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Item # 13
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Staff Report
October 19, 2021
TOPIC: Historic Property Preservation Agreements
AGENDA TITLE:
Approve Historic Property Preservation Agreements
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Authorize the City Manager or designee to execute Mills Act agreements with the below-
referenced property owners for the identified structure(s), subject to non-substantive
changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney.
Property Owner(s)
Historic Property
Preservation
Agreement No.
Address/House Vote by HRC
Corey Van Houten 2021-13 2417 N North Park
Boulevard
7:0:0:2
(Carpenter and Pena-
Sarmiento Absent)
Allan Tea 2021-14 2120 N Heliotrope
Drive
6:0:1:2
(Murashie Abstained,
Carpenter and Pena-
Sarmiento Absent)
Trevor Smith and
Bridget Furey 2021-15 2307 N Riverside
Drive
8:0:0:1
(Carpenter Absent)
Gerald and Mary
O’Connell 2021-16 2420 N North Park
Boulevard
8:0:0:1
(Carpenter Absent)
217 North Main
Investments, LLC 2021-19 217 N Main Street
7:0:0:2
(Carpenter and Pena-
Sarmiento Absent)
DISCUSSION
On September 2, 2021, the Historic Resources Commission (HRC) recommended that
the City Council authorize the City Manager to execute the above referenced Mills Act
agreements with the identified property owners for historic structure(s) in the city,
subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney.
This action allows for the approval of a historic property preservation agreement (Mills
Act contract) which provides a property tax reduction whereby property owners agree to
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reinvest the tax savings towards the maintenance of the historic property. Additionally,
the agreements prevent inappropriate alterations to the protected historic structure(s).
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the proposed projects are
exempt from further review. The following Categorical Exemptions will be filed for this
project:
ER No. 2021-89 (2417 N. North Park Boulevard)
ER No. 2021-87 (2120 N. Heliotrope Drive)
ER No. 2021-88 (2307 N. Riverside Drive)
ER No. 2021-90 (2420 N. North Park Boulevard)
ER No. 2021-85 (217 N. Main Street)
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $10,125.67 annually noted below,
for a period of not less than ten years.
HPPA No.Address Estimate Exhibit No.
2021-13 2417 N. North Park Boulevard $935.70 1-2
2021-14 2120 N. Heliotrope Drive $864.89 3-4
2021-15 2307 N. Riverside Drive $912.97 5-6
2021-16 2420 N. North Park Boulevard $482.11 7-8
2021-19 217 N. Main Street $6,930.00 9-10
Total for All Properties:$10,125.67
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Mills Act Agreement – 2417 N. North Park Boulevard
2. HRC Staff Report – 2417 N. North Park Boulevard
3. Mills Act Agreement – 2120 N. Heliotrope Drive
4. HRC Staff Report – 2120 N. Heliotrope Drive
5. Mills Act Agreement – 2307 N. Riverside Drive
6. HRC Staff Report– 2307 N. Riverside Drive
7. Mills Act Agreement – 2420 N. North Park Boulevard
8. HRC Staff Report – 2420 N. North Park Boulevard
9. Mills Act Agreement – 217 N. Main Street
10. HRC Staff Report – 217 N. Main Street
Submitted By: Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency
Approved By: Kristine Ridge, City Manager
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
_________________________________________________________________________
HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Corey Flynn Van Houten, a single man, (hereinafter collectively referred to
as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2417 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana,
California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties.
RECITALS
A.The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B.The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2417
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C.The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D.City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
Exhibit 1
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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E.Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1.Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2.Renewal.
a.Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b.If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c.Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d.If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3.Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a.Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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b.All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c.A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d.The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e.Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalizati on, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4.Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5.Cancellation.
a.The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b.If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c.If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6.Enforcement of Agreement.
a.In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b.City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a.Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2417 North Park
Boulevard, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-063-25, and more particularly described in Exhibit A,
in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b.City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8.No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9.Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Corey Flynn Van Houten
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10.General Provisions.
a.None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b.The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, rea son
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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c.This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d.All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e.In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f.In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g.This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11.Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12.Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13.Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
COREY FLYNN VAN HOUTEN
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
LOT 155 OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 16 PAGE(S) 33 AND 34,
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
EXCEPT THAT PORTION THEREOF DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 155, AS SHOWN ON A MAP OF
TRACT NO. 425, RECORDED IN BOOK 16, PAGES 33 AND 34, OF MISCELLANEOUS
MAPS, THENCE NORTH 8°03’ EAST ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 155,
134, 54 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE MARKING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT
155, THENCE NORTH 81°39’ WEST ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 155,
A DISTANCE OF 5 FEET TO AN IRON AXLE, THENCE SOUTH 5°55’20” WEST IN A
DIRECT LINE, A DISTANCE OF 134.66 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-063-25
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Wiesseman-Jonason House
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Wiesseman-Jonason House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2417 North Park Boulevard
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1938 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Minimal Traditional
During the Great Depression through the immediate postwar years, the Minimal Traditional home rose in popularity as the
preferred style for middle-class housing in the United States. This basic house type fulfilled both aesthetic and social needs:
in terms of aesthetics, the form represented a stripped-down version of the historic-eclectic styles popular in the 1920s, in
particular the Tudor and English Revival styles. In social terms, the Minimal Traditional home satisfied requirements in
square footage and plan by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which launched a campaign in this period to expand
home ownership. The Minimal Traditional home served as the prototype used by the FHA in its effo rts to codify and
manufacture “a standard, low-cost, minimum house that the majority of American wage earners could afford” (Greg Hise,
Magnetic Los Angeles, p. 57). Minimal Traditional homes are typically rectangular in plan and one -story in height, often
with a front-gabled wing and prominent attached chimney. In contrast with the English and Tudor Revival styles the one -
story version mimics, the Minimal Traditional home is capped with a low or intermediate pitch roof with a hipped or side
gable. Sheathing materials include stucco, brick, or wood, often accompanied by stone veneer accents. Fenestration
generally consists of multi-light casement, double-hung, and picture windows with wood frames. The eaves and rakes of
the Minimal Traditional home are typically shallow (in a departure from the later Ranch House style, which they often
resemble). Although they have little applied ornament, many Minimal Traditional homes often display decorative wood
shutters and porch-roof supports
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is eligible for the Santa Ana Register under Criterion 1 as a representative example of the
gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. Additionally, the house has been categorized as
“Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is a representative example of
Minimal Traditional residential architecture in Santa Ana just prior to World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-
2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3: It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3: Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.
Exhibit B
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Wiesseman-Jonason House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad: TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2417 North Park Boulevard City: Santa Ana Zip: 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-063-25
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the Wiesseman-Jonason House is a one-and-a-half-story single-family residence constructed in the
gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style, with detailing culled from the Late Colonial Revival style. It is capped
by a moderately pitched, cross-gabled roof with molded eaves. The roof is clad in contemporary asphalt shingle roofing and
the exterior walls are clad with wide clapboard siding. The focal point of the design is the central entry portico composed of
slender posts supporting a metal canopy. An interior brick chimney rises above the roof ridgeline. Four symmetrical, six-over-
six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows line the front (south) elevation. Fenestration along the north, east, and west
elevations consists of shallow, side elevation bays, and six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows. A one-story,
front-gabled, detached garage also clad in wide clapboards is located in the rear of the property. The property is landscaped
with low vegetation, neatly trimmed hedges, trees, and features a central brick walkway leading to the front entry.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
South elevation, view north
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1938/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Corey Flynn Van Houten
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location
Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Wiesseman-Jonason House
B1. Historic Name: Wiesseman-Jonason House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): April 27, 1938. Constructed. $6,250.
January 29, 1986. Reroof.
November 1, 2010. Reroof house and attached garage, remove comp. and install comp. $4,245.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:__________ Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: Detached Garage.
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: V.J. Anderson
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1938 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is architecturally significant as a representative example of the gable-and-wing variant of the
Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. It was built in 1938 for $4,245 by local developer and builder V.J. Anderson. The home
was sold to Frank W. Wiesseman (1863-1930) and Ida C. Wiesseman (1872-1961), who resided on the property until 1948
before moving to 2311 North Heliotrope Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Wiesseman moved to Santa Ana with their two youngest children
from New York City between 1905 and 1910 and immediately started a business known as the Wiesseman’s Variety Store at
114 W. Fourth Street in Downtown Santa Ana. Between the years, 1910 and 1961, Wiesseman’s Variety Store was an original
stakeholder and neighborhood staple in Downtown Santa Ana. The two were active in the First Methodist Church, and Mrs.
Wiesseman was an active member of The Ebell Club. The family was notable in business and social circles in Santa Ana. In
1949 the property was sold to S. Walter Jonason, a retired Santa Ana resident originally from Virgina. Mr. Jonason lived on the
property until 1962 when it was sold to a P.G. Lynch. Since then, the Wiesseman-Jonason House has been occupied by various
owners until the current homeowners purchased the home in 2020.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
Wiesseman-Jonason House
2417 North Park Boulevard
N
State of California The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
Page 3_ of 3_ Resource Name: Wiesseman-Jonason House
*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of orange, avocado, and walnut trees and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897 -1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Sa ntiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was cele brated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they we re mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021), Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The Wiesseman-Jonason House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as
representative example of the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. Notable features in this
regard are the simplicity of design and use of materials and details associated with the late Colonial Revival style. Additionally,
the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and
is a representative example of Minimal Traditional residential architecture in Santa Ana just prior to World War II (Santa Ana
Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features exhibited by this property include its cross-gabled roof with
molded eaves; wide clapboard siding; brick accents including interior chimney, side elevation bay window base, and front
walkway; lunette attic vent; six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows; entry portico composed of slender posts
supporting a metal canopy; and shallow, side elevation bays.
*B12. References (continued):
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National Register
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1920-1979.
Year: 1930; Census Place: Santa Ana, Orange, California; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0080; FHL microfilm: 2339917
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2.The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3.All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4.Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6.Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated b y 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9.Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10.Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
Planning and Building Agency
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Historic Resources Commission Staff Report
September 2, 2021
Topic: HRCA No. 2021-14, HRC 2021-14, HPPA No. 2021-13 – The Wiesseman-
Jonason House
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Adopt a resolution approving Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-
14 and Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-14 (Exhibit 1).
2. Recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the
Council to execute the attached Mills Act agreement with Corey Flynn Van Houten,
subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney
(Exhibit 2).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Corey Flynn Van Houten is requesting approval to designate an existing residence
located at 2417 North Park Boulevard to the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties, as well as approval to execute a Mills Act agreement with the City of Santa
Ana.
DISCUSSION
Project Location and Site Description
The subject property is located on the north side of North Park Boulevard in the Floral
Park neighborhood. The site contains a 1,803-square-foot, Minimal Traditional style
residence and detached garage on an 8,200-square-foot residential lot (Exhibit 3).
Analysis of the Issues
Historical Listing
In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the
Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing,
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designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site
having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria
set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails
applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is
eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The
first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old.
The structure identified meets the minimum selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of
the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 83 years old and is a good example
of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property.
The property, recognized as the Wiesseman-Jonason House, is a representative
example of the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. It
was built in 1938 for $4,245 by local developer and builder V.J. Anderson. The home
was sold to Frank W. Wiesseman and Ida C. Wiesseman who resided on the property
until 1948. Mr. and Mrs. Wiesseman moved to Santa Ana with their two youngest
children from New York City between 1905 and 1910 and immediately started a
business known as the Wiesseman’s Variety Store in Downtown Santa Ana. In 1949 the
property was sold to S. Walter Jonason, a retired Santa Ana resident originally from
Virginia. Mr. Jonason lived on the property until 1962 when it was sold to a P.G. Lynch.
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is a one-and-a-half-story single-family residence
constructed in the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style, with detailing
culled from the Late Colonial Revival style. It is capped by a moderately pitched, cross-
gabled roof with molded eaves. The roof is clad in contemporary asphalt shingle roofing
and the exterior walls are clad with wide clapboard siding. The focal point of the design
is the central entry portico composed of slender posts supporting a metal canopy. An
interior brick chimney rises above the roof ridgeline. Four symmetrical, six-over-six,
wood-framed, double-hung sash windows line the front (south) elevation. Fenestration
along the north, east, and west elevations consists of shallow, side elevation bays, and
six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows. A one-story, front-gabled,
detached garage also clad in wide clapboards is located in the rear of the property. The
property is landscaped with low vegetation, neatly trimmed hedges, trees, and features
a central brick walkway leading to the front entry. Character-defining features exhibited
by this property include its cross-gabled roof with molded eaves; wide clapboard siding;
brick accents including interior chimney, side elevation bay window base, and front
walkway; lunette attic vent; six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows;
entry portico composed of slender posts supporting a metal canopy; and shallow, side
elevation bays.
The Wiesseman-Jonason House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as representative example of the gable-and-wing
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variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. Notable features in this regard are
the simplicity of design and use of materials and details associated with the late Colonial
Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it
contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is a representative
example of Minimal Traditional residential architecture in Santa Ana just prior to World
War II.
Mills Act Agreement
Ordinance No. NS-2382 authorized the Historic Resources Commission to execute
Historic Property Preservation Agreements (HPPA), commonly known as Mills Act
agreements for eligible properties (Exhibit 2). To be eligible for the Mills Act, the
property must be listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic
Resources Commission Application and Historic Register Categorization actions
proposed for this site authorize the listing of the property on the local register. The
agreement provides monetary incentives to the property owner in the form of a property
tax reduction in exchange for the owner’s voluntary commitment to maintain the
property in a good state of repair as necessary to maintain its character and
appearance. Once recorded, the agreement generates a different valuation method in
determining the property’s assessed value, resulting in tax savings for the owner. Aside
from the tax savings, the benefits include:
Long term preservation of the property and visual improvement to the neighborhood
Allows for a mechanism to provide for property rehabilitation
Provides additional incentive for potential buyers to purchase historic structures
Discourages inappropriate alterations to the property
The property has no identified unauthorized modifications. Upon consideration of the
application, it is recommended that the City enter into a Historic Property Preservation
Agreement.
Public Notification
The subject site is located within the Floral Park Neighborhood Association. The
president of this Neighborhood Association was notified by mail 10 days prior to this
public hearing. In addition, the project site was posted with a notice advertising this
public hearing, a notice was published in the Orange County Reporter and mailed
notices were sent to all property owners within 500 feet of the project site. At the time of
this printing, no correspondence, either written or electronic, has been received from
any members of the public.
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines,
the project is exempt from further review pursuant to Section 15331 of the CEQA
Guidelines (Class 31 – Historical Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation) as these actions
are designed to preserve historic resources. Based on this analysis, a Notice of
Exemption, Environmental Review No. 2021-89 will be filed for this project.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $935.70 annually, for a period of
not less than ten years.
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Resolution
2. Mills Act Agreement
3. 500-Foot Radius Map
Submitted By:
Pedro Gomez, AICP, Associate Planner
Approved By:
Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency, Planning and Building
Agency
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE HISTORIC RESOURCES
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING
HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION APPLICATION
NO. 2021-14 TO PLACE THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
2417 NORTH PARK BOULEVARD, SANTA ANA, ON THE
HISTORICAL REGISTER AND APPROVING HISTORIC
REGISTER CATEGORIZATION NO. 2021-14 PLACING
SAID PROPERTY WITHIN THE CONTRIBUTIVE
CATEGORY
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana
hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows:
A. On September 2, 2021, the Historic Resources Commission held a duly
noticed public hearing for the placement on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties (Historic Resources Commission Application No.
2021-14) and categorization (Historic Resources Commission
Categorization No. 2021-14) of the Wiesseman-Jonason House located at
2417 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana.
B. The Wiesseman-Jonason House has distinctive architectural features of
the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style and was built in
1938.
C. The Wiesseman-Jonason House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana
Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as representative
example of the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in
Santa Ana. Notable features in this regard are the simplicity of design and
use of materials and details associated with the late Colonial Revival style.
Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it
contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is a
representative example of Minimal Traditional residential architecture in
Santa Ana just prior to World War II . Character-defining features exhibited
by this property include its cross-gabled roof with molded eaves; wide
clapboard siding; brick accents including interior chimney, side elevation
bay window base, and f ront walkway; lunette attic vent; six-over-six, wood-
framed, double-hung sash windows; entry portico composed of slender
posts supporting a metal canopy; and shallow, side elevation bays. The
legal owner of the property is Corey Flynn Van Houten.
D. The legal description for the subject property is attached hereto as Exhibit
A and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
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E. The subject property meets the standards for placement on the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties pursuant to Section 30-2 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code.
F. The subject property meets the minimal standards for placement in the
Contributive category pursuant to Section 30-2.2(3) of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
Section 2. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the
recommended actions are exempt from further review under CEQA Guidelines Section
15331, Class 31, as these actions are designed to preserve historical resources.
Categorical Exemption No. ER-2021-89 will be filed for this project.
Section 3. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana, after
conducting the public hearing, hereby approves:
A. Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-14 to place the
Wiesseman-Jonason House located at 2417 North Park Boulevard, Santa
Ana, 92706 on the historical register, and
B. Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-14 placing the Wiesseman-
Jonason House located at 2417 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, 92706
within the Contributive category.
These decisions are based upon the evidence submitted at the above said
hearing, which includes, but is not limited to: the Staff report and exhibits attached
thereto, the report entitled “Historical Property Description,” and the public testimony, all
of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 4. For the subject property, a report entitled “Historical Property
Description” is on file with the Planning Division, and is hereby approved and adopted, and
together with the staff report and this Resolution, justify the findings for placement on the
City of Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties into a category. The Historic Resources
Commission Secretary is authorized and directed to include this Resolution in the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
Section 5. The Historic Resources Commission Secretary is hereby directed to
file a certified copy of this Resolution with the County Recorder’s Office after the adoption
of this Resolution pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 5029.
ADOPTED this 2nd day of September, 2021.
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Tim Rush
Chairperson
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
John M. Funk
Sr. Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Commission members____________________________________
NOES: Commission members___________________________________
ABSTAIN: Commission members___________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Commission members___________________________________
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, SARAH BERNAL, Historic Resources Commission Secretary, do hereby attest to and
certify the attached Resolution No. 2021-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by
Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana on September 2, 2021.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________
Commission Secretary
City of Santa Ana
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APN Address Legal Description Owner Names
002-063-25 2417 North Park
Boulevard
THE LAND REFERRED TO
HEREIN BELOW IS
SITUATED IN THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF
ORANGE, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA AND IS
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
LOT 155 OF TRACT NO. 425,
IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP RECORDED IN
BOOK 16 PAGE(S) 33 AND
34, OF MISCELLANEOUS
MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER
OF SAID COUNTY.
EXCEPT THAT PORTION
THEREOF DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT THE
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF
LOT 155, AS SHOWN ON A
MAP OF TRACT NO. 425,
RECORDED IN BOOK 16,
PAGES 33 AND 34, OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS,
THENCE NORTH 8°03’ EAST
ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE
OF SAID LOT 155, 134, 54
FEET TO AN IRON PIPE
MARKING THE NORTHEAST
CORNER OF SAID LOT 155,
THENCE NORTH 81°39’
WEST ALONG THE
NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID
LOT 155, A DISTANCE OF 5
FEET TO AN IRON AXLE,
Corey Flynn Van
Houten
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THENCE SOUTH 5°55’20”
WEST IN A DIRECT LINE, A
DISTANCE OF 134.66 FEET
TO THE POINT OF
BEGINNING.
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
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HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Corey Flynn Van Houten, a single man, (hereinafter collectively referred to
as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2417 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana,
California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties.
RECITALS
A. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B. The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2417
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C. The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D. City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2417 North Park
Boulevard, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-063-25, and more particularly described in Exhibit A,
in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Corey Flynn Van Houten
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST:CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
COREY FLYNN VAN HOUTEN
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
LOT 155 OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 16 PAGE(S) 33 AND 34,
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
EXCEPT THAT PORTION THEREOF DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT 155, AS SHOWN ON A MAP OF
TRACT NO. 425, RECORDED IN BOOK 16, PAGES 33 AND 34, OF MISCELLANEOUS
MAPS, THENCE NORTH 8°03’ EAST ALONG THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 155,
134, 54 FEET TO AN IRON PIPE MARKING THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT
155, THENCE NORTH 81°39’ WEST ALONG THE NORTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 155,
A DISTANCE OF 5 FEET TO AN IRON AXLE, THENCE SOUTH 5°55’20” WEST IN A
DIRECT LINE, A DISTANCE OF 134.66 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-063-25
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Wiesseman-Jonason House
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Wiesseman-Jonason House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2417 North Park Boulevard
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1938 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Minimal Traditional
During the Great Depression through the immediate postwar years, the Minimal Traditional home rose in popularity as the
preferred style for middle-class housing in the United States. This basic house type fulfilled both aesthetic and social needs:
in terms of aesthetics, the form represented a stripped-down version of the historic-eclectic styles popular in the 1920s, in
particular the Tudor and English Revival styles. In social terms, the Minimal Traditional home satisfied requirements in
square footage and plan by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which launched a campaign in this period to expand
home ownership. The Minimal Traditional home served as the prototype used by the FHA in its efforts to codify and
manufacture “a standard, low-cost, minimum house that the majority of American wage earners could afford” (Greg Hise,
Magnetic Los Angeles, p. 57). Minimal Traditional homes are typically rectangular in plan and one-story in height, often
with a front-gabled wing and prominent attached chimney. In contrast with the English and Tudor Revival styles the one-
story version mimics, the Minimal Traditional home is capped with a low or intermediate pitch roof with a hipped or side
gable. Sheathing materials include stucco, brick, or wood, often accompanied by stone veneer accents. Fenestration
generally consists of multi-light casement, double-hung, and picture windows with wood frames. The eaves and rakes of
the Minimal Traditional home are typically shallow (in a departure from the later Ranch House style, which they often
resemble). Although they have little applied ornament, many Minimal Traditional homes often display decorative wood
shutters and porch-roof supports
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is eligible for the Santa Ana Register under Criterion 1 as a representative example of the
gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. Additionally, the house has been categorized as
“Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is a representative example of
Minimal Traditional residential architecture in Santa Ana just prior to World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-
2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3:It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3:Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________Reviewer________________________Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Wiesseman-Jonason House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad: TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2417 North Park Boulevard City: Santa Ana Zip: 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-063-25
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the Wiesseman-Jonason House is a one-and-a-half-story single-family residence constructed in the
gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style, with detailing culled from the Late Colonial Revival style. It is capped
by a moderately pitched, cross-gabled roof with molded eaves. The roof is clad in contemporary asphalt shingle roofing and
the exterior walls are clad with wide clapboard siding. The focal point of the design is the central entry portico composed of
slender posts supporting a metal canopy. An interior brick chimney rises above the roof ridgeline. Four symmetrical, six-over-
six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows line the front (south) elevation. Fenestration along the north, east, and west
elevations consists of shallow, side elevation bays, and six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows. A one-story,
front-gabled, detached garage also clad in wide clapboards is located in the rear of the property. The property is landscaped
with low vegetation, neatly trimmed hedges, trees, and features a central brick walkway leading to the front entry.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes)HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
South elevation, view north
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1938/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Corey Flynn Van Houten
2417 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location
Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Wiesseman-Jonason House
B1. Historic Name: Wiesseman-Jonason House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Minimal Traditional
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): April 27, 1938. Constructed. $6,250.
January 29, 1986. Reroof.
November 1, 2010. Reroof house and attached garage, remove comp. and install comp. $4,245.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:__________Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: Detached Garage.
B9a. Architect:Unknown b. Builder: V.J. Anderson
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1938 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is architecturally significant as a representative example of the gable-and-wing variant of the
Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. It was built in 1938 for $4,245 by local developer and builder V.J. Anderson. The home
was sold to Frank W. Wiesseman (1863-1930) and Ida C. Wiesseman (1872-1961), who resided on the property until 1948
before moving to 2311 North Heliotrope Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Wiesseman moved to Santa Ana with their two youngest children
from New York City between 1905 and 1910 and immediately started a business known as the Wiesseman’s Variety Store at
114 W. Fourth Street in Downtown Santa Ana. Between the years, 1910 and 1961, Wiesseman’s Variety Store was an original
stakeholder and neighborhood staple in Downtown Santa Ana. The two were active in the First Methodist Church, and Mrs.
Wiesseman was an active member of The Ebell Club. The family was notable in business and social circles in Santa Ana. In
1949 the property was sold to S. Walter Jonason, a retired Santa Ana resident originally from Virgina. Mr. Jonason lived on the
property until 1962 when it was sold to a P.G. Lynch. Since then, the Wiesseman-Jonason House has been occupied by various
owners until the current homeowners purchased the home in 2020.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
Wiesseman-Jonason House
2417 North Park Boulevard
N
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
Page 3_ of 3_Resource Name: Wiesseman-Jonason House
*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
The Wiesseman-Jonason House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of orange, avocado, and walnut trees and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021), Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The Wiesseman-Jonason House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as
representative example of the gable-and-wing variant of the Minimal Traditional style in Santa Ana. Notable features in this
regard are the simplicity of design and use of materials and details associated with the late Colonial Revival style. Additionally,
the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and
is a representative example of Minimal Traditional residential architecture in Santa Ana just prior to World War II (Santa Ana
Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features exhibited by this property include its cross-gabled roof with
molded eaves; wide clapboard siding; brick accents including interior chimney, side elevation bay window base, and front
walkway; lunette attic vent; six-over-six, wood-framed, double-hung sash windows; entry portico composed of slender posts
supporting a metal canopy; and shallow, side elevation bays.
*B12. References (continued):
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National Register
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1920-1979.
Year: 1930; Census Place: Santa Ana, Orange, California; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0080; FHL microfilm: 2339917
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
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HRC 2021-14/ HRCA 2021-14/ HPPA 2021-13
2417 NORTH PARK BOULEVARD
WIESSEMAN-JONASON HOUSE
P L A N N I N G AND B U I L D I N G A G E N C Y
500’ RADIUS
SITE
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
_________________________________________________________________________
HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Allan Tea, a single man, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”),
owner of real property located at 2120 North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, California, in the
County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A.The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B.The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2120
North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C.The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D.City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
Exhibit 3
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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E.Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1.Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2.Renewal.
a.Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b.If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c.Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d.If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3.Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a.Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b.All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c.A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d.The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e.Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4.Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5.Cancellation.
a.The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b.If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c.If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6.Enforcement of Agreement.
a.In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b.City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a.Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2120 North Heliotrope
Drive, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-082-38, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, in
the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b.City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Allan Tea
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c.This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d.All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e.In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing part y in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f.In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g.This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11.Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the Count y Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12.Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13.Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
ALLAN TEA
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 29 AND THE SOUTH 45.57 FEET OF LOT 30, BLOCK “A” OF TRACT NO. 1035, IN
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER
MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 33 PAGE 46 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, RECORDS OF
SAID ORANGE COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THE SOUTH 35.57 FEET OF LOT 29.
PARCEL 2:
THE SOUTH 49.57 FEET OF LOT 30, IN BLOCK “A” OF TRACT NO. 1035, ORANGE
COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP THEREOF, RECORDED IN BOOK 33 AT PAGE 46
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, RECORDS OF SAID ORANGE COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SOUTH 45.57 FEET.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-082-38
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
W.M. Bradley House
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME W.M. Bradley House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2120 North Heliotrope Drive
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1950 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Ranch House
Widely published in Sunset and House Beautiful magazines, the Ranch House dominated post-World War II residential
expansion and represented the most popular house form in the United States from the 1950s through 1970s. The Ranch
House originated in the 1930’s designs of Southern California architect C liff May, who sought to reinvent the W est’s
vernacular housing traditions by combining the form and massing of the traditional ranch house with a modernist’s
concern for informality, expressed in materials and plan, and indoor -outdoor integration.
While the style includes several variants, a basic set of character -defining features applies to most examples. In form and
massing, the style evokes a sprawling ranch that developed over time, with a central block extended by wings of varying
roof heights. Generally L-shaped or U-shaped in plan, the Ranch House typically has a one-story profile with strong
horizontal emphasis expressed through a low pitched or flat roof with wide overhanging eaves. Asymmetrical in design,
the Ranch House is often sheathed in and accented with rustic materials such as board-and-batten siding, high brick
foundations, art stone, and wood shake roofs. Indoor-outdoor integration is achieved through the use of recessed or
extended porches, set low to the ground, and the generous use of large picture, ribbon, or corner windows. Window
detailing can include wood frames, decorative shutters, and diamond-patterned muntins. Ornamentation includes
rusticated elements, such as carved porch supports and exposed rafters, uneven rakes and flared eaves, and faux dove
cotes and bird houses.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as simple
but representative example of the Ranch style in Santa Ana, designed and constructed by notable local builder, Allison
Honer. The recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of
Floral Park and is a representative example of Ranch style residential archite cture in Santa Ana during the population and
building boom that followed World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3: It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3: Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation .
Exhibit B
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) W.M. Bradley House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad: TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2120 North Heliotrope Drive City: Santa Ana Zip: 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-082-38
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the W.M. Bradley House is a one-story single-family residence on a large parcel, sited with a deep
setback and constructed in a Ranch House style. A detached garage is located a few feet behind (west of) the north end of the
rear (west) elevation of the residence. The house and garage delineate a reversed "L" -shaped plan, which embraces a
generously sized rear patio. Asymmetrical in design, the house exhibits a strong horizontal e mphasis expressed through a low-
pitched, cross-gabled roof with little or no overhang. The exterior of the house is clad in a combination smooth stucco and
horizontal wood board siding. The roof treatment defines three sections of the front (east) façade. In the middle, the entry porch
is characterized by a partial width front porch whose roof is supported by slender, paired posts. The entry also features a six-
panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass sidelights. Occupying most of the façade north of the entry are a series
of wood, multi-light windows framed by shutters. The projecting front gable wing south of the entry is highlighted by a prominent
multi-light window, also framed by shutters. Wood multi-light windows also appear on the north and south elevations. An exterior
brick chimney rises above the roof along the south elevation. Alterations to the house include the removal of original wood roof
shingles, addition to the rear of the garage, and in-kind replacement of porch roof support posts along the front elevation. Other
than the relatively minor noted changes, the house appears intact and is in good condition. The property is landscaped with a
lawn, low vegetation and a long driveway leading towards the rear, detached garage.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
East elevation, view southwest
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1950/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Allan Tea
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location
Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: W.M. Bradley House
B1. Historic Name: W.M. Bradley House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Ranch House
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): May 16, 1950. Constructed. $15,000.
October 4, 1952. Add rumpus room to private garage 16'x35' for Wm. E. Bradley by Allison Honer Co. $4,000.
November 19, 1952. Plastering for Mr. Bradley by Pacific.
January 31, 1997. Reroof - remove wood shingles and apply comp.shingles. $7,560.
December 31, 2009. Tear off comp. and apply comp. to single-family and detached garage. $9,905.
January 2, 2014. Install spa. $14,000.
April 17, 2015. Legalize replacement of support posts at front porch. $1,000.
July 29, 2020. Install solar panels. $10,725.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:__________ Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: Detached Garage.
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: Allison Honer
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1950 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The W.M. Bradley House is architecturally significant as as a simple but representative example of the Ranch style in Santa
Ana. It was built in 1950 by prominent developer and builder Allison Honer, the subdivider of Floral Park. The house was first
sold to W.M. Bradley, a long time Santa Ana resident who was married to Jane W. Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley resided on
the property from 1950 to 1979. According to City directories, the property remained vacant for several years after. Since then,
the W.M. Bradley House has been occupied by various owners until the current homeowners purchased the home in 2020.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
W.M. Bradley House
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
N
State of California The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
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*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of
Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and selection
as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods developing
to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and
orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The W.M. Bradley House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897 -1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1 960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021), Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as simple b ut
representative example of the Ranch style in Santa Ana, designed and constructed by notable local builder, Allison Honer. The
recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is
a representative example of Ranch style residential architecture in Santa Ana during the population and building boom that
followed World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features of the W.M. Bradley House that
should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-story massing and cross-gabled roof, resulting in an overall
horizontality; exterior materials (wood and stucco); partial width front porch whose roof is supported by slender, paired posts;
six-panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass sidelights; multi -light windows and shutters, where present; and
attached brick chimney.
*B12. References (continued):
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National Register
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1950-1990.
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2.The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3.All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4.Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6.Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated b y 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9.Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10.Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
Planning and Building Agency
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Historic Resources Commission Staff Report
September 2, 2021
Topic: HRCA No. 2021-15, HRC 2021-15, HPPA No. 2021-14 – The W.M. Bradley
House
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Adopt a resolution approving Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-
15 and Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-15 (Exhibit 1).
2. Recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the
Council to execute the attached Mills Act agreement with Allan Tea, subject to non-
substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney (Exhibit 2).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Allan Tea is requesting approval to designate an existing residence located at 2120
North Heliotrope Drive to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties, as well as
approval to execute a Mills Act agreement with the City of Santa Ana.
DISCUSSION
Project Location and Site Description
The subject property is located on the west side of North Heliotrope Drive in the Floral
Park neighborhood. The site contains a 1,806-square-foot, Ranch style residence and
attached garage on a 14,500-square-foot residential lot (Exhibit 3).
Analysis of the Issues
Historical Listing
In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the
Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing,
designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site
having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria
Historic Resources Commission 2 –1 9/2/2021
Exhibit 4
HRCA No. 2021-15, HRC 2021-15, HPPA No. 2021-14 – The W.M. Bradley House
September 2, 2021
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set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails
applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is
eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The
first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old.
The structure identified meets the minimum selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of
the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 71 years old and is a good example
of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property.
The property, recognized as the W.M. Bradley House, is in intact and characteristic
example of a post-World War II Ranch style house in Santa Ana. It was built in 1950 for
$15,000 by prominent Santa Ana developer and builder Allison Honer. Soon after the
house was completed, it was sold to W.M. Bradley, a long time Santa Ana resident who
was married to Jane W. Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley resided on the property from
1950 to 1979. According to City directories, the property remained vacant for several
years after. Since then, various owners have occupied the W.M. Bradley House until the
current homeowners purchased the home in 2020.
the W.M. Bradley House is a one-story single-family residence on a large parcel, sited
with a deep setback and constructed in a Ranch House style. A detached garage is
located a few feet behind (west of) the north end of the rear (west) elevation of the
residence. The house and garage delineate a reversed "L" -shaped plan, which
embraces a generously sized rear patio. Asymmetrical in design, the house exhibits a
strong horizontal emphasis expressed through a low-pitched, cross-gabled roof with
little or no overhang. The exterior of the house is clad in a combination smooth stucco
and horizontal wood board siding. The roof treatment defines three sections of the front
(east) façade. In the middle, the entry porch is characterized by a partial width front
porch whose roof is supported by slender, paired posts. The entry also features a six-
panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass sidelights. Occupying most of
the façade north of the entry are a series of wood, multi-light windows framed by
shutters. The projecting front gable wing south of the entry is highlighted by a prominent
multi-light window, also framed by shutters. Wood multi-light windows also appear on
the north and south elevations. An exterior brick chimney rises above the roof along the
south elevation.
Alterations to the house include the removal of original wood roof shingles, addition to
the rear of the garage, and in-kind replacement of porch roof support posts along the
front elevation. Other than the relatively minor noted changes, the house appears intact
and is in good condition. The property is landscaped with a lawn, low vegetation and a
long driveway leading towards the rear, detached garage. Character-defining features of
the W.M. Bradley House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to:
one-story massing and cross-gabled roof, resulting in an overall horizontality; exterior
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materials (wood and stucco); partial width front porch whose roof is supported by
slender, paired posts; six-panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass
sidelights; multi-light windows and shutters, where present; and attached brick chimney.
The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties under Criterion 1 as simple but representative example of the Ranch style in
Santa Ana, designed and constructed by notable local builder, Allison Honer. The
recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall
character and history of Floral Park and is a representative example of Ranch style
residential architecture in Santa Ana during the population and building boom that
followed World War II.
Mills Act Agreement
Ordinance No. NS-2382 authorized the Historic Resources Commission to execute
Historic Property Preservation Agreements (HPPA), commonly known as Mills Act
agreements for eligible properties (Exhibit 2). To be eligible for the Mills Act, the
property must be listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic
Resources Commission Application and Historic Register Categorization actions
proposed for this site authorize the listing of the property on the local register. The
agreement provides monetary incentives to the property owner in the form of a property
tax reduction in exchange for the owner’s voluntary commitment to maintain the
property in a good state of repair as necessary to maintain its character and
appearance. Once recorded, the agreement generates a different valuation method in
determining the property’s assessed value, resulting in tax savings for the owner. Aside
from the tax savings, the benefits include:
Long term preservation of the property and visual improvement to the neighborhood
Allows for a mechanism to provide for property rehabilitation
Provides additional incentive for potential buyers to purchase historic structures
Discourages inappropriate alterations to the property
The property has no identified unauthorized modifications. Upon consideration of the
application, it is recommended that the City enter into a Historic Property Preservation
Agreement.
Public Notification
The subject site is located within the Floral Park Neighborhood Association. The
president of this Neighborhood Association was notified by mail 10 days prior to this
public hearing. In addition, the project site was posted with a notice advertising this
public hearing, a notice was published in the Orange County Reporter and mailed
notices were sent to all property owners within 500 feet of the project site. At the time of
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this printing, no correspondence, either written or electronic, has been received from
any members of the public.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines,
the project is exempt from further review pursuant to Section 15331 of the CEQA
Guidelines (Class 31 – Historical Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation) as these actions
are designed to preserve historic resources. Based on this analysis, a Notice of
Exemption, Environmental Review No. 2021-87 will be filed for this project.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $864.89 annually, for a period of
not less than ten years.
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Resolution
2. Mills Act Agreement
3. 500-Foot Radius Map
Submitted By:
Pedro Gomez, AICP, Associate Planner
Approved By:
Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency, Planning and Building
Agency
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE HISTORIC RESOURCES
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING
HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION APPLICATION
NO. 2021-15 TO PLACE THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
2120 NORTH HELIOTROPE DRIVE, SANTA ANA, ON THE
HISTORICAL REGISTER AND APPROVING HISTORIC
REGISTER CATEGORIZATION NO. 2021-15 PLACING
SAID PROPERTY WITHIN THE CONTRIBUTIVE
CATEGORY
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana
hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows:
A. On September 2, 2021, the Historic Resources Commission held a duly
noticed public hearing for the placement on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties (Historic Resources Commission Application No.
2021-15) and categorization (Historic Resources Commission
Categorization No. 2021-15) of the W.M. Bradley House located at 2120
North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana.
B. The W.M. Bradley House has distinctive architectural features of the
Ranch House style and was built in 1950.
C. The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as simple but representative
example of the Ranch style in Santa Ana, designed and constructed by
notable local builder, Allison Honer. The recommended categorization is
“Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of
Floral Park and is a representative example of Ranch style residential
architecture in Santa Ana during the population and building boom that
followed World War II. Character-defining features of the W.M. Bradley
House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-
story massing and cross-gabled roof, resulting in an overall horizontality;
exterior materials (wood and stucco); partial width front porch whose roof
is supported by slender, paired posts; six-panel front door flanked by
partial height prismatic glass sidelights; multi-light windows and shutters,
where present; and attached brick chimney.
D. The legal owner of the property is Allan Tea.
E. The legal description for the subject property is attached hereto as Exhibit
A and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
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F. The subject property meets the standards for placement on the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties pursuant to Section 30-2 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code.
G. The subject property meets the minimal standards for placement in the
Contributive category pursuant to Section 30-2.2(3) of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
Section 2. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the
recommended actions are exempt from further review under CEQA Guidelines Section
15331, Class 31, as these actions are designed to preserve historical resources.
Categorical Exemption No. ER-2021-87 will be filed for this project.
Section 3. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana, after
conducting the public hearing, hereby approves:
A. Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-15 to place the
W.M. Bradley House located at 2120 North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana,
92706 on the historical register, and
B. Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-15 placing the W.M. Bradley
House located at 2120 North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, 92706 within
the Contributive category.
These decisions are based upon the evidence submitted at the above said
hearing, which includes, but is not limited to: the Staff report and exhibits attached
thereto, the report entitled “Historical Property Description,” and the public testimony, all
of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 4. For the subject property, a report entitled “Historical Property
Description” is on file with the Planning Division, and is hereby approved and adopted, and
together with the staff report and this Resolution, justify the findings for placement on the
City of Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties into a category. The Historic Resources
Commission Secretary is authorized and directed to include this Resolution in the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
Section 5. The Historic Resources Commission Secretary is hereby directed to
file a certified copy of this Resolution with the County Recorder’s Office after the adoption
of this Resolution pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 5029.
ADOPTED this 2nd day of September, 2021.
__________________________
Tim Rush
Chairperson
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
John M. Funk
Sr. Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Commission members____________________________________
NOES: Commission members___________________________________
ABSTAIN: Commission members___________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Commission members___________________________________
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, SARAH BERNAL, Historic Resources Commission Secretary, do hereby attest to and
certify the attached Resolution No. 2021-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by
Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana on September 2, 2021.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________
Commission Secretary
City of Santa Ana
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APN Address Legal Description Owner Names
002-082-38 2120 North Heliotrope
Drive
THE LAND REFERRED TO
HEREIN BELOW IS
SITUATED IN THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF
ORANGE, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA AND IS
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 29 AND THE SOUTH
45.57 FEET OF LOT 30,
BLOCK “A” OF TRACT NO.
1035, IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP RECORDED IN
BOOK 33 PAGE 46 OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS,
RECORDS OF SAID ORANGE
COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THE SOUTH
35.57 FEET OF LOT 29.
PARCEL 2:
THE SOUTH 49.57 FEET OF
LOT 30, IN BLOCK “A” OF
TRACT NO. 1035, ORANGE
COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP THEREOF,
RECORDED IN BOOK 33 AT
PAGE 46 OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS,
RECORDS OF SAID ORANGE
COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THEREFROM
THE SOUTH 45.57 FEET.
Allan Tea
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MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
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HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Allan Tea, a single man, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”),
owner of real property located at 2120 North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, California, in the
County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B. The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2120
North Heliotrope Drive, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C. The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D. City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2120 North Heliotrope
Drive, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-082-38, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, in
the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Allan Tea
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST:CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
ALLAN TEA
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 29 AND THE SOUTH 45.57 FEET OF LOT 30, BLOCK “A” OF TRACT NO. 1035, IN
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER
MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 33 PAGE 46 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, RECORDS OF
SAID ORANGE COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THE SOUTH 35.57 FEET OF LOT 29.
PARCEL 2:
THE SOUTH 49.57 FEET OF LOT 30, IN BLOCK “A” OF TRACT NO. 1035, ORANGE
COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP THEREOF, RECORDED IN BOOK 33 AT PAGE 46
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, RECORDS OF SAID ORANGE COUNTY.
EXCEPTING THEREFROM THE SOUTH 45.57 FEET.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-082-38
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
W.M. Bradley House
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME W.M. Bradley House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2120 North Heliotrope Drive
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1950 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Ranch House
Widely published in Sunset and House Beautiful magazines, the Ranch House dominated post-World War II residential
expansion and represented the most popular house form in the United States from the 1950s through 1970s. The Ranch
House originated in the 1930’s designs of Southern California architect Cliff May, who sought to reinvent the West’s
vernacular housing traditions by combining the form and massing of the traditional ranch house with a modernist’s
concern for informality, expressed in materials and plan, and indoor-outdoor integration.
While the style includes several variants, a basic set of character-defining features applies to most examples. In form and
massing, the style evokes a sprawling ranch that developed over time, with a central block extended by wings of varying
roof heights. Generally L-shaped or U-shaped in plan, the Ranch House typically has a one-story profile with strong
horizontal emphasis expressed through a low pitched or flat roof with wide overhanging eaves. Asymmetrical in design,
the Ranch House is often sheathed in and accented with rustic materials such as board-and-batten siding, high brick
foundations, art stone, and wood shake roofs. Indoor-outdoor integration is achieved through the use of recessed or
extended porches, set low to the ground, and the generous use of large picture, ribbon, or corner windows. Window
detailing can include wood frames, decorative shutters, and diamond-patterned muntins. Ornamentation includes
rusticated elements, such as carved porch supports and exposed rafters, uneven rakes and flared eaves, and faux dove
cotes and bird houses.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as simple
but representative example of the Ranch style in Santa Ana, designed and constructed by notable local builder, Allison
Honer. The recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of
Floral Park and is a representative example of Ranch style residential architecture in Santa Ana during the population and
building boom that followed World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3:It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3:Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________Reviewer________________________Date_______________
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad: TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2120 North Heliotrope Drive City: Santa Ana Zip: 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-082-38
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the W.M. Bradley House is a one-story single-family residence on a large parcel, sited with a deep
setback and constructed in a Ranch House style. A detached garage is located a few feet behind (west of) the north end of the
rear (west) elevation of the residence. The house and garage delineate a reversed "L" -shaped plan, which embraces a
generously sized rear patio. Asymmetrical in design, the house exhibits a strong horizontal emphasis expressed through a low-
pitched, cross-gabled roof with little or no overhang. The exterior of the house is clad in a combination smooth stucco and
horizontal wood board siding. The roof treatment defines three sections of the front (east) façade. In the middle, the entry porch
is characterized by a partial width front porch whose roof is supported by slender, paired posts. The entry also features a six-
panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass sidelights. Occupying most of the façade north of the entry are a series
of wood, multi-light windows framed by shutters. The projecting front gable wing south of the entry is highlighted by a prominent
multi-light window, also framed by shutters. Wood multi-light windows also appear on the north and south elevations. An exterior
brick chimney rises above the roof along the south elevation. Alterations to the house include the removal of original wood roof
shingles, addition to the rear of the garage, and in-kind replacement of porch roof support posts along the front elevation. Other
than the relatively minor noted changes, the house appears intact and is in good condition. The property is landscaped with a
lawn, low vegetation and a long driveway leading towards the rear, detached garage.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes)HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
East elevation, view southwest
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1950/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Allan Tea
2120 North Heliotrope Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location
Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
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*Resource Name or #: W.M. Bradley House
B1. Historic Name: W.M. Bradley House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Ranch House
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): May 16, 1950. Constructed. $15,000.
October 4, 1952. Add rumpus room to private garage 16'x35' for Wm. E. Bradley by Allison Honer Co. $4,000.
November 19, 1952. Plastering for Mr. Bradley by Pacific.
January 31, 1997. Reroof - remove wood shingles and apply comp.shingles. $7,560.
December 31, 2009. Tear off comp. and apply comp. to single-family and detached garage. $9,905.
January 2, 2014. Install spa. $14,000.
April 17, 2015. Legalize replacement of support posts at front porch. $1,000.
July 29, 2020. Install solar panels. $10,725.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:__________Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: Detached Garage.
B9a. Architect:Unknown b. Builder: Allison Honer
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1950 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The W.M. Bradley House is architecturally significant as as a simple but representative example of the Ranch style in Santa
Ana. It was built in 1950 by prominent developer and builder Allison Honer, the subdivider of Floral Park. The house was first
sold to W.M. Bradley, a long time Santa Ana resident who was married to Jane W. Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley resided on
the property from 1950 to 1979. According to City directories, the property remained vacant for several years after. Since then,
the W.M. Bradley House has been occupied by various owners until the current homeowners purchased the home in 2020.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
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*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
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*B10. Significance (continued):
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of
Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and selection
as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods developing
to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and
orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The W.M. Bradley House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021), Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The W.M. Bradley House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 as simple but
representative example of the Ranch style in Santa Ana, designed and constructed by notable local builder, Allison Honer. The
recommended categorization is “Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is
a representative example of Ranch style residential architecture in Santa Ana during the population and building boom that
followed World War II (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features of the W.M. Bradley House that
should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-story massing and cross-gabled roof, resulting in an overall
horizontality; exterior materials (wood and stucco); partial width front porch whose roof is supported by slender, paired posts;
six-panel front door flanked by partial height prismatic glass sidelights; multi-light windows and shutters, where present; and
attached brick chimney.
*B12. References (continued):
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National Register
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1950-1990.
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
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HRC 2021-15/ HRCA 2021-15/ HPPA 2021-14
2120 NORTH HELIOTROPE DRIVE
W.M. BRADLEY HOUSE
P L A N N I N G AND B U I L D I N G A G E N C Y
500’ RADIUS
SITE
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MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
_________________________________________________________________________
HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey, husband and wife as joint tenants,
(hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2307 North
Riverside Drive, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana
Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A.The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B.The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2307
North Riverside Drive, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C.The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D.City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
Exhibit 5
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to t he annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b.All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c.A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d.The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e.Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4.Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessar y or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5.Cancellation.
a.The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2307 North Riverside
Drive, Assessor Parcel Numbers, 002-131-32; 002-131-42, and more particularly described in
Exhibit A, in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in
this Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8.No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9.Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10.General Provisions.
a.None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b.The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c.This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d.All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e.In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f.In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g.This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11.Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12.Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13.Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
TREVOR SMITH
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
BRIDGET FUREY
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 47, OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 16, PAGE(S) 33 AND 34
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
PARCEL 2:
ALL THAT PORTION OF LOT 53 OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK
16, PAGES(S) 33 AND 34 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE
COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, LYING WESTERLY OF THE FOLLOWING
DESCRIBED LINE:
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 53, SAID POINT, BEING
A POINT IN A CURVE, CONCAVE EASTERLY, HAVING A RADISU OF 3027.00 FEET, A
RADIAL LINE TO SAID POINT BEARS NORTH 89° 01’ 12” WEST; THENCE
SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 60.02 FEET; THROUGH A
CENTRAL ANGLE OF 01° 08’ 10” TO A POINT IN THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 53,
LAST SAID POINT LYING 27.45 FEET WEST OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID
LOT 53. FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF ORANGE COUNTY.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-131-32; 002-131-42
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Tarr-Wright House
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Tarr-Wright House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2307 North Riverside Drive
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1940 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION 3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Colonial Revival Cape Cod
One of the oldest American architectural genres, Cape Cod design originated in New England in the late eighteenth
century with English settlers, who modified a common English precedent for the new climate and materials. Older
examples of Cape Cod houses were usually one-and-a-half stories in height, with a steeply- pitched, side-gabled roof to
accommodate the upper story. The Cape Cod style of home persisted as a popular style through the late nineteenth
century and then experienced a revival as a subtype of Colonial Revival architecture in the 1940s and 1950s because
they were easy to construct and relatively affordable, making them attractive to post -World War II builders and home
buyers alike. “The Cape Cod House is the most common form of a one-story Colonial Revival house.”1 Twentieth century
examples are usually one to two stories in height, rectangular in plan and shape, and topped by a side gable roof of
medium to steep pitch with little or no overhang. Siding is most commonly wood but may also be brick or stucco. Facades
are generally symmetrical, with a central entry flanked by one or two bays of wood -framed windows, usually multi-paned
and double-hung. Detailing is consistent with the Colonial Revival. Cape Cod styling was also frequently applied to two
other mid-twentieth century styles, Minimal Traditional and Ranch.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its
exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style. Additionally, the house has
been categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral Park
neighborhood, and, as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style in the Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good
example of period architecture” (Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3: It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3: Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.
1 McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, 427.
Exhibit B
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Tarr-Wright House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2307 North Riverside Drive City Santa Ana Zip 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 002-131-32; 002-131-42
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the Tarr-Wright House is a two-story single-family residence constructed in the Colonial Revival Cape
Cod style. Regular if not totally symmetrical in design, the house is clad in wide, horizontal, wood siding and features a medium-
pitched, side-gabled roof with little to no overhangs. The roof features two symmetrical gabled dormers, each containing a six-
over-six double-hung, wood window. The fenestration defines four bays across the west (front) façade. The north end bay
features a six-over-six double-hung wood window with shutters. Offset to the north, the next bay contains the front entry, which
incorporates two sidelights with a fan light transom. The southern two bays incorporate two six-over-six double-hung wood
windows with shutters. Similar wood windows also appear on the north (right) and south (left) elevation. All windows feature a
“lamb tongue” detailing. A brick chimney is centered at the south elevation, towards the side gable ridgeline. A driveway to the
north of the property leads to a detached, one-story, side-gabled garage, built at the same time as the residence. The detached
garage is also clad in wide, horizontal, wood siding, which was recently replaced with redwood cedar siding on three sides.
Alterations to single-family residence include the the removal of original roof shingles, and a recent (2021) single- and second-
story addition constructed in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and generally not
visible from the public right-of-way. Other than the noted changes, the house appears intact and is in good condition.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
West elevation, view northeast
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1940/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey
2307 North Riverside Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Tarr-Wright House
B1. Historic Name: Tarr-Wright House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-Family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-Family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival Cape Cod
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): April 26, 1940. Constructed. $10,000.
October 27, 1958. Interior alterations for T.V. Reeve by Richard Grella.$4,000
May 26, 1988. Reroof single-family residence w/o tear off.
June 3, 1988. Reroof garage.
June 15, 2005. Reroof single-family residence and garage with tear off shake and install comp. $8,750.
February 23, 2021. New redwood cedar siding on three sides for detached garage to match existing single-family. $5,000.
February 23, 2021. 259 sq. ft. addition to first floor with 296 sq. ft. second-story addition. $17,000.
*B7. Moved? No Yes Unknown Date:__________ Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: None.
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: E.C. Rogers
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1940 Property Type: Single-Family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Tarr-Wright House is architecturally significant for its highly characteristic use of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style and
historically notable for its association with a prominent local builder, Emmet C. Rogers. It was built in 1940 by E. C. Rogers for
a total cost of $10,000 including the residence and garage. Emmet C. Rogers was a prolific Santa Ana builder and developer.
He was born in 1896 in Missouri (1930 Federal Census). By 1920, he had married his wife Juna and moved to Greeley,
Colorado, where he was a high school teacher (1920 Federal Census). A few years later, in 1923, he had relocated his famil y
to Santa Ana, and had a dual appointment at both Willard and Lathrop Junior High Schools, where he taught science (Santa
Ana Daily Register, April 4, 1923). From the late 1930s through the following decade, Rogers was extremely active as a building
contractor, often moving his family, perhaps to houses as he finished them, on Greenleaf (2144), Freeman (602 and 1315),
and Towner (1010) (1930 Federal Census, Santa Ana Register July 29, 1940, 1947 and 1949 city directories).
According to city directories, Emmet C. Rogers resided at the Tarr-Wright House for a year. Between 1941 and 1954, various
renters were identified has having lived at the Tarr-Wright House, including Ray P. and Ruth Tarr (1941-1945), Robert B. and
Cecile R. Wright (1950-1953), and Thomas V. and Maurine Reeve. It is unknown how long the Reeve’s lived in the Tarr-Wright
House prior to more recent residents. The more notable residents of the Tarr-Wright House were both Mr. Ray P. Tarr and
Robert B. Wright.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
1920 Federal Census
1930 Federal Census
Santa Ana Register July 29, 1940
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
Tarr-Wright House
2307 North Riverside Drive
N
State of California The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
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*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2018 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
Ray P. Tarr and his wife were members of the Ebell Club and were actively involved in the Junior Ebell Riders. Mr. Tarr was
actively identified with the investment banking field for many years and managed the Santa Ana office for the William A. Lower
& Co. with O’Melveny, Wagenseller & Durst investment banking house, located in the First National Bank building. Robert B.
Wright was also associated with the banking field. However, Mr. Wright was employed by Bank of America as the bank
manager.
The Tarr-Wright House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897 -1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santi ago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebra ted in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival.
The Allison Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Sa nta
Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the
neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, incl uding Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2 021) Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citi zens.
The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its
exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style. Additionally, the house has been
categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral Park neighborhood, and,
as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style in the Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good example of period
architecture”. Character-defining features of the Tarr-Wright House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to:
original or replaced in-kind materials and finishes (siding and wood trim); roof configuration, materials, and treatment; massing
and composition; fenestration (doors and windows); architectural detailing (entry, dormers and window shutters), and the one-
story garage.
*B12. References (continued):
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Hess, Alan. Ranch House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National
Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
“Alison Honer Dies at 84,” The Santa Ana Journal, September 21, 1981.
“History of Floral Park.” http://www.floral-park.com/page2.html.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1941-1962.
Santa Ana Daily Register, April 4, 1923
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated b y 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
Planning and Building Agency
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Historic Resources Commission Staff Report
September 2, 2021
Topic: HRCA No. 2021-16, HRC 2021-16, HPPA No. 2021-15 – The Tarr-Wright House
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Adopt a resolution approving Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-
16 and Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-16 (Exhibit 1).
2. Recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the
Council to execute the attached Mills Act agreement with Trevor Smith and Bridget
Furey, subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City
Attorney (Exhibit 2).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey are requesting approval to designate an existing
residence located at 2307 North Riverside Drive to the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties, as well as approval to execute a Mills Act agreement with the City of Santa
Ana.
DISCUSSION
Project Location and Site Description
The subject property is located on the east side of North Riverside Drive in the Floral Park
neighborhood. The site consists of a 2,606-square-foot, Colonial Revival Cape Cod style
residence and detached garage on a 10,000-square-foot residential lot (Exhibit 3).
Analysis of the Issues
Historical Listing
In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the
Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing,
designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site
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Exhibit 6
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having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria
set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails
applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is
eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The
first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old.
The structure identified meets the minimum selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of
the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 81 years old and is a good example
of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property.
The property, recognized as the Tarr-Wright House, is located within the Floral Park
neighborhood boundaries and has distinctive architectural features of the Colonial
Revival Cape Cod style. Emmet C. Rogers, a prolific Santa Ana builder and developer,
built the residence in 1940. From the late 1930s through the following decade, Rogers
was extremely active as a building contractor. However, developer and builder Allison
Honer, was credited as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa
Ana. In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell, continued
developing the groves of Floral Park.
The Tarr-Wright House is a two-story single-family residence constructed in the Colonial
Revival Cape Cod style. Regular if not totally symmetrical in design, the house is clad in
wide, horizontal, wood siding and features a medium-pitched, side-gabled roof with little
to no overhangs. The roof features two symmetrical gabled dormers, each containing a
six-over-six double-hung, wood window. The fenestration defines four bays across the
west (front) façade. The north end bay features a six-over-six double-hung wood
window with shutters. Offset to the north, the next bay contains the front entry, which
incorporates two sidelights with a fan light transom. The southern two bays incorporate
two six-over-six double-hung wood windows with shutters. Similar wood windows also
appear on the north (right) and south (left) elevation. All windows feature a “lamb
tongue” detailing. A brick chimney is centered at the south elevation, towards the side
gable ridgeline. A driveway to the north of the property leads to a detached, one-story,
side-gabled garage, built at the same time as the residence. The detached garage is
also clad in wide, horizontal, wood siding, which was recently replaced with redwood
cedar siding on three sides.
Alterations to single-family residence include the removal of original roof shingles, and a
recent (2021) single- and second-story addition constructed in accordance with the
Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and generally not visible from the
public right-of-way. Other than the noted changes, the house appears intact and is in
good condition. Character-defining features of the Tarr-Wright House that should be
preserved include, but may not be limited to: original or replaced in-kind materials and
finishes (siding and wood trim); roof configuration, materials, and treatment; massing
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and composition; fenestration (doors and windows); architectural detailing (entry,
dormers and window shutters), and the one-story garage.
The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties under Criterion 1, for its exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of
the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as
“Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral
Park neighborhood, and, as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style in the
Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good example of period architecture”.
Mills Act Agreement
Ordinance No. NS-2382 authorized the Historic Resources Commission to execute
Historic Property Preservation Agreements (HPPA), commonly known as Mills Act
agreements for eligible properties (Exhibit 2). To be eligible for the Mills Act, the
property must be listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic
Resources Commission Application and Historic Register Categorization actions
proposed for this site authorize the listing of the property on the local register. The
agreement provides monetary incentives to the property owner in the form of a property
tax reduction in exchange for the owner’s voluntary commitment to maintain the
property in a good state of repair as necessary to maintain its character and
appearance. Once recorded, the agreement generates a different valuation method in
determining the property’s assessed value, resulting in tax savings for the owner. Aside
from the tax savings, the benefits include:
Long term preservation of the property and visual improvement to the neighborhood
Allows for a mechanism to provide for property rehabilitation
Provides additional incentive for potential buyers to purchase historic structures
Discourages inappropriate alterations to the property
The property has no identified unauthorized modifications. Upon consideration of the
application, it is recommended that the City enter into a Historic Property Preservation
Agreement.
Public Notification
The subject site is located within the Floral Park Neighborhood Association. The
president of this Neighborhood Association was notified by mail 10 days prior to this
public hearing. In addition, the project site was posted with a notice advertising this
public hearing, a notice was published in the Orange County Reporter and mailed
notices were sent to all property owners within 500 feet of the project site. At the time of
this printing, no correspondence, either written or electronic, has been received from
any members of the public.
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines,
the project is exempt from further review pursuant to Section 15331 of the CEQA
Guidelines (Class 31 – Historical Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation) as these actions
are designed to preserve historic resources. Based on this analysis, a Notice of
Exemption, Environmental Review No. 2021-88 will be filed for this project.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $912.97 annually, for a period of
not less than ten years.
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Resolution
2. Mills Act Agreement
3. 500-Foot Radius Map
Submitted By:
Pedro Gomez, AICP, Associate Planner
Approved By:
Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency, Planning and Building
Agency
Historic Resources Commission 3 –4 9/2/2021
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO
GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
Resolution No. 2021-XXX
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE HISTORIC RESOURCES
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING
HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION APPLICATION
NO. 2021-16 TO PLACE THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
2307 NORTH RIVERSIDE DRIVE, SANTA ANA, ON THE
HISTORICAL REGISTER AND APPROVING HISTORIC
REGISTER CATEGORIZATION NO. 2021-16 PLACING
SAID PROPERTY WITHIN THE CONTRIBUTIVE
CATEGORY
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana
hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows:
A. On September 2, 2021, the Historic Resources Commission held a duly
noticed public hearing for the placement on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties (Historic Resources Commission Application No.
2021-16) and categorization (Historic Resources Commission
Categorization No. 2021-16) of the Tarr-Wright House located at 2307
North Riverside Drive, Santa Ana.
B. The Tarr-Wright House has distinctive architectural features of the
Colonial Revival Cape Cod style and was built in 1940.
C. The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its exemplification of the
distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style.
Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it
“contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral Park
neighborhood, and, as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style
in the Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good example of period
architecture”. Character-defining features of the Tarr-Wright House that
should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: original or
replaced in-kind materials and finishes (siding and wood trim); roof
configuration, materials, and treatment; massing and composition;
fenestration (doors and windows); architectural detailing (entry, dormers
and window shutters), and the one-story garage.
D. The legal owners of the property are Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey.
E. The legal description for the subject property is attached hereto as Exhibit
A and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
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F. The subject property meets the standards for placement on the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties pursuant to Section 30-2 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code.
G. The subject property meets the minimal standards for placement in the
Contributive category pursuant to Section 30-2.2(3) of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
Section 2. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the
recommended actions are exempt from further review under CEQA Guidelines Section
15331, Class 31, as these actions are designed to preserve historical resources.
Categorical Exemption No. ER-2021-88 will be filed for this project.
Section 3. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana, after
conducting the public hearing, hereby approves:
A. Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-16 to place the
Tarr-Wright House located at 2307 North Riverside Drive, Santa Ana,
92706 on the historical register, and
B. Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-16 placing the Tarr-Wright
House located at 2307 North Riverside Drive, Santa Ana, 92706 within the
Contributive category.
These decisions are based upon the evidence submitted at the above said
hearing, which includes, but is not limited to: the Staff report and exhibits attached
thereto, the report entitled “Historical Property Description,” and the public testimony, all
of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 4. For the subject property, a report entitled “Historical Property
Description” is on file with the Planning Division, and is hereby approved and adopted, and
together with the staff report and this Resolution, justify the findings for placement on the
City of Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties into a category. The Historic Resources
Commission Secretary is authorized and directed to include this Resolution in the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
Section 5. The Historic Resources Commission Secretary is hereby directed to
file a certified copy of this Resolution with the County Recorder’s Office after the adoption
of this Resolution pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 5029.
ADOPTED this 2nd day of September, 2021.
__________________________
Tim Rush
Chairperson
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
John M. Funk
Sr. Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Commission members____________________________________
NOES: Commission members___________________________________
ABSTAIN: Commission members___________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Commission members___________________________________
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, SARAH BERNAL, Historic Resources Commission Secretary, do hereby attest to and
certify the attached Resolution No. 2021-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by
Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana on September 2, 2021.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________
Commission Secretary
City of Santa Ana
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APN Address Legal Description Owner Names
002-131-32;
002-131-42
2307 North Riverside
Drive
THE LAND REFERRED TO
HEREIN BELOW IS
SITUATED IN THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF
ORANGE, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA AND IS
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 47, OF TRACT NO. 425,
IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP RECORDED IN
BOOK 16, PAGE(S) 33 AND
34 OF MISCELLANEOUS
MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER
OF SAID COUNTY.
PARCEL 2:
ALL THAT PORTION OF LOT
53 OF TRACT NO. 425, IN
THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP RECORDED IN
BOOK 16, PAGES(S) 33 AND
34 OF MISCELLANEOUS
MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER
OF SAID COUNTY, LYING
WESTERLY OF THE
FOLLOWING DESCRIBED
LINE:
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN
THE NORTH LINE OF SAID
LOT 53, SAID POINT, BEING
Trevor Smith and
Bridget Furey
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A POINT IN A CURVE,
CONCAVE EASTERLY,
HAVING A RADISU OF
3027.00 FEET, A RADIAL LINE
TO SAID POINT BEARS
NORTH 89° 01' 12" WEST;
THENCE SOUTHERLY
ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC
DISTANCE OF 60.02 FEET;
THROUGH A CENTRAL
ANGLE OF 01° 08' 10" TO A
POINT IN THE SOUTH LINE
OF SAID LOT 53, LAST SAID
POINT LYING 27.45 FEET
WEST OF THE SOUTHEAST
CORNER OF SAID LOT 53.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF
THE COUNTY RECORDER
OF ORANGE COUNTY.
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MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
_________________________________________________________________________
HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey, husband and wife as joint tenants,
(hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2307 North
Riverside Drive, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa Ana
Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B. The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2307
North Riverside Drive, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C. The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D. City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2307 North Riverside
Drive, Assessor Parcel Numbers, 002-131-32; 002-131-42, and more particularly described in
Exhibit A, in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in
this Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST:CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
TREVOR SMITH
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
BRIDGET FUREY
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
PARCEL 1:
LOT 47, OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 16, PAGE(S) 33 AND 34
OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
PARCEL 2:
ALL THAT PORTION OF LOT 53 OF TRACT NO. 425, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA,
COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK
16, PAGES(S) 33 AND 34 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE
COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, LYING WESTERLY OF THE FOLLOWING
DESCRIBED LINE:
BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 53, SAID POINT, BEING
A POINT IN A CURVE, CONCAVE EASTERLY, HAVING A RADISU OF 3027.00 FEET, A
RADIAL LINE TO SAID POINT BEARS NORTH 89° 01’ 12” WEST; THENCE
SOUTHERLY ALONG SAID CURVE AN ARC DISTANCE OF 60.02 FEET; THROUGH A
CENTRAL ANGLE OF 01° 08’ 10” TO A POINT IN THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID LOT 53,
LAST SAID POINT LYING 27.45 FEET WEST OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID
LOT 53. FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF ORANGE COUNTY.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-131-32; 002-131-42
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Tarr-Wright House
2307 North Riverside Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Tarr-Wright House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2307 North Riverside Drive
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1940 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION 3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Colonial Revival Cape Cod
One of the oldest American architectural genres, Cape Cod design originated in New England in the late eighteenth
century with English settlers, who modified a common English precedent for the new climate and materials. Older
examples of Cape Cod houses were usually one-and-a-half stories in height, with a steeply- pitched, side-gabled roof to
accommodate the upper story. The Cape Cod style of home persisted as a popular style through the late nineteenth
century and then experienced a revival as a subtype of Colonial Revival architecture in the 1940s and 1950s because
they were easy to construct and relatively affordable, making them attractive to post-World War II builders and home
buyers alike. “The Cape Cod House is the most common form of a one-story Colonial Revival house.”1 Twentieth century
examples are usually one to two stories in height, rectangular in plan and shape, and topped by a side gable roof of
medium to steep pitch with little or no overhang. Siding is most commonly wood but may also be brick or stucco. Facades
are generally symmetrical, with a central entry flanked by one or two bays of wood-framed windows, usually multi-paned
and double-hung. Detailing is consistent with the Colonial Revival. Cape Cod styling was also frequently applied to two
other mid-twentieth century styles, Minimal Traditional and Ranch.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its
exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style. Additionally, the house has
been categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral Park
neighborhood, and, as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style in the Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good
example of period architecture” (Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3:It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the
work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3:Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation.
1 McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, 427.Historic Resources Commission 3 –18 9/2/2021
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________Reviewer________________________Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Tarr-Wright House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2307 North Riverside Drive City Santa Ana Zip 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 002-131-32; 002-131-42
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
Located in Floral Park, the Tarr-Wright House is a two-story single-family residence constructed in the Colonial Revival Cape
Cod style. Regular if not totally symmetrical in design, the house is clad in wide, horizontal, wood siding and features a medium-
pitched, side-gabled roof with little to no overhangs. The roof features two symmetrical gabled dormers, each containing a six-
over-six double-hung, wood window. The fenestration defines four bays across the west (front) façade. The north end bay
features a six-over-six double-hung wood window with shutters. Offset to the north, the next bay contains the front entry, which
incorporates two sidelights with a fan light transom. The southern two bays incorporate two six-over-six double-hung wood
windows with shutters. Similar wood windows also appear on the north (right) and south (left) elevation. All windows feature a
“lamb tongue” detailing. A brick chimney is centered at the south elevation, towards the side gable ridgeline. A driveway to the
north of the property leads to a detached, one-story, side-gabled garage, built at the same time as the residence. The detached
garage is also clad in wide, horizontal, wood siding, which was recently replaced with redwood cedar siding on three sides.
Alterations to single-family residence include the the removal of original roof shingles, and a recent (2021) single- and second-
story addition constructed in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and generally not
visible from the public right-of-way. Other than the noted changes, the house appears intact and is in good condition.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes)HP2. Single-Family Residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
West elevation, view northeast
July 2021
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1940/ City of Santa Ana Building
Permits
*P7. Owner and Address:
Trevor Smith and Bridget Furey
2307 North Riverside Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey Update
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Tarr-Wright House
B1. Historic Name: Tarr-Wright House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-Family Residence B4. Present Use: Single-Family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival Cape Cod
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): April 26, 1940. Constructed. $10,000.
October 27, 1958. Interior alterations for T.V. Reeve by Richard Grella.$4,000
May 26, 1988. Reroof single-family residence w/o tear off.
June 3, 1988. Reroof garage.
June 15, 2005. Reroof single-family residence and garage with tear off shake and install comp. $8,750.
February 23, 2021. New redwood cedar siding on three sides for detached garage to match existing single-family. $5,000.
February 23, 2021. 259 sq. ft. addition to first floor with 296 sq. ft. second-story addition. $17,000.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:__________Original location:_______ _______
*B8. Related Features: None.
B9a. Architect:Unknown b. Builder: E.C. Rogers
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1940 Property Type: Single-Family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Tarr-Wright House is architecturally significant for its highly characteristic use of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style and
historically notable for its association with a prominent local builder, Emmet C. Rogers. It was built in 1940 by E. C. Rogers for
a total cost of $10,000 including the residence and garage. Emmet C. Rogers was a prolific Santa Ana builder and developer.
He was born in 1896 in Missouri (1930 Federal Census). By 1920, he had married his wife Juna and moved to Greeley,
Colorado, where he was a high school teacher (1920 Federal Census). A few years later, in 1923, he had relocated his family
to Santa Ana, and had a dual appointment at both Willard and Lathrop Junior High Schools, where he taught science (Santa
Ana Daily Register, April 4, 1923). From the late 1930s through the following decade, Rogers was extremely active as a building
contractor, often moving his family, perhaps to houses as he finished them, on Greenleaf (2144), Freeman (602 and 1315),
and Towner (1010) (1930 Federal Census, Santa Ana Register July 29, 1940, 1947 and 1949 city directories).
According to city directories, Emmet C. Rogers resided at the Tarr-Wright House for a year. Between 1941 and 1954, various
renters were identified has having lived at the Tarr-Wright House, including Ray P. and Ruth Tarr (1941-1945), Robert B. and
Cecile R. Wright (1950-1953), and Thomas V. and Maurine Reeve. It is unknown how long the Reeve’s lived in the Tarr-Wright
House prior to more recent residents. The more notable residents of the Tarr-Wright House were both Mr. Ray P. Tarr and
Robert B. Wright.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
1920 Federal Census
1930 Federal Census
Santa Ana Register July 29, 1940
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann/Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
(This space reserved for official comments.)
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
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*B10. Significance (continued):
Ray P. Tarr and his wife were members of the Ebell Club and were actively involved in the Junior Ebell Riders. Mr. Tarr was
actively identified with the investment banking field for many years and managed the Santa Ana office for the William A. Lower
& Co. with O’Melveny, Wagenseller & Durst investment banking house, located in the First National Bank building. Robert B.
Wright was also associated with the banking field. However, Mr. Wright was employed by Bank of America as the bank
manager.
The Tarr-Wright House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival.
The Allison Honer Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa
Ana City Hall, the El Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the
neighborhood he had helped to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The Tarr-Wright House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1, for its
exemplification of the distinguishing characteristics of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style. Additionally, the house has been
categorized as “Contributive” because it “contributes to the overall character and history” of the Floral Park neighborhood, and,
as an example of the Colonial Revival Cape Cod style in the Floral Park neighborhood, “is a good example of period
architecture”. Character-defining features of the Tarr-Wright House that should be preserved include, but may not be limited to:
original or replaced in-kind materials and finishes (siding and wood trim); roof configuration, materials, and treatment; massing
and composition; fenestration (doors and windows); architectural detailing (entry, dormers and window shutters), and the one-
story garage.
*B12. References (continued):
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Hess, Alan. Ranch House. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2004
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National
Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
“Alison Honer Dies at 84,” The Santa Ana Journal, September 21, 1981.
“History of Floral Park.” http://www.floral-park.com/page2.html.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1941-1962.
Santa Ana Daily Register, April 4, 1923
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
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HRC 2021-16/ HRCA 2021-16/ HPPA 2021-15
2307 NORTH RIVERSIDE DRIVE
TARR-WRIGHT HOUSE
P L A N N I N G AND B U I L D I N G A G E N C Y
500’ RADIUS
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
_________________________________________________________________________
HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Gerald F. O’Connell and Mary E. O’Connell, husband and wife as joint
tenants, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2420
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A.The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B.The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2420
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C.The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D.City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
Exhibit 7
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E.Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1.Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2.Renewal.
a.Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b.If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c.Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time p rior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d.If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3.Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a.Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b.If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) pe rcent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c.If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6.Enforcement of Agreement.
a.In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) da ys and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b.City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce o r
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a.Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2420 North Park
Boulevard, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-121-06, and more particularly described in Exhibit A,
in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b.City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8.No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of t he Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9.Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Gerald and Mary O’Connell
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10.General Provisions.
a.None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b.The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defens e incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
GERALD F. O’CONNELL
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
MARY E. O’CONNELL
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATE D IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
LOT(S) 37 OF TRACT NO. 755, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 22 PAGE(S) 33 OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-121-06
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Cecil E. Tozier House
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Cecil E. Tozier House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2420 North Park Boulevard
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1927 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT None NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Spanish Colonial Revival
The Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style, as its name implies, encompasses two major subcategories. The Mission
Revival vocabulary, popular between 1890 and 1920, drew its inspiration from the missions of the Southwest. Identifying
features include curved parapets (or espadaña); red tiled roofs and coping; low-pitched roofs, often with overhanging
eaves; porch roofs supported by large, square piers; arches; and wall surfaces commonly covered in smooth stucco. The
Spanish Colonial Revival flourished between 1915 and 1940, reaching its ap ex during the 1920s and 1930s. The
movement received widespread attention after the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego in 1915, where lavish
interpretations of Spanish and Mexican prototypes were showcased. Easily recognizable hallmarks of the Spanish
Colonial Revival are low-pitched roofs, usually with little or no overhangs and red tile roof coverings, flat roofs surrounded
by tiled parapets, and stuccoed walls. The Spanish vocabulary also includes arches, asymmetry, balconies and patios,
window grilles, and wood, wrought iron, tile, or stone decorative elements.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its
exemplification of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive”
because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish
Colonial Revival architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3: It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the work
of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3: Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation
Exhibit B
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________ Reviewer________________________ Date_______________
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P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2420 North Park Boulevard City Santa Ana Zip 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-121-06
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
The Cecil E. Tozier House is a one-story house constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style. The house is
asymmetric in design, with a roof clad in clay barrel tiles and exteriors covered in a hand-troweled stucco finish. The front
(north) section of the house is capped by a cross-gabled roof with a covered entry patio integrated into its façade design, while
a side-gabled roof extends towards the rear (south) of the property, embracing a generously sized rear courtyard patio. The
front (north) elevation features a prominent recessed, wood multi-light casement picture window centered below the front-facing
gable, and a pair of multi-light casement windows at either side of an exterior chimney rising above the roof clad in a hand-
troweled stucco finish. The front-facing gable roof extends towards the west to create a covered entry with a series of arch ed
openings facing an uncovered patio area that is enclosed by a hand-troweled stucco covered half-height wall. Fenestration
along the sides and rear (east, west, and south) elevations consists of wood, double-hung windows with crisscross pattern
design, four-over-over and six-over-six double-hung windows, and multi-light casement windows. Two secondary entries on
the south elevation face the rear courtyard patio, characterized by multiple multi-paned French doors, and one sheltered by a
secondary covered porch with arches. A one-story garage with a flat roof and a parapet with clay barrel tile coping is attached
to the residence and located towards the rear (south) of the property. The property is generally landscaped with low vegetation,
shrubs, and lawn. The house appears intact and is in good condition.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes) HP2. Single-family residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
July 2021
North elevation, facing southeast.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1927/City of Santa Ana Building
Permit
*P7. Owner and Address:
Gerald and Mary O’Connell
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, Associate Planner
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
State of California The Resources Agency Primary #__________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI#______________________________________________
BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Cecil E. Tozier House
B1. Historic Name: Cecil E. Tozier House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): February 4, 1927. Constructed. $8,000.
January 25, 1978. Breakfast nook for Ed Cocco, owner. $900.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:________ Original Location:_____________________________
*B8. Related Features: Attached Garage.
B9a. Architect: Unknown b. Builder: E.A. Noe
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1927 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Cecil E. Tozier House is architecturally significant as a characteristic example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. T his
house was originally constructed in 1927 and was valued at approximately $8,000, according to the original building permit. A t
the time of its construction, the listed property owner was the Olbert A. Haley, who lived in the property for seven years with
wife Ellen Haley. Mr. Haley, a partner in Haley and O’Conner, sold Hudson automobiles. In 1923, Haley was listed as a partner
in the Dodge Brothers Motor Court located at 415 North Bush Street (Marsh, 1998). After 1934, the property was sold multiple
times, including to Colonel William G. Archer (1934), O.E. Scharer (1937), and Mary E. Schofield (1938). Mary E. Schofield
graduated from the University of California and taught mathematics at Santa Ana Polytechnic High School. In 1940, the property
was sold to Cecil E. and Mary E. Tozier who resided on the property until the 1950s. Cecil E. Tozier was a “master musician,”
who played with the bands of John Phillip Sousa (five seasons), Arthur Pryor (two seasons), Herbert L. Clarke, among others.
As a woodwind player, Tozier played the English horn, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone, but also played the piano. While not
playing in an orchestra, Tozier would teach out of his home. The property was sold to R. G. Harris in 1962 who resided in the
property until 1978.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
Ancestry.com
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann, Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map
Cecil E. Tozier House
2420 North Park Boulevard
(This space reserved for official comments.)
N
State of California The Resources Agency Primary # _____________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
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*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of
Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and selection
as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods developing
to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and
orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The Cecil E. Tozier House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897 -1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Histori cal Properties under Criterion 1 for its
exemplification of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because
it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish Colonial Revival
architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features of the Cecil E. Tozier House that should
be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-story massing; roof (cross-gabled configuration, clay barrel tile covering,
overhangs where present); exterior finishes (hand-troweled stucco); front patio (half-height patio wall, arcade); covered front
entry; attached chimney; recessed window and door openings; and original doors and windows, where extant.
*B12. References (continued):
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National
Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-2021.
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
“Passes $1,000,000 Mark In Car Sales In Six Years Here.” Santa Ana Register, 20 October 1923.
“Experienced Instructors Will Join Teaching Staff At Beginning Of New Year .” Santa Ana Register, 12 July 1926.
“C.E. Tozier, Orange County Boy, Member of Sousa Band Appearing In S.A. Tomorrow.” Santa Ana Register, 7
November 1928.
“Tozier To Speak On Oboe Saturday.” Santa Ana Register, 30 May 1940.
“Introducing…Cecil E. Tozier” Display Ad. Santa Ana Register, 14 September 1940.
“Cecil E. Tozier” Display Ad. Santa Ana Register, 5 October 1940.
MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated b y 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
Planning and Building Agency
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Historic Resources Commission Staff Report
September 2, 2021
Topic: HRCA No. 2021-17, HRC 2021-17, HPPA No. 2021-16 – The Cecil E. Tozier
House
RECOMMENDED ACTION
1. Adopt a resolution approving Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-
17 and Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-17 (Exhibit 1).
2. Recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the
Council to execute the attached Mills Act agreement with Gerald and Mary O’Connell,
subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney
(Exhibit 2).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Gerald and Mary O’Connell are requesting approval to designate an existing residence
located at 2420 North Park Boulevard to the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties, as well as approval to execute a Mills Act agreement with the City of Santa
Ana.
DISCUSSION
Project Location and Site Description
The subject property is located on the south side of North Park Boulevard in the Floral
Park neighborhood. The site contains a 2,357-square-foot, Spanish Colonial Revival
style residence and attached garage on a 9,800-square-foot residential lot (Exhibit 3).
Analysis of the Issues
Historical Listing
In March 1999, the City Council approved Ordinance No. NS-2363 establishing the
Historic Resources Commission and the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
The Historic Resources Commission may, by resolution and at a noticed public hearing,
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designate as a historical property any building or part thereof, object, structure, or site
having importance to the history or architecture of the city in accordance with the criteria
set forth in Section 30-2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). This project entails
applying the selection criteria established in Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code (Places of Historical and Architectural Significance) to determine if this structure is
eligible for historic designation to the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The
first criterion for selection requires that the structures be 50 or more years old.
The structure identified meets the minimum selection criteria for inclusion on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties pursuant to criteria contained in Section 30-2 of
the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as the structure is 94 years old and is a good example
of period architecture. No known code violations exist on record for this property.
The property, recognized as the Cecil E. Tozier House, is a representative example of
the Spanish Colonial Revival style. This house was originally constructed in 1927 and
was valued at approximately $8,000. At the time of its construction, the listed property
owner was the Olbert A. Haley who lived in the property for seven years with his wife
Ellen Haley. Mr. Haley, a partner in Haley and O’Conner, sold Hudson automobiles. In
1923, Haley was listed as a partner in the Dodge Brothers Motor Court located at 415
North Bush Street (Marsh, 1998). After 1934, the property was sold multiple times,
including to Colonel William G. Archer (1934), O.E. Scharer (1937), and Mary E.
Schofield (1938). In 1940, the property was sold to Cecil E. and Mary E. Tozier who
resided on the property until the 1950s. Cecil E. Tozier was a “master musician,” who
played with the bands of John Phillip Sousa (five seasons), Arthur Pryor (two seasons),
Herbert L. Clarke, among others. The property was sold to R. G. Harris in 1962 who
resided in the property for an unknown amount of time.
The Cecil E. Tozier House is a one-story house constructed in the Spanish Colonial
Revival architectural style. The house is asymmetric in design, with a roof clad in clay
barrel tiles and exteriors covered in a hand-troweled stucco finish. The front (north)
section of the house is capped by a cross-gabled roof with a covered entry patio
integrated into its façade design, while a side-gabled roof extends towards the rear
(south) of the property, embracing a generously sized rear courtyard patio. The front
(north) elevation features a prominent recessed, wood multi-light casement picture
window centered below the front-facing gable, and a pair of multi-light casement
windows at either side of an exterior chimney rising above the roof clad in a hand-
troweled stucco finish. The front-facing gable roof extends towards the west to create a
covered entry with a series of arched openings facing an uncovered patio area that is
enclosed by a hand-troweled stucco covered half-height wall. Fenestration along the
sides and rear (east, west, and south) elevations consists of wood, double-hung
windows with crisscross pattern design, four-over-over and six-over-six double-hung
windows, and multi-light casement windows. Two secondary entries on the south
elevation face the rear courtyard patio, characterized by multiple multi-paned French
doors, and one sheltered by a secondary covered porch with arches. A one-story
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garage with a flat roof and a parapet with clay barrel tile coping is attached to the
residence and located towards the rear (south) of the property. Character-defining
features of the Cecil E. Tozier House that should be preserved include, but may not be
limited to: one-story massing; roof (cross-gabled configuration, clay barrel tile covering,
overhangs where present); exterior finishes (hand-troweled stucco); front patio (half-
height patio wall, arcade); covered front entry; attached chimney; recessed window and
door openings; and original doors and windows, where extant.
The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical
Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification of the Spanish Colonial Revival style.
Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because it contributes to
the overall character and history of Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish
Colonial Revival architecture.
Mills Act Agreement
Ordinance No. NS-2382 authorized the Historic Resources Commission to execute
Historic Property Preservation Agreements (HPPA), commonly known as Mills Act
agreements for eligible properties (Exhibit 2). To be eligible for the Mills Act, the
property must be listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties. The Historic
Resources Commission Application and Historic Register Categorization actions
proposed for this site authorize the listing of the property on the local register. The
agreement provides monetary incentives to the property owner in the form of a property
tax reduction in exchange for the owner’s voluntary commitment to maintain the
property in a good state of repair as necessary to maintain its character and
appearance. Once recorded, the agreement generates a different valuation method in
determining the property’s assessed value, resulting in tax savings for the owner. Aside
from the tax savings, the benefits include:
Long term preservation of the property and visual improvement to the neighborhood
Allows for a mechanism to provide for property rehabilitation
Provides additional incentive for potential buyers to purchase historic structures
Discourages inappropriate alterations to the property
The property has no identified unauthorized modifications. Upon consideration of the
application, it is recommended that the City enter into a Historic Property Preservation
Agreement.
Public Notification
The subject site is located within the Floral Park Neighborhood Association. The
president of this Neighborhood Association was notified by mail 10 days prior to this
public hearing. In addition, the project site was posted with a notice advertising this
public hearing, a notice was published in the Orange County Reporter and mailed
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notices were sent to all property owners within 500 feet of the project site. At the time of
this printing, no correspondence, either written or electronic, has been received from
any members of the public.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the CEQA Guidelines,
the project is exempt from further review pursuant to Section 15331 of the CEQA
Guidelines (Class 31 – Historical Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation) as these actions
are designed to preserve historic resources. Based on this analysis, a Notice of
Exemption, Environmental Review No. 2021-90 will be filed for this project.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $482.11 annually, for a period of
not less than ten years.
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Resolution
2. Mills Act Agreement
3. 500-Foot Radius Map
Submitted By:
Pedro Gomez, AICP, Associate Planner
Approved By:
Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency, Planning and Building
Agency
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RESOLUTION NO. 2021-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE HISTORIC RESOURCES
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING
HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION APPLICATION
NO. 2021-17 TO PLACE THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
2420 NORTH PARK BOULEVARD, SANTA ANA, ON THE
HISTORICAL REGISTER AND APPROVING HISTORIC
REGISTER CATEGORIZATION NO. 2021-17 PLACING
SAID PROPERTY WITHIN THE CONTRIBUTIVE
CATEGORY
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HISTORIC RESOURCES COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana
hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows:
A. On September 2, 2021, the Historic Resources Commission held a duly
noticed public hearing for the placement on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties (Historic Resources Commission Application No.
2021-17) and categorization (Historic Resources Commission
Categorization No. 2021-17) of the Cecil E. Tozier House located at 2420
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana.
B. The Cecil E. Tozier House has distinctive architectural features of the
Spanish Colonial Revival style and was built in 1927.
C. The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its exemplification of the Spanish
Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as
“Contributive” because it contributes to the overall character and history of
Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish Colonial Revival
architecture. Character-defining features of the Cecil E. Tozier House that
should be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-story massing;
roof (cross-gabled configuration, clay barrel tile covering, overhangs
where present); exterior finishes (hand-troweled stucco); front patio (half-
height patio wall, arcade); covered front entry; attached chimney;
recessed window and door openings; and original doors and windows,
where extant.
D. The legal owners of the property are Gerald and Mary O'Connell.
E. The legal description for the subject property is attached hereto as Exhibit
A and incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.
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F. The subject property meets the standards for placement on the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historic Properties pursuant to Section 30-2 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code.
G. The subject property meets the minimal standards for placement in the
Contributive category pursuant to Section 30-2.2(3) of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
Section 2. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the
recommended actions are exempt from further review under CEQA Guidelines Section
15331, Class 31, as these actions are designed to preserve historical resources.
Categorical Exemption No. ER-2021-90 will be filed for this project.
Section 3. The Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana, after
conducting the public hearing, hereby approves:
A. Historic Resources Commission Application No. 2021-17 to place the
Cecil E. Tozier House located at 2420 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana,
92706 on the historical register, and
B. Historic Register Categorization No. 2021-17 placing the Cecil E. Tozier
House located at 2420 North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, 92706 within the
Contributive category.
These decisions are based upon the evidence submitted at the above said
hearing, which includes, but is not limited to: the Staff report and exhibits attached
thereto, the report entitled “Historical Property Description,” and the public testimony, all
of which are incorporated herein by this reference.
Section 4. For the subject property, a report entitled “Historical Property
Description” is on file with the Planning Division, and is hereby approved and adopted, and
together with the staff report and this Resolution, justify the findings for placement on the
City of Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties into a category. The Historic Resources
Commission Secretary is authorized and directed to include this Resolution in the City of
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
Section 5. The Historic Resources Commission Secretary is hereby directed to
file a certified copy of this Resolution with the County Recorder’s Office after the adoption
of this Resolution pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 5029.
ADOPTED this 2nd day of September, 2021.
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Tim Rush
Chairperson
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:________________________
John M. Funk
Sr. Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Commission members____________________________________
NOES: Commission members___________________________________
ABSTAIN: Commission members___________________________________
NOT PRESENT: Commission members___________________________________
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, SARAH BERNAL, Historic Resources Commission Secretary, do hereby attest to and
certify the attached Resolution No. 2021-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by
Historic Resources Commission of the City of Santa Ana on September 2, 2021.
Date: ________________ ____________________________________
Commission Secretary
City of Santa Ana
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APN Address Legal Description Owner Names
002-121-06 2420 North Park
Boulevard
THE LAND REFERRED TO
HEREIN BELOW IS
SITUATED IN THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF
ORANGE, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA AND IS
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
LOT(S) 37 OF TRACT NO.
755, IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
PER MAP RECORDED IN
BOOK 22 PAGE(S) 33 OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN
THE OFFICE OF THE
COUNTY RECORDER OF
SAID COUNTY.
Gerald and Mary
O’Connell
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MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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Santa Ana, CA 92706
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
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HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and Gerald F. O’Connell and Mary E. O’Connell, husband and wife as joint
tenants, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owner of real property located at 2420
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the Santa
Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B. The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 2420
North Park Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA, 92706 and more particularly described
in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and
hereinafter referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C. The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D. City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 2420 North Park
Boulevard, Assessor Parcel Number, 002-121-06, and more particularly described in Exhibit A,
in the City of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this
Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
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Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: Gerald and Mary O’Connell
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns, nor
shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or members
of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained in
this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST:CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
GERALD F. O’CONNELL
Date: ___________________ By:__________________
MARY E. O’CONNELL
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN M. FUNK MINH THAI
Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
THE LAND REFERRED TO HEREIN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS:
LOT(S) 37 OF TRACT NO. 755, IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 22 PAGE(S) 33 OF
MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID
COUNTY.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 002-121-06
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Cecil E. Tozier House
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
NAME Cecil E. Tozier House REF. NO.
ADDRESS 2420 North Park Boulevard
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92706 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1927 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Contributive
HISTORIC DISTRICT None NEIGHBORHOOD Floral Park
CALIFORNIA REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION C/3 CALIFORNIA REGISTER STATUS CODE 5S3
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Spanish Colonial Revival
The Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival style, as its name implies, encompasses two major subcategories. The Mission
Revival vocabulary, popular between 1890 and 1920, drew its inspiration from the missions of the Southwest. Identifying
features include curved parapets (or espadaña); red tiled roofs and coping; low-pitched roofs, often with overhanging
eaves; porch roofs supported by large, square piers; arches; and wall surfaces commonly covered in smooth stucco. The
Spanish Colonial Revival flourished between 1915 and 1940, reaching its apex during the 1920s and 1930s. The
movement received widespread attention after the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego in 1915, where lavish
interpretations of Spanish and Mexican prototypes were showcased. Easily recognizable hallmarks of the Spanish
Colonial Revival are low-pitched roofs, usually with little or no overhangs and red tile roof coverings, flat roofs surrounded
by tiled parapets, and stuccoed walls. The Spanish vocabulary also includes arches, asymmetry, balconies and patios,
window grilles, and wood, wrought iron, tile, or stone decorative elements.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its
exemplification of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive”
because it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish
Colonial Revival architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
California Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From California Office of Historic Preservation, Technical Assistance
Series # 7, “How to Nominate Resources to the California Register of Historical Resources,” September 4, 2001.)
3:It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or
represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or method of construction, or represents the work
of a master, or possesses high artistic values.
5S3:Appears to be individually eligible for local listing or designation through survey evaluation
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State of California The Resources Agency Primary #______________________________________________
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI #__________________________________________________
PRIMARY RECORD Trinomial______________________________________________
NRHP Status Code_____________________________________
Other Listings_____________________________________________________________________
Review Code________Reviewer________________________Date_______________
Page _1_ of _3_ Resource name(s) or number (assigned by recorder) Cecil E. Tozier House
P1. Other Identifier:
*P2. Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted *a. County Orange County
*b. USGS 7.5’ Quad TCA 1725 Date: March 3, 2015
*c. Address 2420 North Park Boulevard City Santa Ana Zip 92706
*e. Other Locational Data: Assessor’s Parcel Number 002-121-06
*P3a. Description: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
The Cecil E. Tozier House is a one-story house constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style. The house is
asymmetric in design, with a roof clad in clay barrel tiles and exteriors covered in a hand-troweled stucco finish. The front
(north) section of the house is capped by a cross-gabled roof with a covered entry patio integrated into its façade design, while
a side-gabled roof extends towards the rear (south) of the property, embracing a generously sized rear courtyard patio. The
front (north) elevation features a prominent recessed, wood multi-light casement picture window centered below the front-facing
gable, and a pair of multi-light casement windows at either side of an exterior chimney rising above the roof clad in a hand-
troweled stucco finish. The front-facing gable roof extends towards the west to create a covered entry with a series of arched
openings facing an uncovered patio area that is enclosed by a hand-troweled stucco covered half-height wall. Fenestration
along the sides and rear (east, west, and south) elevations consists of wood, double-hung windows with crisscross pattern
design, four-over-over and six-over-six double-hung windows, and multi-light casement windows. Two secondary entries on
the south elevation face the rear courtyard patio, characterized by multiple multi-paned French doors, and one sheltered by a
secondary covered porch with arches. A one-story garage with a flat roof and a parapet with clay barrel tile coping is attached
to the residence and located towards the rear (south) of the property. The property is generally landscaped with low vegetation,
shrubs, and lawn. The house appears intact and is in good condition.
*P3b. Resource Attributes: (list attributes and codes)HP2. Single-family residence
*P4. Resources Present: Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
P5b. Photo: (view and date)
July 2021
North elevation, facing southeast.
*P6. Date Constructed/Age and
Sources: historic
1927/City of Santa Ana Building
Permit
*P7. Owner and Address:
Gerald and Mary O’Connell
2420 North Park Boulevard
Santa Ana, CA 92706
*P8. Recorded by:
Pedro Gomez, Associate Planner
20 Civic Center Plaza M-20
Santa Ana, CA 92702
*P9. Date Recorded:
September 2, 2021
*P10. Survey Type:
Intensive Survey
*P11. Report Citation: (Cite survey
report and other sources, or enter “none”)
None
*Attachments: None Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet Building, Structure, and Object Record
Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record Milling Station Record Rock Art Record
Artifact Record Photograph Record Other (list)
DPR 523A (1/95) *Required information
P5a. Photo
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BUILDING, STRUCTURE, AND OBJECT RECORD
Page 2 of 3 *NRHP Status Code_5S3_________________________
*Resource Name or #: Cecil E. Tozier House
B1. Historic Name: Cecil E. Tozier House
B2. Common Name: Same
B3. Original Use: Single-family residence B4. Present Use: Single-family Residence
*B5. Architectural Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
*B6. Construction History: (Construction date, alterations, and date of alterations): February 4, 1927. Constructed. $8,000.
January 25, 1978. Breakfast nook for Ed Cocco, owner. $900.
*B7. Moved?No Yes Unknown Date:________Original Location:_____________________________
*B8. Related Features: Attached Garage.
B9a. Architect:Unknown b. Builder: E.A. Noe
*B10. Significance: Theme Residential Architecture Area Santa Ana
Period of Significance: 1927 Property Type: Single-family Residence Applicable Criteria: C/3
(Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme, period, and geographic scope. Also address integrity)
The Cecil E. Tozier House is architecturally significant as a characteristic example of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. This
house was originally constructed in 1927 and was valued at approximately $8,000, according to the original building permit. At
the time of its construction, the listed property owner was the Olbert A. Haley, who lived in the property for seven years with
wife Ellen Haley. Mr. Haley, a partner in Haley and O’Conner, sold Hudson automobiles. In 1923, Haley was listed as a partner
in the Dodge Brothers Motor Court located at 415 North Bush Street (Marsh, 1998). After 1934, the property was sold multiple
times, including to Colonel William G. Archer (1934), O.E. Scharer (1937), and Mary E. Schofield (1938). Mary E. Schofield
graduated from the University of California and taught mathematics at Santa Ana Polytechnic High School. In 1940, the property
was sold to Cecil E. and Mary E. Tozier who resided on the property until the 1950s. Cecil E. Tozier was a “master musician,”
who played with the bands of John Phillip Sousa (five seasons), Arthur Pryor (two seasons), Herbert L. Clarke, among others.
As a woodwind player, Tozier played the English horn, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone, but also played the piano. While not
playing in an orchestra, Tozier would teach out of his home. The property was sold to R. G. Harris in 1962 who resided in the
property until 1978.
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B11. Additional Resource Attributes: (List attributes and codes)
*B12. References:
Ancestry.com
City of Santa Ana Building Permits
Santa Ana History Room Collection, Santa Ana Public Library
Sanborn Maps
(See Continuation Sheet 3 of 3.)
B13. Remarks:
*B14. Evaluator: Leslie Heumann, Chattel Inc.
*Date of Evaluation: September 2, 2021
DPR 523B (1/95) *Required information
Sketch Map Cecil E. Tozier House
2420 North Park Boulevard
(This space reserved for official comments.)
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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION HRI # ________________________________________________
CONTINUATION SHEET Trinomial _____________________________________________
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*Recorded by Pedro Gomez *Date September 2, 2021 Continuation Update
DPR 523L
*B10. Significance (continued):
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative town site on part of the Spanish land grant known as
Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The civic and commercial core of the community was centered around the intersection of
Main and Fourth Streets. Stimulated by the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad and incorporation as a city in 1886, and selection
as the seat of the newly created County of Orange in 1889, the city grew outwards, with residential neighborhoods developing
to the north, south, and east of the city center. Agricultural uses predominated in the outlying areas, with cultivated fields and
orchards dotted with widely scattered farmhouses.
The Cecil E. Tozier House is located in Floral Park, a neighborhood northwest of downtown Santa Ana bounded by West
Seventeenth Street, North Flower Street, Riverside Drive, and Broadway. Groves of oranges, avocados, and walnuts and
widely scattered ranch houses characterized this area before 1920. Developer and builder Allison Honer (1897-1981), credited
as the subdivider and builder of a major portion of northwest Santa Ana, arrived in Santa Ana from Beaver Falls, New York in
1922 (Talbert, pages 353-356). “Before nightfall on the day of his arrival, Mr. Honer purchased a parcel of land. And that month,
he began building custom homes in Santa Ana” (Orange County Register, September 15, 1981). The parcel chosen became
the Floral Park subdivision between Seventeenth Street and Santiago Creek. “When built in the 1920s, the Floral Park homes
were the most lavish and expensive in the area. They sold for about $45,000 each” (Orange County Register, September 15,
1981). Revival architecture in a wide variety of romantic styles was celebrated in the 1920s and 1930s and Floral Park
showcased examples of the English Tudor, French Norman, Spanish Colonial, and Colonial Revival. The Allison Honer
Construction Company went on to complete such notable projects as the 1935 Art Deco styled Old Santa Ana City Hall, the El
Toro Marine Base during World War II, and the 1960 Honer Shopping Plaza. Honer lived in the neighborhood he had helped
to create, at 615 West Santa Clara Avenue.
In the late 1920s and 1930s, another builder, Roy Roscoe Russell (1881-1965), continued developing the groves of Floral Park.
An early Russell project was his 1928 subdivision of Victoria Drive between West Nineteenth Street and West Santa Clara
Avenue. The homes were quite grand and displayed various revival styles, including Russell’s own large, Colonial Revival
mansion at 2009 Victoria Drive. In the early post World War II years, Floral Park continued its development as numerous,
smaller, single-family houses were built. Continuing in the Floral Park tradition, they were mostly revival in style. In the 1950s,
low, horizontal Ranch Style houses completed the growth of Floral Park. Today (2021) Floral Park maintains its identity as the
premier neighborhood of Santa Ana, historically home to many affluent and prominent citizens.
The Cecil E. Tozier House qualifies for listing in the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties under Criterion 1 for its
exemplification of the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Additionally, the house has been categorized as “Contributive” because
it contributes to the overall character and history of Floral Park and is representative example of Spanish Colonial Revival
architecture (Santa Ana Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2). Character-defining features of the Cecil E. Tozier House that should
be preserved include, but may not be limited to: one-story massing; roof (cross-gabled configuration, clay barrel tile covering,
overhangs where present); exterior finishes (hand-troweled stucco); front patio (half-height patio wall, arcade); covered front
entry; attached chimney; recessed window and door openings; and original doors and windows, where extant.
*B12. References (continued):
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.” Washington DC: National
Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Office of Historic Preservation. “Instructions for Recording Historical Resources.” Sacramento: March 1995.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana and Orange County Directories, 1905-2021.
Newspapers.com (Santa Ana Register)
“Passes $1,000,000 Mark In Car Sales In Six Years Here.” Santa Ana Register, 20 October 1923.
“Experienced Instructors Will Join Teaching Staff At Beginning Of New Year.” Santa Ana Register, 12 July 1926.
“C.E. Tozier, Orange County Boy, Member of Sousa Band Appearing In S.A. Tomorrow.” Santa Ana Register, 7
November 1928.
“Tozier To Speak On Oboe Saturday.” Santa Ana Register, 30 May 1940.
“Introducing…Cecil E. Tozier” Display Ad. Santa Ana Register, 14 September 1940.
“Cecil E. Tozier” Display Ad. Santa Ana Register, 5 October 1940.
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
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2420 NORTH PARK BOULEVARD
CECIL E. TOZIER HOUSE
P L A N N I N G AND B U I L D I N G A G E N C Y
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MILLS ACT AGREEMENT
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Santa Ana, CA 92701
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
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HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and 217 North Main Investments LLC, a California Limited Liability
Company, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owners of real property located at
217 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A.The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B.The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 217
North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92701 and more particularly described in
Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and hereinafter
referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C.The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D.City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
Exhibit 9
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E.Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1.Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2.Renewal.
a.Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b.If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c.Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d.If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3.Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a.Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b.If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c.If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6.Enforcement of Agreement.
a.In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b.City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a.Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 217 North Main Street,
Assessor Parcel Number, 398-602-02, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, in the City
of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this Agreement.
b.City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
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delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9.Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
C ity: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: 217 North Main Investments LLC, a California Limited Liability Company
217 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Attn: Managing Member(s)
10. General Provisions.
a.None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed
to create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns,
nor shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or
members of any joint enterprise.
b.The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c.This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d.All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained
in this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e.In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f.In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g.This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11.Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12.Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13.Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER (217 North Main Investments LLC)
Date: ______________________ By:_________________________
Name:
Title:
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN FUNK MINH THAI
Sr. Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
The Land referred to herein below is situated in the City of Santa Ana, in the County of Orange,
State of California, and is described as follows:
LOT 10 AND THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 7 OF THE RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 7, OF
THE TOWN OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 5, PAGE 46 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN
THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF THE ALLEY, WHICH WOULD PASS BY
OPERATION OF LAW WITH THE FEE CONVEYANCE OF SAID LAND, SAID PORTION
OF ALLEY HAVING BEEN VACATED BY THAT CERTAIN RESOLUTION NO. 2001-087
RECORDED OCTOBER 17, 2003 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 2003001285385 OF OFFICIAL
RECORDS.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 398-602-02
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NAME Old Santa Ana City Hall REF. NO.21
ADDRESS 217 North Main Street
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92701 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1935 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Landmark
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD N/A
NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION A, C NATIONAL REGISTER STATUS CODE 1S
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
USGS 7.5” Quad Date: T R ¼ of ¼ of Sec : B.M.
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Art Deco
DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND RELATED TO PERIOD ARCHITECTURE:
The Art Deco style is characterized by smooth wall surfaces, often of stucco; zigzags, chevrons, fluting, reeding, and other low-relief
stylized and geometric motifs as decorative elements on the façade; accents of terra cotta, glass, or metal; polychromy; rectangular or
compound forms; and a more vertical emphasis than its close stylistic relative, Streamline Moderne. Art Deco was essentially a style
of decoration, and was applied to jewelry, clothing, furniture and handicrafts as well as architecture. In style between 1920 and 1940,
Art Deco was popularized by the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. It was most commonly utilized on commercial
or public buildings, sometimes in combination with the Gothic Revival whose verticality and sculptural decoration was ideally suited
to the Art Deco style.
Exhibit B
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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: (Construction data, alterations, and date of alterations)
May 10, 1935. City of Santa Ana City Hall.
July 7, 1939. Alterations & repairs.
December 4, 1946. Alter City Hall basement.
July 7, 1959. Remodel 3rd floor of City Hall for Planning Dept.
and Mayor’s office.
March 2, 1961. Interior alterations 1st and 2nd floors.
July 9, 1963. Suspended ceiling.
May 25, 1965. Partitions around stair well on 2nd floor rear.
May 9, 1968. Elevated floor system and air systems in
computer room.
July 26, 1968. Add paneling over existing wall.
October 15, 1970. Office partitions (Council Chambers).
May 14, 1971. Interior partitions on 3rd floor.
June 12, 1972. Interior partitions.
June 2, 1982. Add new 2nd floor elevation and rehabilitate
building for Barristers’ Bldg., Ltd., owner.
September 29, 1982. Tenant improvement.
September 19, 1985. Install door.
April 16, 1993. Repair partition walls.
RELATED FEATURES: (Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or unusual trees, or landscape)
None.
DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, settings, and
boundaries.)
Located on the southeast corner of Main and Third Streets, the Old Santa Ana City Hall is a three-story reinforced concrete building
designed in the Art Deco style. A four-story tower is centered above the main (west) elevation. Both the façade and the similarly
detailed north elevation are banded by a polished marble base at ground level. Stepped piers divide the façade and the north elevation
into five and seven bays, respectively. Most ground floor bays contain tall, tripartite, metal-framed windows topped by ornately
grilled transoms. Upper story bays, divided into three parts by pilasters, which mimic the design of the piers, contain metal casement
windows and transoms, separated between stories by decoratively carved spandrels, which vary from level to level. Single windows
are located in each of the end bays. The main entrance on the west is flanked by fluted pilasters topped by Assyrian heads and torsos
and topped by a panel incised with the name of the building. A flagpole is suspended from the building at an angle over the entry.
Another Assyrian head crowns the central bay, in front of the tower. The tower culminates in a pyramidal copper roof, lantern and
spire. Two “mini-towers” cap the end bays. Art Deco ornament, including stylized foliage, fluting, and chevrons enhance all the
decorated surfaces, including the spandrels, parapet, entry, tower, and window headers. Old Santa Ana City Hall retains a high degree
of integrity on its two public elevations.
HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS:
Old Santa Ana City Hall was constructed in 1935 at a cost of $126,000, funded by city bonds and a Works Progress Administration
(WPA) grant. It was designed by architect W. Horace Austin of Long Beach, who had designed the rather similar Masonic Temple at
Sycamore and Fifth Streets a few years earlier. A prominent Southern California architect, Austin’s credits also include the Bowers
Museum and numerous Long Beach commissions (the old Long Beach City Hall [demolished], several schools, the original Buffum’s
Department Store [demolished], the Long Beach YMCA [demolished], the Pacific Tower, the Press-Telegram Building, and the Long
Beach Airport Terminal). Local contractors Ball and Honer constructed the building. This was the third City Hall to be built on the
site, and replaced the 1904 building, which had been rendered unsafe after the 1933 earthquake. The City offices were located in this
building until the 1980s with the exception of the City’s Public Works Agency, which vacated the building in 1999. In approximately
1982 it was converted into private offices and in 2001 it won an American Institute of Architects/Orange County design award for its
interior adaptive reuse by Nestor/Gaffney Architects.
RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office
of Historic Preservation.)
HP14. Government Building
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RESOURCES PRESENT:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
MOVED? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme,
period, geographic scope, and integrity.)
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative townsite on part of the Spanish land grant known as Rancho
Santiago de Santa Ana. Early growth and development was stimulated by the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1878 and the
Santa Fe Railroad in 1886. By the end of the 1880s, Santa Ana’s downtown business district was defined by five city blocks of brick
commercial buildings on Fourth Street, with the heart of the city at the intersection of Fourth and Main Streets. At this time, Santa
Ana was governed by the County of Los Angeles. On June 1, 1886, a majority of the eligible voters amongst Santa Ana’s 2,000
citizens voted to incorporate as a city of the sixth class. A Board of Trustees was elected, with William Spurgeon selected to be the
first Chairman. In August 1888, with a population of 5,000, the city reincorporated as a city of the fifth class. The following year
Santa Ana was acknowledged as one of the leading communities in the area in 1889 when it became the seat of the newly created
County of Orange.
Old Santa Ana City Hall is the most prominent and tangible symbol of the municipal development of the City. It was a source of
pride to citizens when it opened, and was described in the Santa Ana Daily Register (November 27, 1935) as having “beauty in
design” and “sleek, modern, sturdy, and with ample room.” In addition to its historic importance as the seat of city government and
the place where important decisions affecting the community were made, Old Santa Ana City Hall is architecturally significant as a
fine example of the variant of the Art Deco style often associated with WPA projects. The building is also significant as an example
of the work of architect W. Horace Austin. Due to its high level of integrity, all aspects of the exterior of Old Santa Ana City Hall,
including materials and finishes, design and composition, building elements and architectural detailing, are considered to be character-
defining and should be preserved.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
This building was individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Under the regulations implementing the
California Register of Historical Resources, the building is also listed in the California Register. Listed in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Property, the Old Santa Ana City Hall has been categorized as “Landmark” because it “is on the national register,” “is on
the state register,” “has historical/cultural significance to the City of Santa Ana,” and “has a unique architectural significance
(Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
OWNER AND ADDRESS:
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RECORDED BY: (Name, affiliation, and address)
Leslie J. Heumann
Science Applications International Corporation
35 S. Raymond Avenue, Suite 204, Pasadena, CA 91105
DATE RECORDED: September 4, 2001
SURVEY TYPE: (Intensive, reconnaissance, or other)
Intensive Survey Update
REPORT CITATION: (Cite survey report and other sources)
Les, Kathleen. “Santa Ana Historic Survey, Final Resources Inventory: Downtown.” May 1980.
REFERENCES: (List documents, date of publication, and page numbers. May also include oral interviews.)
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Heritage Orange County and the City of Santa Ana. Downtown Walking Tour, Santa Ana, 1986.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.”
Washington DC: National Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana Daily Register, November 27, 1935.
EVALUATOR: Leslie J. Heumann DATE OF EVALUATION: September 4, 2001
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
• National Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From Appendix 7 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of
Historic Preservation)
A: that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.
C: that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the
work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity
whose components may lack individual distinction.
• National Register Status Code: (From Appendix 2 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of Historic
Preservation)
1S: Separately listed.
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structu re or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated by historic,
physical, or pictorial evidence rather than on conjectu ral designs or the
availability of different architectural elements from the other buildings or
structures.
7. The surface cleaning of structures shall be undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
Planning and Building Agency
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Historic Resources Commission Staff Report
September 2, 2021
Topic: HPPA No. 2021-19 (Mills Act) - 217 North Main Street
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Recommend that the City Council authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to
execute a Historic Property Preservation Agreement (Mills Act) with 217 North Main
Investments, LLC, for the property located at 217 North Main Street, subject to non-
substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney (Exhibit 1).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
217 North Main Investments LLC, a California Limited Liability Company, is requesting
approval to execute a Mills Act Agreement with the City of Santa Ana for the historic Old
Santa Ana City Hall, an existing commercial building located at 217 North Main Street,
that is currently listed on the Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
DISCUSSION
Project Location and Site Description
The subject property, known as the Old Santa Ana City Hall, consists of an existing three-
story reinforced concrete building designed in the Art Deco style. The building contains
approximately 37,208 square feet on a 0.2-acre commercial lot (Exhibit 2). The
commercial building was individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places in
1982. Under the regulations implementing the California Register of Historical Resources,
the building is also listed in the California Register. It was added to the Santa Ana Register
of Historical Properties in 2001 and categorized as “Landmark”.
Analysis of the Issues
Ordinance No. NS-2382 authorized the Historic Resources Commission to execute
Historic Property Preservation Agreements (HPPA), commonly known as Mills Act
agreements for eligible properties. The property is listed on the Santa Ana Register of
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Exhibit 10
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Historical Properties and categorized as Landmark, making it eligible for a Mills Act
agreement. The agreement provides monetary incentives to the property owner in the
form of a property tax reduction in exchange for the owner’s voluntary commitment to
maintain the property in a good state of repair as necessary to maintain its character and
appearance. Once recorded, the agreement generates a different valuation method in
determining the property’s assessed value, resulting in tax savings for the owner. Aside
from the tax savings, the benefits include:
Long term preservation of the property and visual improvement to the
neighborhood
Allows for a mechanism to provide for property rehabilitation
Provides additional incentive for potential buyers to purchase historic structures
Discourages inappropriate alterations to the property
In 2001, the Historic Resources Commission placed the Old Santa Ana City Hall on the
historical register and within the Landmark category. Character-defining features of the
Old Santa Ana City Hall determined architecturally significant included: all aspects of the
exterior, materials and finishes, design and composition, building elements and
architectural detailing. Old Santa Ana City Hall qualified for listing under Criterion 4 of
Sec. 30-2, of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC), because it is on the national
register, is on the state register, has historical/cultural significance to the City of Santa
Ana, and has a unique architectural significance.
The property has no identified unauthorized modifications. Upon consideration of the
application, it is recommended that the City enter into a Historic Property Preservation
Agreement.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the recommended action is
exempt from further review under Section 15331, Class 31, as this action is designed to
preserve a historic resource. Categorical Exemption No. ER-2021-85 will be filed for this
project.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Historic Property Preservation Agreement will reduce the Property Tax revenue
account 01102002-50011 to the City by an estimated $6,930 annually, for a period of not
less than ten years.
EXHIBIT(S)
1. Mills Act Agreement
2. 500-Foot Radius Map
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3. Site Photos
Submitted By:
Jill Arabe, AICP, Senior Planner
Approved By:
Minh Thai, Executive Director of Planning and Building Agency, Planning and Building
Agency
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RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED MAIL TO:
City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
FREE RECORDING PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE § 27383
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HISTORIC PROPERTY PRESERVATION AGREEMENT
This Historic Property Preservation Agreement (“Agreement”) is made and entered into
by and between the City of Santa Ana, a charter city and municipal corporation duly organized
and existing under the Constitution and laws of the of the State of California (hereinafter referred
to as “City”), and 217 North Main Investments LLC, a California Limited Liability
Company, (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Owner”), owners of real property located at
217 North Main Street, Santa Ana, California, in the County of Orange and listed on the
Santa Ana Register of Historical Properties.
RECITALS
A. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana is authorized by California
Government Code Section 50280 et seq. (known as the “Mills Act”) to enter into
contracts with owners of qualified historical properties to provide for appropriate
use, maintenance, rehabilitation and restoration such that these historic properties
retain their historic character and integrity.
B. The Owner possesses fee title in and to that certain qualified real property
together with associated structures and improvements thereon, located at 217
North Main Street, Santa Ana, CA, 92701 and more particularly described in
Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference, and hereinafter
referred to as the “Historic Property”.
C. The Historic Property is officially designated on the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Properties pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 30 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code.
D. City and Owner, for their mutual benefit, now desire to enter into this Agreement
which defines and limits the use and alteration of this Historic Property in order to
enhance and maintain its value as a cultural and historical resource for Owner and
for the community; to prevent inappropriate alterations to the Historic Property
and to ensure that repairs, additions, new building, and other changes are
appropriate; and to ensure that rehabilitation and maintenance are carried out in an
exemplary manner.
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E. Owner and City intend to carry out the purposes of California Government Code,
Chapter 1, Part 5 of Division 1 of Title 5, Article 12, Section 50280 et seq., which
will enable the Historic Property to qualify for an assessment of valuation as a
restricted historical property pursuant to Article 1.9, Sec. 439 et seq., Chapter 3
Part 2 of Division 1 of the California Tax and Revenue Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Santa Ana and the Owner of the Historic Property
agree as follows:
1. Effective Date and Terms of Agreement.
This Agreement shall be effective and commence on October 20, 2021, and shall remain
in effect for a term of ten (10) years thereafter. Each year, upon the anniversary of the effective
date of this Agreement, such initial term will automatically be extended as provided in California
Government Code Sections 50280 through 50290 and in Section 2, below.
2. Renewal.
a. Each year on the anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement, a year shall
automatically be added to the initial ten (10) year term of this Agreement unless written notice of
nonrenewal is served as provided herein.
b. If the Owner or the City desire(s) in any year not to renew the Agreement, the
Owner or City shall serve written notice of nonrenewal of the Agreement on the other party.
Unless such notice is served by the Owner to the City at least ninety (90) days prior to the annual
renewal date, or served by the City to the Owner at least sixty (60) days prior to the annual
renewal date, one (1) year shall automatically be added to the term of the Agreement as provided
herein.
c. Within 30 days from receipt of City’s notice of nonrenewal, the Owner may file a
written protest of City’s decision of nonrenewal. The City may, at any time prior to the annual
renewal date of the Agreement, withdraw its notice to the Owner of nonrenewal.
d. If either the Owner or the City serves notice to the other of nonrenewal in any
year, the Agreement shall remain in effect for the balance of the term then remaining, either from
its original execution or from the last renewal of the Agreement, whichever may apply.
3. Standards and Conditions for Historic Property.
During the term of this Agreement, the Historic Property shall be subject to the following
conditions, requirements and restrictions:
a. Owner shall maintain the Historic Property in a good state of repair and shall
preserve, maintain, and, where necessary, restore or rehabilitate the property and its character-
defining features described in the “Historical Property Description” attached hereto, marked as
Exhibit B, notably the general architectural form, style, materials, design, scale, proportions,
organization of windows, doors, and other openings, textures, details, mass, roof line, porch and
other aspects of the appearance of the exterior to the satisfaction of the City.
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b. All changes to the Historic Property shall comply with applicable City plans and
regulations, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Office of Historic Preservation of the
State Department of Parks and Recreation, namely the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards
and Guidelines for Historic Preservation Projects. These guidelines are attached hereto, marked
as Exhibit C, and incorporated herein by this reference. Owner shall continually maintain the
Historic Property in the same or better condition.
c. A view corridor enabling the general public to see the Historic Property from the
public right-of-way shall be maintained, and Owner shall not be permitted to block the view
corridor to the property with any new structure, such as walls, fences or shrubbery, so as to
prevent the viewing of the historic landmark by the public.
d. The following are prohibited: demolition of the Historic Property or destruction of
character-defining features of the building or site; removal of trees and other major vegetation
unless removal is approved by a rehabilitation plan approved by the Historic Resources
Commission; paving of yard surface; exterior alterations or additions unless approved by the
Historic Resources Commission and such alterations are in keeping with the Secretary of
Interior’s Standards; deteriorating, dilapidated or unrepaired structures such as fences, roofs,
doors, walls, and windows; storage of junk, trash, debris, discarded or unused objects such as
cars, appliances, or furniture; and other unsightly by decoration, structure or vegetation which is
unsightly by reason of its height, condition, or inappropriate location.
e. Owner shall allow reasonable periodic inspection by prior appointment, as needed
or at least every five (5) years after the initial inspection, of the interior and exterior of the
Historic Property by representatives of the City of Santa Ana, the County Assessor, the State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and the State Board of Equalization, to determine the
Owner’s compliance with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
4. Furnishing of Information.
The Owner hereby agrees to furnish the City with any and all information requested
which may be necessary or advisable to determine compliance with the terms and provisions of
this Agreement.
5. Cancellation.
a. The City, following a duly noticed public hearing by the City Council as set forth
in Government Code Section 50280, et. seq., may cancel this Agreement if it determines that the
Owner have breached any of the conditions of this Agreement, or has allowed the property to
deteriorate to the point that it no longer meets the standards for a qualified Historic Property, or
if the City determines that the Owner have failed to restore or rehabilitate the property in the
manner specified in Section 3 of this Agreement. If a contract is cancelled for these reasons, the
Owner shall pay a cancellation fee to the County Auditor as set forth in Government Code
Section 50286. This cancellation fee shall be a percentage (currently set at twelve and one-half
(12 ½) percent by Government Code Section 50286) of the current fair market value of the
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property at the time of the cancellation, as determined by the county assessor, without regard to
any restriction imposed pursuant to this Agreement.
b. If the Historic Property is destroyed by earthquake, fire, flood or other natural
disaster such that in the opinion of the City Building Official more than sixty (60) percent of the
original fabric of the structure must be replaced, this Agreement shall be canceled immediately
because, in effect, the historic value of the structure will have been destroyed. No fee shall be
imposed in the case of destruction by acts of God or natural disaster.
c. If the Historic Property is acquired by eminent domain and the City Council
determines that the acquisition frustrates the purpose of this Agreement, this Agreement shall be
cancelled and no fee imposed, as specified in Government Code Section 50288.
6. Enforcement of Agreement.
a. In lieu of and/or in addition to any provisions to cancel the Agreement as
referenced herein, City may specifically enforce, or enjoin the breach of, the terms of the
Agreement. In the event of a default, under the provisions to cancel the Agreement by Owner,
the City shall give written notice to Owner by registered or certified mail, and if such a violation
is not corrected to the reasonable satisfaction of the City Manager or designee within thirty (30)
days thereafter, or if not corrected within such a reasonable time as may be required to cure the
breach or default, or default cannot be cured within thirty (30) days (provided that acts to cure
the breach or default may be commenced within thirty (30) days and shall thereafter be diligently
pursued to completion by Owner), then City may, without further notice, declare a default under
the terms of this Agreement and may bring any action necessary to specifically enforce the
obligations of Owner growing out of the terms of this Agreement, apply to any court, state or
federal, for injunctive relief against any violation by Owner or apply for such relief as may be
appropriate.
b. City does not waive any claim of default by the Owner if City does not enforce or
cancel this Agreement. All other remedies at law or in equity which are not otherwise provided
for in this Agreement or in City’s regulations governing historic properties are available to City
to pursue in the event that there is a breach of this Agreement. No waiver by City of any breach
or default under this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other subsequent breach
thereof or default hereunder.
7. Binding effect of Agreement.
a. Owner hereby subjects the Historic Property, located at 217 North Main Street,
Assessor Parcel Number, 398-602-02, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, in the City
of Santa Ana, to the covenants, conditions, and restrictions as set forth in this Agreement.
b. City and Owner hereby declare their specific intent that the covenants, conditions
and restrictions as set forth herein shall be deemed covenants running with the land and shall
pass to and be binding upon Owner’s successors and assigns in title or interest to the Historic
Property. Every contract, deed, or other instrument hereinafter executed, covering or conveying
the Historic Property or any portion thereof, shall conclusively be held to have been executed,
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delivered, and accepted subject to the tenants, restrictions, and reservations expressed in this
Agreement regardless of whether such covenants, conditions and restrictions are set forth in such
contract, deed, or other instrument.
8. No Compensation.
Owner shall not receive any payment from City in consideration of the obligation
imposed under this Agreement, it being recognized that the consideration for the execution of
this Agreement is the substantial public benefit to be derived therefrom and the advantage that
will accrue to Owner as a result of the effect upon the assessed value of the Property on the
account of the restrictions on the use and preservation of the Property.
9. Notice.
Any notice required by the terms of this Agreement shall be sent to the address of the
respective parties as specified below or at other addresses that may be later specified by the
parties hereto.
City: City of Santa Ana
20 Civic Center Plaza (M-30)
Santa Ana, CA 92702
Attn: Clerk of the Council
Owners: 217 North Main Investments LLC, a California Limited Liability Company
217 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Attn: Managing Member(s)
10. General Provisions.
a. None of the terms, provisions, or conditions of this Agreement shall be deemed
to create a partnership between the parties hereto and any of their heirs, successors, or assigns,
nor shall such terms, provisions or conditions cause them to be considered joint ventures or
members of any joint enterprise.
b. The Owner agrees to and shall indemnify and hold the City and its elected and
appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees harmless from liability for damage or claims
for damage for personal injuries, including death, and claims for property damage which may
arise from the direct or indirect use or operations of the Owner or those of his or her contractor,
subcontractor, agent, employee, or other person acting on his or her behalf which relates to the
use, operation, and maintenance of the Historic Property. The Owner hereby agrees to and shall
defend the City and its elected and appointed officials, officers, agents, and employees with
respect to any and all actions for damages caused by, or alleged to have been caused by, reason
of the Owner's activities in connection with the Historic Property.
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c. This hold harmless provision applies to all damages and claims for damages
suffered, or alleged to have been suffered, and costs of defense incurred, by reason of the
operations referred to in this Agreement regardless of whether or not City prepared, supplied, or
approved the plans, specifications or other documents for the Historic Property.
d. All of the agreements, rights, covenants, conditions, and restrictions contained
in this Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of the parties herein, their
heirs, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and all persons acquiring any part or portion of
the Historic Property, whether by operation of law on in any manner whatsoever.
e. In the event legal proceedings are brought by any party or parties to enforce or
restrain a violation of any of the covenants, reservations, or restrictions contained herein, or to
determine the rights and duties of any party hereunder, the prevailing party in such proceeding
may recover all reasonable attorney’s fees to be fixed by the court, in addition to court costs and
other relief ordered by the court.
f. In the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement are held to be
unenforceable or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by subsequent preemptive
legislation, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions, or portions thereof, shall
not be effected thereby.
g. This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of
the State of California, with venue in Orange County.
11. Recordation.
No later than twenty (20) days after the parties execute and enter into this Agreement, the
City shall cause this Agreement to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange.
12. Amendments.
This Agreement may be amended, in whole or in part, only by a written recorded
instrument executed by the parties hereto.
13. Effective Date
This Agreement shall be effective on the day and year first written above in Section 1.
{Signature page follows}
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ATTEST: CITY OF SANTA ANA
________________________ _________________________
DAISY GOMEZ KRISTINE RIDGE
Clerk of the Council City Manager
OWNER (217 North Main Investments LLC)
Date: ______________________ By:_________________________
Name:
Title:
APPROVED AS TO FORM: RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL:
SONIA CARVALHO
City Attorney
By: _____________________ _____________________
JOHN FUNK MINH THAI
Sr. Assistant City Attorney Executive Director
Planning and Building Agency
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EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
The Land referred to herein below is situated in the City of Santa Ana, in the County of Orange,
State of California, and is described as follows:
LOT 10 AND THE NORTH HALF OF LOT 7 OF THE RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCK 7, OF
THE TOWN OF SANTA ANA, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
SHOWN ON A MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 5, PAGE 46 OF MISCELLANEOUS MAPS, IN
THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY.
TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF THE ALLEY, WHICH WOULD PASS BY
OPERATION OF LAW WITH THE FEE CONVEYANCE OF SAID LAND, SAID PORTION
OF ALLEY HAVING BEEN VACATED BY THAT CERTAIN RESOLUTION NO. 2001-087
RECORDED OCTOBER 17, 2003 AS INSTRUMENT NO. 2003001285385 OF OFFICIAL
RECORDS.
Assessor’s Parcel Number: 398-602-02
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NAME Old Santa Ana City Hall REF. NO.21
ADDRESS 217 North Main Street
CITY Santa Ana ZIP 92701 ORANGE COUNTY
YEAR BUILT 1935 LOCAL REGISTER CATEGORY: Landmark
HISTORIC DISTRICT N/A NEIGHBORHOOD N/A
NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION A, C NATIONAL REGISTER STATUS CODE 1S
Location: Not for Publication Unrestricted
USGS 7.5” Quad Date: T R ¼ of ¼ of Sec : B.M.
Prehistoric Historic Both
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Art Deco
DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND RELATED TO PERIOD ARCHITECTURE:
The Art Deco style is characterized by smooth wall surfaces, often of stucco; zigzags, chevrons, fluting, reeding, and other low-relief
stylized and geometric motifs as decorative elements on the façade; accents of terra cotta, glass, or metal; polychromy; rectangular or
compound forms; and a more vertical emphasis than its close stylistic relative, Streamline Moderne. Art Deco was essentially a style
of decoration, and was applied to jewelry, clothing, furniture and handicrafts as well as architecture. In style between 1920 and 1940,
Art Deco was popularized by the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. It was most commonly utilized on commercial
or public buildings, sometimes in combination with the Gothic Revival whose verticality and sculptural decoration was ideally suited
to the Art Deco style.
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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY: (Construction data, alterations, and date of alterations)
May 10, 1935. City of Santa Ana City Hall.
July 7, 1939. Alterations & repairs.
December 4, 1946. Alter City Hall basement.
July 7, 1959. Remodel 3rd floor of City Hall for Planning Dept.
and Mayor’s office.
March 2, 1961. Interior alterations 1st and 2nd floors.
July 9, 1963. Suspended ceiling.
May 25, 1965. Partitions around stair well on 2nd floor rear.
May 9, 1968. Elevated floor system and air systems in
computer room.
July 26, 1968. Add paneling over existing wall.
October 15, 1970. Office partitions (Council Chambers).
May 14, 1971. Interior partitions on 3rd floor.
June 12, 1972. Interior partitions.
June 2, 1982. Add new 2nd floor elevation and rehabilitate
building for Barristers’ Bldg., Ltd., owner.
September 29, 1982. Tenant improvement.
September 19, 1985. Install door.
April 16, 1993. Repair partition walls.
RELATED FEATURES: (Other important features such as barns, sheds, fences, prominent or unusual trees, or landscape)
None.
DESCRIPTION: (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, settings, and
boundaries.)
Located on the southeast corner of Main and Third Streets, the Old Santa Ana City Hall is a three-story reinforced concrete building
designed in the Art Deco style. A four-story tower is centered above the main (west) elevation. Both the façade and the similarly
detailed north elevation are banded by a polished marble base at ground level. Stepped piers divide the façade and the north elevation
into five and seven bays, respectively. Most ground floor bays contain tall, tripartite, metal-framed windows topped by ornately
grilled transoms. Upper story bays, divided into three parts by pilasters, which mimic the design of the piers, contain metal casement
windows and transoms, separated between stories by decoratively carved spandrels, which vary from level to level. Single windows
are located in each of the end bays. The main entrance on the west is flanked by fluted pilasters topped by Assyrian heads and torsos
and topped by a panel incised with the name of the building. A flagpole is suspended from the building at an angle over the entry.
Another Assyrian head crowns the central bay, in front of the tower. The tower culminates in a pyramidal copper roof, lantern and
spire. Two “mini-towers” cap the end bays. Art Deco ornament, including stylized foliage, fluting, and chevrons enhance all the
decorated surfaces, including the spandrels, parapet, entry, tower, and window headers. Old Santa Ana City Hall retains a high degree
of integrity on its two public elevations.
HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS:
Old Santa Ana City Hall was constructed in 1935 at a cost of $126,000, funded by city bonds and a Works Progress Administration
(WPA) grant. It was designed by architect W. Horace Austin of Long Beach, who had designed the rather similar Masonic Temple at
Sycamore and Fifth Streets a few years earlier. A prominent Southern California architect, Austin’s credits also include the Bowers
Museum and numerous Long Beach commissions (the old Long Beach City Hall [demolished], several schools, the original Buffum’s
Department Store [demolished], the Long Beach YMCA [demolished], the Pacific Tower, the Press-Telegram Building, and the Long
Beach Airport Terminal). Local contractors Ball and Honer constructed the building. This was the third City Hall to be built on the
site, and replaced the 1904 building, which had been rendered unsafe after the 1933 earthquake. The City offices were located in this
building until the 1980s with the exception of the City’s Public Works Agency, which vacated the building in 1999. In approximately
1982 it was converted into private offices and in 2001 it won an American Institute of Architects/Orange County design award for its
interior adaptive reuse by Nestor/Gaffney Architects.
RESOURCE ATTRIBUTES: (List attributes and codes from Appendix 4 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office
of Historic Preservation.)
HP14. Government Building
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RESOURCES PRESENT:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of District Other
MOVED? No Yes Unknown Date: Original Location:
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: (Discuss importance in terms of historical or architectural context as defined by theme,
period, geographic scope, and integrity.)
Santa Ana was founded by William Spurgeon in 1869 as a speculative townsite on part of the Spanish land grant known as Rancho
Santiago de Santa Ana. Early growth and development was stimulated by the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1878 and the
Santa Fe Railroad in 1886. By the end of the 1880s, Santa Ana’s downtown business district was defined by five city blocks of brick
commercial buildings on Fourth Street, with the heart of the city at the intersection of Fourth and Main Streets. At this time, Santa
Ana was governed by the County of Los Angeles. On June 1, 1886, a majority of the eligible voters amongst Santa Ana’s 2,000
citizens voted to incorporate as a city of the sixth class. A Board of Trustees was elected, with William Spurgeon selected to be the
first Chairman. In August 1888, with a population of 5,000, the city reincorporated as a city of the fifth class. The following year
Santa Ana was acknowledged as one of the leading communities in the area in 1889 when it became the seat of the newly created
County of Orange.
Old Santa Ana City Hall is the most prominent and tangible symbol of the municipal development of the City. It was a source of
pride to citizens when it opened, and was described in the Santa Ana Daily Register (November 27, 1935) as having “beauty in
design” and “sleek, modern, sturdy, and with ample room.” In addition to its historic importance as the seat of city government and
the place where important decisions affecting the community were made, Old Santa Ana City Hall is architecturally significant as a
fine example of the variant of the Art Deco style often associated with WPA projects. The building is also significant as an example
of the work of architect W. Horace Austin. Due to its high level of integrity, all aspects of the exterior of Old Santa Ana City Hall,
including materials and finishes, design and composition, building elements and architectural detailing, are considered to be character-
defining and should be preserved.
SUMMARY/CONCLUSION:
This building was individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Under the regulations implementing the
California Register of Historical Resources, the building is also listed in the California Register. Listed in the Santa Ana Register of
Historical Property, the Old Santa Ana City Hall has been categorized as “Landmark” because it “is on the national register,” “is on
the state register,” “has historical/cultural significance to the City of Santa Ana,” and “has a unique architectural significance
(Municipal Code, Section 30-2.2).
OWNER AND ADDRESS:
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RECORDED BY: (Name, affiliation, and address)
Leslie J. Heumann
Science Applications International Corporation
35 S. Raymond Avenue, Suite 204, Pasadena, CA 91105
DATE RECORDED: September 4, 2001
SURVEY TYPE: (Intensive, reconnaissance, or other)
Intensive Survey Update
REPORT CITATION: (Cite survey report and other sources)
Les, Kathleen. “Santa Ana Historic Survey, Final Resources Inventory: Downtown.” May 1980.
REFERENCES: (List documents, date of publication, and page numbers. May also include oral interviews.)
Harris, Cyril M. American Architecture: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York, WW Norton, 1998.
Heritage Orange County and the City of Santa Ana. Downtown Walking Tour, Santa Ana, 1986.
Marsh, Diann. Santa Ana, An Illustrated History. Encinitas, Heritage Publishing, 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
National Register Bulletin 16A. “How to Complete the National Register Registration Form.”
Washington DC: National Register Branch, National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior, 1991.
Whiffen, Marcus. American Architecture Since 1780. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
Santa Ana Daily Register, November 27, 1935.
EVALUATOR: Leslie J. Heumann DATE OF EVALUATION: September 4, 2001
EXPLANATION OF CODES:
• National Register Criteria for Evaluation: (From Appendix 7 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of
Historic Preservation)
A: that are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.
C: that embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the
work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity
whose components may lack individual distinction.
• National Register Status Code: (From Appendix 2 of Instructions for Recording Historical Resources, Office of Historic
Preservation)
1S: Separately listed.
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Exhibit C
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 for its originally intended purpose.
2. The distinguishing original qualities or character of a building, structure or site
and its environment shall not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any
historic material or distinctive architectural features should be avoided when
possible.
3. All buildings, structures, and sites shall be recognized as products of their own
time. Alterations that have no historical basis and which seek to create an earlier
appearance shall be discouraged.
4. Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the
history and development of a building, structure, 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.
6. Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced,
whenever possible. In the event replacement is necessary, the new material
should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture,
and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features
should be based on accurate duplications of features, substantiated 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 undertaken 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 reserve archaeological
resources affected by, or adjacent to any project.
9. Contemporary design for alterations and additions to existing properties shall not
be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant
historical, architectural or cultural material, an such design is compatible with
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size, scale, color, material and character of the property, neighborhood, or
environment.
10. Wherever possible, new additions or alterations to structures shall be done in such
a manner that if such additions or alterations need to be removed in the future, the
essential form and integrity of the structure would be unimpaired.
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SITE
E 3rd Street
P L A N N I N G AND B U I L D I N G A G E N C Y
EXHIBIT 2 N Main StreetHPPA 2021-19
217 NORTH MAIN STREET
OLD SANTA ANA CITY HALL
500’ RADIUSN Sycamore Street EXHIBIT 2
E 1st Street
E 4th Street
N Bush StreetHistoric Resources Commission c –18 9/2/2021
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OLD SANTA ANA CITY HALL
217 NORTH MAIN STREET
SITE PHOTOS
EXHIBIT 3HistoricResourcesCommissionc –19 9/2/2021