U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service Legal and
Financial Tools Used to Preserve and Enhance Historic Resources
As discussed in Chapter IV, a community's preservation efforts
will be best served if it adopts a comprehensive historic
preservation plan. Such a plan serves to guide both the
community's preservation efforts per se-its survey, its program
of evaluation and inventory, its programs to restore and
rehabilitate historic properties and to provide for their study,
archeological salvage, and adaptive use, and its programs to
encourage rehabilitation and reuse by the private sector-as well
as its efforts to ensure that preservation concerns are
addressed in development and land-use planning. The purpose of
this appendix is to list and briefly discuss the legal and
financial tools that can be incorporated into a preservation
plan. It should be recognized that this list is by no means
exhaustive, and that new and creative uses of financial and
legal tools are being developed constantly. A w