Guide to Community Planning in Wisconsin by Brian W. Ohm	Chapter 2:  Types of Plans & Overview of Implementation Tools
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The objectives of community plans which note the need to preserve important historic structures and sites can be implemented through the adoption of a historic preservation ordinance. These ordinances are meant to protect historic buildings and districts. Counties, towns, cities and villages have express authority to enact historic preservation ordinances.(86)  In addition, the Wisconsin Legislature has determined that historic preservation is such an important objective that all cities and villages that contain any property listed on either the national register of historic places or the state register of historic places must enact an historic preservation ordinance to regulate historic or archeological landmarks and historic districts in an effort to preserve those landmarks.

(86)  The authority for counties to enact historic and burial site preservation ordinances is found in sections 59.97(4)(l) and (m) of the Wisconsin Statutes. The authority for towns is found in sections 60.61(2)(h) and 60.64, and the authority for cities and villages is found in sections 62.23(7)(c) and (em) of the Wisconsin Statutes.

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