Item 41 - Amendment Application No. 2022-01 and Appeal Nos. 2022-01 and 2022-02

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State of California -The Resources Agency DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION CONTINUATION SHEET Resource Name or #: 1700-1740 E. Garry Avenue Page 14 of 27 Primary# HRI# Trinomial# As subdivisions spread across the county shopping centers supplanted the traditional shopping areas like Fourth Street, Santa Ana. The new centers offered much that traditional downtowns shopping districts were missing. They were arranged for the pedestrian, often around a central mall, and stores were separated from car traffic and parking lots. They were also geographically closer to the newly developed suburbs, were conveniently located near freeways and had ample parking. Fashion Square was the first shopping center to open in Santa Ana area in 1958. The Bristol Shopping Center opened soon after, located at Bristol Street and Warner Avenue, in an area experiencing tremendous residential development. Into the contemporary period, in the 1970s and 1980s, Santa Ana, Orange County, and the greater Southern California region experienced an uptick in development of suburban business parks and commercial office parks. A product of the country's post -WWII car culture that emerged in the early 1950s, most of these office complexes were speculative, for -profit endeavors intended to house numerous tenants, both large 'anchor' companies and smaller sole -proprietor businesses offering goods or professional services. In this period, the city annexed surrounding lands including portions of the 1887 Irvine Subdivision that forms the neighboring City of Irvine. Corporate Office Parks and Suburban Business Plazas The Cultural Landscape Foundation defines a corporate office park as a complex of office buildings, often sited on a large tract of land near an arterial highway, outside dense urban concentration. Suburbanization of corporate headquarters evolved in the mid -twentieth century when corporations such as IBM, Weyerhaeuser, Pepsico, and Connecticut General moved their offices out of city centers and closer to the residences of their senior executives. The grounds were arranged as rolling parkland, often utilizing low-rise buildings. The site planning, automobile approaches, visitor entrances, employee parking lots, and service docks all exemplified the functionalism of mid -twentieth century Modernism. These park -like locations often provided settings for the display of corporate collections of large-scale public art, and, in certain cases, display of large-scale products such as the tractors at John Deere.14 In contrast to these pastoral campuses, suburban business plazas emerged along arterial thoroughfares between highways. In Orange County, at the junction of Tustin, Irvine, and Santa Ana, countless examples are present with many constructed in the 1970s and 1980s in the contemporary period. Many were constructed using tilt -up methods. Tilt -up Concrete Construction The subject property, located on Block 9, Lot 116 of the Irvine Subdivision, was annexed into the City of Santa Ana in 1968 as part of the Alton and Newport East Annex. The purpose of the annexation was to encourage the industrial expansion of the city and as a source of future property tax revenue. The subject property is a commercial / light industrial tilt -up concrete building constructed in 1973. Tilt -Up construction is a method in which concrete wall panels are cast on -site and tilted into place. Thomas Edison, founder of the Portland Cement Company in 1899, explored and later promoted tilt -up concrete construction as early as ca. 1908 with the construction of tilt -up detached single-family homes in Union, New Jersey. The Portland Cement Company supplied concrete and tilt -up molds for projects throughout the United States. Robert Aiken, generally regarded as the father of the tilt -up methodology, began using this method around the turn of the 20th century with the earliest examples being retaining walls at the Camp Logan Rifle Range, in Illinois, and a concrete factory on Aiken's own farm near Zion City, Illinois. Aiken poured the walls flat on a bed of sand, around door and window frames, and then tipped them up onto their foundation. He used the tilt -up method to construct the Memorial Methodist Church in Zion, as well as a two-story ammunition and gun house at Camp Logan. From here, Aiken refined his methods to include a steel tipping table that was used in the construction of 15 buildings in five different states. 14 Cultural Landscape Foundation, Corporate Office Park. https://www.tclf.org/category/designed-landscape-types/corporate- office-park. DPR 523J (9/2013) *Required information