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Sustainable Preservation: California’s Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, 2013-2017

(SHPO) to “prepare and implement a comprehensive statewide historic preservation plan.”
National Park Service guidelines for the federal historic preservation program further
require that such a plan: “(1) meets the circumstances of each State; (2) achieves broad-
based public and professional involvement throughout the State; (3) takes into
consideration issues affecting the broad spectrum of historic and cultural resources within
the State; (4) is based on the analyses of resource data and user needs; (5) encourages the
consideration of historic preservation within broader planning environments at the federal,
state, and local levels; and (6) is implemented by SHPO operation.”
The first California History Plan, developed in 1973, could be considered California’s first
Statewide Historic Preservation Plan. That plan was a dual purpose document that
discussed both the operations of State Historic Parks by the
California Department of Parks and Recreation and the external
historic preservation programs managed by the Office of Historic
Preservation (OHP)—a logical connection as the OHP has always
been administratively housed in the Department of Parks and
Recreation. (It should be noted that since the creation of the first
California History Plan, California State Parks has continued to
update it, with the latest version of the plan released in 2010.)
The first stand-alone Statewide Historic Preservation Plan, titled
“Forging a Future with a Past: Comprehensive Statewide Historic
Preservation for California,” was
developed by the OHP in 1997. The
plan identified seven broad goals to
The 1973 California address seventeen issues facing
History Plan could be preservation at that time. Not
considered the first surprisingly, those issues still remain,
Statewide Historic to various degrees, and the goals that
Preservation Plan.
plan identified are still in many ways
relevant today, although much work has been done toward their
achievement.

The 1997 State Plan was then updated in 2000. The 2000-2005
State Plan served to update and augment the issues addressed
in the 1997 plan and carried forward the vision, goals, and
objectives identified in the 1997 plan. Following the 2000 plan, In 1997 the first stand-
and meeting a new timeline for plan development agreed upon alone Statewide Historic
by the National Park Service and the OHP, a new State Plan was Preservation Plan was
released in 2006. The 2006 plan identified ten issues and developed.
developed goals and objectives to address each specific issue. All ten of those issue
discussions have been updated for this current plan. Specific objectives identified in the
2006 plan that have not been achieved have been incorporated into the suggested
activities sections of this plan (see Goals and Objectives section).
Previous State Plans are available on the OHP website at
http://www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/stateplan.

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