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Cultural
Heritage Committee Action Update
December 15, 2008 Monday
5:30p.m.
ROLL CALL:
Committee Members Barbara Breska, Chuck Crotser, Katy Davis, Lynne
Landwehr, Dean Miller, Vice Chair John Fowler, and Chairperson Elise
Wheeler
STAFF:
Associate Planner (under contract with PMC) Jaime Hill, Associate
Planner Brian Leveille, Senior Planner Jeff Hook, and Deputy
Director Kim Murry
PUBLIC COMMENT:
None
MINUTES: Minutes
of October 27 and November 24, 2008, regular meeting. The
minutes were approved as amended.
PUBLIC HEARING
ITEMS:
1. 1804
& 1814 Osos Street.
ARC 45-07; Review of a modified proposal to alter the Alano Club, a
Contributing Property, and the adjacent non-contributing structure,
and to develop the adjoining vacant property with a four-story
building in the Railroad Historic District; C-R-S-H zone; Michael
Hodge, applicant. (Jaime Hill)
Jaime Hill presented the staff report and provided a brief
background on the project. Ricky Mason, architect, and Michael
Hodge, applicant, explained the project design and responded to the
staff report. After extended discussion, and on a motion by
Committee Member Crotser, seconded by Committee Member Miller, the
Committee determined that the proposed modifications of the historic
Alano Club building and new construction in the Railroad Historic
District were consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s
Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and with the
Railroad District Plan, provided that the project incorporated
specific changes and additions, and recommended the Architectural
Review Commission approve the project with incorporation of specific
design changes and additions. The motion carried, 7:0.
2. 720
Upham Street.
O 156-08; Request to add a property to the Contributing Properties
List; R-2 zone; Jeanne Kinney, applicant.
(Jeff Hook)
This item was withdrawn by the applicant.
Consequently, no action was taken.
3. 1957-1993
Santa Barbara Avenue and 784 & 786 High Street.
ARC 118-08; Review of a proposed mixed-use project located in the
Railroad Historic District; C-S-H zone; Quaglino Properties, LLC,
applicant. (Brian Leveille)
Brian Leveille showed slides and presented the staff report
recommending the Committee determine that three detached houses
proposed for demolition did not meet eligibility standards for
historic listing and recommending the Architectural Review
Commission approve the proposed project subject to findings and
recommended conditions. The majority of Committee members supported
staff’s finding that the three houses to be demolished did not
qualify for historic listing under City standards, and supported the
project design, as proposed, as being consistent with the Railroad
District Plan. On a motion by Committee Member Fowler, seconded by
Committee Member Crotser, the Committee determined that the houses
located at 1957, 1965, and 1977 Santa Barbara Avenue were not
historically significant and could be demolished and recommended the
Architectural Review Commission approve the project subject to
findings and conditions.
COMMUNICATIONS:
a.
Agenda
Forecast - Staff
Staff provided an agenda forecast.
b.
Committee
Committee members reviewed a draft memo to the City
Council on adobe stabilization and CHC participation in the
discussion of the adobes’ future. After a brief discussion,
Committee members endorsed the memo and asked staff to prepare the
memo for the Chairperson’s initials and to forward the memo to
Council.
Committee Member Crotser suggested a public
educational tour of historic resources in the spring of 2009. He
suggested that CHC members could help organize the event and lead
tours and that the event could also invite community members to
sketch historic buildings and the sketches could be collected and
bound, possibly, as a fund raiser for adobes. The Committee
supported the idea and members Crotser and Fowler agreed to serve on
a sub-committee to further explore the idea.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8 p.m.
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