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Imbrie Farmstead
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Courthouse Clock Tower
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Burger People
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Local history creates landmarks unique to
every community. Landmarks can include
a wide variety of objects and sites: the
giant sequoias in front of the County
courthouse; a downtown storefront; a
homesteader’s barn; a family cemetery; a
residential district; or a set of drive-in
restaurant figurines. Discovering,
identifying, and preserving these
landmarks celebrates the distinctive
attributes that help define Hillsboro to its
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Kimberli Fitzgerald and Debbie Raber,with the help of the Hillsboro Landmarks Advisory Committee, have selected vintage images of historic Hillsboro to create a new book in Arcadia’s Images of America series. The author’s have donated their royalties back to the HLAC to help support preservation programs in Hillsboro. For information on how to purchase a copy, contact Debbie at (503) 681-6155 or Kimberli and (503) 681-5203. |
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Creation of the Hillsboro Landmarks Advisory Committee (HLAC)
Since 1985, Hillsboro has had a Cultural Resource Inventory.Sites on the Inventory are regulated under Section 132 of the Zoning Ordinance.
In 2000, Hillsboro’s Vision Task Force prepared an Action Plan with strategies and actions to implement the Hillsboro 2020 Vision Statement. The Vision Action Plan (VAP) was updated in 2005. Both the 2000 and the 2005 VAPs included, within the Enhancing Neighborhoods and Districts focus area, Strategies which call for the protection and enhancement of landmarks. Strategy 15, and its associated Actions, read as follows:
15. Historical and Cultural Sites
Protect and enhance historical and cultural sites and other resources.
- Establish a Hillsboro Landmarks Commission.
- Create a volunteer membership Historical Society for Hillsboro.
- Provide educational materials for property owners on protection of historic and cultural sites, including qualifications, resources, how to establish and other information; build connections with other regional and state historical societies.
- Identify Hillsboro’s historic sites and obtain grants for designation.
- Develop tax and other incentives to restore and update historic structures
In mid-2006, the City began the Landmarks Commission Project, which implemented Strategy 15. After evaluating existing conditions and surveying cultural resource property owners and preservation advocates, City staff submitted two alternative concepts for a Landmarks Commission to the City Council. The Council selected the alternative of an advisory committee, and the City proceeded with Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance amendments to authorize creation of this committee. The amendments were approved in November 2007, and the Historic Landmarks Advisory Committee (HLAC) was created in February 2008.
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Members
The seven members of the HLAC are appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council. Each member has demonstrated a positive interest in historic preservation, and at least five members are required to be City residents. Non-resident Committee members must reside within a five-mile radius of the City boundaries.
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Duties
The HLAC has the following duties:
- Develop and implement an annual historic preservation work plan;
- Pursue and administer CLG grants for the benefit of the City.
- Review and make recommendations to the Planning Commission on nominations of new properties to the CulturalResource Inventory; applications for exterior remodeling of existing resource structures, and applications to demolish or relocate existing resource structures.
- Conduct general public outreach and provide specific assistance to owners of historic properties.
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Meetings
The HLAC meets as needed on the second Monday of each month, in the Civic Center at 150 East Main Street in downtown Hillsboro.
HLAC Meeting Agendas and Minutes
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Cultural Resource Inventory
Cultural Resources Map (3mb pdf) or to access an interactive map of Hillsboro’s Cultural Resources inventory please click here: Google map.
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Documenting Hillsboro History: Orenco
The City completed a survey of properties in the historic Orenco neighborhood in 2009. Click here for more information.
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Hillsboro Landmark Newsletters
Newsletter of the Hillsboro Landmarks Advisory Committee
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Contacts
For further information on HLAC activities or meetings, please contact:
Deborah A. Raber, Project Manager Phone: (503) 681-6155
Hillsboro Planning Department FAX: (503) 681-6245
150 East Main Street, 4th Floor Send an E-Mail.
Hillsboro, Oregon 97123
Planning Department: (503) 681-6153
Additional information on historic preservation in Hillsboro:
Local citizens organized the Hillsboro Historical Society (HHS), whose mission is to protect and preserve local cultural resources through education of historic property owners, appointed and elected officials, and the general public. For further information on the Hillsboro Historical Society, visit http://www.hillsborohistorical.org/
If you have additional information regarding your historic resource you wish to share with us please email or call (503) 681-5203.
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