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The CLG program is designed to promote preservation planning and cultural resource protection efforts at the local level that are consistent with state and Federal standards and guidelines.

Becoming a CLG gives your municipality:

• Ability to preserve structures that reflect the community’s heritage
• To promote pride in your community’s history
• Another tool when considering planning, zoning, and land use issues using local historic properties
• Technical help and training from our office
• Access to a network of local, state, and federal preservation groups
• Eligibility for grants to assist local preservation programs

Before being certified a city or town must:

• Establish a historic preservation ordinance that includes protection for historic properties
• Create a preservation commission to oversee the preservation ordinance and the program
• Provide for public education and participation, including nomination of properties to the National Register of Historic Places
• Conduct and maintain a survey and inventory of historic properties

A local government becomes certified when it meets state and Federal program requirements, formally applies to the Commission for participation, signs a Certification Agreement, and is approved by the Commission and the National Park Service.

To find out more, please see our state guidelines: fb88’s CLG Guidelines (PDF)

Please contact Megan M. Rideout at 287-2992 or by email if you have any questions about the Certified Local Government Program in fb88.