Item 2 - Addendum and Attachment 5
PREPARED BY: RYAN SAFTY
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: 09/28/2022 ITEM NO: 2 ADDENDUM
DATE: September 27, 2022
TO: Historic Preservation Committee
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Consider a Request to Remove a Pre-1941 Property from the Historic
Resources Inventory for Property Zoned R-1:8. Located at 16665 Magneson
Loop. APN 523-06-023. Request for Review PHST-22-018.
PROPERTY OWNER/APPLICANT: Alireza Dibazar.
PROJECT PLANNER: Ryan Safty.
REMARKS:
Attachment 5 includes the applicant’s presentation, received September 26, 2022.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously received with the August 28, 2022, Staff Report:
1. Applicant’s Submittal Packet
2. Property Pictures
3. Town Records
4. Public Comment received by 11:00 a.m., Friday, September 23, 2022
Received with this Addendum Report:
5. Applicant Presentation
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Sept 06, 2022
Request for Removal from Historical Reserve Inventory List
16665 Magneson Loop
ATTACHMENT 5
Building is No Longer Utilizable
•The building is in a bad shape due to age
[1938] and lack of recent maintenances
•The structural components of the building,
foundations, exterior walls, roof structure
along with the Electrical, Plumbing and
Mechanical systems in the units would have
to substantially upgraded and/or completely
removed and replaced to bring the units up
to current codes. There is considerable
moisture damage, dry rot and fungus in
many locations in all three structures.
•The new owners would like to renew and
extend the structure based on City’s
design guidelines and compatibility with
the neighborhood. This requires delisting
the property from historical inventory.
•Rest of this this documents provides
supports for the request
Why 16665 Magneson Loop is not a historic building?
1.The integrity has been compromised such that the structure no longer has the potential to
convey significance
2.The structure is not associated with events that have made a significant merit to the Town
3.No significant persons are associated with the site
4.There are no distinctive characteristics of type, period, or method of construction or
representation of work of a master
5.The structure does not yield information to Town history
The Structure is Not Associated with Events
That Have Made a Significant Merit to The Town
•This residence was not in the Town of Los Gatos limits until after 1987
•Prior to and subsequent to it's inclusion, this structure is not associated with any events or
historical contribution to the Town per completion of background research primarily at the Los
Gatos, and Santa Clara Libraries
•No record was found after researching of the Town's and County's records, title searches,
Assessor's Office, Town and County Planning Department's records, Sanborn Maps,
telephone number books, Polk Indexes and aerial photos
•Anne Bloomfield Historic Worksheet Binders: No information on address was found in the
book
No Significant Persons are Associated With the Site
The list shows chain of owners using deed of trust records available from Santa Clara County, as far back as 1979. After this
date, Polk Indexes provided the majority of the information with other information added from personal recollection from a title
search report and a property description from deed of trust.
•Owner since 03/1995: Michael Clem & Deborah Ledesma
•10/87: Nancy Hoffman
•05/83: Kurt Larrerou
06/79: Cameron & Cheryl Kittle (Lois Kittle, Esq)
•1960: Joseph & Myrtle (LaRue) Taillon
•1938 or 1939: Stephen & Helen Drake
•prior to1938: Walter & Hazel Magneson
None of the owners in the title chain prove to be significant from a historical perspective; other than Mr Magneson
developing a sub-division, naming a street after himself, and having a spec house constructed (no evidence was
found that he or his family ever lived here) the conclusion is that no significant person is associated with the site
There are no Distinctive Characteristics of Type, Period, or
Method of Construction or Representation of Work of a Master
•This house's style a “ranchalow” a combination of ranch and bungalow styles
•It represents it's period of construction without distinction and without master
craftsmanship, just plain common
•Mr Magneson had this house constructed economically for resale, built without fanfare
for the time, with good quality materials that have last the test of time; in this case 84
years
•Comparing this house to the house at the end the Magneson Loop block, the “Hazel and
Gretel” cottage or described as a “gingerbread house” with the sculptured roof: that house
is very distinctive and on the home tour and worthy of being in the Historical Resources
Inventory and the house at 16665 Magneson Loop is very common
The Structure Does not Yield Information to Town History
•This house laid outside the Town's limits for most of it's existence
•In the last 35 or so years within the Town the structures on the property have not added to the
historical content of Los Gatos. Anne Bloomfield list doesn’t include the property.
•Before annexation they did not add to the historical content to Santa Clara County