The Historic and Architectural Review Commission, or HARC, will consider a plan to expand the Williamson County Courthouse National Register Historic District at its June 25 meeting. The proposal includes expanding the district's boundaries in all four directions as well as creating a Forest Street National Register Historic District, according to a city news release. The courthouse district includes the courthouse block as well as portions of seven blocks adjacent to the courthouse that contain historic structures. The expansion would include properties around the perimeter and extend three blocks to the south to University Avenue. The Forest Street district would include the area from Ninth Street to University Boulevard and Rock Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Street. According to the news release, neither district would alter the local zoning districts, such as the Downtown Overlay District, or rules related to development or redevelopment in downtown Georgetown. In October the city began the project to reassess the historic districts, and the city hosted public meetings in November, March and June. If created, the districts would enable contributing historic structures within the districts to qualify for state and federal tax credits. To qualify structures must be listed on the National Register or classified as contributing to a National Register historic district. Properties listed as noncontributing, but would become contributing with tax-credit projects, are also eligible, according to the release. If approved by HARC, the districts would be submitted to the Texas Historical Commission and the National Park Service for approval. Maps of the districts are available here.