Citywide Historic Resource Survey

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Historic Context Statements and surveys are planning tools for understanding, identifying, evaluating and protecting the City’s historical resources. Context Statements provide the foundation for successful survey work. They provide an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating resources by explaining the broad patterns of historical development of a community that are represented by the physical development and character of the built environment. A historic survey is an inventory of potentially significant properties that provides information needed to make informed planning decisions, prioritize preservation goals and objectives, and increase the public’s understanding of and appreciation for the built environment. Conducting a Survey involves archival research, development of a historic context, field survey and recording of information.

The City contracted with Dudek, an environmental planning firm based in Encinitas, to complete the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory document. The Historic Context Statement is a narrative of the history of Coronado and its built environment, and identifies important themes, property types, patterns of development, significant events, and people that have shaped the history of Coronado from the City’s initial development through 1970. Information is included on locally significant architectural styles, along with information on prominent architects and builders that have contributed to Coronado’s built environment. The Context Statement provides a framework for evaluation of resources within the important aspects of Coronado’s history and, used in conjunction with the City’s adopted Designation Criteria Guidelines, will assist with consistent identification, evaluation, and preservation of Historic Resources.

The Historic Resources Inventory is a survey of structures in the Village area constructed through 1970 and provides an evaluation of potential historic significance under Coronado’s Historic Designation Criterion C related to architecture, which states: “It possesses distinctive characteristics of an architectural style and has not been substantially altered.” Properties are categorized in tiers based on the level of observed retention of original architectural appearance, as reflected in the Survey Findings Matrix that is included as an appendix to the document:

  • Tier 1 - Unaltered or minimally altered from historic condition and potentially eligible for City designation under Criterion C.
  • Tier 2 - Recognizable as a particular architectural style but based on observation and/or construction history are more than “unaltered or minimally altered” from historic condition and do not appear to be eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.
  • Tier 3 - Substantially altered properties that retain little to no elements of a particular architectural style and, based on observation and/or construction history, are not eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.

Currently, the Coronado Municipal Code requires any structure in the City that is 75 or older to be reviewed for historic significance as a Historic Resource prior to demolition of any original features that are visible from the street right of way through a Determination of Historic Significance Review. This essentially results in any structure that is 75 or older being considered “potentially historic” and results in confusion regarding what type of development is allowed.

The City Council considered public comments, reviewed the document, and provided their own comments and direction at the meetings of June 20, 2023, November 21, 2023, September 17, 2024, and most recently, on December 3, 2024. At this meeting, a Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), prepared consistent with CEQA Guidelines, was certified by City Council and staff was directed to move forward with the appropriate ordinance amendments to implement the use of the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory, and to exclude properties identified as Tier 3 from a required Determination of Historic Significance Review.

The document is available for review on the City's website www.coronado.ca.us/preservation and on the Project Coronado page under Project Documents, as well as in print at City Hall and the Coronado Library.

Historic Context Statements and surveys are planning tools for understanding, identifying, evaluating and protecting the City’s historical resources. Context Statements provide the foundation for successful survey work. They provide an analytical framework for identifying and evaluating resources by explaining the broad patterns of historical development of a community that are represented by the physical development and character of the built environment. A historic survey is an inventory of potentially significant properties that provides information needed to make informed planning decisions, prioritize preservation goals and objectives, and increase the public’s understanding of and appreciation for the built environment. Conducting a Survey involves archival research, development of a historic context, field survey and recording of information.

The City contracted with Dudek, an environmental planning firm based in Encinitas, to complete the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory document. The Historic Context Statement is a narrative of the history of Coronado and its built environment, and identifies important themes, property types, patterns of development, significant events, and people that have shaped the history of Coronado from the City’s initial development through 1970. Information is included on locally significant architectural styles, along with information on prominent architects and builders that have contributed to Coronado’s built environment. The Context Statement provides a framework for evaluation of resources within the important aspects of Coronado’s history and, used in conjunction with the City’s adopted Designation Criteria Guidelines, will assist with consistent identification, evaluation, and preservation of Historic Resources.

The Historic Resources Inventory is a survey of structures in the Village area constructed through 1970 and provides an evaluation of potential historic significance under Coronado’s Historic Designation Criterion C related to architecture, which states: “It possesses distinctive characteristics of an architectural style and has not been substantially altered.” Properties are categorized in tiers based on the level of observed retention of original architectural appearance, as reflected in the Survey Findings Matrix that is included as an appendix to the document:

  • Tier 1 - Unaltered or minimally altered from historic condition and potentially eligible for City designation under Criterion C.
  • Tier 2 - Recognizable as a particular architectural style but based on observation and/or construction history are more than “unaltered or minimally altered” from historic condition and do not appear to be eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.
  • Tier 3 - Substantially altered properties that retain little to no elements of a particular architectural style and, based on observation and/or construction history, are not eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.

Currently, the Coronado Municipal Code requires any structure in the City that is 75 or older to be reviewed for historic significance as a Historic Resource prior to demolition of any original features that are visible from the street right of way through a Determination of Historic Significance Review. This essentially results in any structure that is 75 or older being considered “potentially historic” and results in confusion regarding what type of development is allowed.

The City Council considered public comments, reviewed the document, and provided their own comments and direction at the meetings of June 20, 2023, November 21, 2023, September 17, 2024, and most recently, on December 3, 2024. At this meeting, a Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), prepared consistent with CEQA Guidelines, was certified by City Council and staff was directed to move forward with the appropriate ordinance amendments to implement the use of the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory, and to exclude properties identified as Tier 3 from a required Determination of Historic Significance Review.

The document is available for review on the City's website www.coronado.ca.us/preservation and on the Project Coronado page under Project Documents, as well as in print at City Hall and the Coronado Library.

  • Introduction of an Ordinance to Amend Chapter 84.10 of the Coronado Municipal Code

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    Introduction of an ordinance to amend Chapter 84.10 of the Coronado Municipal Code is scheduled for City Council on March 4, 2025. The agenda for that meeting is available on the City's website here: https://ca-coronado.civicplus.com/449/Agendas-Minutes

  • Notice of Availability of a Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)

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    NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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    NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT

    NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held by the City Council of the City of Coronado at the City Hall Council Chambers located at 1825 Strand Way, Coronado, California on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 4 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible to consider certification of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the following project:

    AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY OF CORONADO HISTORIC RESOURCE PRESERVATION PROGRAM

    The project would include future adoption of an ordinance amending Title 84 of the Coronado Municipal Code (CMC) and adoption of a Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory (hereinafter referred to as the Historic Property Survey), as directed by the City Council. Specifically, the project would update CMC Chapter 84.10, Historic Resource Code, to provide updated criteria for the City of Coronado’s (City’s) definition and determination of historical significance. Multiple sections of the Historic Resource Code could be revised to remove structures referred to in the Historic Resources Inventory as a Tier 3 property from further historic review.

    To inform the proposed Historic Resource Code amendments, a Historic Property Survey was prepared. The Historic Property Survey was focused on the City’s historic core and excludes Naval Air Station North Island, the U.S. Navy Amphibious Base, Port of San Diego property, state or federally owned property located within the City limits, and other sections of the City, such as the Coronado Cays. The Historic Property Survey evaluated properties under CMC Section 84.10.030, Criterion C to identify properties the historic architectural significance of properties within the City’s historic core based on CMC Section 84.10.030 Criterion C. In order for a resource to be considered historically significant under Criterion C, it must possess distinctive characteristics of an architectural style that have not been substantially altered (CMC Section 84.10.030(C)). The Historic Property Survey defined three tiers relative to whether a property may meet the Criterion C significance related to original architectural appearance, as follows:

    • Tier 1 - Unaltered or minimally altered from historic condition and potentially eligible for City designation under Criterion C.
    • Tier 2 - Recognizable as a particular architectural style but based on observation and/or construction history are more than “unaltered or minimally altered” from historic condition and do not appear to be eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.
    • Tier 3 - Substantially altered properties that retain little to no elements of a particular architectural style and, based on observation and/or construction history, are not eligible for historic designation under Criterion C.

    The project would exclude Tier 3 properties from future historical review process required by CMC Chapter 84.10. Since Criterion C has been used as the basis for determining historic significance in nearly all—90.2 percent—of the City’s Historic Designation determinations, by identifying structures that do not meet the Criterion C category and excluding these from future review, the project would streamline the historic review process by eliminating review for those Tier 3 structures that would not qualify under Criterion C and, therefore, not likely qualify as historically significant.

    Copies of the Environmental Impact Report are on file and may be reviewed at Coronado City Hall, Community Development Department, 1825 Strand Way, Coronado, CA 92118 and on the City website.

    Please refer to the official posted agenda on the City’s website (www.coronado.ca.us) on the Friday afternoon prior to the meeting for the staff report for this item and/or changes to the agenda.

    For further information, contact Tricia Olsen, Senior Planner at the City of Coronado Community Development Department, 1825 Strand Way, Coronado, California, by email at tolsen@coronado.ca.us.

    CORONADO CITY COUNCIL

    BY: Kelsea Holian, MMC, CPM

    City Clerk

  • PIER for Public Review

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    Today, August 23, 2024, marks the beginning of a 45 day public review period, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), for a Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) which has been prepared for the Draft Historic Survey. During the public review period, the PEIR will be available for review on the City of Coronado’s (City’s) website at https://www.projectcoronado.org/citywide-historic-resource-survey, at City Hall, and at the Coronado Public Library.

  • EIR Public Scoping Meeting

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    SCOPING MEETING: On Thursday, June 27, 2024 starting at 5:30 p.m., the City of Coronado Community Development Department will conduct a public scoping open house to solicit input and comments from public agencies and the general public on the proposed scope of the environmental analysis for the project. The Scoping Meeting will be held at the Winn Room, located at Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, California 92118. The meeting will run from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. This meeting will be an open house format, and interested parties may drop in to obtain information about the project and submit written comments on the scope of the Focused EIR during the meeting. Representatives from the Community Development Department and the EIR consultant will be available to address questions regarding the EIR process.

  • Environmental Review

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    The following Environmental Review documents are available on the right hand side of this page under "Project Documents" in the "Environmental Review Documents" folder:

    Notice of Availability (NOA) of Initial Study (IS)

    Initial Study (IS) Checklist

    Notice of Scoping Meeting and Preparation (NOP) of a Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

    Notice of Transmittal of NOP

    Summary form for Submittal of Documents to the State Clearinghouse

  • Update to City Council

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    At the regular City Council meeting on June 4, 2024, staff will be providing an update to City Council on the public comment received since they last reviewed the item in November of 2023. After the agenda is published on May 28, 2024, you can view the staff report for this item on the City's website by visiting https://www.coronado.ca.us/449/Agendas-Minutes.

    The draft document is available for review on the City's website on the Project Coronado page under Project Documents, as well as in print at City Hall.

    Update: this item was moved to the City Council meeting that will be held on July 16, 2024.

  • City Council Meeting

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    Staff will be providing an update to City Council on the public comment period and will request direction on next steps regarding the Draft Context Statement and Citywide Historic Resource Survey:

    • Regular meeting of the Coronado City Council, November 21, 2023 at 4pm in the City Hall Council Chambers
    • November 21, 2023 at 4 pm, City Hall Council Chambers - Regular meeting of the City Council

    The draft document is available for review on the City's website www.coronado.ca.us/preservation and on the Project Coronado page under Project Documents, as well as in print at City Hall and the Coronado Library.

  • Video - Historic Resource Commission meeting September 20, 2023

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    You can hear a brief presentation on the Draft Coronado Context Statement and Citywide Survey and hear the public comment that was received at the Historic Resource Commission meeting on September 20, 2023 at this link: https://coronado.12milesout.com/meeting/historic/9-20-2023

  • Upcoming Meetings 9/20/23 and 10/11/23

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    The public is encouraged to attend upcoming meetings to hear a presentation and provide comment on the Draft Context Statement and Citywide Historic Resource Survey:

    You can also provide comment via email to tolsen@coronado.ca.us or sign the Guestbook tool on the Project Coronado page.

    The draft document is available for review on the City's website www.coronado.ca.us/preservation and on the Project Coronado page, as well as in print at City Hall and the Coronado Library.


  • Video - Public Comment Meeting August 23, 2023

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    You can view a brief presentation on the project and hear the feedback that was received at the Zoom meeting held on August 23, 2023 by clicking here and entering this passcode: 61^rYs*0

    You can also copy and paste this video link into your browser: https://coronado-ca-us.zoom.us/rec/share/O2OL35UhysB2-Pv4Wut5CmDmRV7Tg9kW7OACFR2V5_8SuDeTLip1nnDOh8fM2h4z.kA_cnjvewbEGG0Ps?startTime=1692835237000



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