At tonight’s city commission meeting, the city is scheduled to award the historic resources survey to Keystone Preservation Associates and Morrison Design.

The $35,000 project will document all properties in Decatur outside of the historic districts with a digital photograph and a “property inventory sheet”. Once the survey is complete, Keystone and Morrison will produce a final report and public presentation of their findings and make recommendations for what is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.

The project was conceived back in 2007, when controversy surrounding the proposed Oakhurst Historic District was even more confused by the fact that the city had no complete database of its built environment.