City Council Agenda and Packet 2010 07 06

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COUNCIL COMMUNICATION TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: MALCOLM FLEMING, CITY MANAGER DATE: JULY 6, 2010 SUBJECT:APPROVAL TO USE $21,000 FROM THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUNDS AS A MATCH TO A STATE HISTORICAL FUND SURVEY GRANT ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT:PLANNING AND BUILDING SAFETY SUMMARY: City staff was recently notified that we have been awarded a $21,000 grant from the State Historical Fund for and intensive level historical survey of the Jefferson Place Subdivision. In order to submit a competitive grant application, staff submitted the grant request with a 50% match. That match of $21,000 needs to come from the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF). Expenditures from the HPF require City Council approval. The point of completing historic surveys is to identify the historic resources that we have and know the value of those resources. The full $42,000 will be used to hire an historic preservation surveyor who is familiar with both the required survey forms and the complex state process to approve and accept the forms. This project is a comprehensive survey of the Jefferson Place subdivision, the oldest residential subdivision in Louisville, platted in 1880. This area was identified in the City’s2000historical building survey as having the potential for a possible historic district. The subdivision contains 97 parcels, 87 of which have homes that are over 50 years old, most date from circa 1900. The project will include the completion of Historical and Architectural Inventory Forms for 44 parcels not previously surveyed. In addition, the project will include the completion of 43 Cultural Resource Reevaluation Forms for surveys completed in 2000. Since 2000 we have found multiple errors in these original surveys and believethey need to be reviewed for accuracy. The project will also include the assessment of each parcel for national, state, and local landmarking and assess the possibility of a historic district for the subdivision as a whole. The survey forms are specific to the preservation field and require knowledge about both the forms and the state process. The City will contract with a professional historical resources consultant to complete the survey report and forms required by the State. All products will be completed in accordance with the Colorado Cultural Resources Survey Manual (2007) and must be in a form acceptable to the SHF, the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic SUBJECT AGENDA ITEM APPROVAL TO USE $21,000 FROM THE HISTORIC 4F PRESERVATION FUNDS AS A MATCH TO A STATE HISTORICAL FUND SURVEY GRANT 41