Advocacy

GOAL:
Embrace a proven economic development measure to revitalize and sustain the heart of historic communities and business districts throughout Idaho.

OBJECTIVE:
Initiate and fund a permanent statewide Main Street program in Idaho.

The auditorium at Boise High is threatened!

Dec. 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

February 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, sending nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into 10 relocation centers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

June 1942: The Morrison-Knudsen Co. begins building the Minidoka camp. The camp is also called "Hunt," after the nearest post office.

August 1942: The 33,000-acre Minidoka camp opens and will house more than 9,000 internees.

Ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and amid widespread anti-Japanese hysteria, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, providing the legal basis for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans at ten War Relocation Authority “Relocation Centers.”

Demolition review ordinance

Success stories of previous advocacy efforts by Preservation Idaho.

Historic preservation emphasizes building reuse from a cultural perspective rather than an environmental one. Reusing buildings is natural for sustainable design, but building reuse is rarely emphasized in contemporary green building standards.