Under the program, property owners receive a significant reduction in local property taxes in exchange for their promise to actively participate in restoring, rehabilitating, repairing and preserving their properties. Participants enter into an initial 10-year contract with the City.
    
        Mills Act Information



Map of historic properties coming soon!


Historic Preservation Links:

• State
  • The Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) preserves and enhance California's irreplaceable historic heritage as a matter of public interest so that its vital legacy of cultural, educational, recreational, aesthetic, economic, social, and environmental benefits will be maintained and enriched for present and future generations.
  • The State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) is a nine-member state review board, appointed by the Governor, with responsibilities for the identification, registration, and preservation of California's cultural heritage.
• National
  • Advisory Council on Historic Preservation promotes the preservation, enhancement and productive use of our Nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy.
  • The National Register of Historic Places is the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation, and is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect our historic and archeological resources.
  • The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded nonprofit organization that provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.
  • Main Street Program A program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Main Street approach combines historic preservation with economic development to restore prosperity and vitality to downtowns and neighborhood business districts, and serves as the nation's clearinghouse for information, technical assistance, research and advocacy for commercial district revitalization.
  • Preservation Directory contains hundreds of links on historic preservation, museum resources and management, archeology, community and urban revitalization, roadside Americana and building restoration. The directory also provides a database on cultural resources and an online bookstore for historic and cultural resource preservation.
  • Heritage Documentation Programs (HABS/HAER/HALS/CRGIS) The Heritage Documentation Programs administers HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey), the Federal Government's oldest preservation program, and HAER (Historic American Engineering Record), HALS (Historic American Landscapes Survey), and CRGIS (Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems). Documentation produced through the programs constitutes the nation's largest archive of historic architectural, engineering, and landscape documentation.
  • National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT) advances the application of science and technology to historic preservation. Working in the fields of archeology, architecture, landscape architecture and materials conservation, the center accomplishes its mission through training, education, research, technology transfer and partnerships.

International

• Association for Preservation Technology International (APTI) promotes technology for conserving historic structures and their settings. With members in 28 countries, APTI connects a network of architects, conservators, tradesmen, consultants, planners, curators, engineers, developers, educators, historians, apprentices and students.
• DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the MOdern Movement (DOCOMOMO) is dedicated to the study of significant works of modern movement architecture, landscape design and urban planning around the world.
• International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is an international non-governmental organization of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites.
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.
• The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (AHLP) is an inter-disciplinary professional organization dedicated to the preservation and conservation of historic landscapes in all their variety, from formal gardens and public parks to rural expanses.