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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Dear Main Street Colleagues –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">I’m following up a recent letter in which we announced that Restore Oregon was responding to cries for help from Main Streets
across Oregon for more financial help to restore and revitalize our historic downtowns.
<b> </b>We’ve launched a campaign to <b><a href="http://restoreoregon.org/rehab-tax-credit/">pass a 25% state Rehabilitation Tax Credit</a>
</b>(RTC) for historic commercial and apartment buildings (see this handy <a href="http://restoreoregon.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RTC_OneSheet-05-05-14_PRINT.pdf">
RTC fact sheet</a>) and expect to bring forward legislation during the 2015 session which starts in January.
<b>But we need your help to succeed! <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">I know you have a lot on your plates, but urge you to take a few minutes to do the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Send a letter endorsing the Rehab Tax Credit</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""> addressed to Restore Oregon from your Main Street organization.
You can also <a href="http://restoreoregon.org/rehab-tax-credit/">endorse it online</a> (be sure to include your organization name.) Also ask your mayor/city council, and individual citizens to endorse the RTC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Forward examples of local buildings that need the RTC</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""> to spur their rehabilitation and reuse (an old hotel, theater,
department store, Masonic lodge, warehouse, etc.) Here’s the basic info we need – along with one or two good photos of the building:
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Name & address of building:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Original use / current use (incl if some or all is vacant):<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Contact for building (name, phone or email):<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Ownership: public or private?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Is it listed on the National Register or within a designated Historic District?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">What are the challenges to the building; what rehabilitation does it need? (ie code compliance, structural/seismic issues, storefront, etc.):<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><i><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">What impact would its rehabilitation have?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:110%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Make a
<a href="http://restoreoregon.org/join/rehab-tax-credit/">contribution</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""> to offset costs of the RTC lobbying effort.
<b>Any amount is helpful</b> and it demonstrates to lawmakers that the bill has real, broad-based support. We estimate the total lobbying-related costs to exceed $75,000.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Several Main Streets have already responded (thank you, McMinnville, Albany, and Dayton!). Hopefully many more of you will, too.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Passage of the RTC is the single most important thing we could do to save and revitalize the historic buildings that our Main
Streets. Please feel free to call me directly with any questions. Your <b>help</b> is greatly appreciated and will make a tremendous difference!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif"">Peggy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Peggy Moretti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.restoreoregon.org/"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif";color:#002B5E;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="94" height="69" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFA03A.78A94420" alt="cid:image002.jpg@01CF79A0.CCB6E420"></span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook","serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">24 NW First Avenue, Suite 274 | Portland, OR 97209</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif"">503 243-1923<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:black">Visit our
<a href="http://restoreoregon.org/news/">NEWSROOM</a> for preservation stories from around Oregon</span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif";color:#C00000">.</span></i><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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