This session will at two aspects of historic preservation and planning are related. Historic preservation can help further the goals in several different areas of local planning: community character, urban design, economic development, housing affordabiity, resiliency, sustainability, and pubiic engagement. At the same time, staff responsibility for local historic preservation activities often fall to the planner, particularly in small and rural communities. This session looks what can be done when there is little in the way of staff, experience or budget.