AGENDA

 

REGULAR MEETING OF THE

LANDMARKS COMMISSION

 

Founded 1875

“Populus felix in urbe felici”

 

Monday, September 10, 2007

7:00 PM

City Council Chambers, Room 213

1685 Main Street, Santa Monica

 

 

CALL TO ORDER OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION

 

1.                  ROLL CALL

 

2.                  REPORT FROM STAFF:

Information concerning future Landmarks Commission Agendas. Update on recent Architectural Review Board, Planning Commission, and City Council actions, including development projects, planning policy studies, ordinances, appeals and update of project status and related landmarks matters.

 

3.                  SELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON AND CHAIR PRO TEMPORE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 – 2008

 

4.                  COMMISSIONER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

5.                  APPROVAL OF MINUTES:

 

5-A.     August 13, 2007

 

6.                  APPROVAL OF STATEMENTS OF OFFICIAL ACTION:

 

6-A.     Landmark Designation Application 07LM-003, 822 Euclid Street, designating the multi-family residential complex as a City Landmark and property commonly known as 822 Euclid Street as a Landmark Parcel.

 

Statement of Official Action

 

7.                  PUBLIC INPUT: (On items not on agenda and within the jurisdiction of the Commission)

 

8.                  CONSENT CALENDAR:   None.

 

9.                  OLD BUSINESS:

 

9-A.     Landmark Designation Application, 06LM-009, 200–1500 block of Ocean Avenue, to determine whether Palisades Park should be designated as a City Landmark and potential delineation of ordinary park maintenance and improvements that would be exempt from Certificate of Appropriateness application requirements. (Continued from the June 11, 2007 meeting)

 

Supplemental Staff Report

 

Supplemental Attachments

 

Revised Consultant’s Report

 

10.             NEW BUSINESS/PUBLIC HEARINGS:

 

10-A.   Review of Demolition Permits and Consideration Whether to File an Application for Designation of a Structure as a City Landmark or Structure of Merit.

 

1.         315 Palisades Avenue (07PC0989)

R1 – Single Family Residential

Single Family Residence with Garage, Pool and Cabana

Structure Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

Previously reviewed by the Landmarks Commission on February 13, 2006; demolition application withdrawn February 17, 2006.

Current application continued from the August 13, 2007 meeting

 

Preliminary Assessment Memorandum

 

2.         612 Colorado Avenue (07PC1010)

C3 – Downtown Commercial

Single Story Brick Building, Slab on Grade, and Footings

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

3.         1050 Centinela Avenue (07PC1064)

R1 – Single Family Residential

Single Family Residence with Garage

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

(Previously reviewed by Landmarks Commission on June 12, 2006.  No action taken.)

 

4.         943-945 Sixteenth Street (07PC1065)

R2 – Low Density Multiple Residential

Single Level Duplex and 3-Car Garage

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

(Previously reviewed by the Landmarks Commission on November 14, 2005.  No action taken.)

 

5.         2331 Fifth Street (07PC1095)

OP-2 – Ocean Park Low Multiple Residential

Single Family Residence

Structure Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

6.         1024 Twenty-Third Street (07PC1079)

R1 – Single Family Residential

Single Family Residence with Garage

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

7.         2327 Fifth Street (07PC1094)

OP-2 – Ocean Park Low Multiple Residential

Single Family Residence with Garage

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

8.         819 Broadway (07PC1102)

BCD – Broadway Commercial

One-Story Commercial Building with Asphalt Paving

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

9.         829 Broadway (07PC1130)

BCD – Broadway Commercial

One-Story Commercial Building with Asphalt Paving

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

10.       1451 Lincoln Boulevard (07PC1131)

C4 – Highway Commercial

Two-Story Commercial Building and Asphalt Paving

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

11.       1453 Lincoln Boulevard (07PC1132)

C4 – Highway Commercial

One-Story Commercial Building and Asphalt Paving

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

12.       1550 Fifth Street (07PC1158)

C3-C – Downtown Overlay

Two-Story Commercial Building

Structure Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

13.       1554-1558 Fifth Street (07PC1159)

C3-C – Downtown Overlay

One-Story Commercial Building

Structure Not Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

14.       417 Colorado Avenue (07PC1160)

C3-C – Downtown Overlay

One-Story Commercial Building

Structure Identified in Historic Resources Inventory

 

15.       2642 Second Street (07PC1161)

OP-2 – Ocean Park Low Multiple Residential

Single-Story Duplex with Garage

Structure Identified in Historic Resources Inventory (Non-Contributing Structure located within the Third Street Neighborhood Historic District)

 

10-B.   Certificate of Appropriateness Application 07CA-008, 415 Palisades Beach Road, for approval of lighting fixtures for the North House and swimming pool area associated with the previously-approved project for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the former Marion Davies Estate as a public, beach-oriented recreation facility.

 

Staff Report

 

10-C.  Landmark Designation Application, 07LM-004, 929 Lincoln Boulevard, to determine whether the multi-family residential property, in whole or in part, should be designated as a City Landmark.

 

Staff Report

 

Consultant’s Report

 

11.             DISCUSSION ITEMS:

 

11-A.   Recommendation to City Council regarding the following Mills Act Contract Applications:

 

1.                  07MA-001 at 822 Euclid Street (Streamline Moderne Apartments)

2.                  07MA-002 at 2544 Third Street (Contributing Structure to the Third Street Neighborhood Historic District)

 

Staff Report

 

11-B.   Discussion regarding timeframes, procedures, and outreach to residents concerning potential nomination of a Historic District in the South Beach Tract neighborhood (approximately bounded by Hollister Avenue, Ocean Park Boulevard, Barnard Way, and Neilson Way), including a report from the ad-hoc subcommittee of Commissioners formed to make recommendations on this matter.

 

11-C.  Report from City Council Liaison to the Landmarks Commission on recent City Council actions related to appeals, development projects, planning policy studies and ordinances related to the City’s historic resources, and information concerning future City Council agendas.

 

11-D.  Report from Landmarks Commission Liaison to the Architectural Review Board (ARB) on recent ARB consideration and action taken on proposed projects involving additions to or modifications of potential historic resources.

 

11-E.  Report from staff regarding the status of the project to seismically retrofit City Hall and discussion regarding the Landmarks Commission’s regulatory review authority for the project. (BK)

 

11-F.   Discussion and potential formulation of recommendations to City staff to forward to the City Council regarding annual Landmark Designation Application fee increases. (NF)

 

11-G.  Planning Commission Case List (Information Only).

 

12.             WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS: None.

 

13.             FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS:  (Requests from Commissioners to add items to upcoming agendas)

 

14.             NEXT MEETING DATE AND COMMISSION AGENDA: Regular Meeting: 7:00 PM Monday, October 8, 2007; City Council Chambers, Room 213, City Hall.

 

15.             ADJOURNMENT:

 

Santa Monica Blue Bus Lines #2, #3, and #8 serve City Hall.  Parking is available on the south side of City Hall.

 

Note:   The meeting facility is accessible.  If you need any disability-related accommodations, please contact City Staff at (310) 458-8701, or TDD Number (310) 458-8696 at least three days in advance. All written materials are available in alternate format upon request.

 

 

CITY LANDMARKS COMMISSION

Nina Fresco, Chairperson

Margaret Bach, Commissioner

John Berley, Commissioner

Roger Genser, Commission Historian

Barbara Kaplan, Commission Licensed Architect and Chair Pro Tempore
Ruthann Lehrer, Commission Architectural Historian
Ruth Shari, Commission Real Estate Licensee
 
Kevin McKeown, City Council Liaison

 

Roxanne Tanemori, Associate Planner, Commission Secretary

Barry Rosenbaum, Senior Land Use Attorney

Susan Umeda, Staff Assistant III

 

 

AGENDA POLICIES

 

REQUESTS TO SPEAK on an item must be submitted on a speaker’s request form and submitted to the Commission staff.  All requests to address the Commission on agenda items must be submitted prior to the Commission’s consideration of the item. Items not identified on the agenda as public input or as a public hearing item generally require approval of 2/3 of the Commission to allow public comment.

 

CONSENT CALENDAR items will be acted upon by the Commission at one time without discussion unless a Commission requests discussion on an item.  If such a request is made, the item will be heard after the balance of the Consent Calendar has been voted upon.

 

PUBLIC HEARING PROCEDURES on each public hearing item include presentation of a staff report; Commission question of staff; a five minute presentation by the project applicant or application proponent, if any; Commission questions of the applicant or application proponent; three minutes each for each member of the public wishing to speak to the item; three minutes for project application or application proponent rebuttal; Commission deliberations and decision.

 

PRESENTATIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC should begin with the speaker stating his or her name and address followed by a statement regarding the item under consideration.  Please speak to the Commission as a whole.

 

Professionals appearing before the Commission should clearly identify their status, such as “attorney,” paralegal,” “architect,” “designer,” or “landscape architect.”  Instances of misrepresentation of professional status may be referred to the City Attorney for possible prosecution.

 

LETTERS OR WRITTEN MATERIALS regarding agenda items may be submitted to the Commission staff prior to or at the meeting; written materials submitted at least eight days in advance of the meeting will be included in the Commission’s meeting packet.  Materials submitted after the deadline may be difficult for the Commission to adequately review.

 

ASSIGNING OF TIME for members of the public wishing to speak on an item is permissible within specified limits.  A “representative speaker” may be allowed one additional minute of speaking time, to a maximum of five additional minutes (hence, eight minutes total) for each person actually in attendance who assigns his or her right to speak via a request to speak form to the “representative speaker.”

 

ACTION BY THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION on most matters occurs with the affirmative votes of at least four Commissioners.

 

APPEALS of certain actions of the Commission may be heard by the City Council.  For specific information on appeals, please contact the Commission staff.

 

Please note that the Landmarks Commission Agenda is subject to change up to 72 hours prior to the scheduled meeting.  We encourage you to check the agenda 72 hours prior to the meeting.

 

For more information regarding the Landmarks Commission agenda, please contact the Commission staff in the Planning Division at (310) 458-8341.

 

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