Item 23 - Approval of Historic Property Preservation Agreements

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HRCA No. 2023-27, HRC No. 2024-01, HPPA No. 2024-01 – Moss House (944 W. Buffalo Avenue) March 7, 2024 Page 3 early 1990s, Dr. William Moss was targeted by anti-abortion activists and subject to ongoing harassment, including by a Tustin City Council member, at his home in North Tustin and at his medical practice in 1990 (The Los Angeles Times, May 13 1990). He was welcomed as the guest of honor at a Pro-Choice Orange County event one year later in 1991 (The Los Angeles Times, September 22 1991). Dr. Moss passed away in 2018. After the divorce in 1976, Betty continued to be actively engaged in the Santa Ana and Orange County community. In 1981 she established the Orange County Business Committee for the Arts and served as its executive director for 28 years. In 1993, the OC Metro magazine named Betty one of “Ten Women Making a Difference in Orange County” and in 2008 she received a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from the OC Board of Supervisors for her community work (Betty Rupert Moss, The Orange County Register). Betty resided at the subject property for a total of 59 years until her death in 2018. In 2018, the property was purchased by its current owners, Daniel and Jessica Neumann. The Moss House is a one story, single-family, Ranch Style residence located on a medium-sized corner parcel in the West Floral Park neighborhood. The asymmetrical main residence has two primary facades facing the north and west. It exhibits a rectangular-shaped plan with long horizontal massing facing Buffalo Avenue to the north. Its low-pitch hipped and multi-gabled roof is clad in asphalt shingles with overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails. The exterior of the house is clad in a mix of horizontal wood panel siding, vertical wood panel siding, and stucco. At the primary (north) façade the building’s expansive roof shelters over a detached garage, adjacent porte-cochere, and the main house. The primary entrance is setback within a covered porch at the primary (north) façade. The front door is made of a wood Dutch door with divided lights above paired wood paneling. Two large aluminum-frame windows, comprised of a central fixed window between two sliding windows and decorative wood shutters, flank the main entrance. A third window at the primary (north) façade below the front facing gable is a wood-frame window with a central fixed window between two sliding windows. Fenestration on the side (west) façade is not visible due to a concrete block brise-soleil wall that blocks visibility. The side (east) façade contains one small louvered glass window within the interior of the porte-cochere and one partially glazed door. The rear (south) façade contains four aluminum-frame fully glazed siding doors and one partially glazed door. One of the rear sliding doors has decorative wood shutters to match those on the primary (north) façade. The garage door facing Buffalo Avenue is made of wood and has a row of rectangular upper lights and lower paneling. The garage’s rear (south) façade contains a smaller utilitarian vehicular wood door and a single pedestrian wood door. The porte-cochere contains a wood double gate at its entrance at the primary (north) façade, with an interior vaulted gable ceiling. Historic Resources Commission 1 – 3 3/7/2024