include surveys to locate a community’s historic structures and archeological sites, testing to assess National Register of Historic Places eligibility of archeological sites, the preparation of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, the development of city or county historic preservation plans, historic preservation related educational activities and preservation interns.

Applications submitted by Certified Local Governments (CLGs) must be for activities within the physical boundaries of the CLG. Ten percent of the Federal allocation to the SHPO must pass through to CLG communities.

2012 Request

The City of Lawrence requested a Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant to research and write an historic context for properties located within the City limits that were constructed from 1945-1975. In 1997, Historic Resources of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas was submitted and approved as a National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF). This MPDF divided the development of Lawrence into chronological contexts based on the physical development of the City. The last context of the MPDF was the “Quiet University Town 1900-1945.” The purpose of this project is to provide a thematic context for evaluating and listing properties constructed during 1945-1975. This amendment to the existing MPDF will provide guidance and information for property owners seeking to list properties in the Lawrence Register of Historic Places, the Register of Historic Kansas Places, and/or the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, the MPDF will provide City staff and the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission with information upon which to base decisions when issuing Certificates of Appropriateness and reviewing projects under the State preservation statute. The expansion of the MPDF to incorporate properties that have achieved significance since 1945 is part of Goal 1 in the Preservation Plan Element of Horizon 2020. This document is the City and County long range plan for Lawrence and Douglas County and has been approved by the Lawrence Historic Resources Commission and the Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission.

III. Project Funding

The City of Lawrence has been awarded a 2012 HPF grant for the amendment to Lawrence’s MPDF in the amount of $7,200. The grant provides 60% ($7,200.00) of the estimated $12,006.98 project cost and the City of Lawrence will provide 40% ($4,806.98) of project costs in cash and matching.

Consultant	$7,200.00
Staff Salaries	$4,126.98
Printing/Advertising	$680.00

Total	$12,006.98

IV. Action Request