Historic Preservation in Santa Fe, NM (2026)
1 verified historic preservation rules for Santa Fe, New Mexico, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Historic-Cultural Monuments
Santa Fe's Historic Districts Review Board can recommend plaques and markers for historic sites and points of interest, and can recommend that the city acquire historically significant property by purchase, gift or eminent domain. The board's recommendations go to the governing body, which holds final authority to act on them.
Santa Fe Historic Marker Designation Power
Light RestrictionsSection 14-2.6(C)(3)-(5) SFCC 1987
the HDRB shall: [...] (3) make recommendations to the governing body relating to the erection of appropriate plaques and markers designating various historical sites and points of interest in the city; (4) make recommendations to the governing body relating to the purchase or acquisition by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise of real or personal property of historical background and inter...