Taylor, TX Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

52 of the Taylor Code of Ordinances, enacted by Ordinance No. 2023-55 on November 9, 2023, creates a Historic Preservation Commission of five city residents, appointed by the city council for staggered three-year terms, chosen for backgrounds in architecture, history, archaeology, planning, or community design and required to complete annual preservation training. A. Local Government Code Sec. 0165, and once a property carries that designation the commission can recommend and confer recognition on its owner through certificates, plaques, or markers, the mechanism closest to what many cities call a cultural or historic monument marker.

Beyond that recognition power, the commission maintains a survey and inventory of the city's significant historic, architectural, and cultural properties and resources, including everything inside designated historic districts, and it reports to the Texas Historical Commission on any action affecting a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, State Archaeological Landmark, or National Register property. The Land Development Code's own designation chapter fills in the procedural side: an application can be filed by the city, an owner, or at least 20 percent of a proposed district's residents, and any building substantially matching the LDC's historic criteria can be recommended to City Council as a landmark or district.