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State of California—The Resources Agency Primary# DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI# CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial Page 6 of 11 *Resource Name or#North Fairview Street *Recorded by: Andrew Bursan *Date: November 10, 2024 ❑x Continuation ❑ Update During the 19th century Americans built new towns and cities along rivers, canals, wagon roads, railroads, and highways. Most new towns and cities began with plats for rectilinear street grids filed at a county recorder's offices. Once the plat filed, its streets and building lots became legal entities on the land. By creating right-angled streets and alleys, street grids simplified the work of staking out rectangular property boundaries and describing lots in written deeds. For growing towns and cities, street grids also simplified growth, as developers on the edge of town platted new additions simply by extending straight streets into surrounding rural areas(Reps 1965). As they matured and grew during the 19th and 20th centuries, many American cities and towns became incorporated under state charters. Incorporation transferred responsibility for street maintenance from county boards of supervisors to city governments. Incorporation also allowed city leaders to issue bonds and take on debt,which they used to finance modern street improvements such as paving, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, streetcar rails, and sanitation features such as sewers, storm drains, and water mains,which engineers typically buried beneath city streets (Monkkonen 1988). After 1910, as automobile usage surged, and as suburbanization occurred on the edges of town and cities in California and elsewhere, city planners began articulating a hierarchy of streets to distinguish residential roads, collector roads, arterial roads, and highways, each handling progressively higher volumes of traffic. Through the remainder of the twentieth century, as commercial and residential growth supplanted farms and ranches on the edges of California towns and cities, many rural county roads became adapted to suit the new suburban landscape. In many places, older two-lane rural roads became two-and four-lane suburban arterial streets lined with shopping centers and parking lots; others became two-lane collector streets lined with new residential subdivisions. In 1936, the FHA, a New Deal program designed to boost mortgage lending in the United States, developed design standards for new suburban residential streets. FHA standards called for quieter streets with T-intersections, cul-de- sacs, and curvilinear patterns in an effort to slow traffic.With few exceptions, homebuilders in California and other western states after 1940 adhered to FHA standards; homebuilders also eliminated alleys behind residential properties in favor driveways leading to street-facing garages(Kostof 1991).After 1960, homebuilders also began creating large master planned suburban developments featuring winding arterial parkways deliberately separated from residential zones to permit higher speeds. Evaluation North Fairview Street does not meet any of the criteria for listing in the NRHP or CRHR, or the City of Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties, either individually or as part of an existing historic district, as demonstrated below. NRHP/CRHR Criterion A/1 North Fairview Street originally provided access to citrus groves located between West 17th Street and Garden Grove Boulevard;the citrus groves have since been removed and replaced by suburban single-family housing starting in the 1950s. Regardless, archival records did not show an association with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of Santa Ana's history. North Fairview Street did not, on its own, shape patterns of development in Santa Ana.Therefore, North Fairview Street is not eligible for the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion A/1. NRHP/CRHR Criterion B/2 To be eligible for the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion B/2,the subject road would need to be directly associated with a person considered historically significant at the local, state, or national level. City of Santa Ana crews built and maintained North Fairview Street. ECORP did not identify any additional individuals associated with the road while conducting the research for this Project.There is no information in the archival record to suggest that it is associated with the lives of persons significant in Santa Ana's past.Therefore, North Fairview Street is not eligible for the NRHP/CRHR under Criterion B/2. NRHP/CRHR Criterion C/3 As a conventional five-lane road that is indistinguishable from multiple similar roads in Santa Ana, North Fairview Street was not the first or last of its type to be developed in Santa Ana and lacks unique design features. It does not DPR 523L(1/95) *Required information 9-206