Planning Commission Supplemental Materials 11-12-25 (2)

CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY REPORT 4400 Black Ave 29 SIGNIFICANCE EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS The building at 4400 Black Ave has not been previously evaluated or listed under any local, State, or Federal historic resource designation criteria. CALIFORNIA REGISTER OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES In September 1992, Governor Wilson signed Assembly Bill 2881 which created more specific guidelines for identifying historic resources during the project review process under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): A project that may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an historical resource is a project that may have a significant effect on the environment. For purposes of this section, an historical resource is a resource listed in, or determined eligible for listing in, the California Register of Historical Resources.1 Consequently, under Public Resources Code Section 21084.1, an historic resource eligible for the California Register of Historical Resources (CRHR) would by definition be an historic resource for purposes of CEQA compliance. The Final Guidelines for nominating resources to the California Register were published January 1, 1998. Under the regulations, a number of historic resources are automatically eligible or presumed to be eligible for the California Register if they have been listed under various state, national, or local historic resource criteria. An historic resource listed in or determined eligible for the National Register is by definition also eligible for the California Register. An historic resource listed in a local historic resources inventory is presumed to be historically or culturally significant unless the preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that it is not historically or culturally significant (CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.5(a)(2)). In order for a resource to be eligible for the California Register, it must satisfy all of the following three criteria (A, B, & C): A.A property must be significant at the local, State, or national level, under one or more of the following four “Criteria of Significance” (these are essentially the same as National Register criteria with more emphasis on California history): 1.the resource is associated with events or patterns of events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of local or regional history and cultural heritage of California or the United States. 2.the resource is associated with the lives of persons important to the nation or to California’s past. 3.the resource 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. 1 California State Assembly, Assembly Bill 2881, Frazee, 1992. An Act to Amend Sections 5020.1, 5020.4, 5020.5, 5024.6 and 21084 of, and to add Sections 5020.7, 5024.1, and 21084.1 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to historic resources.