Meeting Date: January 22, 2025
To: Members of the Park and Recreation Advisory Board
From: Mathias Hughey, Associate City Planner
Charlie Fredericks, Streets and Parks Manager
Title
Recommendation to Designate Central Park (421 4th St. E.) as a Local Heritage Preservation Site.
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Action Requested:
The Park and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) is asked to recommend to City Council that Central Park (421 4th St. E.) be designated a local Heritage Preservation Site.
Summary Report:
The city may determine certain places, buildings, structures, properties, district areas, or properties within the community are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, landscaping, and culture and that those locations should be subject to additional review as they relate to the Land Development Code (LDC).
The Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC) initiated an application for Heritage Preservation Site Designation for Central Park, located at 421 4th St. E, at their November 2024 meeting after receiving a citizen request. After submitting the proposal to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) (in accordance with city code and state statute) the HPC received a letter from SHPO describing the nomination as "ideal." At their January 2025 meeting, the HPC voted to recommend to City Council that Central Park be designated a local Heritage Preservation Site.
City code establishes six criteria that need to be considered in review of heritage preservation site designations. They are:
(1) That the quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, landscaping, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association; or
(2) That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or
(3) That are associated with the lives of person...
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