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RECOMMENDATION: RECOMMENDATION: Commission Policy. COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: Recommend that the Historic Resources Commission recommend that the City Council adopt a resolution directing staff to establish and implement a notification process tq the Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Historic Preservation Society. ' Mr. Joseph Edwards, Principal Plarmer, presented the staff repot and staff recommendation for notifying the Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Historic Preservation Society when a demolition permit is issued fora structures that is 50 yeazs old or older. Several Commissioners inquired as to the authority of the Commission to direct staff to provide notification without City Council action and the timeframe of the notification to the Commission and the SAHPS. Mr. Edwards stated that staff would work out a procedure regarding the process and the timeframes for notification. Mr. Kenneth Adams, Planning Manager, inforayed the Commission that the notification requirements were established as part of the City's Municipail Code; substantial changes from those standards may require approval of the Ciry Council. In addition, Mr. Adams stated that as the Commission requested to expand their responsibilities, the expansion request would need to be documented via resolution. ~ He further stated that if the Commission desired to involve itself in the creation of a salvaging program it would need City Council approval by referring the action to City Council, we provide an opportunity far them to recognize the work effors of the Commission. Commissioner Giles asked if the Council established salvaging asp, a responsibility of the Historic Resources Commission. Mr. Adams indicated that salvaging was not an established duty of the Commission by the City Council. In addition, he stressed to the Cottunission that they were delegated the responsibility, via ordinance, to specifically maintain the properties listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties. The Commission further discussed: 1) the possibility of changingi the code to include salvaging of buildings over 50 years old and requiring a review of all demolition permit requests for buildings 50 years old or older as a part of the definition of the Historic Resources Cotmission purview; and 2) agreed that the notification procedure could be a stazt towazds more active salvaging and Commissioner Kings requested staff to move all further salvage related discussions to a list of pot¢;ntial future objectives. Motion to recommend that the City Council adopt a resolution directing staff ta estab&sh and implement a notification process to the Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Historic Preservation Society. MOTION: Giles SI{;COND: Corpin AYES: Kings, Brenes, Corpin, Chinn, Giles, and Bustam~nte NOES: None ABSENT: Berry and Cribb 3. Property improvement requirements for Mills Act Agreements. To establish contractual standards w tie included in Mills Act Agreements. RECOMMENDATION: ' Recommend that the City Council adopt a resolution establishing requirements for Mills Act Agreements. Ms. Maya DeRosa, Senior Planner presented the staff report and recommendation. She further explained to the Commission that the intent of the Mills Act Agreement was an incentive tool that the Ciry used to encourage property owners of historical structures to preserve, maintain, and improve the structures on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. In addition, staff was recommending that an outline identifying particular improvements within specific timeframes for complefon dates, be developed when a property owner entered into a Mills Agreement with the Ciry. Commissioner Brenes expressed concern regazding recommending specific improvements for property owners and requiring the owners to allow reasonable periodic examinations of the interior of the structures as being intrusive, (Section 3,item E, of Exibit 3 of the staff report), and asked if staff was comfortable with requiring standards and/or improvements.