Item 2 - Staff Report and Attachments 1 - 6, Addendum and Attachment 1PREPARED BY: SEAN MULLIN, AICP
Associate Planner
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6874
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
COMMITTEE REPORT
MEETING DATE: 06/26/2019 ITEM NO: 2
DATE: JUNE 21, 2019 TO: HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE FROM: JOEL PAULSON, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SUBJECT: PROJECT LOCATION: 62 ELLENWOOD AVENUE. PROPERTY OWNER: LISA AND CASE SWENSON. APPLICANT: KURT SIMROCK. REQUESTING APPROVAL FOR REMOVAL OF A PRE-1941 PROPERTY FROM THE HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY ON PROPERTY ZONED R-1:12. APN 510-20-068.
RECOMMENDATION:
Review the information provided and make a determination regarding the historical
significance or architectural merit of the property.
PROPERTY DETAILS:
1.Date primary structure was built: 1925
2.Town of Los Gatos Historic Status Code: N
3.Does property have an LHP Overlay? No
4.Is structure in a historic district? No
5.If yes, is it a contributor? N/A
6.Findings required? Yes
7.Considerations required? No
BACKGROUND:
On March 27, 2019, the applicant requested approval to remove the pre-1941 residence from
the Historic Resources Inventory and provided Department of Parks and Recreation forms
indicating that the property is not significant as it has been enlarged and altered and does not
meet the criteria for integrity. At the meeting, the Historic Preservation Committee
(Committee) discussed the matter, requested more information regarding the integrity of the
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residence, and continued the matter to April 24, 2019. At the request of the applicant, the
matter was subsequently continued to May 12, 2019 and June 26, 2019 to allow the applicant
more time to prepare materials.
The property has been previously reviewed by the Committee for exterior changes including
the enclosure of a portion of an existing front porch.
PROJECT SUMMARY:
The applicant is requesting approval to remove the pre-1941 residence from the Historic
Resources Inventory.
DISCUSSION:
The applicant has provided an updated Letter of Justification (Attachment 1), which outlines
reasons for the request, and the following attachments supporting the request:
• Exhibits showing the modifications to the residence over time (Attachment 2);
• Exhibit and photos showing the changes to residences within the neighborhood over
time (Attachment 3);
• An updated Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) forms indicating that the
property is not significant as it has been enlarged and altered and does not meet the
criteria for integrity (Attachment 4);
• A Structural Conditions Report (Attachment 5); and
• An Exterior Architectural Evaluation report (Attachment 6).
ACTION:
Findings related to a request for a determination that a pre-1941 primary structure has no
historic significance or architectural merit.
In evaluating a request for a determination of historic significance or architectural merit, the
Historic Preservation Committee shall consider the following:
1. The structure is not associated with events that have made a significant contribution to
the Town;
2. No Significant persons are associated with the site;
3. There are no distinctive characteristics of type, period or method of construction or
representation of work of a master;
4. The structure does not yield information to Town history; or
5. The integrity has been compromised such that the structure no longer has the potential
to convey significance.
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Should the Committee find merit in the request, the property would be removed from the
Historic Resources Inventory and review of design changes or demolition would not return to
the Committee.
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Letter of Justification
2. Exhibits showing the modifications to the residence
3. Exhibit and photos of changes to residences within the neighborhood
4. Updated Department of Parks and Recreation form
5. Structural Conditions Report
6. Exterior Architectural Evaluation report
Distribution:
Lisa and Case Swenson, 62 Ellenwood Avenue, Los Gatos CA 95030
Kurt Simrock, 329 Bryant Street 3C, San Francisco CA 94107
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ATTACHMENT 2
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ATTACHMENT 4
Page 19 of 31 *Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 62 Ellenwood Ave., Los
Gatos*Recorded by: Urban Programmers *Date 3/5/2019 X Continuation Update
DPR 523L (Rev. 1/1995)(Word 9/2013)
State of California Natural Resources Agency Primary#
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
Trinomial
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Property Name: ____62 Ellenwood Ave., Los Gatos
the American Revolution) from 1933-1935. In the 1940 U.S.
Census, Harry was 70 years old and listed his occupation as
farmer, while still living on Ellenwood Avenue. Blanche Beckwith
passed away on May 7, 1958. Harry moved to Olympic Drive and
died in 1966. Both Harry and Blanche are buried in the Los Gatos
Memorial Cemetery.
It appears that Harry Beckwith was related to Nathan E.
Beckwith, a developer and orchardist in Los Gatos who developed
the Beckwith Block on Main Street in 1893. Research did not find
a connection between the Beckwith Block and Harry Beckwith.
Dr. Leonard J. and Elizabeth A. Levine were the owners of 62
Ellenwood Avenue when the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake severely
damaged the house. The additions, alterations, and repairs were
undertaken by the Levines and completed in 1991. In 2006 Case
and Lisa Swenson purchased the property and added to it by
constructing the garage building in the front and adding the
stone to columns in the front, side fence, garage, and
recreation room in the rear which was also constructed by the
Swensons. They also modified portions of the building and spaces
inside the building.
Other occupants or residents were not presented in this report
because they were not residents more than 50 years ago.
Policy and Regulations:
California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR)2
The California Register of Historical Resources is “an
authoritative listing and guide to be used by state and local
agencies, private groups and citizens in identifying the existing
historical resources of the state and to indicate which resources
deserve to be protected, to the extent prudent and feasible, from
2 Brown tone print is taken from the pamphlet; “California Register of
Historical Resources and CEQA”- California Office of Historic Preservation
Page 20 of 31 *Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) 62 Ellenwood Ave., Los
Gatos*Recorded by: Urban Programmers *Date 3/5/2019 X Continuation Update
DPR 523L (Rev. 1/1995)(Word 9/2013)
State of California Natural Resources Agency Primary#
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
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Property Name: ____62 Ellenwood Ave., Los Gatos
substantial adverse change”(Public Resources Code Section
5024.1[a]). The criteria for eligibility to the California
Register are based on National Register criteria (Public Resources
Code Section 5024.1[b]). Certain resources are determined by the
statute to be automatically included in the California Register,
including California properties formally determined eligible for
or listed in the National Register. To be eligible for the
California Register as a historical resource, a prehistoric or
historic-period resource must be significant at the local or state
level under one or more of the following criteria:
1 It is associated with events that have made a significant
contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history,
or the cultural heritage of California or the United States;
The property at 62 Ellenwood Avenue, a rambling single-family
house, is not associated with events that contributed to the
broad patterns of local or regional history, or the cultural
heritage of California.
2. It is associated with the lives of persons important to local,
California, or national history;
The subject property is associated with Harry Beckwith who
was a partner in Bond and Beckwith, a grocery business from
1896 until 1924, after which Harry joined the Riggs Real
Estate Company. At age 70, he was listed in the City Directory
as a farmer. Harry Beckwith was a businessman involved in the
community. However, he was not a person significant in local,
California, or national history.
3. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period,
region, or method of construction, or represents the work of a
master, or possesses high artistic values; or
The house and garages are designed in a vernacular style,
merging Spanish Revival Eclectic and Colonial Revival
styles, circa 1925-2006. They embody construction after
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Gatos*Recorded by: Urban Programmers *Date 3/5/2019 X Continuation Update
DPR 523L (Rev. 1/1995)(Word 9/2013)
State of California Natural Resources Agency Primary#
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
Trinomial
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Property Name: ____62 Ellenwood Ave., Los Gatos
the 1989 earthquake including additions and remodeling
that is not distinctive of a type, period, region or
method of construction. It does not represent the work
of a master or possess high artistic values. The majority
of the building was remodeled or added after 1989.
4. It has yielded, or has the potential to yield, information
important to the prehistory or history of the local area,
California, or the nation.
The site is not near a waterway and has been graded for
construction and landscaping. It is unlikely to yield
information important to the history or prehistory of the
area. The building is primarily recent construction and
cannot yield important information from history.
Finding: The property at 62 Ellenwood Avenue does not meet the
criteria to be listed in the California Register of Historical
Resources.
For a resource to be eligible for the California Register, it must
also retain enough integrity to be recognizable as a historical
resource and to convey its significance
Although the property at 62 Ellenwood Avenue is not found to be
significant, a comparison to the aspects of integrity is included
to show the building has been enlarged and altered and does not
meet the criteria for retaining integrity.
Integrity:
Integrity is the ability of a property to convey its
significance. To be listed in the National Register of Historic
Places, a property must not only be shown to be significant
under the National Register criteria, but it also must have
integrity. The evaluation of integrity is something of a
subjective judgment, but it must always be grounded in an
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Gatos*Recorded by: Urban Programmers *Date 3/5/2019 X Continuation Update
DPR 523L (Rev. 1/1995)(Word 9/2013)
State of California Natural Resources Agency Primary#
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #
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Property Name: ____62 Ellenwood Ave., Los Gatos
understanding of a property’s physical features and how they
relate to its significance.
Historic properties either retain integrity (convey their
significance) or they do not. Within the concept of integrity,
the National Register criteria recognizes seven aspects or
qualities that, in various combinations, define integrity.
To retain historic integrity, a property will always possess
several, and usually most, of the aspects. The retention of
specific aspects of integrity is paramount for a property to
convey its significance. Determining which of the aspects are
most important to a particular property requires knowing why,
where, and when the property is significant. The following
defines the seven aspects and how they combine to produce
integrity. A rule of thumb is to consider whether the original
owner would recognize the building and how it functioned.
SEVEN APSECTS OF INTEGRITY 3
Location
Location is the place where the historic property was
constructed or the place where the historic event occurred. The
relationship between the property and its location is often
important to understanding why the property was created or why
something happened. The actual location of a historic property,
complemented by its setting, is particularly important in
recapturing the sense of historic events and persons. Except in
rare cases, the relationship between a property and its historic
associations is destroyed if the property is moved.
Design
Design is the combination of elements that create the form,
plan, space, structure, and style of a property. It results from
conscious decisions made during the original conception and
3 The aspects of integrity are designed to include buildings, sites and objects. The aspects included here are
modified to apply to the subject property.
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planning of a property (or its significant alteration) and
applies to activities as diverse as community planning,
engineering, architecture, and landscape architecture. Design
includes such elements as organization of space, proportion,
scale, technology, ornamentation, and materials. A property's
design reflects historic functions and technologies as well as
aesthetics. It includes such considerations as the structural
system; massing; arrangement of spaces; pattern of fenestration;
textures and colors of surface materials; type, amount, and
style of ornamental detailing; and arrangement and type of
plantings in a designed landscape.
Setting
Setting is the physical environment of a historic property.
Whereas location refers to the specific place where a property
was built or an event occurred, setting refers to the character
of the place in which the property played its historical role.
It involves how, not just where, the property is situated and
its relationship to surrounding features and open space. Setting
often reflects the basic physical conditions under which a
property was built and the functions it was intended to serve.
In addition, the way in which a property is positioned in its
environment can reflect the designer's concept of nature and
aesthetic preferences. The physical features that constitute the
setting of a historic property can be either natural or manmade,
including such elements as:
Topographic features (a gorge or the crest of a hill);
Vegetation;
Simple manmade features (paths or fences); and
Relationships between buildings and other features or open
space.
These features and their relationships should be examined not
only within the exact boundaries of the property, but also
between the property and its surroundings. This is particularly
important for districts.
Materials
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Materials are the physical elements that were combined or
deposited during a particular period of time and in a particular
pattern or configuration to form a historic property. The choice
and combination of materials reveal the preferences of those who
created the property and indicate the availability of particular
types of materials and technologies. Indigenous materials are
often the focus of regional building traditions and thereby help
define an area's sense of time and place.
A property must retain the key exterior materials dating from
the period of its historic significance. If the property has
been rehabilitated, the historic materials and significant
features must have been preserved. The property must also be an
actual historical resource, not a re-creation; a recent
structure fabricated to look historic is not eligible. Likewise,
a property whose historic features and materials have been lost
and then reconstructed is usually not eligible.
Workmanship
Workmanship is the physical evidence of the crafts of a
particular culture or people during any given period in history
or prehistory. It is the evidence of artisans' labor and skill
in constructing or altering a building, structure, object, or
site. Workmanship can apply to the property as a whole or its
individual components. It can be expressed in vernacular methods
of construction and plain finishes or in highly sophisticated
configurations and ornamental detailing. It can be based on
common traditions or innovative period techniques.
Workmanship is important because it can furnish evidence of the
technology of a craft, illustrate the aesthetic principles of a
historic or prehistoric period, and reveal individual, local,
regional, or national applications of both technological
practices and aesthetic principles. Examples of workmanship in
historic buildings include tooling, carving, painting, graining,
turning, and joinery.
Feeling
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Feeling is a property's expression of the aesthetic or historic
sense of a particular period of time. It results from the
presence of physical features that, taken together, convey the
property's historic character. For example, a rural historic
district retaining original design, materials, workmanship, and
setting will relate the feeling of agricultural life in the 19th
century.
Association
Association is the direct link between an important historic
event or person and a historic property. A property retains
association if it is the place where the event or activity
occurred and is sufficiently intact to convey that relationship
to an observer. Like feeling, association requires the presence
of physical features that convey a property's historic
character. Because feeling and association depend on individual
perceptions, their retention alone is never sufficient to
support eligibility of a property for the National Register.
The 1925 architecture was remodeled and enlarged in 1991, with
more additions and remodeling culminating from 2007-2015. However,
the construction from 1991-2015 does not create a significant
design idiom and is not significant when there are many examples
of Vernacular, mixed era architecture in Los Gatos. After the 1991-
2015 remodeling and the additions to the original house, there is
a loss of integrity. Of the seven aspects of integrity, only the
aspect of location is completely present. The design has changed,
historic materials have been replaced, the original workmanship is
lost to reconstruction and remodeling, the setting has changed
from a natural wooded setting to formal landscaping in a
residential neighborhood setting, the feeling of the smaller house
has changed to one of a large rambling, eclectic, yet elegant
house. With additional buildings and tailored landscaping, the
feeling has changed dramatically. The aspect of association cannot
be applied because no event or person of importance is associated
with the property.
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Property Name: ____62 Ellenwood Ave., Los Gatos
The house does not meet the criteria for significance or integrity,
is not a significant historical resource, and is not eligible for
listing in the California Register of Historical Resources.
Town of Los Gatos:
The following Town of Los Gatos 2020 General Plan goals and
policies relating to archaeological and historical resources are
applicable to consider.
Goal OSP-9 To protect Los Gatos’s archaeological and cultural
resources to maintain and enhance a unique sense of place.
Policy OSP-9.1 Evaluate archaeological and/or cultural
resources early in the development review process through
consultation with interested parties and the use of
contemporary professional techniques in archaeology,
ethnography, and architectural history.
The property was researched and then evaluated for
cultural and architectural importance. The evaluation
is provided to the Town prior to a development
proposal.
Goal CD-12 To preserve significant historic and architectural
features within the Town.
The research and evaluation show that the buildings on
the property are not significant features in Los
Gatos. In the immediate area, several of the earlier
houses have been reconstructed to larger buildings in
different architectural styles.
Division 3. Historic Preservation and LHP or Landmark and
Historic Preservation Overlay Zone
Sec. 29.80.215. Purposes.
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It is hereby found that structures, sites, and areas of
special character or special historical, architectural or
aesthetic interest or value have been and continue to be
unnecessarily destroyed or impaired, despite the
feasibility of preserving them. It is further found that
the public health, safety, and welfare require prevention of
needless destruction and impairment, and promotion of the
economic utilization and discouragement of the decay and
desuetude of such structures, sites and areas. The purpose
of historic preservation is to promote the health, safety,
and general welfare of the public through:
(1) The protection, enhancement, perpetuation, and use
of structures, sites, and areas that are reminders of
past eras, events, and persons important in local,
State, or National history, or which provide significant
examples of architectural styles of the past or are
landmarks in the history of architecture, or which are
unique and irreplaceable assets to the Town and its
neighborhoods, or which provide for this and future
generations examples of the physical surroundings in
which past generations lived.
(2) The development and maintenance of appropriate
settings and environment for such structures.
(3) The enhancement of property values, the
stabilization of neighborhood and areas of the Town, the
increase of economic and financial benefits to the Town
and its inhabitants, and the promotion of tourist trade
and interest.
(4) The enrichment of human life in its educational and
cultural dimensions by serving aesthetic as well as
material needs and fostering knowledge of the living
heritage of the past.
The Town recognizes a historical resource as follows: any
structure/site that is located within a historic district, any
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structure/site that is historically designated, or any primary
structure constructed prior to 1941 unless the Town has determined
that the structure has no historic significance or architectural
merit.
Finding: The Town has designated the historic districts of
Almond Grove, Broadway, Los Gatos Commercial, Fairview Plaza and
University/Edelen. All the historic districts are located in the
historic core area of Los Gatos. The subject property is not in
a designated historic district. The house has been extensively
remodeled and enlarged, and does not exhibit special character;
or special historical, architectural, or aesthetic interest; or
value to the built environment of Los Gatos. The garage
building, landscaping, and ancillary building have been
constructed since 2007 and are not contributing to the historic
value of the altered house.
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
In the historical resource section of CEQA, the concern is
directed toward any project that may create an adverse change to
any historical resource. CEQA Guidelines Appendix G indicates
that a project may have a significant effect on the environment
if it would:
1. cause a substantial adverse change in the significance
of a historical resource as defined in section 15064.5;
2. cause a substantial adverse change in the significance
of an archaeological resource pursuant to section 15064.5;
3. directly or indirectly destroy a unique paleontological
resource or site or unique geologic feature;
4. disturb any human remains, including those interred
outside of formal cemeteries; or
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5. conflict with a plan or policy adopted for the purpose
of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect.
A “substantial adverse change” to a historical resource is defined
in Guidelines Section 15064.5(b) as “physical demolition,
destruction, relocation, or alteration of the resource or its
immediate surroundings such that the significance of a historical
resource would be materially impaired.” The significance of a
historical resource is materially impaired when a project
“demolishes or materially alters in an adverse manner those
physical characteristics of a historical resource that convey its
historical significance and that justify its inclusion in, or
eligibility for inclusion in the California Register of Historical
Resources;” or “demolishes or materially alters in an adverse
manner those physical characteristics that account for its
inclusion in a local register of historical resources...” or
“demolishes or materially alters in an adverse manner those
physical characteristics of a historical resource that convey its
historical significance and that justify its eligibility for
inclusion in the California Register of Historical Resources as
determined by a lead agency for purposes of CEQA.”
CEQA (Guidelines Section 15064.5), define the term “historical
resources” to include the following:
1. A resource listed in, or determined to be eligible by
the State Historical Resources Commission, for listing in
the California Register (Public Resources Code §5024.1,
Title 14 California Code of Regulations, Section 4850 et
seq.).
2. A resource included in a local register of historical
resources, as defined in Section 5020.1(k) of the Public
Resources Code or identified as significant in a historical
resource survey meeting the requirements of Section
5024.1(g) of the Public Resources Code, shall be presumed
to be historically or culturally significant. Public
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agencies must treat any such resource as significant unless
the preponderance of evidence demonstrates that it is not
historically or culturally significant.
3. Any object, building, structure, site, area, place,
record, or manuscript which a lead agency determines to be
historically significant or significant in the
architectural, engineering, scientific, economic,
agricultural, educational, social, political, military, or
cultural annals of California, may be considered to be a
historical resource, provided the lead agency’s
determination is supported by substantial evidence in light
of the whole record. Generally, a resource shall be
considered by the lead agency to be “historically
significant” if the resource meets the criteria for listing
in the California Register (Public Resources Code Section
5024.1, Title 14 California Code of Regulations, Section
4852)
CEQA Finding: The research and evaluation of the house and garage
at 62 Ellenwood Avenue conclude that the property and buildings do
not meet the criteria of the California Register of Historical
Resources or the criteria of the Town of Los Gatos for designating
a historical resource. For purposes of CEQA, the subject property
is not a “Historical Resource” under the CEQA Guidelines.
Sources Consulted:
Building permits and deeds are listed in the footnotes.
Bruntz, George G., History of Los Gatos-Gem of the Foothills,
Valley Publishers, 1981
California Office of Historic Preservation, “CEQA and Historic
Preservation”
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Comstock, William T., Suburban and Country Homes, New York, 1893
Conaway-Bergtold, Peggy &Ross- Matthews, Stephanie, Legendary
Locals of Los Gatos, Arcadia Publishing Company, 2014
Conaway, Peggy, Los Gatos (CA) (Images of America), Arcadia
Publishing Company, 2004
Foley, Mary Mix, The American House, Harper Colophon Books,
Harper & Row Publishers, New York, 1980
McAlester, V & L. A Field Guide to American Houses, A. Knopf,
New York, 1985
Rifkind, C. A Field Guide to American Architecture, Times
Mirror, New York 1980
Town of Los Gatos, 2020 General Plan.
Town of Los Gatos, “How to Research You Los Gatos House”.
Whiffin, Marcus, American Architecture Since 1780 A Guide to
Styles, M.I.T.Press, Cambridge Mass. 1981
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PREPARED BY: SEAN MULLIN, AICP
Associate Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6874
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
COMMITTEE
MEETING DATE: 06/26/2019 ITEM NO: 2 ADDENDUM
DATE: JUNE 25, 2019 TO: HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE FROM: JOEL PAULSON, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SUBJECT: PROJECT LOCATION: 62 ELLENWOOD AVENUE. PROPERTY OWNER: LISA AND CASE SWENSON. APPLICANT: KURT SIMROCK. REQUESTING APPROVAL FOR REMOVAL OF A PRE-1941 PROPERTY FROM THE HISTORIC RESOURCES INVENTORY ON PROPERTY ZONED R-1:12. APN 510-20-068.
REMARKS:
Attachment 7 includes information from the Anne Bloomfield Survey and 1928 Sanborn Map
for the subject property submitted by the HPC Chair. The March 1991 Building Permit plans for
an addition to the first floor and modifications to the first and second floors will be made
available at the meeting as requested by the HPC Chair. Attachments previously distributed
with the March 20, 2019 report include a Letter of Justification, DPR forms, 2007 Development
Plans, and the Anne Bloomfield Survey.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously received with the June 26, 2019 Report:
1. Updated Letter of Justification
2. Exhibits showing the modifications to the residence
3. Exhibit and photos of changes to residences within the neighborhood
4. Updated Department of Parks and Recreation form
5. Structural Conditions Report
6. Exterior Architectural Evaluation report
Received with this Addendum Report:
7. Anne Bloomfield Report excerpts and 1928 Sanborn Map
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