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Page 2 <br />Use name of significance to designate a district. <br />Thursday meeting - <br />Give tax break to an owner who preserves and maintains a <br />building. Lengthen the'depreciation time on a new building <br />so as to encourage the use and preservation of older <br />buildings - Gov. McCalls speech. <br />Oregon - Wants to be in the foreground nationally in the <br />preservation of Historical Buildings. <br />Grand Rapids - Had the same Urban Renewal problem as South <br />Bend in the removal of 43 acres of buildings - almost all <br />the 19th century ones and in addition the cutting of 2 <br />expressways which removed all the limestone buildings but <br />one. Lost city hall, Union Station. The bank used the city <br />hall property for a parking lot. All methods of trying to <br />convince the bank to save the building failed - either no <br />answer was received to the appeal or there was an obstinate <br />stand. Even letters of appeal, talkethon by young people, <br />picketing, place on the national register, political appeal <br />including the local democratic party, Congressman received <br />opinion from N.U.D. that'a contract could be changed. Case <br />was taken to court to go before favorable judge for preser- <br />vation, but decision for demolition was handed down because <br />the judge and the lawyer of the defendants were friends. <br />Businessmen's luncheon was also used to-a-ppeal for <br />preservation. <br />*** Press used to arouse public opinion to save a residential <br />home also used in city hall attempt. <br />Present time in Grand Rapids - City buys home or building, <br />leases it to the society who operates the structure, and <br />uses income to operate home; any left over funds are put <br />into an endowment for future operations and purchase of <br />other historic buildings. <br />*** San Francisco - Need of a private non-profit group to help <br />Commissions in saving buildings. <br />Chicago - Take on a hard case by the commission to show <br />the power and strength of the organization with outside <br />help. Act before everything is committed. Example: <br />Architectural drawings on a building and possibly before <br />the building is sold - Example: Odd Fellows Building. <br />Go to the real estate businesses and get them to co- <br />operate in the future so as to lessen fights.over the <br />ordinance in the future. <br />Do a design study on the building to help preserve it. <br />The economics of the building and its use is an important <br />fact in preserving a building - a mixed commercial building <br />