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Preservation Plan Review Committee Comments from Timothy Klusczinski; Committee Member Monday, May 15, 2006 Where to begin... My impression of the task to comb the Preservation Plan document was to confront an enormous patchwork of preservation ideals, practices, suggestions, methods and goals collected over the years. As you might suspect, this document focuses upon Historic Landmarks and Districts although it sometimes breaks rank with that discipline to dabble in wider topics like the collaboration with other government agencies. Unfortunately, this document closely resembles a scrapbook whereby its content has been interposed over time. Sections are related in philosophical and procedural ways yet maintain independence from one another. The result is that certain sections go into too much detail and duplicate similar language found in other areas. The implications of that redundancy do become confusing if one required a specific reference to advise a specific action. We've all heard the expression "Less is More." I cannot think of a better way to illustrate this point. What the Plan lacks, is a more logical and contiguous form that would make it a better resource tool for this and future Commission bodies. There is no shortcut here. In light of this strategy, I will make the following recommendations to improve our Preservation Plan document. I call these the BIG twelve: 1. Establish a conceptual order of existing material and then identify voids in that outline. Next create any "missing" pieces to fill in the gaps. a. I am submitting a modified table of contents that better illustrates this notion. b. At times this does require that headings be re -ordered. 2. Scarce Resources are by their very nature, endangered. I propose merging the "Scarce Resources" section into "Endangered Resources" since the action and risk is similar. Each definition should be retained, however. This will allow us to remove a significant amount of redundant material. 3. Create an Incentives Listing. Move applicable material from "Endangered Resources" into that section. This includes but is not limited to Federal Development Tax Credit, Indiana Rehabilitation Tax Credit & Community Development Block Grants. 4. Move "Interdepartmental Relations" into "Summary and Recommendations" 5. Revision dates should mark any working forms contained in the "Plan."