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SAN LEANDRO SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT DRAFT EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />CULTURAL RESOURCES <br />sustained by veterans and their families. The city's neighborhood shopping centers and commercial strips <br />along East 14th Street date from this period. The city was among the fastest growing industrial centers in <br />the Bay Area during the post-war years, adding 6,000 manufacturing jobs between 1947 and 1954. By the <br />1960s, the city's pace of growth reached its natural limit; hills became barriers for expansion and the city's <br />shoreline was acquired for park use and new development shifted to smaller infill sites around the city. <br />Today, virtually none of the early settlement architectural sites exist. One exception, the Alta Mira Club <br />and original home of Ignacio Peralta, still stands and is a designated California Historical Landmark and has <br />been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978.10 Several residential buildings built between <br />1870 and 1900 are still standing throughout the city, and were built in the vernacular or Victorian style of <br />the time. From the early twentieth century, the Casa Peralta, originally built as a Victorian residence and <br />remodeled as a Moorish villa in 1926, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982." <br />Other structures of historic value within the city include distinctive commercial buildings from the early <br />1900s, such as the Daniel Best Building, and pre -World War II residential buildings characterized by well- <br />maintained California bungalows, Craftsman and Prairie -style homes, and Mediterranean -style cottages. <br />Federally and State Recognized Historic Resources <br />The National Register requires that buildings be 50 years or older or prior to eligibility for a listing, while <br />the State OHP has determined that buildings, structures, and objects 45 years or older may be of historical <br />value and therefore eligible for inclusion on the California Register. There are no structures on the Project <br />site that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As discussed earlier, two structures in the <br />city are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Alta Mira Club is approximately 2.6 miles <br />northeast of the site and Casa Peralta is approximately 2.4 miles from the site. <br />In general, buildings on the Project site have been constructed in the 1960s or later and are not <br />architecturally distinctive, and are unlikely to meet the eligibility criteria for inclusion on the California <br />Register. However, the Project site includes part of the San Leandro Marina (Mulford Point) that is the <br />former site of oyster beds and is listed as California Historical Landmark #824 (CHL #824). A plaque at the <br />southern end of Mulford Point Drive marks the historical importance of the site part as part of the Bay <br />Area's role in the single most important fishery in the state during the 1890s.12 <br />Locally Recognized Historic Resources <br />The City of San Leandro has developed a list of historic and potentially historic buildings within its <br />jurisdiction, which includes local, State, and federally designated historic properties.13 As discussed earlier <br />and demonstrated in the San Leandro General Plan, the former site of San Leandro oyster beds is <br />recognized as CHL #824, and the associated plaque itself as a Historic Landscape Element by the City of <br />San Leandro. The City also has a defined neighborhood called Orchard Street Neighborhood of a historic <br />0 City of San Leandro, General Plan, page 7-2. <br />" City of San Leandro, General Plan, page 7-2. <br />Z California State Historical Landmarks in Alameda County, http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/counties/Alameda/ <br />landmarks.html, accessed on June 19, 2014, <br />13 City of San Leandro, General Plan, pages 7-8 to 7-9. <br />PLACEWORKS 4.4-7 <br />