Blank Matrix Template: This matrix is a tool for communities to evaluate how their historic district guidelines address four key areas of clean energy retrofits – solar, mini splits, electric vehicle charging, and windows. 

Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation: The Standards are a series of concepts about maintaining, repairing, and replacing historic materials, as well as designing new additions or making alterations. There are guidelines related to Sustainability, Flood Adaptation, and Treatment of Cultural Landscapes. 

NPS Preservation Brief 14: This brief is about new exterior additions to historic buildings. 

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Climate Change Policy Statement: The ACHP promotes sustainable and resilient communities where historic properties are used as assets for promoting energy efficiency and community livability, and are prepared for climate impacts. Other briefs related to housing, community revitalization, controversial commemorative works, Indigenous knowledge and other important topics can be found here. 

“Eminent Good Sense?:” Using Eminent Domain to Curtail Demolition by Neglect: This master’s thesis by MAPC staff member Sarah Scott, Senior Regional Land Use and Historic Preservation Planner, contends that although not a cure-all, eminent domain can lawfully and effectively help municipalities curb demolition by neglect of historic properties by enabling condemnation and ownership transfer of abandoned sites, with courts typically deferring to local decisions.