In addition to the above, HARB shall have the following powers
and duties:
A. To conduct a survey of buildings, structures, objects and monuments
for the purpose of determining those of historic and/or architectural
significance and pertinent facts about them; action in coordination
with the Borough Planning Commission, Zoning Hearing Board, and other
appropriate groups and to maintain and periodically revise the detailed
listings (resource inventories) of historic resources and data about
them, appropriately classified with respect to national, state and
local significance in accordance or consistent with the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission's "Cultural Resource Management
in Pennsylvania: Guidelines for Historic Resource Surveys."
B. To propose, from time to time as deemed appropriate, the establishment
of additional historic districts and revisions to existing historic
districts.
C. To formulate recommendations concerning the establishment of an appropriate
system of markers for selected historic and/or architectural site
and buildings, including proposals for the installation and care of
such historic markers.
D. To formulate recommendations concerning the preparation and publication
of maps, brochures and descriptive material about the Borough historical
and/or architectural sites and buildings.
E. To cooperate with and advise the Borough Council and the agencies
in matters involving historically and/or architecturally significant
sites and buildings (such as appropriate land usage, parking facilities
and signs, as well as adherence to lot dimensional regulations and
minimum structural standards).
F. To cooperate with and enlist assistance from, the National Park Service,
the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Pennsylvania,
the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and other agencies,
public and private, from time to time, concerned the preservation
of historic sites and buildings.
G. To advise owners of historic buildings regarding rehabilitation,
repairs, maintenance methods and technologies, adaptive use, economic
and tax incentives and other historic preservation strategies.
H. To promote public interest in the purpose of this chapter by carrying
on educational and public relations programs.