Thank you for your attendance tonight.

This is a one step in a rather long process that began in the summer of 2018 when the city brought on board its preservation consultant Paige and Turnbull, who worked very closely with city staff to develop what we're calling the historic district plans.

Some of you have had a chance to go to the city's website.

If you have not done so already, I would encourage you to do so.

There is a lot of information there.

It's www.city of sacramento.org, and then there's the forward slash and the word HDP for historic district plans, and most of the information that you will need to understand how your property's been classified or understand the overall process will be explained by going to the website.

So we are kind of in the later stages of a process.

This will go all the way up to the city council level in the City of Sacramento.

Our ordinance, our preservation ordinance requires the final action of City Council to change items, add things to the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources.

There will be a meeting of the Preservation Commission on November the 20th.

And that will be a public hearing, sort of a little bit like the format we have tonight, where they were they're going to make a formal recommendation both to the Planning and Design Commission and to City Council about the historic district plans.

So there's an opportunity yet to hear further slight refinements to what you have before you tonight and to share your thoughts and opinions.

And Jose Quintania, who is one of our assistant planners in current planning, who will be assisting him in providing information to you and to me during the course of this public hearing.

So I'm going to just give you a quick overview of the why and wherefore of this meeting tonight.

Sean de Coursey is going to give you a bit more detail, is going to show you a PowerPoint presentation that'll go through the things that I'm saying in a bit more detail.

So having said that.

So we're talking about historic districts that were previously created by the city, a majority of them, a large majority of them back in the 1980s, more than 30 years ago.

Our practices today, based on our current code, are to develop what we call historic district plans for each of those historic districts.

Only the more recently created historic districts actually have plans of this sort.

The earlier ones that the city established back in the 1980s and 1990s do not have this level of detail.

They don't have a list of what we call contributing and non-contributing resources.

They are simply delineations on a map of the historic district boundaries and a list of all the properties.

We don't have discussion of character-defining elements in each of those historic districts.

We don't have historic context statements, which explain the development history and the design patterns that you see present in each of the districts.

Explain what we're recommending, and then at the end of staff's discussion of each district, there will be an opportunity for you to come up to the podium and to share a three-minute comment or question with us that we can get back to you on.

I think I covered the basic points here.

So with that, I'm going to turn things over to Sean DeCourcy.

Thank you, Director Anderson.

I'm pleased to present the Sacramento Register update as part of the historic district plans project.

Again, my name is Sean DeCoursi, Associate Preservation Planner with the City of Sacramento's Community Development Department.

To give you a little more background about this project, the city's developed historic district plans for 27 of its 32 historic districts.

They contracted with the historic architecture firm Page and Turnbull, who are based out of San Francisco but have offices in Los Angeles and here in the Boulevard Park neighborhood of Sacramento.

Page and Turnbull specializes in historic preservation planning and projects involving historic buildings.

This public outreach involved meetings with neighborhood associations, professional organizations, business groups.

We also formed a technical advisory committee to look at the design guidelines and standards and help us refine that portion of the document.

We had public meetings and several meetings at the preservation commission and planning and design commission to review various drafts of the document.

The design standards and criteria that came out of this public outreach and the consultants' work is largely based on establishing contributing and non-contributing status within the historic district, a commonly used preservation tool.

We provided property owners notification to every property owner in each district subject to change, whether that their property was subject to changes or not.

I'll get into a little more detail about whether the properties are subject to change, but several districts included in the plans have boundary revisions only, and the status of contributing and non-contributing properties would not change as a result of the historic district plans and Sacramento Register update.

That said, some notices went out with incorrect status information, and we've provided correction notices to any property owner who whose status was incorrect on the original notice.

We're confident that the notice prior to the preservation commission meeting will include the correct property status as well as any changes to historic property status and recommendations that result from tonight's public hearing.

As Director Anderson mentioned, 23 of the historic districts that were listed on the Sacramento Register in the 1980s, first surveyed in the 1970s, were more akin to overlay zones or zoning districts.

They did not include identification of individual contributors and non-contributors.

Those properties are shown in this map in blue.

And all properties within these historic districts are treated the same.

And I'll go over our permitting process and our site plan design review process in more detail in a moment.

But anyone within one of these areas comes in for a it's for a requested change to their property and would be routed through the same the same review process.

Identifying contributors and non-contributors gives the city the opportunity to streamline development on non-contributing parcels while focusing their efforts on contributing parcels and identifying which of those parcels are truly significant to the districts.

For the other districts, there is uh shown here in orange or yellow.

Those resources are already listed on the Sacramento Register as contributing and non-contributing, and the documentation is fairly recent, as late as 2004 and early as 2014.

And these districts, some are subject to boundary changes.

As I mentioned previously, all property owners within these districts that change, even if the boundaries change so slightly as one parcel, all property owners in those districts receive a notice, notification of that change.

Our permitting process begins with the planning department.

Site plan design review, including preservation, is within the planning department.

Most projects are exempt from site plan design review and move on to building quickly and easily.

Some, such as exterior alterations to any property in the city, whether in a historic district or not, would be reviewed by our site plan design review staff.

Our planning department also reviews conditional use permits, subdivision maps, other entitlements, including sign permits, and the like.

So as you can see, the preservation site plan design review process occurs early.

That process is divided between preservation staff and our citywide site plan design review staff.

The preservation staff reviews properties within a historic district, landmark properties, and properties with potential historic significance.