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SurveyLALos Angeles Historic Resources Survey
MYhistoricLAGuide to Public Participation in SurveyLA
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Today’s Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Survey LA Overview
3. MYhistoricLA Guide Overview
4. Beyond SurveyLA
5. Using the MYhistoricLA Data Table & Guide
6. Next Steps
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
What is SurveyLA?
•Managed by the City’s Office of Historic Resources (OHR)•First-ever systematic program to identify significant historic resources throughout the city
• Includes background research, field inspections and documentation
• Will be completed 2010-2012
•Multi-year grant agreement with the Getty for $2.5 million with a City match
St. Vincent de Paul Church - Figueroa and Adams
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
SurveyLA Overview
Professional surveyors will conduct field inspections from the public right-of-way to:
• Identify architectural, physical, and visual qualities and characteristics
• Assess the impacts of alterations
• Document properties with photos
• Survey identification does not mean designation
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Here’s where we start: Year 1 Survey Areas (2010)
Year 1 Community Plan Areas to be Surveyed
1. Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey (22,015)2. West Los Angeles (16,107)3. Harbor Gateway (7,790)4. Wilmington-Harbor City (13,628)5. San Pedro (17,803)6. South Los Angeles (50,722)7. Southeast Los Angeles (46,198)8. West Adams-Baldwin Hills-Leimert (37,509)9. Central City North (2,920)10. Hollywood (43,369)11. Sunland-Tujunga-Shadow Hills-Lakeview Terrace-East La Tuna Canyon (23,945)
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Why do we need your help?
You know your neighborhood best! Get involved to help us:
• Provide information to professional surveyors regarding resources of architectural, social, cultural and historical significance in your community
• Go beyond the obvious architectural significance– tell us the stories
MYhistoricLAis…
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Benefits to Communities
• Community Plan Updates– Which areas should remain free of new
development?• Adaptive Reuse Projects
– Which structures should be renovated and put to a new use?
• Cultural Tourism– Are there original intact neighborhoods or individual
locations of cultural and historic significance that people would like to know more about?
• Economic Development– How can historic resources attract investment in
your community?
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Benefits to Communities
•Filming Activity– Are there places in your neighborhood of interest
to the film industry?• Disaster Response
– After a natural or man-made disaster, which places should not be demolished?
• Academic/Community Research– Easily accessible information on the web about
places of significance in the City.• Identify a Sense of Place
– A tool for unifying communities through the identification of assets of historical, social and cultural significance
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
What is it? •A step-by-step instruction guide for communities to use in gathering and compiling information about important historic resources in your neighborhood
•Information will be directly used to conduct the citywide survey
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
• Provides a framework for understanding the type of information needed for SurveyLA
• Identifies and describes specific activities to help you gather that information
• Relies on a Neighborhood Coordinator and a Coordinating Committee to mobilize and organize the community to complete the activities
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
The Guide includes three activity categories:
• MYneighborhood: Neighborhood Walkabout and Photo Collection activities
• MYstory: Personal interviews
• MYplace: Specific research activities
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
The activities are designed to:
• Be managed as a community effort
• Build upon each other
• Allow you to choose which activity or activities work best for your community based on:– Existing information on historic resources– Amount and type of volunteers recruited– Amount of time you have
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYneighborhood
Neighborhood Walkabout Goals:
• Identify potential individual historic resources and districts to be included in SurveyLA
• Provide a specific list and photographs of these resources by address
• Identify research opportunities for additional information
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYneighborhood
Neighborhood Walkabout Process:
• Recruit volunteers to conduct a walking tour of the neighborhood to identify potentially significant properties
• Use maps and information in the Architectural Guide to Los Angeles (Gebhard/Winter, 2003) as a starting point
• Record potentially significant properties
• Identify important characteristics of potential historic districts
Tips and step-by-step instructions are included in the MYhistoricLA Guide
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYneighborhood
Community Photo Collection Goals:
• Collect historic photographs that can provide valuable information about historic resources in your community
• Generate interest and broader involvement in SurveyLA
• Help the community preserve their history
• Identify properties that may need additional research
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYneighborhood
Community Photo Collection Process:
• Identify a location in the community to hold an event to scan or collect copies of historic images
• Create a set of scans or copies for submission to SurveyLA
• Capture addresses and other valuable data from the photograph or source
Tips and step-by-step instructions are included in the MYhistoricLA Guide
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYstory
MYstory - Interview Activity Goals:
• Capture the stories about individual buildings or neighborhoods from people who live there
• Create a richer understanding of the shared history of the community that can help inform SurveyLA
• Identify properties that may need additional research
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYstory
MYstory - Interview Activity Process:
• Recruit volunteer interviewers• Identify potential interviewees (long-time residents,
neighborhood historians, participants in important social or cultural events, etc.)
• Using the template provided, create a series of specific questions for the interview
• Don’t forget that interviewees are often good sources for historic photographs and other materials
Tips and step-by-step instructions are included in the MYhistoricLA Guide
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYplace
MYplace - Research Goals:
• Conduct research to provide property-specific information regarding potentially significant buildings and districts in your neighborhood
• Confirm or provide additional information about properties or neighborhoods identified in MYneighborhood and MYstory activities
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYplace
MYplace - Research Process:
• Compile existing information about properties or areas in your community to identify research tasks that need to be completed
• Recruit volunteers to divide the research into smaller, more manageable tasks
• Review the Research Assignments and provide volunteer training as needed
• Prepare all data gathered during MYhistoricLA for submission to OHR
Tips and step-by-step instructions included in the MYhistoricLA Guide
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYplace
MYplace - Research sources may include:
• Assessor Data• • Historic Building Permits
• Historic Maps
• Newspaper and journal articles
• Historic Photographs
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
How do I record all the information gathered during MYhistoricLA activities?
Each activity has accompanying forms for recording the
relevant information:
• Neighborhood Walkabout Survey Form• Photograph Identification Form• Interview Questionnaire
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
MYhistoricLA Data Table:
• A Microsoft Excel data table was developed to organize information collected by MYhistoricLA activities into a consistent format
• Following each activity, the property-specific information on the forms should be recorded in the Data Table
• The Data Table and instructions for use are included in the MYhistoricLA Guide
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
This seems overwhelming – How can our communityaccomplish these goals?
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
Tips and Resources:
• Remember that you can choose to do as many or as few activities as you like, depending on the needs, expertise, and interest within the community
• Any information submitted through MYhistoricLA is valuable to the survey effort, even if you don’t have all of the data outlined on the forms or in the MyhistoricLA Data Table
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
MYhistoricLA Guide
Tips and Resources:
• Additional information about SurveyLA and MYhistoricLA is available on OHR’s website
• Office of Historic Resources staff is available to answer questions or provide additional information
• A lot of research can be done through online sources available from the Los Angeles Public Library and other places
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
Next Steps
Ensure SurveyLA reflects the architectural, cultural, and
social history of your neighborhood/community
Encourage the participation of your neighborhood/ community in SurveyLA
• Establish Coordinating Committee• Select and plan an activity• Implement the activity• Submit information/data to OHR
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LOS ANGELES CITY PLANNING DEPARTMENT
SurveyLA Contact Informationwww.SurveyLA.org
For more information about SurveyLA:Office of Historic Resources200 N. Spring Street, Room 620Los Angeles, CA 90012Janet Hansen, Deputy Manager(213) 978-1191 or
For copies of the MYhistoricLA Guide and to participate in SurveyLA:
Rita Moreno, Public Participation Coordinator
(213) 978-1192 or [email protected]