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MOTION: It was m/s by Thorne/Pentin to approve the proposed Veterans' Memorial Design for the Pleasanton Pioneer Cemetery and an agreement with Keller Mitchell & Co. in providing landscape architectural design services not to exceed $28,000. Motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmembers Brown, Olson, Narum, Pentin, Mayor Thorne Noes: None Absent: None 12. Public Hearing: P15-0384, City of Pleasanton (1) Consider an amendment to the Pleasanton Municipal Code to expand design review authority to include the exterior of historic homes in residential zoning districts within the Downtown Specific Plan Area; (2) discuss whether to pursue a separate Municipal Code Amendment to expand design review authority to the exterior of non- historic single-family homes in residential zoning districts in the Downtown Specific Plan Area; and (3) review the Historic Resource Survey of the residential structures Downtown that were built before 1942 Senior Planner Steve Otto gave the staff report and a PowerPoint presentation. As background, the City Council established a Historic Preservation Task Force in response to the Planning Commission's recommendation to have the Council make that a priority to look at potentially updating the City's existing historic preservation policies and processes. A historic resource survey was done of the homes downtown built before 1942, and if a homeowner wanted to modify the front 10 feet of their home built before 1942 they would have to complete their own historic resource evaluation. The task force felt it would be beneficial to have the City do a comprehensive survey which the City Council agreed to. The City hired consultants to conduct the survey, and present tonight were Katherine Petrin and Elaine Styles to provide a presentation. Katherine Petrin stated she is present with Elaine Styles of Architectural Resources Group (ARG) and they both worked cooperatively on the project with City staff. She spoke about the process and methodology associated with the project, stating a few years ago they were hired to prepare the first phase of the Historic Preservation Inquiry and this phase was the historic context statement document. The second phase uses this document as a basis but follows up by looking at individual buildings at the survey level. She said they looked very closely at individual buildings, relied on guidelines set forth in the National Register Bulletin to have consistency in how the survey is carried out nation-wide. At the beginning of the project and prior to doing field work, the City supplied them with a list of 200 buildings in the Downtown that pre-dated 1942 to be surveyed and researched and the boundaries corresponded to the boundaries of the Downtown Specific Plan (DSP). They walked the residential areas, photographed relevant buildings from the public right-of-way, noted addresses, estimated dates of construction, style of architecture and conducted a preliminary integrity assessment. They followed up field work by doing building-specific research and most informative information came from census records, ownership records and the City's building permits. They looked at the 200 buildings and of those determined that 88 qualified as historic resources and 106 did not. This meant that while some may have had historic significance, in most cases they did not have a level of integrity to qualify them as resources. Councilmember Olson voiced concern in the ability to use the survey and asked staff if there is a way to provide an appendix or index of the 88 individual historic properties. Ms. Petrin said they have an alphabetized list by street name of properties and this information could easily be turned into an appendix or index. She said every property also has a 1 to 4 page assessment. Mr. Otto added that the map in the back of the document could be added with page numbers. City Council Minutes Page 7 of 16 November 3, 2015