In addition to the powers and duties stated elsewhere in this subchapter, the HPC shall take actions necessary and appropriate in order to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter. These actions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) To conduct surveys of local historic properties;
(B) To participate in planning and land-use processes undertaken by the city;
(C) To cooperate with the federal, state, and county governments in the pursuance of the objectives of historic preservation;
(D) To contract, with the approval of the Common Council, with the state or the federal governments;
(E) To promote and conduct an educational and interpretive program on historic properties and issues within the city;
(F) To recommend ordinances and provide information for the purposes of historic preservation to the Common Council;
(G) To notify the Director of Equalization of the designation of any historic property by the city or by the U.S. Department of the Interior;
(H) To adopt written guidelines for making exterior changes to historic property based on the Secretary of the Interior’s standards for the treatment of historic properties;
(I) To negotiate with owners of historic property and other interested persons when the historic property may be demolished, materially altered, remodeled, relocated, or put to a different use;
(J) To assist the Historic District Study Committee when it investigates and reports on proposed historic districts;
(K) To assist owners of historic property and buildings, and structures, in historic districts in preserving their buildings;
(L) To assist in the review of projects on which review by the State Historic Preservation Office is required under SDCL § 1-19A-11.1; and
(M) To attend informational and educational programs covering the duties of the HPC and current developments in historic preservation.
(Prior Code, § 153.05)