Having experienced success with its New Town revitalization project, the Historic Landmark Preservation Board agreed Monday to continue the trend for another year.

"We've used New Town as a guinea pig and that's working very well," Assistant City Manager Janet Cook told the board. "We helped form a neighbor association. (Now) I think we should move forward with the next step – and we're taking baby steps – and that is (establishing) a named historic neighborhood. "The strength of this plan is in building neighborhoods from the bottom up," Ms. Cook said of a list of objectives adopted by the board. The plan contains some 16 items, three of which were accomplished this past year. Suggested for action this year are: "Designate historic neighborhoods, conservation districts and historic districts;