Requesting proposals from qualified historic preservation consultants to prepare the Omaha Historic Preservation Design Guidelines.

The project is to develop a detailed, cohesive set of city-wide historic preservation design guidelines intended to continue and advance preservation of the City's historic resources in a manner consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The final product will assist property owners and applicants in project planning and serve to standardize the information used for decision making. The guidelines need to be applicable in a variety of scenarios and account for multiple project types. For staff, they should be easily referenced for applicants seeking chapter sections on project planning or for LHPC reports on recommendations for work type conformance.

Omaha does not currently have complete guidelines and this is an opportunity to be creative in the formulation of our reference document. The City envisions a simple cohesive set of guidelines with relevant graphics and illustrations.

Check out the full document for more project information: https://landmark.cityofomaha.org/news

*https://landmark.cityofomaha.org/images/Article/News/RFP_Omaha_HP_Design_Guidelines_FY2020.pdf

This is to be a Certified Local Government (CLG) grant funded project in the FY2020–2021 grant cycle, starting in August 2020. The work shall meet the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Archaeology & Historic Preservation [Federal Register 48(190):44716-44742].