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SAN LEANDRO SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT DRAFT EIR
<br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO
<br />Policy 38.02 Recognize the potential for publicly sponsored historic preservation programs and privately initiated
<br />historic preservation efforts to enhance San Leandro's identity as an attractive and distinct community.
<br />Policy 38.03 Develop and maintain programs that recognize and protect historic sites, structures, trees, and other
<br />landscape features.
<br />Policy 38.04 Encourage the formation of local historic districts in areas where historic sites and structures are
<br />concentrated. Such districts should provide for the preservation, restoration, and public recognition of
<br />the resources contained therein.
<br />Policy 38.05
<br />CULTURAL RESOURCES
<br />TABLE 4.4-1
<br />SAN LEANDRO GENERAL PLAN POLICIES PERTAINING TO CULTURAL RESOURCES
<br />Goal/Policy
<br />Update, expand, and maintain inventories of San Leandro's historic resources, using criteria and survey
<br />Number
<br />Goal/Policy Text
<br />Land Use
<br />Ensure that new development, alterations, and remodeling projects on or adjacent to historic properties
<br />Policy 11.06
<br />Preserve and enhance the City's cultural and historic resources, and encourage and acknowledge their
<br />Policy 39.02
<br />contribution to the City's economic development.
<br />Historic Preservation & Community Design
<br />Goal 38
<br />Identify, preserve, and maintain San Leandro's historic resources and recognize these resources as
<br />Encourage the relocation of older structures into designated historic districts as an alternative to
<br />an essential part of the City's character and heritage.
<br />Policy 38.01
<br />Take a broad and comprehensive approach to historic preservation in San Leandro. Preservation efforts
<br />Strongly encourage the maintenance and upkeep of historic properties to avoid the need for costly
<br />should recognize the City's cultural history as well as its architectural history, its neighborhoods as well
<br />rehabilitation and demolition. Demolition should only be allowed if the City determines that is necessary
<br />as individual buildings, its natural landscape as well as its built environment, and its archaeology as well
<br />to protect health, safety, and welfare, and that the structure has no reasonable economic use.
<br />as its living history.
<br />Policy 38.02 Recognize the potential for publicly sponsored historic preservation programs and privately initiated
<br />historic preservation efforts to enhance San Leandro's identity as an attractive and distinct community.
<br />Policy 38.03 Develop and maintain programs that recognize and protect historic sites, structures, trees, and other
<br />landscape features.
<br />Policy 38.04 Encourage the formation of local historic districts in areas where historic sites and structures are
<br />concentrated. Such districts should provide for the preservation, restoration, and public recognition of
<br />the resources contained therein.
<br />Policy 38.05
<br />Promote the conservation of historic neighborhoods and the restoration of historic features in such
<br />neighborhoods, including structures, street lamps, signage, landscaping, and architectural elements.
<br />Policy 38.06
<br />Update, expand, and maintain inventories of San Leandro's historic resources, using criteria and survey
<br />methods that are consistent with state and federal guidelines.
<br />Policy 38.07
<br />Ensure that new development, alterations, and remodeling projects on or adjacent to historic properties
<br />are sensitive to historic resources and are compatible with the surrounding historic context. Ensure that
<br />Policy 39.02
<br />the San Leandro Zoning Ordinance and any future design guidelines include the necessary standards and
<br />guidelines to implement this policy.
<br />Policy 38.08
<br />Encourage the relocation of older structures into designated historic districts as an alternative to
<br />Policy 39.03
<br />demolition and an incentive for restoration.
<br />Policy 38.09
<br />Strongly encourage the maintenance and upkeep of historic properties to avoid the need for costly
<br />rehabilitation and demolition. Demolition should only be allowed if the City determines that is necessary
<br />to protect health, safety, and welfare, and that the structure has no reasonable economic use.
<br />Policy 38.10
<br />Promote the upgrading and restoration of historic structures to meet current seismic safety codes,
<br />thereby reducing the potential for damage in an earthquake. Seismic rehabilitation projects should be
<br />sympathetic to the architectural character of the structure.
<br />Policy 38.11
<br />In the event that a historic structure is damaged by fire or earthquake to the point where demolition is
<br />necessary, encourage the new structure to respect the historic architectural character and form of the
<br />building it replaces.
<br />Policy 38.12
<br />Recognize the potential for prehistoric and historic archaeological resources and ensure that future
<br />development takes the measures necessary to identify and preserve such resources.
<br />Goal 39
<br />Make protection of historic resources a high City priority, to be implemented through improved record
<br />keeping, adequately funded programs, and more effective regulatory measures.
<br />Policy 39.01
<br />Recognize the importance of local historic and cultural resources in the City's long-range planning
<br />activities, including the General Plan, redevelopment project plans, and area or neighborhood plans.
<br />Maintain a historic preservation component in the General Plan, with periodic updates to reflect
<br />changing conditions, additional listings, and new preservation programs.
<br />Policy 39.02
<br />Ensure that day-to-day planning and building activities, including the issuance of building permits,
<br />demolition permits, zoning approvals, site plan approvals, and use permits, are consistent with and
<br />further the achievement of local historic preservation goals.
<br />Policy 39.03
<br />Maintain a City Historic Preservation Ordinance that provides for the protection of historic resources
<br />within the City Of San Leandro.
<br />Source: City of San Leandro General Plan, Chapter 7, Historic Preservation and Community Design Element
<br />PLACEWORKS 4.4-5
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