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Mar 04 2014 0:03PM KF1NE <br />March 4, 2014 <br />858 454 7180 p.2 <br />Diane C3. Xane, Th.D. <br />7711 Lookout Drive <br />£a JoCCa, CaCifornia 2037 <br />Mayor Miguel Pulido and City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />P.O. Box 1988, M -31 <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Re: Sexlinger Orchard and Farmhouse EIR <br />Honorable Mayor Pulido and Council Members: <br />I am veteran architectural historian with over 40 years o: <br />of which were as the cultural resource specialist for C <br />surveying agricultural lands for new freeway alignment: <br />as part of environmental review, I have had substantial <br />evaluating historic landscapes. I had the pleasure of vi: <br />Farmhouse historic site on Sunday March 2, 2014. <br />This modest 5 -acre orchard and farmhouse was once a <br />County. But with the rapid and almost complete land us <br />urbanized uses over the past half- century in Orange Co <br />resource that both documents and explains the 20th cer <br />California. The farmhouse tangibly represents the Sexlir <br />as well as its long relationship with the property, a small <br />associated citrus landscape, also known as its "setting <br />another Craftsman bungalow. With the associated orang <br />unit, one of many other small -scale agricultural units t <br />agricultural underpinnings in the early 20°i century. Altl <br />n <br />N <br />O <br />F <br />'Y7 <br />experience, almost two decades <br />dtrans in Los Angeles. In field <br />throughout Southern California <br />experience in documenting and <br />iting the Sexlinger Orchard and <br />common occurrence in Orange <br />conversion from agricultural to <br />inty, it is now a rare composite <br />ury citrus industry in Southern <br />ler family's middle class status, <br />scale orange grove. Without its <br />the farmhouse would just be <br />grove, it becomes an economic <br />at comprised Orange County's <br />)ugh recognized by the City of <br />Santa Ana with its designation of the property, this wider context is surprisingly <br />underdeveloped in the environmental record's cultural analysis of the property. <br />More specifically, the orange grove's size and location it <br />!in this part of Santa Ana that has all but disappeared <br />Valencia orange trees, and their regular organization in ei <br />the growing portion of the orange industry functioned. Ti <br />carefully pruned into even heights for easier maintenance. <br />control, smudging to prevent frost, fertilization, irrigatio <br />land that note this activity include old irrigation equipmer <br />and smudge pot remnants. Clearly, the entire site is ne <br />meaning. A few representative orange trees adjacent to at <br />insufficient to convey its historical significance. Althoug <br />ticate a wider land use pattern <br />under tract developments. Its <br />-nly spaced rows, explain how <br />:es were uniformly spaced and <br />Ms included spraying for pest <br />t and harvest. Patterns in the <br />, depressed channels for water <br />:ded to explain the property's <br />pica] Craftsman bungalow are <br />some of the orange trees are <br />