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MILLS ACT AGREEf1IENT I22S Nortlr TrerrcG Street 8lrirlR ArrR, CA 92706 Exhibit B Exterior work shall be reviewed by the Historic Resources Commission and subject to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings, as follows: 1. Every reasonable effort shall be made to provide a compatible use for a property which requires minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or to use a property far its originally intended purpose. 2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site and its environment shall zzot be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided wlten possible. 3. All btzildiztgs, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their awn time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earliez• appearance shall be discouraged. 4. Changes which may have taken place in the cotzzse of time are evidence of the history and development of a building, struchzz•e, or site and its environment. These changes may have acquired significance in their own right, and this significance shall be recognized and respected. 5. Distinctive stylistic features or examples of skilled craftsmanship which characterize a building, structure, or site shall be treated with sensitivity. ~i. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced, whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material should match the material beizzg replaced in composition, design, color, texture, and other visual qualities. Repair ar replacement of missing architectural features should be based on acettrate duplications of features, st-bstantiated by historic, physical, or pictorial evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of different architectural elements from the other buildings or structures. 7. The surface cleaning of structures shall be tndertaken with the gentlest means possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning methods that will damage the historic building materials shall not be undertaken. 8. Every reasonable effort shall be made to protect and z•esezve archaeological resources affected by, or adjacent to any project. 9. Contemporary design for alternations and additions to existing properties shall not be discouraged when such alterations and additions da not destroy significant historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with _9_