Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2012 10 15

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Department of Planning and Building Safety 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4592 www.louisvilleco.gov MM EMORANDU To: Historic Preservation Commission Members From:Department of Planning and Building Safety Subject:1036 Walnut Landmark Hearing Continuance Date: October 15, 2012 This item was continued from the September 17, 2012 meeting. Staff’s recommendation remains denial of the landmark application for the reasons stated in the staff report dated September 17, 2012, below. One of the reasons stated for the continuance was so the HPC could gain a better sense of the structures east of the BNSF tracks and how 1036 Walnut compares to them. Staff walked the neighborhood, observing the houses, and determined that denying this landmark application would not set a precedent such that no structures east of the tracks could qualify for landmarking. There are several structures in the area with architectural significance and integrity, including some strong examples of typical minerscabins.Please see the examples below. Staff also received a question about the differences between federal, state, and local significance criteria. The federal and state criteria look at the same general categories that the local criteria do. The difference is in the scope. For something to be on the federal register, it must be significant to national history, and important to state history to be on the state register. Local landmarks need only be significant to local history. The criteria are thesame for structures and districts, though for districts it is the district as a whole that must be significant, so each structure does not need to be individually as significant. The federal criteria are: The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and: A. That are associated withevents that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or B. That are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past; or C. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or D. That have yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.