Preservation Planning

The Historic Preservation Field Services Bureau is currently developing New York's five-year statewide historic preservation plan and is seeking the public's input regarding issues, opportunities, threats, and needs associated with historic preservation across the state from individuals, organizations, private enterprises, and governments.

Historic and cultural resources help to establish a community's special character and sense of place. Historic preservation, which involves actions that protect historic and cultural properties and that return them to productive use, is a powerful but underused economic development and environmental stewardship strategy. The Field Services Bureau is especially interested in incorporating historic preservation into cost effective, environment friendly community improvement activities, such as the redevelopment of existing resources, energy conservation, and smart growth initiatives.

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We are excited about involving all New Yorkers in the planning process and look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions through a series of regional outreach meetings, which are being held at various locations across the state. We are also developing other information gathering tools, such as questionnaires, that will soon be available for collecting additional public comment. We hope our outreach efforts will heighten preservation awareness, educate a diverse audience about the benefits of preservation, and develop goals that expand local preservation efforts.

Planning Process

General information about New York’s statewide historic preservation plan.

Public Participation

Schedule of regional meetings.

Get Involved

Contact information and preservation planning resources.