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SUMMARY: <br />Meeting between Toll Brothers, Preserve Orange County, Santa Ana Historical Preservation <br />Society, and Historic French Park <br />at Santa Ana Planning Department / Oct 1, 2019 <br />Attending: <br />Mike McCann, Regional Director Acquisition & Development/Toll Bros. Apartment Communities <br />Alison Young, Associate Director and Past President/Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society <br />(SAHPS) <br />Tim Rush, Associate Board Member/Santa Ana Historical Preservation Society (SAHPS); board <br />member/Preserve Orange County (POC) <br />Alan Hess, architect; Commissioner/California State Historical Resources Commission; board <br />chair/Preserve Orange County (POC); author of 20 books on architectural history <br />Robert Imboden, Historic Resources consultant; board member/Preserve Orange County (POC) <br />Jeff Dickman, member/Historic French Park Association <br />Pedro Gomez, associated planner, Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency <br />Minh Thai, executive director, Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency (second half of <br />meeting) <br />MEETING NOTES: <br />Mike McCann began the meeting by saying that other members of the project team would not <br />be attending the meeting, though he was there to listen. However, he was not expecting <br />anyone to leave the meeting having achieved their ideal goals. He did not want to delay the <br />approvals process. <br />Determining status of the historic 1931 building: <br />Tim Rush replied that Preserve Orange County would like Toll Brothers to follow up on the <br />requests made by the Planning Commission at their Sept. 23, 2019 meeting. This would <br />include investigating what remained of the original 1931 First American title building beneath <br />the (1966) applied metal siding. To do so, POC recommended Toll Brothers consult with a <br />qualified historic preservation architect who is experienced in such projects. <br />Preservation organizations not consulted until late in the process <br />Tim Rush also recommended Toll Brothers revise the Rincon Historic Resources Study to <br />address several items it did not include, such as the historic persons who were associated