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2000 06 15 HPC Minutes MINUTES HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MEETING A regular meeting held at the La Quinta City Hall Session Room 78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA June 15, 2000 This meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission was called to order by Chairman Robert Wright at 3 :03 p.m. who led the flag salute and asked for the roll call. 1. CALL TO ORDER A. Pledge of Allegiance. B. Roll Call. Present: Commissioners Irwin, Puente, Mitchell, and Chairman Wright. Staff Present: Planning Manager Christine di Iorio, Principal Planner Stan Sawa and Secretary Carolyn Walker. II. PUBLIC COMMENT: None. III. CONFIRMATION OF THE AGENDA: Confirmed. IV. CONSENT CALENDAR: A. It was moved and seconded by Commissioners Puente/Mitchell to approve the Minutes of May 18,2000, with the following correction: I. Business Item A., #3 corrected to read as follows: "Commissioner Irwin stated she agreed with Commissioner Mitchell's comments, but wondered after reading the report, if the archaeological monitoring needed to be on the entire property, or if it is only necessary to monitor the dune area under discussion. " V. BUSINESS ITEMS A. Phase I Cultural Assessment of a 5 65 Acre Site, located on the southeast corner of Washington Street and Highway Ill. Applicant: G. J. Murphy Construction - Archaeological Consultant: Archaeological Advisory Group (James Brock). 1. Principal Planner Stan Sawa presented the staff report, a copy of which is on file in the Community Development Department. 2. Commissioner Mitchell had no problem with the report or its findings. Chairman Wright concurred. 3. Commissioner Irwin commented she was 100% in favor of continuing the P:\CAROL YNlHPC6-15-00.wpd -1- Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 15, 2000 monitoring during trenching but other than that the report was acceptable. 4. There being no further discussion, it was moved and seconded by Commissioners MitchelIlIrwin to adopt Minute Motion 2000-014 accepting the Phase I Cultural Assessment of 5.65 Acre Site. Unanimously approved. B. Phase I Cultural Assessment for Tract 29623; located at the northeast corner of Dune Palms Road and Miles Avenue. Applicant: World Development - Archaeological Consultant: Archaeological Associates (Robert & Laurie White). I. Principal Planner Stan Sawa presented the staff report, a copy of which is on file in the Community Development Department. 2. Commissioner Mitchell asked if they recommended monitoring of the grading. Planning Manager di Iorio answered the information was in the third paragraph under the Management Summary. She commented on the projects that had been worked on near the site and nothing had been recovered, including the project to the east, which had been trenched and was also negative. As a result, the Archaeologists concluded monitoring deep trenching was not warranted. 3. Commissioner Irwin was concerned because one of the reasons cited for not monitoring was the cost involved which she felt should not be a reason for discontinuing the monitoring. She contended it was very important to continue the monitoring during trenching, since artifacts had been found on the property at Dune Palms Road and Highway 1 I I with deep trenching. 4. Planning Manager di Iorio stated a condition could be added requiring the trenching to be monitored. 5. Commissioner Puente agreed with Commissioner Irwin and asked if it could be a policy that deep trenching be required on all sites so no archaeological remains would be lost. 6. Chairman Wright agreed that a condition to require monitored trenching be added and stated it may not be prudent to make any exceptions after the Commission has worked so hard to have monitoring of trenching done previously. 7. There being no further discussion, it was moved and seconded by Commissioners IrwinlPuente to adopt Minute Motion 2000-015 accepting the Phase I Cultural Assessment for Tract 29623 with addition of a condition to monitor during trenching. Unanimously approved. P:\CAROL YN\HPC6-15-00. wpd -2- Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 15, 2000 C. Appointment to the Museum Expansion Committee. I . Planning Manager di Iorio informed the Conunissioners that the City Council would be forming a Conunittee to work on the Museum Expansion in the very near future. The Conunittee's purpose is to prepared design criteria for use by the proposed architect in plans for the expansion of the La Quinta Historic Museum. 2. There being no further discussion, it was moved and seconded by Chairman WrightlConunissioner Mitchell to appoint Commissioner Irwin as the Historic Preservation Conunission' s representative. Unanimously approved. VI. CORRESPONDENCE AND WRITTEN MATERIAL VII. COMMISSIONER ITEMS A. Chairman Wright introduced Mr. Archie Sharp, who was visiting as Council's appointee to the Commission, and welcomed him to the Commission. B. Principal Planner Stan Sawa passed out a letter received from Richard Starzak, Senior Architectural Historian for Myra 1. Frank & Associates, regarding the future clock/antennae structure at the Salon de Flores at the La Quinta Resort. This letter was only to update the Commission as the applicant still has to file an application and go through the normal approval and review process. I. Commissioner Mitchell asked if the FCC had submitted Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act report to State Office of Historic Preservation (SHPO) since it is a Federally-licensed undertaking and requires consultation with SHPO. 2. Planning Manager di Iorio replied the letter staff received was a copy of what was sent to the SHPO. It is staffs understanding they have since received a response from SHPO and we can request a response. Therefore, staff has prepared a letter making such a request. However, even though they have been talking with the State Office, they will still need to process a Conditional Use Permit t\1rough the City. Also, they sent us a photograph but it does not show what the proposed antenna will look like. It is a picture of what is existing. Their proposal is to raise the tower twelve feet. That means it will not only affect the historic aspect, because is also further away from the historic portion of the hotel. Also the sensitivity of having a twelve foot high antenna on Salon de Flores is a a concern not just to the Commission, but to everyone else. 3. Conunissioner Mitchell inquired if the City would wait to hear from SHPO before issuing a permit. Planning Manager di Iorio stated they already had P:\CAROL YNlHPC6-15-00.wpd -3- Historic Preservation Commission Minutes June 15,2000 and that was why staff was waiting for the letter. C. Planning Manager di Iorio acknowledged an inquiry by Commissioner Irwin about a Tourism Initiative through Riverside County and they were supposed to be setting up a Committee. Staff had left messages at the number given, but had not received any replies. She will try to obtain further information. D. Commissioner Irwin asked if the Commission could have a Workshop at the July meeting. Planning Manager di Iorio replied she would see who was available to conduct the Workshop. As it was summer, it might be difficult to arrange. E. It was moved and seconded by Commissioners IrwinlPuente to hold the next regularly scheduled on July 27th to accommodate the Commissioner's summer schedules. Unanimously approved. VIII. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, it was moved and seconded by Commissioners IrwinlPuente to adjourn this meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission to the next scheduled meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission on July 27, 2000. This meeting of the Historic Preservation Commission was adjourned at 3:20 p.m., June 15,2000. Unanimously approved. Submitted by: (!IIWJ~. ~ C;;;;~ia~er Secretary " P:\CAROL YNlHPC6-15-00.wpd -4-