Plain City Community Plan

Plain City, Ohio

Why

Plain City is a community at a crossroads. Celebrating its Bicentennial in 2018, the village will achieve ‘city’ status in 2020 and is poised for even more growth. Despite the recent growth, Plain City is a community that cherishes is history and small town feel.

The next 30 years will bring significant residential and commercial growth. In order to guide this growth, the village undertook a comprehensive planning process led by MKSK in collaboration with Designing Local and Mannik Smith Group.

How

The yearlong process began with a community engagement process that built upon previous surveying conducted by Designing Local. Through community engagement, historic preservation and the revitalization of Uptown Plain City was identified as vitally important to residents and other stakeholders.

Designing Local led the historic preservation portion of the planning process and subsequent recommendations. As part of the process, Designing Local inventoried historic buildings in the uptown area in order to assist in future National Register Nominations and to identify significant buildings and collections of building in the plan.

What

Designing Local identified four priorities to help Plain City embrace historic preservation: Establish Plain City as a Certified Local Government, Establish a National Register Historic District in Uptown, Encourage the use of historic tax credits, and elicit support from business owners for preservation.

Client

Village of Plain City

Team

MKSK (Lead)

Designing Local

Mannick & Smith Group

Services

Community Planning

Historic Preservation

People

Josh Lapp (Lead)

Amanda Golden