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City of Saratoga
H ERITAGE P RESERVATION C OMMISSION
MINUTES
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 8:30 a.m.
Place: Regular Meeting – Warner Hutton House
1. Routine Organization
A. Roll Call (All commissioners present except Commissioner Tai)
B. Approval of minutes from December 8, 2009 meeting (Conrado approved,
McCarty seconded)
C. Posting of Agenda – Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, the
agenda was posted on January 7, 2010. (The agenda was properly posted
per Staff Liaison Fossati)
D. Oral & Written Communication - Any member of the public may address the
Commission about any matter not on the agenda for this meeting for up to
three minutes. Commissioners may not comment on the matter but may
choose to place the topic on a future agenda. (Bob Himmel, president of
Saratoga Historical Foundation discussed plans on placing a temp
storage structure on their property. The structure would be located
behind the Saratoga Historical Museum and Oddfellows building. The
HPC was satisfied with the temporary location and proposed the
applicant submit an application for the permanent storage for HPC
review. Mr. Himmel agreed.
E. Oral Communications –Instruction to staff regarding actions on current Oral
Communications.
2. Old Business
A. None
3. New Business
A. 14413 Big Basin Way – Review of a request by Jeff Stern (E & M Custom
Lettering) to add a new sign for California Living on 14413 Big Basin Way
(Hogg Building). Kellond moved to approve, Koepernik seconded. All
commissioners in attendance voted approval.
B. 20865 Wardell Road – Review of a request by Nancy Cheadle to change the
name of a new private road to “Pheasant Ridge Road”. Conrado moved to
approve, Kellond/Gomersall seconded. All commissioners in
attendance voted approval.
C. State Route 9 Safety Improvement Project – Review of Draft EIR for State
Route 9 Safety Improvement Project. Reviewed with no comments.
D. Update Heritage Resource Inventory – Adopt Resolution to add Hakone
Gardens to Historical Landmark Inventory list. Kellond moved to approve,
Conrado seconded. All commissioners in attendance voted approval.
4. Pending Items
A. HPC Website – Discuss current status of HPC Website. Staff Liason
Fossati informed the HPC that a screen shot of the website would be
shown at the next meeting. Commissioner Conrado addressed the need
to have a disclaimer of properties that could potentially be added on list,
due to their historic character. Also helpful if the role of the HPC, and
their process for determining if a property was historic should be
explained. HPC should work on building an outline of how page should
be laid out.
5. Adjournment
Adjourn to 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Warner Hutton House, 13777
Fruitvale Avenue. Meeting adjourned.