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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 <br />