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ORDINANCE NO. 2025-02
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORONADO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 84.10 OF
THE CORONADO MUNICIPAL CODE TO IMPLEMENT THE
HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT AND HISTORIC
RESOURCES INVENTORY
WHEREAS, Coronado Municipal Code Chapters 84.10 and 84.20 outline the City of Coronado’s Historic Preservation Program; and
WHEREAS, on April 3, 2018, the City Council appointed a subcommittee of its members with a charter to perform a review of Coronado’s Historic Preservation Program and develop recommendations for potential improvements; and
WHEREAS, appointed subcommittee of Councilmembers Mike Donovan and Carrie Downey gathered input on the Historic Preservation Program through the use of a public comment forum and public workshops and shared the results of this outreach at the City Council meeting of June 19, 2018; and
WHEREAS, based on its review of the Historic Preservation Program, input from the public, and meetings with City staff, the subcommittee made recommendations to the full City Council on the meeting of June 19, 2018; and
WHEREAS, these recommendations included development of a Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory to streamline the City’s Historic Preservation Program review process to provide consistency to planning efforts, further guide the preservation of historically significant properties, and provide certainty to property owners regarding the known historical significance of structures; and,
WHEREAS, the development of the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory included public participation through online mapping and surveys on the City’s website, multiple public meetings and workshops, and public outreach campaigns; and WHEREAS, a Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory included a reconnaissance level survey of properties built before 1970, evaluated the properties for potential historical significance under Criterion C related to architectural significance, and categorized the properties into three (3) tiers, with unaltered or minimally altered properties categorized as Tier 1, properties that are more than unaltered or minimally altered categorized as Tier 2, and substantially altered properties that retain little to no elements of particular architectural style categorized as Tier 3; and
WHEREAS, the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory was presented to the City Council on December 3, 2024, and the City Council directed staff to prepare amendments to the Coronado Municipal Code to implement the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory, and to exclude properties identified as Tier 3 in the Historic Resources Inventory Survey Findings Matrix from a required Determination of Historic Significance Review; and
WHEREAS, these Amendments the Historic Preservation Program were analyzed pursuant to Section 15091 of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines through a Attachment 1
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Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) and on December 3, 2024, the City Council made findings in accordance with Public Resources Code Sections 21081(b) and 21081.5 that the economic and public benefits of the project outweigh the unavoidable and adverse impacts identified in the PEIR; and
WHEREAS, the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory was finalized based on City Council direction, and adopted for use on March 4, 2025.
NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Coronado, California DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows:
Section 1.
All of the above statements are true and incorporated herein.
Section 2.
Title 84, Chapter 84.10, Section 84.10.020 of the Coronado Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows (underlines are additions and strikeouts are deletions):
Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this chapter shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this chapter its most reasonable application.
A. “Alteration” means an addition, relocation, demolition or any change affecting the exterior visual qualities of a historic resource including, but not limited to, architectural features, visual characteristics, design and materials, excluding routine maintenance.
B. “Commission” means the Coronado Historic Resource Commission.
C. “Contributing resource” means a historic resource that significantly contributes to the historical nature of a Historic District and satisfies the definition of a historic resource under this chapter.
D. “Demolition” means any act that destroys, in whole or in part, the exterior of a building, structure, or historic resource.
E. “Determination of Historic Significance” means an application submitted in association with a nomination for designation as a historic resource; or, in association with a project that includes demolition of original features visible from the street right-of-way on a structure that is 75 or more years old and is not classified as Tier 3 in the City’s adopted Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory Survey Findings Matrix.
F. “Exterior architectural feature” means the architectural style, design, general arrangement, components, natural features and all the other surfaces of an improvement including, but not limited to, the kind and texture of the building material, colors and finishes, and the type and style of all windows, doors, lights, signs, walls, fences, and other fixtures appurtenant to such improvement.
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G. “Facade” means the exterior face of a building which is the architectural front, sometimes distinguished from other faces by elaboration of architectural or ornamental details.
H. “Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory” means the document adopted by the City Council in 2025 that provides a framework for property evaluations by providing an overview of local designation criteria; a summary of significant themes; an overview of identified property types; and guidelines for evaluation of historic significance and integrity; and, includes the Survey Findings Matrix of properties surveyed for potential historic significance under Criterion C.
IH. “Historic District” means a contiguous geographic area containing a multiple number of historic resources that collectively have a special character or special historical, cultural, architectural, archaeological, community or aesthetic value.
JI. “Historic research report” means a report prepared for the City by a third-party historic research consultant providing a complete history of a property and a full analysis of the historic significance of a property per the City’s adopted historic designation criteria.
KJ. “Historic resource” means an object, building, structure, or site, which is significant in terms of architectural, engineering, scientific, economic, agricultural, educational, social, political, archaeological, military or cultural history and has been designated as such by the City.
LK. “Historic resource alteration permit” means a permit approving a proposed alteration to a historic resource or Historic District.
ML. “Historic resource inventory register” means a list, maintained by the City, of the designated historic resources within Coronado.
NM. “Historic Resource Preservation (Mills Act) Agreement” means an agreement executed between the City and a property owner of a historic resource for a minimum 10- year term providing for property tax savings in exchange for preservation of a designated historic resource.
ON. “Noncontributing resource” means a historic resource within a Historic District that does not possess the qualifications or characteristics of a contributing resource, but which has been included within the Historic District because of its geographic location within the Historic District.
PO. “Notable work” means an important or remarkable example from the body of work of a professional trained as a builder, designer, architect, artisan or landscape professional.
QP. “Notice of designation” means the notice filed by the City Clerk of the City of Coronado with the County Recorder’s Office to record the designation of a historic resource or Historic District.
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or enhancement of a historic resource.
SR. “Relocation” means the change of place of any historic resource.
TS. “Restoration” means the act or process of accurately recovering the form and details of a property and its setting as it appeared at a particular period of time by means of the removal of later work or by the replacement of missing earlier work.
U. “Survey Findings Matrix” Means the matrix of properties evaluated in association with the Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory adopted by City Council in 2025 that categorizes surveyed properties by potential historic significance under Criterion C.
Title 84, Chapter 84.10, Section 84.10.040 of the Coronado Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows (underlines are additions and strikeouts are deletions):
A determination of historic significance application shall be filed with the Community Development Department in association with the nomination of a property as a historic resource; or in association with any project that includes demolition of original features visible from the street right-of-way of any structure that is 75 or more years old and is not classified as Tier 3 in the City’s adopted Historic Context Statement and Historic Resources Inventory Survey Findings Matrix.
Section 3.
Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter, or its application to any person or circumstance, is for any reason held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases of this Chapter, or its application to any other person or circumstance. The City Council declares that it would have adopted each section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, subdivisions, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, or phrases hereof be declared invalid or unenforceable.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This Ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its adoption. Within fifteen (15) days after its adoption, the City Clerk of the City of Coronado shall cause this ordinance to be published pursuant to the provisions of Government Code Section 36933.
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INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Coronado, California, on the 4th day of March 2025; and PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Coronado at a regular meeting thereof this 18th day of March 2025 by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
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JOHN D. DUNCAN, Mayor of the
City of Coronado, California
ATTEST:
_______________________________
KELSEA HOLIAN, City Clerk of the
City of Coronado, California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO: ss.
CITY OF CORONADO)
I, Kelsea Holian, City Clerk of the City of Coronado, hereby certify that the foregoing ORDINANCE NO. 2025-01 passed at the 18th day of March 2025 after having been read at the regular meeting of said City Council held on the 4th day of March 2025. ________________________________
KELSEA HOLIAN, City Clerk of the
City of Coronado, California