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SR-040808-1Dfir ;tYo, City Council Report Santa Monica City Council Meeting: April 8, 2008 Agenda Item: ,-b Ta Mayor and City Council From: Eileen Fogarty, Planning & Community Development Subject: Statement of Official Action Denying Appeal of Landmarks Commission Designation of 2219 Ocean Avenue as a City Landmark. Recommended Action Staff recommends the City Council approve the attached Statement of Official Action denying Appeal 06APP-039 and upholding the decision of the Landmarks Commission to designate the property at 2219 Ocean Avenue as a City Landmark. Executive Summary and Discussion This staff report transmits for City Council certification the Statement of Official Action for Appeal 06APP-039. After holding a public hearing, the City Council denied Appeal 06APP-039 and upheld the Landmarks Commission's designation of the residence located at 2219 Ocean Avenue as a City Landmark, and of the real property commonly known as 2219 Ocean Avenue (Lot 4 of Ivar A. Weid's Subdivision of Block 4 of the Town of South Santa Monica Tract) as a Landmark parcel, based upon revised findings contained in the attached Statement of Official Action. Financial Impacts & Budget Actions The recommendation presented in this report does not have any budget or fiscal impact. Prepared by: Jing Yeo, AICP, Senior Planner Approved: birector, Playning & Comn'iu~iity Forwarded to Council: P, Manager Attachment: Statement of Official Action 1 ATTACHMENT A STATEMENT OF OFFICIAL ACTION Corrected Version or CITY COUNCIL CITY OF SANTA MONICA STATEMENT OF OFFICIAL ACTION PROJECT CASE NUMBER: Appeal06APP-039 LOCATION: 2219 Ocean Avenue APPLICANT: City of Santa Monica Landmarks Commission APPELLANT: University of Illinois Foundation PROPERTY OWNER: University of Illinois Foundation CASE PLANNER: Jing Yeo, AICP, Senior Planner REQUEST: Appeal 06APP039 of Landmarks Commission Designation of the Property at 2219 Ocean Avenue as a City Landmark. CEQA STATUS: The project is categorically exempt from the provisions of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to 15331, Class 31 of the State Implementation Guidelines in that the project consists of designating a property as a Landmark thereby aiding in the preservation of a historic resource in a manner consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings (1995), Weeks and Grimmer. The project is also exempt pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3). Section 15061(b)(3) provides that-CEQA only applies to those projects that have fhe potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Since the proposed action would result in the retention of the existing structure and would not change the existing environmental baseline, there is no potential that the project would cause a significant effect on the environment. 3 CITY COUNCIL ACTION February 26, 2008 Date Appeal upheld and Landmarks Commission approval reversed based upon the findings below: Appeal denied and Landmarks Commission .designation upheld based on the following findings: Other. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ACTION: February 26, 2008 The City .Council, having held a public hearing on February 26; 2008, hereby deny Appeal 06APP-039 and uphold the Landmarks Commission's designation of the residence located at 2219 Ocean Avenue as a City Landmark, and of the real property commonly known as 2219 Ocean Avenue (Lot 4 of Ivar A. Weid's Subdivision of Block 4 of the Town of South Santa Monica Tract) as a Landmark Parcel based on the findings and determinations below. The detached, garage located at the rear of the parcel is not visible from the public right-of-way and is therefore excluded from the Landmark Designation of 2219 Ocean Avenue. Each and all of the findings and determinations are based on the competent and substantial evidence, both oral and written, contained in the entire record relating to the Project. All summaries of information contained herein or in the fihdings are based on the substantial evidence in the record. The absence of any particular fact from any such summary is not an indication that a particular finding is not based in part on that fact. Findings and determinations for Desionation of the Landmark Parcel and Structure Per SMMC 9.36.100(a) (~) It exemplifies, symbolizes, or manifests elements of the cultural, social, economic, political or architectural history of the City. The single-family residence at 2219 Ocean Avenue is a good example of a turn-of-the- Twentieth-Century, massed-plan vernacular cottage constructed in the Ocean Park area of Santa Monica circa 1905. The cottage exhibits a high degree of integrity of design, workmanship, and materials on its primary (west) elevation,. including the retention of form, massing, and scale associated with early, turn-of-the-century vernacular cottages. These features include the following: its simple hip roof, narrow clapboard siding, wood sash, double-hung windows, multi-pane sash windows and doors, a stained glass window, and conversion of the open porch on the primary elevation. The subject residence was a "pioneering" structure in its neighborhood along Ocean Avenue between Pacific Street and Hollister Avenue in that it was one of the first structures built 4 in the immediate area after the turn of the Twentieth Century. Moreover, the residence at 2219 Ocean Avenue is the last remaining turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century, massed- plan vernacular cottage that is visible from the beach and also has abeach-facing (west) orientation in the immediate Ocean Park area along Ocean Avenue. As a result, fhe property exemplifies the. early beach resort and residential development pattern in fhe City's Ocean Park area during the years immediately following the turn of the Twentieth Century and also represents one of the earliest phases of Ocean Park's multi-layered and diverse historical legacy in terms of the ages, styles and building types found in the area. (6) It has a unique location, a singular physical characteristic, or is an established and familiar visual feature of a neighborhood, community or the City. The subject turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century massed-plan vernacular cottage located at 2219 Ocean Avenue has been located in the Ocean Park area since its construction circa 1905. For the first half of the century after its construction, the cottage at 2219 Ocean Avenue was the only structure on its block. Since then, very different building forms have been constructed around the cottage. As the last remaining building of its type in the area, the cottage is a unique structure that evokes its period and makes it possible to visualize a time when the cottage stood alone on the block, which was characteristic of the sporadic development of Ocean Park. The architectural character of the cottage exemplified by its simple roof form, narrow clapboard siding, fenestration and its overall scale, west-facing orientation, and visual presence as viewed along Ocean Avenue make the cottage an established and familiar visual feature of its neighborhood on Ocean Avenue, which is the main corridor in the Ocean Park area of Santa Monica. Furthermore, due to its visibility as viewed from the beach, the cottage has a unique location that further establishes it as a familiar visual feature of the community. 5 VOTE Ayes: Bloom; Genser, Holbrook; McKeown, Shriver, Mayor Katz Nays: O'Connor Abstain: Absent: NOTICE If this is a final decision not subject to further appeal under Article 9 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code, the time within which judicial review of this decision must be sought is governed by Code of Civil Procedures Section 1094.6, which provision has been adopted by the City pursuant to Municipal Code Section 1.16.010. I hereby certify that this Statement of Official Action accurately reflects the final determination of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica. ~-~ -o ~ MARIA M. STEWAR ,City Clerk Date F:\CityPlanning\Share\COUNCIL\STOAS\2008\06APP-039 Council STOA (2219 Ocean Avenue re-hearing):doc 6