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ITEM #5
AGENDA REPORT
MEETING DATE: DECEMBER 10, 2024
TO: PLANNING COMMISSION
FROM: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
SUBJECT: HISTORIC PRESERVATION UPDATE — DEVELOPMENT OF GIS-BASED
STORYMAP
SUMMARY:
The Community Development Department is excited to present a new historic preservation
tool which was launched virtually on the City's Planning website in November 2024. This
new tool visually maps the results of the City's 2021 Historic Preservation Survey through a
GIS-based StoryMap, making the survey results, along with other information, more
accessible to the public. This tool is the next step forward in modernizing Tustin's historic
preservation information.
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has changed how we perceive, navigate
and understand the world. Using GIS-based StoryMaps information can be relayed through
combining text, sound, images and videos to tell a story, creating an immersive user
experience. Overtime, GIS has also become more user-friendly and is used often to enhance
public engagement and provide education opportunities on specific projects or topics. Using
this technology, the historic preservation and City's GIS teams worked together to develop a
historic preservation StoryMap with the goal of helping users to better understand historic
preservation patterns, relationships and geographic context within the City's Cultural
Resource Overlay District.
The 2021 Survey is an important database for historic preservation as it provides a
comprehensive assessment of all the City's historic properties through 1976. The StoryMap
links this information, along with images and property specific information contained within
the Department of Parks & Recreation (DPR) forms, for all historic properties within the City.
Links to other historic preservation programs and resources are also included in the
StoryMap. This new tool will help future decision-making needs relative to historic
preservation in Tustin.
Next steps include publicization of the historic preservation StoryMap tool during the first and
second quarter of 2025 through social media and use of the "Spotlight" feature on the City's
website to highlight this special tool.
Planning Commission
Tustin Historic Preservation Update
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RECOMMENDATION:
Following a brief presentation, it is recommended that the Planning Commission receive and
file this report.
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Prepared by:
Erica H. Demkowicz, AICP kenior Planner
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Ap oved by:
Justina L. Willkom, Community Development Director