Lakeland plans new surveys of its seven historic districts
Lakeland contains seven historic districts, designated between 1985 and 2004.
The city is overdue to update its inventories of buildings with historic status within those districts, said Emily Foster, the city’s senior planner for historic preservation.
Lakeland plans to conduct new surveys of the districts that likely will result in many houses being added as “contributing structures,” Foster said.
“That’s kind of a maintenance thing that should be done really every 10 years, and we’re a little bit past that for most of our historic districts,” Foster said. “So we’re trying to just update that survey information, and that may possibly add more properties as contributing buildings. It will also look at what’s currently considered contributing, to ensure that it’s still contributing.”