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Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare ordinances to designate as Historic Landmarks two residential buildings located on a single lot: a single-family house with the address of 1005 Locust Avenue and a residential duplex with the address of 141 and 143 East 10th Street. (District 1)
DISCUSSION
The property owner of two structures located on a single lot, the residential building located at 1005 Locust Avenue and the residential duplex located a 141 and 143 East 10th Street inquired after landmark designation for the two structures. Planning Bureau staff described the benefits, restrictions and special permitting requirements that are applicable to designated historic landmark properties as well as the review and approval process. Subsequently, on August 14, 2019, the property owner submitted an application requesting landmark designation for both residential buildings. The subject buildings are not located in a designated historic district.
On February 25, 2020, the Cultural Heritage Commission (CHC) held a public hearing to consider the nomination of the subject properties (Attachment A - Cultural Heritage Commission Staff Report). To be designated historic landmarks, each property must meet at least one of the four criteria for landmark designation outlined in Chapter 2.63 of the Long Beach Municipal Code, which contains four criteria for landmark designation: Criterion A, associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of the City’s history; Criterion B, associated with the lives of persons important to the City’s past; Criterion C, 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, Criterion D, has yielded, or has the potential to yield, information important in prehistory or history.
The CHC made two of these findings in support of the nomination of the structure located at 100...
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