Heritage Resources

Community Heritage Context Planning

Community Planning: Does the community have a strategic plan for heritage or other related heritage planning documents? Does the Official Community Plan include any heritage policies? Has the local government established a community heritage commission?
Community Benefit: What is the heritage legacy? Does the project improve planning, conservation or stewardship of significant community heritage resources? Does the project enhance community capacity (knowledge, skills, organization) and commitment to conserve heritage resources?
Viability: Is the project well defined? Is the budget realistic? Does the project have the potential to attract investment from other parties? Do the proponents have the necessary expertise to implement the project successfully? How extensively are citizens engaged in heritage activities

Note: Funding for this program is not currently available. Please contact your Regional Heritage Planner for more information.

Purpose

This program supports projects that contribute to community heritage context planning, which identifies and explains the major factors and processes that influenced a community's evolution. This enables a community to articulate its heritage values and identify its heritage resources based on these values.

Community heritage context planning helps develop heritage policies for the official community plan; prepare a heritage strategic plan; identify buildings, structures, cultural landscapes and heritage areas for a community heritage register; prepare community commemoration or interpretation programs etc. Community heritage context planning may be expressed through, although not limited to

Community heritage mapping projects to identify community heritage values through direct community participation
Historical context, thematic or overview studies which describe and illustrate the growth, development and evolution of a community to show how buildings, structures and districts have played a significant role within this history and how they have shaped the communities of today
Heritage system plans that illustrate the full range of historical themes that represent a community’s heritage
Archaeological Overview Assessment Mapping for statements of archaeological resource potential and distribution

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Heritage Planning Programs



Last updated: September 04, 2009