Who are the stakeholders with an interest in SurveyLA? And who is essential to realizing this plan?
There are multiple stakeholders. Obviously, the historic preservation community and community groups are watching the survey as a tool that will more proactively identify important historic buildings and historic neighborhoods around the city. The development community and private sector investment community is also key. While there are some private sector owners who are nervous that the survey could identify properties as significant that had not been previously identified, savvy developers—those who have been through city development processes or preservation battles in the past—are very enthusiastic about the survey because they understand that it is better to have information about whether a property is significant up front, before they have gone months or years into an approval process. We’re also making it clear that identification in the survey is not tantamount to historic designation: if a property or neighborhood is identified as significant it will not be treated as equivale
