Urbana Preservation & Planning
February 4, 2022
Attn. Mr. Danny Castro, Design and Development Director
City of La Quinta | 78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA 92247-1504
Via Email: dcastro@laquintaca.gov
RE: Proposal to Prepare the La Quinta City-Wide Historic Resources Survey Update
Mr. Castro,
On behalf of Urbana Preservation & Planning, LLC (Urbana), I am pleased to submit a response to the City of La Quinta’s
Request for Proposals (RFP) to complete the City-Wide Historic Resources Survey Update (HRS) and to provide
recommendations for revisions to existing historic preservation code and policy documents. Specifically, the HRS will
support implementation of previous survey recommendations by resurveying La Quinta to determine if there have been
changes over time to the previously recorded properties, identify any additional historical resources, and determine if any
properties merit nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These activities will serve to support the
City of La Quinta in its discretionary development process, ensure compliance with the California Environmental Quality
Act, support stakeholder interests in the preservation planning process, and generally solidify the City’s existing historic
preservation planning program.
By way of introduction, my name is Jessica Seyforth and I lead Business Development here at Urbana. Established in 2005
and headquartered in San Diego County, Urbana offers specialized urban planning, historic preservation, cultural resources,
history and architectural history services. Our full-time in-house team of historic preservation specialists meet The Secretary
of the Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of history, architectural history, and historical
archaeology, as well as the draft standards in historic preservation and land use / community planning. Our team brings long-
standing experience in the provision of preservation services to municipalities including expert witness consulting,
preparation of long-range preservation plans and ordinances, authoring historic context statements for historic districts,
and surveying historic properties. We bring added value to the City of La Quinta via relevant municipal contracting
experience, familiarity with the locale and its resources, and a demonstrated ability to work effectively to complete the work
in an expedient, reliable, and technically accurate manner. We have a record of success on similarly scoped projects with a
portfolio spanning 17 years and building on decades of experience of each of our professionally qualified historians. Notably,
in 2001, prior to forming Urbana, Founding Principal Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, was an integral historian and
preparer of the 2004 City of Palm Springs Historic Resources Survey. Senior Historians Doug Kupel, Ph.D. and Scott Solliday,
MA, have prepared historic district nominations for numerous desert region communities. More recently, for the Kansas
Historical Society, we recently prepared a survey, context, and Multiple Property Documentation Form of Post Rock
Limestone Resources across four counties, and are currently preparing three NRHP nominations of properties identified in
that process. We have completed survey and evaluation of thousands of properties across Southern California and the
Southwest for a myriad of clients including municipalities, private property owners, and utility providers including Southern
California Edison. In this proposal we offer the following assurances.
• Completion of all project tasks in the 2021-2022 Fiscal Year,
• Use of in-house professionally qualified staff for all project tasks,
• Adherence to the established budget and submitted costs for the following services:
• Attendance at xxx public hearings.
• Preparation of updated survey forms for 262 properties and new forms for up to 100 properties,
• Preparation of a survey report with an updated historic context statement, and
• Preparation of a historic preservation code and policy revisions package.
We welcome the opportunity to share our congenial and cooperative style as we work on behalf of the City to prepare the
HRS and code and policy revision package. Please call or write to me anytime to discuss our proposal or to initiate services.
Respectfully Submitted,
Jessica Seyforth, Operations and Business Development Manager
Jessica@urbanapreservation.com | (844) 872-2623 | 7705 El Cajon Blvd #1, La Mesa, CA 91942
PROPOSAL TO PREPARE
THE LA QUINTA CITY-WIDE
HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY UPDATE
SUBMITTED TO
Danny Castro, Design and Development Director
City of La Quinta
78-495 Calle Tampico
La Quinta, CA 92247-1504
SUBMITTED BY
Urbana Preservation & Planning, LLC
7705 El Cajon Blvd., Suite 1, La Mesa, CA 91942
Jessica Seyforth, Operations/Business Development
(844) URBANA3 | (844) 872-2623
jessica@urbanapreservation.com
SUBMISSION DATE
February 4, 2022
*ADDENDA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Urbana acknowledges receipt of addenda #1 issued
January 14, 2022.
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Cover Photo Credits
" The La Quinta near Indio, Calif.” ca. 1930, Pomona Public Library - The Frasher Foto Postcard Collection.
http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt6p302199/z1&&brand=oac4
“La Quinta, Coachella Valley, looking southwest” ca. 1956, Los Angeles Public Library - Kelly-Holiday Mid-
Century Aerial Collection. https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4789
“La Quinta Country Club Clubhouse” ca. 1965, California Polytechnic State University Kennedy Library
Online Archive - William F. Cody Papers. https://digital.lib.calpoly.edu/rekl-1727
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Table of Contents
Statement of Qualifications 1
PROPOSED PROJECT TEAM 2
KEY PERSONNEL EXPERIENCE 7
PROJECT EXPERIENCE 10
REFERENCES 17
Project Understanding and Approach 18
SCOPE OF WORK 19
SCHEDULE / TIMELINE 24
COST PROPOSAL 25
Appendix A. Resumes 26
FIGURES
Figure 1. Original Developer Plan of Clairemont. 7
Figure 2. Representative reconnaissance views were included in the Clairemont
context statement. 7
Figure 3. Example of Bureau of Reclamation Standard Design Type 57 P-3A. 9
Figure 4. Clairemont Community Planning Area Historic Context Statement. 10
Figure 5. Clairemont: ‘City Within A City’, San Diego Union, 1958. 11
Figure 6. Culverwell & Taggarts Addition 12
Figure 7. BVHC Minimal Traditional Home, Coronado Eagle, August 19, 1943 (2: 2-4). 13
Figure 8. Post Rock Historic Resources Survey Information Flyer. 14
Figure 9. SCE Ramona Substation, built in 1926 in a Spanish Revival style to blend into
the surrounding residential tract. 15
Figure 10. Historic-Era Electrical Infrastructure Management Program. 16
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Statement of Qualifications
Established in 2005, Urbana Preservation & Planning (Urbana) offers
specialized urban planning, historic preservation, history, and architectural
history services. The firm is a single-member Limited Liability Company
(LLC) managed by Founding Principal Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH,
AICP. Our company is headquartered out of San Diego County, California
and maintains satellite locations in the San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland),
the Southwest Region (Arizona), the Mountain Region (Montana), and the
Midwest Region (Illinois). Urbana is certified as an 8(a) firm by the United
States Small Business Administration (SBA) and a Section 3 Business by
the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Urbana’s team of historic preservation specialists meet The Secretary of the
Interior’s Professional Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of history,
architectural history, and historical archaeology, as well as the draft
standards in historic preservation and land use / community planning.
Urbana's mission is to inform the future of the built environment by
acknowledging the past. We educate and engage people on the history of
place and the importance of recognizing and retaining historically and
architecturally significant properties. We provide regulatory compliance
support for owners and occupants of historic-era properties. Urbana
delivers results with technical expertise, consensus-building, and creative
solutions.
Our team is well suited to provide the City of La Quinta with the city-wide
survey update with a highly qualified team in place, decades of relevant
project experience, and a positive history of municipal contracting. We are
enthusiastic to share our experience and work with the City and area
stakeholders to communicate the history of La Quinta as a significant post-
WWII suburban community. We recognize that the City is pursuing a
reconnaissance survey with the ultimate goal of identifying potential for
historic district status and / or individual historically significant properties
to inform future National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations.
Urbana has assisted municipalities as well as private property owners in
this same pursuit for over 16 years leading to significant tax incentives /
cost savings as well as retaining and maintaining their historic era
properties.
We bring long-standing experience in the provision of preservation
services to municipalities including expert witness consulting, preparation
of long-range preservation plans and ordinances, authoring historic
context statements for historic districts, and surveying historic properties.
Our record of success extends to similarly scoped projects having recently
prepared a reconnaissance survey and context statement for Clairemont,
the City of San Diego’s premier post-WWII suburban community.
Developed to include more than 22,000 properties from ca. 1953-1970s,
Clairemont was known as “The Village within a City.” We understand the
origins of comprehensively planned communities in the post-WWII period.
Firm Resources
Field Survey Packs
• Survey iPads
• Satellite Handhelds
• iPhone 12 camera
• Leica Disto
• PPE
• Survey Handout
• 4x4 Field Vehicle
LX 470 / 100 Series
Software Subscriptions
• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Enterprise
• Adobe CC
• AutoCad
• Microsoft Office
Archive Subscriptions
• Newspapers.com
• GeneologyBank.com
• NETR
• Sanborn Maps
• Ancestry.com
Insurance
• GC, E&O, Auto, WC
• $1M per, $2M agg.
Office Equipment
• Ricoh MPC4504 ex
• Macbook Pros
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Additionally, we bring salient experience in evaluating properties, including residential communities and
historic districts, under the eligibility criteria of the NRHP. Our team recently surveyed and evaluated more
than 1,000 built environment improvements along linear corridors spanning nearly 400 miles from Southern
California to Clark County, Nevada, and has prepared NRHP nominations for multiple historic districts.
All work shall be performed by Urbana’s full-time in-house staff of historians. Our team is highly qualified to
complete an in-depth historical resource survey of the City. Relevant expertise is twofold: municipal and
agency contracting experience and completion of similar survey and context projects by key personnel. For
17 years Urbana has provided expert service to municipalities, agencies, private property owners, utility
providers, non-profit advocacy organizations, and allied professionals. Our firm history demonstrates a
successful body of work for, and in partnership with, municipalities and agencies on projects that include
intensive level historic surveys, historic context statement preparation, Historic American Landscapes Survey
(HALS) documentation, National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Reviews, site specific Historic
Rehabilitation Guidelines, and expert witness consulting in state and federal litigation centered on historic
preservation. Our record of completing projects on time and on budget for our municipal clients, including
the Cities of San Diego, La Mesa, Coronado, Laguna Beach, and Chula Vista, reinforces the ability to
successfully manage and complete the requested survey for the City of La Quinta. To demonstrate this
success, below is a list of awards and recognitions received for our municipal work.
San Diego State Normal School Campus & San Diego City Schools Historic District Phase One
Preservation Planning Study – Award of Excellence for Preservation Advancement – City of San Diego
Historical Resources Board.
City of La Mesa 2012 General Plan Update – Planning Agency Award. Historic Preservation Element
prepared by Urbana for the City of La Mesa.
City of Chula Vista Historic Preservation Program and Ordinance – Outstanding Planning Document
Award, American Association of Environmental Professionals San Diego Chapter Historic Preservation
Ordinance and Program prepared by Urbana for the City of Chula Vista.
PROPOSED PROJECT TEAM
The Urbana team includes six full-time Historians / Preservation Planners, one Operations Specialist, and one
Project Tech / Assistant, with additional Architectural Historians and Historians available on an on-call basis.
Our La Quinta survey team is led by firm Principal Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, who will provide
oversight on all concerns. Senior Historians Douglas Kupel, Ph.D. and Scott Solliday, MA, both veteran
preparers of NRHP nominations and survey documentation efforts, will lead the research and reporting
aspects of the project. John Hyche, MA, Alexandrea Baker, MCP, and Alexia Landa, BA will work closely with
our Principal and Senior Historians to conduct research, complete reconnaissance survey and documentation,
and support survey spreadsheet management and GIS mapping. Urbana Operations Manager, Jessica
Seyforth, BS, will provide project / contract management and administrative support. Urbana organizational
chart including contact information and team member bios are included in the following pages with resumes
included in Appendix A.
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Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP | Principal Planner / Project Manager
Ms. Tinsley Becker is a preservation planner and architectural historian. She established Urbana in 2005 and
maintains 25 years of preservation planning experience. Past performance includes preparation of large-scale
historical resource surveys, general plan elements, ordinances, design guidelines, management and
treatment plans, and preservation mitigation programs. Ms. Tinsley Becker brings an expert background in
American history, architectural history and urban planning. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History
with an emphasis in Urban, Architectural, and Social History, and a Master of City Planning degree with an
emphasis in historic preservation and urban design. Wendy meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic
Preservation Professional Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of History and Architectural History and
the draft standards established for Historic Preservation and Land Use/Community Planning. She is included
on the California Council for the Promotion of History’s Register of Professional Historians (# 612) and also
maintains professional certification in the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP #022838). She is
Faculty within San Diego State University’s (SDSU) City Planning Graduate Program and served as Faculty
within the UC San Diego Urban Planning & Development Professional Program between 2006 and 2016. She
teaches courses in American Architectural History, Historic Preservation Planning, History of City Planning
and the Built Environment, Fundamentals of Planning, and Urban Planning Theory. She is the Founder of the
Built Environment Education Program (BEEP) San Diego and is a Past Chair of the American Planning
Association’s National Urban Design and Preservation Division. Ms. Tinsley Becker was recently selected as
one of the top 50 alumni from the SDSU City Planning Graduate Program, an accolade presented as part of
the program’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
Wendy regularly consults for private and agency applicants on historical resource and historic property
analysis for discretionary projects and undertakings pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act and the California Environmental Quality Act, as well as Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit
proposals at NRHP listed or eligible properties. She served as the lead historic preservation consultant for the
City of Chula Vista’s Municipal Preservation Planning Program and authored the Historic Preservation
Element for the City of La Mesa’s 2030 General Plan update process. She provides survey, architectural
history, context development, programmatic agreement, and historic preservation planning consulting
services for the Southern California Edison Company and historic context preparation services for the City of
San Diego. She consulted as the lead Architectural Historian for the City and County of Honolulu High-
Capacity Transit Corridor Project’s Kako’o (Section 106 Programmatic Agreement Program Manager) team.
Wendy’s professional analysis and determinations are regularly reviewed for compliance and concurrence by
numerous municipalities, and state and federal agencies including the California State Office of Historic
Preservation, the California Public Utilities Commission, the USDA Forest Service, and the National Park
Service. She provides Expert Witness consulting for applicants and municipalities on historical resource
regulatory decisions and preservation planning projects.
Douglas Kupel, Ph.D. | Senior Historian
Senior Historian and Archaeologist Douglas Kupel holds a Ph.D. in History from Arizona State University, a
graduate certificate in Archaeology from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Arts in History
from the University of Oregon. Doug meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional
Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of History, Architectural History, and Historical Archaeology. Doug
is a Registered Professional Archaeologist and qualified Principal Investigator who brings a balanced
perspective to the Urbana team with an agency and management background. Doug began his decades-long
career working as an archaeological and historic sites consultant in California and Arizona, and later served as
a Historian for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) where he processed many large and
complex historic district nominations. Dr. Kupel has served as the Deputy Water Services Director and
Environmental Program Manager for the City of Glendale, Arizona where he supervised several divisions and
managed nine divisional budgets. He additionally worked for the City of Phoenix as a Water Advisor and
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Natural Resources Historian. Doug serves on the Arizona SHPO Historic Sites Review Committee where he
reviews historic nominations to ensure that they meet the standards for being accepted by the Keeper of the
Register. Doug is adjunct faculty at several colleges and universities in Arizona, having taught from 1996
forward and serves as the Vice President of the Phoenix Trolley Museum. His project experience includes
authoring over 30 NRHP nominations including for multiple historic districts, HAER/HALS/HABS
documentation, historic context statements, and management plans. Dr. Kupel has supervised and executed
projects for a host of federal, municipal, and private agencies, and completed evaluations for historic
resources throughout the United States. His experience extends to civil engineering projects, including
authoring historical narratives, manuscripts, and eligibility evaluations for the Bureau of Reclamation Salt
River Project and the Central Arizona Project. Doug has a thorough understanding of cultural resources and
preservation planning. His book Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona’s Urban Environment was published in 2003
by the University of Arizona.
Scott Solliday, MA | Senior Associate Historian
Scott holds a Master of Arts in United States History / Public History and a Bachelor of Arts in History from
Arizona State University. He meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional
Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of History and Architectural History and has worked as a
professional historian for more than 30 years, completing a diverse array of projects in historic preservation
and cultural resource management. He is expert in all technical aspects of historic preservation: research, field
documentation, assessment, treatment / mitigation, and the appropriate application of the criteria of the
NRHP. His professional project experience includes historic property surveys and inventories, NRHP
nominations and eligibility assessments, HABS / HAER / HALS documentation, historic context studies and
preservation planning documents. Scott is well versed in assessing project effects on historic properties and
ensuring compliance with historic preservation regulations and stipulations, including Section 106
consultation with state and federal agencies, municipalities, and tribes. His portfolio of work spans a broad
range of studies supporting environmental planning, city planning, and private development, with a successful
history of working effectively to meet the requirements of all project stakeholders including clients, State
Historic Preservation Offices, and federal agencies. Areas of specialization include history of Arizona, Mexican
Americans, Native Americans, agriculture and irrigation engineering, and the post-World War II period in
America. In addition to parcel level and larger scale surveys and contexts, Scott’s recent work includes projects
for the Arizona Department of Transportation (DOT), Section 4(f) assessments, and historic property surveys
for the US Army Corps of Engineers.
John Hyche, MA | Associate Historian
John Hyche holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in Anthropology, from the University of California,
and a Master of Applied Anthropology with a Certification in Historic Preservation from the University of
Maryland. He meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications Standards
in the discipline of History, Historic Preservation, and Historical Archaeology. John brings practical and applied
knowledge of historical and archeological research principles, methods, and processes from his agency and
project reviewer background. He previously served as a NPS Certified Local Government (CLG) Assistant in
the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division, as a NPS Cultural Resource Technician, and as a Project
Reviewer with the Washington D.C. Historic Preservation Office. John’s experience includes execution and
supervision of Section 106 survey projects, preparation of technical reports, evaluation and review of CLG
nominations, and processing competitive grant applications from towns, municipalities, universities, and
individual applicants nationwide. As a Cultural Resource Technician, John was tasked with the evaluation of
preservation maintenance and repair work at historic properties. He coordinated with researchers, subject
matter experts, and resource managers from within the NPS to encourage and facilitate cooperative regional
resources management strategies. John has authored National Register Determination of Eligibility forms and
National Register nominations, crafted rehabilitation and treatment plans for projects in compliance with the
National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, and completed research in
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support of Class III Cultural Resource Inventory reports. His technical competence and regulatory compliance
expertise are matched by his practical skills in data management, including proficiencies in ArcGIS, AutoCAD,
HTML, and the Esri GIS Trimble.
Alexandrea Baker, MCP | Preservation Planner / GIS Technician
Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, with a minor in Community and Regional Planning, from the
University of Nebraska and a Master of City Planning degree from San Diego State University. She meets The
Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications Standards in the discipline of History
and Architectural History. She brings municipal experience having worked for the City of Richmond,
California, where she completed research, processed project approvals and environmental review documents,
and supported public outreach. At Urbana, Alex surveys historic-era built environment sites, conducts
property specific and contextual research, identifies cultural landscapes consistent with NRHP Bulletin No. 36,
authors technical reports, and prepares GIS maps. Recent project experience includes a survey, report, and
Multiple Property Documentation Form on Post Rock Resources in Kansas, Historic Designation and Mills Act
Applications for private property owners in the County of San Diego, on-call historic research services for the
City of Coronado, and Archival Research Packages for Southern California Edison. Alex is a GIS and cultural
landscape specialist on the Urbana team and has prepared map packages for thousands of sites for projects
throughout the West. Her cartography work products are regularly used for in-depth analyses and strategic
decision making by client and agency partners. In addition to her preservation planning experience, Alex is
adept in database management and ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Alexia Landa, BA | Historian + Archaeologist
Ms. Landa is a Veteran of the United States Navy having served from 2007-2012, including deployments in the
Middle East where she served as an Aircrew Survival Equipmentman. In this capacity she inspected aircraft
and aircrew life-support equipment for evidence of abuse, damage, or malfunction, and developed a highly
focused attention-to-detail. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in History and Anthropology
from San Diego State University. She meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional
Qualifications Standards in the discipline of History. In the course of her professional career Ms. Landa has
accumulated thousands of archaeological survey hours including mapping relocated sites, site extensions,
excavation, artifact identification, screening, lab analysis, site recordation and documentation. Project
experience includes archaeological field survey along the California coast, excavation of pre-historic Chumash
sites in Camarillo, California, and completing artifact identification and lab analysis at the Nate Harrison
Homestead. She served as an Archaeological Specialist for the California Department of Parks and Recreation
Southern Service Center where she performed archaeological monitoring and site assessment activities for a
variety of project types including State Park facility improvements, historic building maintenance, and
municipal water and sewer system repair and replacement. At Urbana, Alexia leads field survey and
monitoring activities, conducts contextual and site-specific research, prepares historic context statements,
and authors technical reports and site records. Lexi has surveyed and evaluated thousands of resources across
the Southwest, from single site parcels up to linear corridors spanning hundreds of miles for capital
infrastructure improvement projects. Her work includes HABS/HAER/HALS documentation, Historic Property
Survey Reports, state-specific inventory site forms, archival research packages, Historic Designation and Mills
Act applications, and Historic Context Statements for clients including private property owners, prime
environmental firms, municipal, state, and federal agencies. Ms. Landa’s enthusiasm and passion for history
is demonstrated through her volunteer work with the Museum of Man, the San Diego Museum of Natural
History, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the San Diego County Archaeological Society.
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KEY PERSONNEL EXPERIENCE
Our multi-generational staff represents more than one century of experience in documenting the historic built
environment and has prepared surveys for similar post-WWII communities and historic districts. Urbana’s
Architectural Historians offer specific experience in the survey, research, and eligibility evaluation of pre- and
post-WWII suburban communities and in the evaluation of historic properties under the criteria of the NRHP.
Firm Principal, Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP,
specializes in the history of urban planning, in particular
the outward growth of cities and suburbanization. In that
regard, her graduate thesis and subsequent teaching is
focused on the evolution of residential communities in
the 19th Century with an emphasis on post-WWII
community building in response to the nation’s housing
shortage. She is regarded as an expert in suburban
communities developed in the interwar and post-WWII
period. She led and authored the Clairemont Community
Plan Area reconnaissance survey and historic context
statement for the City of San Diego and has completed
similar intensive level and reconnaissance survey efforts
for communities throughout California.
For the Clairemont project, Wendy performed a
reconnaissance survey of 22,000 parcels composed
mainly of Ranch style (Tract Ranch and Contemporary)
residential properties radiating around neighborhood-
serving commercial centers and school facilities. Using
County Assessor records, Wendy and the Urbana team
developed a reconnaissance database with Assessor’s
Parcel Number, address, year-built data, property type,
and subdivision tract information. They additionally
completed newspaper research for all references to the
community and its individual tracts between ca. 1950 and
ca. 1970s to develop the historic context statement and
have an in-house compendium of published accounts of
the community’s social and physical history. The context
statement additionally relied on United States census
data to track the racial and ethnic composition of
residents into the 1960s and beyond and incorporated
oral history interviews and historic community marketing
materials provided by the original developer of the
community. Ms. Tinsley Becker met with and
interviewed the remaining legacy developers to discuss
the community history, phasing of residential
construction, goals for shopping centers, and original
maps and community conditions. For the physical survey,
the Urbana team completed a windshield survey of the
entire 22,000 parcel community over several days to
observe and photograph representative property types
and architectural styles, and to identify whether any
individual tracts within the comprehensively constructed community could be found eligible as a smaller
Figure 1. Original Developer Plan of Clairemont.
Figure 2. Representative reconnaissance views were
included in the Clairemont context statement.
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historic district within the community. During field survey, Urbana interacted with residents and community
members to discuss the project goals and gain feedback on any properties that could be regarded as
significant in and to the community.
Urbana Senior Historian, Doug Kupel, Ph.D., has a deep and thorough understanding of approaching historic
districts for NRHP eligibility having served as the lead historian for five NRHP historic district nominations in
Mesa, Arizona including the Temple Historic District, the Evergreen Historic District, the Robson Historic
District, the Glenwood-Wilbur Historic District, and the West Second Street Historic District. Each of the
districts were successfully listed on the NRHP and serve as tangible representation of the evolution of
residential communities.
• The oldest historic district in Mesa, Arizona, the West Second Street Historic District exhibits an
array of architectural styles, house forms, and ages, all between the 1888-1948 period of
significance. Listed on the NRHP and Mesa Register in 1999, the district illustrates the growth of the
Mesa townsite in the early-to-mid 20th Century, and its transition to a cohesive neighborhood of
middle-to-upper class households / property types.
• The Glenwood-Wilbur Historic District encompasses three residential subdivisions platted between
1919 and 1922 and characterized by wide streets and large parcels in some sections which lend to a
semi-rural feel, with other blocks developed in a more traditional suburban character. The district’s
period of significance is 1888-1948 and it was listed on the NRHP and Mesa Register in 1999.
• With a period of significance of 1910-1948, the Evergreen Historic District demonstrates a shift in
residential development patterns and expansion beyond the original municipal boundaries.
Composed of Craftsman, Southwestern Revival, Minimal Traditional, and Ranch-style houses, the
district was listed on the NRHP and Mesa Register in 1999.
• Constructed around the Mormon Temple, the Temple Historic District features a period of
significance of 1900-1949 and is comprised primarily of small Revival style cottages and Minimal
Traditional homes. The district was listed on the NRHP and the City of Mesa Register in ca. 2000-
2001.
• Located within the original Mesa City townsite, the Robson Historic District demonstrates the shift
from large garden blocks into smaller, more densely populated suburban lots. This was accomplished
through multiple lot splits rather than the comprehensive subdivision and land development process,
which led to irregular lot sizes and unique architectural character. The district’s period of significance
is 1911-1959 and it was listed on the NRHP and the Mesa Register in 2003.
Senior Associate Scott Solliday, MA, rounds out our team’s senior level experience in surveying, documenting,
and evaluating historic residential communities. In 2012 Scott authored the State Route 30 (East) Study:
Evaluation of Historic Buildings and Districts, Maricopa County, Arizona, for the Arizona DOT. The historic
property survey evaluated all age-eligible properties within a half mile of the four alternative alignments in a
15-mile corridor for a proposed new freeway that passes through the cities of Phoenix, Avondale, Goodyear,
and Buckeye. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) included more than 15 square miles of residential,
commercial, industrial, and agricultural land. Given the size and complexity of the APE, Scott developed a
specific methodology for the project. The survey began with a review of Maricopa County Assessor's and
Recorder's records, historic aerial photographs maintained by the Maricopa County Flood Control District, the
Bureau of Land Management's database of homesteads and patents, and local records such as historic maps,
newspapers, and city directories. This research generated a list of all parcels which had buildings or structures
presumably built before 1969 and provided information about the historic use of the parcels. To evaluate the
significance of the properties, additional research focused on the development of the larger rural historic
landscape that spans a large portion of the western Phoenix metropolitan area. Building upon a previous
historic context for the area, Scott identified three applicable historic contexts for the survey:
Rural Agricultural Farmsteads and Dairies in the Lower Salt River Valley and Upper Buckeye Valley,
1910–1968;
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Zanjero (Watermaster) Houses on the Buckeye Canal, 1900–1968; and
Residential Subdivision Development in Western Maricopa County, 1942–1968.
Prior to conducting fieldwork, Scott and the survey team met with representatives from AZ DOT, SHPO, and
the prime environmental planning contractor to gain consensus on the APE boundaries and criteria for
identifying any potential historic districts. It was also determined that all “age-eligible” properties in the APE
should be documented using Arizona SHPO’s Historic Building Inventory Form (HPIF). Verification of age
during the field survey must rely on architectural style and evidence of construction methods and alterations.
Each property was recorded on a HPIF with a detailed architectural description of each building and structure
and an assessment of alterations or additions. Field photographs documented all aspects of a property that
illustrate significance or integrity. An assessment of each property provided a recommendation of its eligibility
for listing on the NRHP or Arizona Register of Historic Places both in terms of the criteria (A–D) and the historic
contexts it best represents.
A total of 180 parcels were documented with 226 HPIFs. In addition to evaluating parcels in terms of individual
eligibility, the nature of many types of historic resources found in the project area required the identification
of potential historic districts, which were recorded on 18 Historic District Inventory Forms. These districts were
of two types: rural residential “ranchette” subdivisions and farmsteads/dairies. For the seven rural residential
subdivisions, each individual parcel with a house or other building constructed before 1969 was treated as a
potential contributor to the district. Eleven farmsteads and dairies were identified as potential historic
districts. These are generally large complex properties; they sometimes encompass multiple parcels but were
treated as a single property. A HPIF was completed for each individual building, structure, or aggregates of
structures located on the property. The survey was completed in 2012, but due to delays in the project
schedule, the APE was resurveyed, and an updated report was produced in 2018.
As a component of a larger Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Post-1955 Properties Stewardship Plan and
National Register of Historic Places
Evaluations, Wendy, Doug, and Scott
are currently preparing a MPDF and
supporting NRHP nomination
package for housing constructed by
the United States Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR) between 1958
and 1965. Fieldwork involved
reconnaissance survey of
approximately 200 ”Bureau Houses”
developed as workers housing, with
intensive level documentation of 13
homes owned by NPS and utilized
for NPS personnel housing. Houses
and streetscapes that were representative of the neighborhood were photographed, and details of
construction, architectural design, and integrity were noted. Many houses had been altered considerably,
usually with the addition of wood or vinyl siding and changes to the front living room windows. NPS recently
consulted with the Arizona SHPO, which concurred that the types of siding used are reversable changes. With
this guidance we determined that approximately 70 percent of the houses in the neighborhood are potentially
eligible as contributors to a historic district.
The draft MPDF, in development, is focused on post-1955 housing associated with the Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area and includes a historic context, period of significance, identification of character-defining
features, and registration requirements for listing of associated individual properties. While NPS provided
Figure 3. Example of Bureau of Reclamation Standard Design Type 57 P-3A.
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numerous government documents that identified the role that BOR played in establishing new towns near
project construction sites, the Urbana team conducted additional research at the Page Public Library, the
Page City Clerk’s office, and a review of Coconino County Assessor's and Recorder's records. Additional
research was completed via Urbana’s in-house archives and digital research subscriptions. The 13 NPS-owned
homes will be nominated for the NRHP as a historic district utilizing the MPDF.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
In addition to the specific key personnel experience stated previously, Urbana brings recent and relevant
project experience conducting surveys, evaluating built environment resources under CEQA and NHPA
criteria, preparing historic context statements, and identifying properties and districts eligible for listing to
the NRHP. In that vein, we have prepared project descriptions completed by Urbana, followed by reference
information located at the conclusion of this section.
City of San Diego Historic District Nominations, Surveys and Context Statements
Relevance to the RFP: municipal contracting, post-WWII property types, survey and context
In 2018, Urbana was commissioned by the City of San Diego Planning Department to prepare a historic district
nomination for the Park Boulevard Residential Historic District. The Park Boulevard Apartments Historic
District is an intact grouping of approximately 68 multi-family residential properties located along Park
Boulevard north of Upas Street in San Diego, California. Urbana's scope of work included authoring the
historic context statement and nomination package utilizing the survey data from both the North Park and
Uptown Community Plan areas. Urbana participated in a kick-off meeting to finalize the work program,
conducted primary and secondary source research, reviewed results of staff-completed field work, and
developed a draft district-specific historic context, statement of significance (with period of significance) and
boundary justification. A final draft was produced and submitted in April of 2018 which incorporated
comments received from the Historic Resources Board Policy Subcommittee and City Staff. A context
statement including history of the district as well as district
boundary justifications was completed according to the
City’s preferred template and received unanimous approval
from the Historical Resources Board’s Policy Subcommittee
as well as support from the community planning group and
Save Our Heritage Organisation, the dedicated historic
preservation advocacy organization in the region. Urbana
staff attended the Policy Subcommittee meeting to
represent the findings of the historic context statement and
historic district nomination package, and to provide support
to City Staff as the item was presented.
In 2018, Urbana prepared the historic context statement
for the Clairemont Mesa Community Planning Area (CPA),
located in the north central portion of the City of San
Diego and encompassing approximately 11 square miles.
Clairemont Mesa began as a suburban community
characterized by mostly low scale single-family homes
built in the 1950s and 1960s, generally confined to the
mesas and along the rim of Tecolote Canyon, Stevenson
Canyon, San Clemente Canyon and into the hillside areas.
The predominant topographic feature in Clairemont Mesa
is the gently rolling mesa separated by several canyons and hillsides.
In support of the comprehensive update to the Clairemont Mesa Community Plan and its Programmatic
Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), Urbana prepared a historic context statement that addresses the
Figure 4. Clairemont Community Planning Area
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themes and property types significant to the development of the Clairemont Mesa community. The
context provides the foundation for the historical overview of Clairemont Mesa in the PEIR, helps to
indicate the likelihood of encountering historic resources within the community, and will guide the future
identification of such resources. The Clairemont Mesa CPA is widely recognized as San Diego’s pre-
eminent post-World War II (WWII) suburban community, and at a national level, parallels in scale and
level of effort to noted pre-and-post WWII planned communities built in Radburn, New Jersey (1928),
San Lorenzo, California (1944), Levittown, New York (1947), Park Forest, Illinois (1948), and Lakewood,
California (1949). The first substantial settlement within the Clairemont Mesa CPA, the Morena tract,
depended on the creation of railroad infrastructure connecting San Diego with the western United
States’ expanding late-19th Century rail transportation network. Near the end of the 1870s, National
City’s Frank Kimball persuaded the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad (Santa Fe) to support
construction of a transcontinental connection from San Bernardino south to San Diego and National
City. Funded by Santa Fe interests, and subsequently acquired by the Santa Fe, the California Southern
Railroad constructed the line beginning in 1880. Washouts plagued the Temecula Canyon portion of the
original line approximately 45 miles north of San Diego, which the Santa Fe ultimately abandoned. San
Diego became dependent on a coastal branch line known as the “Surf Line” that connected to the Santa
Fe line at Fullerton. Aligned through Rose Canyon and along the eastern edge of Mission Bay, then
referred to as False Bay, the California Southern Railroad combined with other Southern California
railroad development during the first half of the 1880s to generate a regional real estate boom. That real
estate boom gave birth to the Morena tract, a Victorian-era townsite replete with railroad depot and
natural springs to serve as a visitor attraction. Remnants of the speculative townsite set east of Mission
Bay were replaced by Bay Park Village, a New Deal-era housing development offering Minimal
Traditional style homes built according to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) standards. Into the
1950s planned residential tracts were developed east of Bay Park Village, as part of Clairemont,
advertised as a “Village Within A City.” Amidst these periods of residential development, commercial
and industrial uses filled in the suburban landscape, offering local jobs in the retail, office, and defense
and aerospace industries for San Diegans and transplants to the region.
The Clairemont Mesa CPA, in its entirety, is the culmination of several master planned communities,
developed with public facilities and
secured by financing mechanisms
that supported individual home
ownership. The Clairemont Mesa
area is important to its residents for
the pride of ownership and sense of
place that developed as each of its
master planned communities were
constructed. Clairemont, colloquially
referred to as “Squaremont” holds
special affection in the heart of many
San Diegans who came of age in the
area in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and
1980s. The primary context of the
Clairemont Mesa CPA is planned
suburban development, 1888-1970s;
in particular comprehensively
constructed communities
developed according to the
standards and guidelines of the
Federal Housing Administration and the Urban Land Institute ULI.
Figure 5. Clairemont: ‘City Within A City’, San Diego Union, 1958.
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Urbana’s Historic Context Statement references three distinct periods of development in the CPA. The
themes were developed to address a variety of related topics and associated extant property types. Each
theme is outlined below.
Victorian-Period Development Patterns, 1888-1915: This theme is associated with one property
type - Victorian dwellings. The theme discusses early improvements in the CPA, specifically within
the Morena townsite and surrounding tracts, and outlines the identifying exterior features
domestic architecture along with limited integrity considerations.
Community building and Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Principles, 1936-1950: This theme
is associated with three property types - Minimal Traditional style dwellings described as
“Colonial,” “Hacienda,” and “Monterey“ styles in early newspaper publications, and Schools and
Commercial Buildings. The theme discusses the impetus for affordable housing constructed
consistent with FHA principles, and financed by the FHA, with a particular focus on the
development of Bay Park Village at the western edge of the CPA. The theme outlines identifying
exterior features for Minimal Traditional style dwellings, schools, and commercial buildings
constructed in the 1936-1950 timeframe in and around Bay Park Village, along with limited
integrity considerations.
Post-WWII Suburban Development, 1950s-1970s: This theme is associated with three property
types – Tract Ranch style single-family dwellings and multi-family buildings, Contemporary Tract
style single-family dwellings and multi-family buildings, and Contemporary commercial and
public serving buildings including civic, religious, and educational properties. The theme discusses
post-WWII suburbanization and the founding of Clairemont, San Diego’s premier suburban
community. Identifying exterior features for Tract Ranch, Contemporary Ranch, and Buildings,
are discussed along with limited integrity considerations.
In order to develop each theme for the CPA, Urbana conducted contextual and property-specific research
using County Assessor data, building permit records, United
States Census data, and local newspaper articles detailing
the history of the CPA including The San Diego Union, The
Evening Tribune, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Urbana
additionally researched Clairemont community booster
records, including community newsletters, and oral history
interviews from ‘first generation’ residents of the
community. Upon completion of the context statement,
Urbana prepared recommendations for future action to
guide the City in the management and treatment of the
significant features within the CPA.
More recently, in 2019-2020, at the request of the City and
under contract to ICF International, Urbana prepared the
district context and nomination package for the Culverwell &
Taggart’s Historic District. The Culverwell and Taggart’s
Historic District (C&T HD) is located in the western portion of
the City of San Diego’s Golden Hill Community Planning
Area (CPA). Golden Hill is one of the oldest communities in
San Diego having been utilized as mission lands in the
Spanish and Mexican periods. The district’s name is derived
from the Culverwell & Taggart’s Addition (C&T Addition) to
San Diego, platted in April 1869 and recorded as Map No.
249. The Golden Hill CPA developed primarily as an eastern extension of Horton’s Addition in the Downtown
Figure 6. Culverwell & Taggarts Addition
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CPA, to the south and east of Balboa Park, and is anchored by Golden Hill Park, a pocket park sited at the
southeast corner of Balboa Park, and two designated historic districts: the Golden Hill Historic District,
designated in 1978 as Historical Resources Board (HRB) No. 130, and the South Park Historic District,
designated in 2017 as HRB No. 1276. Previous City-sponsored historical resource surveys, including the 1996
Mid-City Survey and the 2016 Golden Hill CPA Historic Resources Survey Report, have identified the C&T
Addition as a potential historic district. In the Mid-City Survey, the C&T Addition was recommended for
recognition as part of an expansion of the Golden Hill Historic District, a six-block area bound by the north side
of Russ Boulevard to the north, 24th Street to the west, F Street to the south, and 25th Street to the east. The
Golden Hill Historic District is situated immediately east of the C&T Addition. The 2016 Golden Hill CPA
Historic Resources Survey Report was prepared to assist the City in the identification of historical resources
within the CPA boundaries, including potential historic districts that may qualify for designation and inclusion
on the City’s Historical Resources Register. The C&T Addition was again opined eligible for designation as a
historic district, pending intensive-level research, boundary justification, confirmation of period of
significance, and identification of contributing and non-contributing resources within the district. Composed
of 262 parcels, the C&T HD is regarded as a premier residential enclave with Victorian-era, Craftsman, Period
Revival, and Modernistic style dwellings, commercial, and institutional buildings. The district represents over
100 years of primarily residential development at the eastern edge of San Diego’s urban core and within
Western Golden Hill. For the City, Urbana authored a historic context statement and district nomination
package asserting eligibility under City of San Diego HRB Criterion A (NRHP A) as a special element of the
city’s historical and architectural development. The period of significance for the district is 1869 through 1954.
Urbana’s context and nomination package includes four themes along with associated property types and
significance thresholds for each theme: The Early History of Golden Hill: 1769-1885, An Elite Residential
District: 1885-1905, Streetcar Development: 1905-1930, and An Era of Transitions: 1930-1990.
City of Coronado On-Call Historic Research Services
Relevance to the RFP: municipal contracting, adherence to budget and accelerated schedule
In 2019, Urbana initiated an on-call services contract with the City of Coronado to provide expedited eligibility
reviews for buildings proposed for designation, alteration, or demolition. As the On-Call Historic Consultant,
Urbana prepares Determination of Historic Significance Reports (DHSR) to inform City Staff and the City’s
Historic Preservation Commission of the potential for eligibility for each of the tasked properties. To date
Urbana has prepared over 40 DHSRs for the City, all within an accelerated four-week timeframe and within
budget. Additionally, for each project, Urbana personnel attend the City’s Historic Preservation Commission
meetings to represent findings and support staff. Property types evaluated are generally residential in the
Period Revival, Spanish Revival, Colonial Revival, Minimal Traditional, and Ranch styles. Urbana’s reports
entail property research to identify construction, ownership, and occupancy history, development of a
historical narrative, and evaluation of the property
under the City’s significance criteria. The City of
Coronado recently extended Urbana’s on-call
contract for an additional year, illustrating the value
of our services in the City’s preservation planning
process.
As part of the historical narrative, Urbana is tasked
with developing biographies of builders and
architects associated with development in the city,
including the Bay View Housing Corporation (BVHC),
a subsidiary of S.V. Hunsaker and Associates, a Los
Angeles based homebuilding firm. In 1943, BVHC was
commissioned by the War Production Board and the
National Housing Agency to develop a housing project on Coronado Island. The project included 37 single-
Figure 7. BVHC Minimal Traditional Home, Coronado Eagle,
August 19, 1943 (2: 2-4).
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family dwellings, including the 243 F Avenue residence, and 12 apartment buildings for civilian workers at the
North Island Naval Air Station during World War II. As by the early 1940s, Coronado had been developed with
buildings throughout the island leaving little open space to develop a wartime housing project that followed
traditional federal Figure 4. BVHC Minimal Traditional Home, Coronado Eagle, August 19, 1943 (2: 2-
4).planning and design guidelines, the BVHC constructed the single-family dwellings and apartment buildings
throughout the island and designed them to match the character of the existing homes. To avoid a “row house
appearance,” the BVHC designed three exterior appearances and two roof types over a traditional rectilinear
footprint. The single-family dwellings featured shingle exteriors, with three bedrooms on 50’ lots to allow for
ample light and air circulation around each home. Urbana completed a reconnaissance survey of Minimal
Traditional homes in the city to identify those attributed to the BVHC, and established parameters for the
BVHC Minimal Traditional typology to inform future research and evaluation efforts.
Kansas Post Rock Resources Survey, Multiple Property Documentation Form, and NRHP
Nominations
Relevance to the RFP: agency contracting, large reconnaissance survey, survey and context
leading to NRHP nominations
In 2021, Urbana was tasked with completing a Historic Resource Survey and Multiple Property
Documentation Form (MPDF) of Post Rock Resources in
Lincoln, Mitchell, Rush, and Russell Counties in Central Kansas.
Commissioned by the Kansas State Historic Preservation
Office / Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS), this project is
HPF funded, and is guided by the FY2021 HPF Survey
Requirements. An added challenge to the project was the
timeline: KSHS required a highly accelerated time frame in
order to meet HPF deadlines. The survey portion of the project
involved five deliverables: (1) intensive level documentation
and evaluation of 50 Post Rock properties on Kansas Historic
Resource Inventory (KHRI) forms, (2) preparation of a survey
report, (3) preparation of a MPDF with historic context, (4)
Public Information Meeting, and (5) Publication of an article on
Kansapedia the state’s encyclopedia of history.
Urbana initiated and completed field survey the week of June 5,
2021, with representative views (elevations and details)
obtained for each property. While 50 properties were required
for survey within the contracted scope of work, our team
surveyed 20 additional properties based on feedback received
from stakeholders. These additional 20 properties were
referenced in the survey report and MPDF and may be included
in the KHRI database at a future date. Visits to local libraries and
historical societies were completed by the survey team to
obtain contextual and property-specific information that informed property entries for the KHRI database. On
July 30, 2021, Urbana completed / uploaded all updates to previously recorded properties using our assigned
credentials from the KHRI Database Manager. We additionally prepared new documentation using the KHRI
Excel database with drop-down selections and narrative write-ups relating to property histories, architectural
descriptions, general remarks, and eligibility conclusions. Urbana prepared site plans for all 50 properties and
captioned all site plans and property photos consistent with the specifications set forth in the FY2021 HPF
Survey Requirements.
Figure 8. Post Rock Historic Resources Survey
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The Post Rock Resources Historic Survey Report was completed in August of 2021, authored by Urbana’s Alex
Baker, MCP, Doug Kupel, Ph.D., and Wendy Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP The draft MPDF, authored by Dr.
Kupel, was submitted on September 1, 2021. Urbana previously submitted an excerpt of the document to
provide KSHS reviewers an opportunity for early feedback to ensure that the accelerated project timeline
remained on track. The final MPDF was submitted on schedule on September 24. The Kansapedia article was
sent in for comments in December of 2021 and will be published in early 2022. Following these successful
submissions and building on the congenial and cooperative relationship Urbana has built with the Kansas
State Historic Preservation Office, Urbana’s contract has been expanded to include National Register
Nominations for three Post Rock Resources under the MPDF. We have recommended that the three
nominations focus on commercial or income producing buildings that can leverage federal rehabilitation tax
credits and Kansas historic preservation tax credits to further the rehabilitation campaign at each building. To
date Urbana has worked with KSHS to identify several likely candidates and secured permissions for moving
forward on the first two nominations.
Southern California Edison On-Call Preservation Consulting
Relevance to the RFP: large-scale complex surveys over thousands of acres and hundreds of miles
in Southern California and Nevada, detailed place histories, context statements, and preservation
planning guidance documents
From 2007 forward, Urbana has provided as-needed preservation planning for small-and-large-capital
improvement projects throughout Southern California Edison’s (SCE) 55,000 square mile service territory,
including reconnaissance survey of all historic-era substation buildings owned by SCE, eligibility evaluations
for individual properties within SCE project boundaries ranging from single-parcel reviews to survey
evaluations of up to 900 sites within an Area of Potential Effect, preparation of Historic American Engineering
Record packages for NRHP eligible facilities, preparation of a Historic-Era Facilities Management Programs.
The SCE Historic-Era Electrical Infrastructure Management Program (Program) was developed to establish a
consistent protocol for identifying, reviewing,
exempting, and treating SCE’s historic-era
electrical infrastructure throughout its 50,000
square-mile service territory. SCE maintains
several classes of electrical infrastructure, and the
Program includes a strategy for identifying and
defining the significant properties within each
class or facility type based on a contextual
narrative relating to the organization’s history,
innovative achievements in electrical engineering
and electrical system design that helped to
industrialize the Southern California region, and
the company’s aesthetic ideology and
architectural programming employed through the
historic-period. Urbana worked with SCE to
develop the Program and authored the Program
document, including completion of contextual
research on the identified themes, reconnaissance
survey of all historic-era substation properties in
the 55,000 square mile service territory, and development of appropriate mitigation and treatment guidelines
to inform management decisions. Significant properties are inventoried in the document and will require
formal evaluation under the NRHP should they come under any capital improvement campaign.
Figure 9. SCE Ramona Substation, built in 1926 in a Spanish
Revival style to blend into the surrounding residential tract.
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The Program, as outlined in the document, is a culmination of historic context development, technical
studies, and programmatic agreements for the identification, review, exemption, and treatment of SCE's
historic-era electrical infrastructure. The purpose
of the Program is to establish an efficient, logical,
and standardized process for responsibly
managing the historic-era electrical infrastructure
facilities that are regarded as important by SCE and
/ or other interested parties, and to outline the
approach for no longer managing facilities known
to be ineligible within the established context for
SCE’s service territory. In that regard, SCE’s goals
are to obtain validation and consensus for the
Program requirements and procedures as outlined
in this document, to partner with State and Federal
agencies to formally adopt the Program, and to
recognize the Program as a model after which
other utility providers can develop a similar
protocol and management process, thereby
improving and streamlining the preservation
planning regulatory review process for all classes of
historic-era electrical infrastructure. To this end,
this guidance document:
Provides the historic context of SCE’s
historic-era electrical infrastructure;
Identifies SCE’s historically significant or
potentially significant electrical
infrastructure;
Identifies certain classes of SCE’s electrical
infrastructure not significant and ineligible
for listing in the NRHP or CRHR, and therefore exempt from NHPA Section 106 historic property
identification and CEQA Section 21084.1 historical resource identification;
Requires comprehensive documentation of significant infrastructure as part of a program to treat
effects under NHPA and mitigate impacts under CEQA; and
Exempts further analysis of effects or impacts to significant infrastructure pending completion of
prescribed documentation.
In 2019 Urbana prepared a similar long-range management plan for SCE properties on Santa Catalina Island,
off the of Southern California coastline. Beyond these long-range plans, as part of Urbana’s on-call and
ongoing service to SCE, we have authored more than 100 single-site Historic Property Survey Reports to
evaluate properties under the NRHP and prepared Class III cultural resource studies for six major capital
projects that together entailed context development, NRHP eligibility evaluation, and regulatory / treatment
recommendations for more than 2,000 private or government owned properties that intersect with SCE’s
utility corridor.
Figure 10. Historic-Era Electrical Infrastructure Management
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REFERENCES
Reference No. 1
Company Name Kansas Historical Society (KSHS)
Street Address 6425 SW 6th Ave
City, State, Zip Topeka, KS 66615-1099
Contact Name Katrina Ringler, Preservation Office Supervisor
Phone / Email (785) 272-8681 ext. 215, katrina.ringler@ks.gov
Dates of Service 2021
Description Intensive survey of historic sites across four counties in Kansas: Rush, Russell,
Lincoln, and Mitchell Counties to document historic sites constructed of post
rock, a type of limestone prevalent in Central Kansas used by early settlers
Key Personnel Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, AICP, RPH; Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA;
and Alexandrea Baker, MCP
Reference No. 2
Company Name City of Coronado, Community Development Department
Street Address 1025 Strand Way
City, State, Zip Coronado, CA 92106
Contact Name Tricia Olsen, Historic Preservation Planner
Phone / Email (619) 522-7329 / tolsen@coronado.ca.us
Dates of Service 2019-present
Description As-needed preparation of Determination of Historic Significance
Reports and presenting findings at Commission and City Council
meetings.
Key Personnel Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, AICP, RPH; Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA;
and Alexia Landa, BA
Reference No. 3
Company Name Southern California Edison
Street Address 2244 Walnut Grove Ave.
City, State, Zip Rosemead, CA, 91770
Contact Name Audry Williams, SCE Senior Archaeologist
Phone / Email (661) 331-8523 / audry.williams@sce.com
Dates of Service 2007-present
Description On-call historic preservation services including surveys, NRHP
eligibility evaluations, preparation of HAER documentation,
preparation of the Historic-Era Electrical Infrastructure
Management Program and Santa Catalina Island Historic-Era
Water System Management Plan.
Key Personnel Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, AICP, RPH; Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA;
Scott Solliday, MA; Alexandrea Baker, MCP, Alexia Landa, BA
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Project Understanding and Approach
As a locale, La Quinta’s early history, in the American period, is tied to the development of homesteads and
ranchos, and to the Bradshaw Trail, a short-lived route intended to provide safe and efficient passage between
present-day Palm Springs and Present-day La Paz, Arizona where a gold strike occurred in 1862. La Quinta’s
role on the Bradshaw Trail was an important one as a place to find potable water and livestock fodder, an
overnight camp spot and place of shelter from windstorms and flashfloods, along the route. In 1868, the
Bradshaw route was officially authorized by Congress as a U.S. Mail stagecoach route to carry mail from Los
Angeles through San Bernardino, La Paz and Prescott, Arizona, and on to Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
Bradshaw Stage Line passed through the northern section of La Quinta until 1877 and was replaced by a
graded gravel road in 1915. This early stagecoach route, however, was not the primary transportation corridor
in the Coachella Valley. In 1876, the Southern Pacific Railroad extended service from Los Angeles to Indio to
transport people and produce grown in the region. The Coachella Valley was home to numerous farming
establishments, Indio in particular which featured reliable water sources. La Quinta’s climate fostered growth
of exotic dates, sweet corn, Bermuda onions and Thompson seedless grapes, therein becoming one of several
agricultural communities in the Coachella Valley.
This Southern Pacific connection opened up the Coachella Valley for more than homestead, ranching, and
agricultural uses. In the first few decades of the 20th Century, tourism including therapeutic and recreational
resorts, were developed throughout the valley including the La Quinta Resort, the City’s namesake.
Established in 1926 by Walter Morgan as the La Quinta Hotel, the resort featured 20 guest casitas, an open-
air glassed dining room, three courtyards, a swimming pool, and a nine-hole golf course set over 1,400-acres.
Roughly four years later, Santa Carmelita de Vale, the Cove, residential subdivision was platted as a seasonal
resort club and community with fifty adobe bungalows by Developer E.S. “Harry” Kiener. Mr. Kiener
previously developed the Peter Pan Woodland Club in Big Bear and brought his experience to the Cove
project. He commissioned Master Architect S. Charles Lee, noted for his theater designs throughout
California and the southwest, to design the Desert Club in 1937.
In the late 1930s through 1950s, the La Quinta Resort and the Cove were expanded to accommodate growing
interests, with a prolonged pause resultant from WWII-era rationing mandates which reduced development
activities and tourism in the area. In 1937, under the ownership of B.J. Barder, the La Quinta resort added six
tennis courts and a pro shop, and business boomed with a stream of celebrity guests from the entertainment
industry. Between 1935 and 1949, approximately 95 houses were constructed at the Cove; many in the
Spanish Eclectic style intended to continue the architectural precedent set at the La Quinta Hotel.
In the post-WWI period, the La Quinta Hotel transformed into a full-fledged country club with custom homes
built across from the hotel over a new 130-acre land extension named the Golf Estates. As these two resort
communities developed, incremental construction of buildings occurred in the village and municipal
infrastructure was established including graded and paved roads, permanent water and sewer services, and
gas and electrical utilities. Like the rest of the area, building starts in the Village however, were substantially
impaired by WWII with little growth occurring until the contemporary period. In subsequent decades La
Quinta gained a reputation as a vacation or bedroom community for the greater Southern California region.
In the early 1980s, housing and commercial building starts increased. The Cove subdivision was developed
with new housing that, and La Quinta was incorporated as a municipality in 1982. Today the city is home to
again a destination for therapeutic and recreational resort opportunities with more than 20 golf courses,
numerous parks, and biking and hiking trails. The City continues to embrace its history while facilitating new
development strategies.
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Urbana’s overall strategy for the project is to solidify the City’s existing historic preservation planning program
via a survey update and expansion, and assessment of existing procedures, policies, and code language for
historical resources, historic landmarks, and historic districts in the city. The two main goals of the project are
as follows.
• Complete a comprehensive city-wide historical resource survey that will support the City of La
Quinta in its discretionary development process and to support stakeholder interests in the
preservation planning process.
• Conduct a thorough analysis of existing adopted policies and procedures relating to historical
resources, landmarks, and districts to improve the discretionary development process, remain
compliant with CEQA, and support stakeholder interests in the preservation planning process.
To accomplish the project goals, as outlined in the Scope of Work, Urbana will undertake the following actions.
• Update findings on previously documented and evaluated properties,
• Identify all new properties in the city that are age-eligible,
• Develop a survey spreadsheet with all age-eligible properties in the city,
• Update findings for 262 previously recorded properties,
• Intensively document and evaluate up to 100 newly age-eligible properties,
• Update the existing historic context statement,
• Prepare a survey report detailing project findings,
• Provide survey shape files in ArcGIS, and
• Provide comments and recommended revisions package for policy and code language.
The proposed scope of work, project schedule / timeline, and cost proposal are detailed below.
SCOPE OF WORK
Our previous experience in similar pre-and-post-WWII communities has informed Urbana’s methodological
approach, scope of work, and project timeline for the City of La Quinta survey effort. Our work plan includes
four basic tasks: meetings and public hearing attendance, contextual and property-specific research, desk
and field survey, and reporting. Urbana’s task descriptions, methods, assigned personnel, and milestone
deliverables, are detailed here. All deliverables are proposed for completion prior to June 30, 2022 to fall
within this fiscal year (2021-2022).
TASK 1. MEETINGS AND PUBLIC HEARINGS
All meetings will be attended by Urbana’s founding Principal and Senior staff. Ms. Tinsley Becker is expert at
working with appointed and elected commissions and in relaying project findings in a public setting. She has
led municipal commissions through historic preservation training sessions and regularly presents projects at
Historic Preservation Commission (HPC), Planning Commission, and other similar advisory and authoritative
bodies. Recent examples include historic preservation training, presented in October 2021, for the City of
Laguna Beach Heritage Review Committee, Design Review Committee, and Planning Commission. Ms.
Tinsley Becker presents Urbana’s findings at regularly scheduled public meetings on a near monthly basis.
Senior Staff bring additional high level engagement experience with Dr. Kupel serving on the Arizona SHPO
Historic Sites Review Committee and Mr. Solliday regularly presenting at municipal hearings.
Project Start-Up and Stakeholder / Community Notifications
Prior to initiating scoped tasks, Urbana shall meet virtually with City Staff and other stakeholders
recommended by the City to initiate the survey effort. The purpose of the kick-off meeting is to confirm the
survey schedule, to verify the extent of community notifications desired or required by the City such as
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handouts to property owners, and to discuss availability and transfer of data from the City to Urbana including
original development records, previous technical studies, and any other salient municipal property records, in
digital or print copy, that will inform research and survey efforts. In advance of the kick-off, Urbana will
assemble a list of project stakeholders and will request City Staff input to confirm that specific stakeholders
and resources are not unintentionally omitted from the project process. Stakeholders include known long-
time residents (potential interview candidates), original and early developers / builders, homeowner and
neighborhood association representatives, historical societies and local history bloggers, legacy business
owners, and elected and appointed officials associated with La Quinta. Urbana will additionally provide City
Staff with a draft notification letter / handout for use in the community notification process.
Schedule: The start-up and community notification process is anticipated for late February 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: Draft stakeholder list, draft survey handout.
Associated Personnel: Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug Kupel, and Scott Solliday.
Request To City: GIS Data, available year-built data, available municipal property records, previous
studies and reports.
Public Meeting No. 1 | March 22, 2022 Planning Commission Meeting – Information Item
It is recommended that the survey and context update effort be introduced as an information item at
the Planning Commission’s March 22, 2022 meeting. For the meeting Urbana will prepare an
introductory PowerPoint (PPT) detailing the goals and objectives of the project and to solicit
preliminary feedback from the Planning Commission and public stakeholders. This will establish a
baseline understanding of the project deliverables and will prepare Commissioners for a future
presentation outlining the results of the project proposed for the June 14, 2022 meeting.
Schedule: March 22, 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: Introductory PPT Presentation.
Associated Personnel: Wendy Tinsley Becker.
Request To City: Confirmation of agenda placement and supporting material needs.
Public Meeting No. 2 | June 14, 2022 Planning Commission Meeting – Full Draft Presentation
Building on the March 22 information session, Urbana will present the full draft survey report with all
appendices including historic context statement, updated and newly recorded DPR forms, survey
spreadsheet, and maps and imagery, to the Planning Commission at the June 14, 2022 meeting. Urbana will
prepare a PPT Presentation to share with City Staff and the Commission, with the findings represented by
firm Principal Wendy Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP. Senior historical staff will also be in attendance to respond
to questions and comments. The draft code and policy revision package will not be presented to the Planning
Commission unless requested by City Staff. We understand that this will be a separate participatory process
facilitated by the City at a later date.
Schedule: June 14, 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: PPT Presentation summarizing project accomplishments and findings.
Associated Personnel: Wendy Tinsley Becker and Doug Kupel / Scott Solliday.
Request To City: Confirmation of agenda placement and supporting material needs.
Public Meeting No. 3 | June 21, 2022 City Council Meeting – Full Draft Presentation for Adoption
At the City Council meeting, proposed for June 21, 2022, Urbana shall present the full draft survey report with
all appendices including historic context statement, updated and newly recorded DPR forms, survey
spreadsheet, and maps and imagery. The PPT presentation will be updated to request Council approval or
adoption of the survey project. Ms. Tinsley Becker will attend and present to the City Council at the proposed
June 21, 2022 meeting.
Schedule: June 21, 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: PPT Presentation summarizing project accomplishments and findings.
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Associated Personnel: Wendy Tinsley Becker.
Request To City: Confirmation of agenda placement and supporting material needs.
TASK 2. RESEARCH
Urbana’s team of historians bring extensive practice in researching, documenting, and evaluating large-scale
and complex multi-parcel surveys including surveys that include thousands of buildings and structures, more
than 10,000 acres, and several hundred miles. From 2018 forward Urbana has authored large-scale Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Reports for SCE. These projects involve intensive level survey, documentation
and reporting on thousands of historic-era buildings and structures throughout California and into Nevada.
Dr. Kupel served as the Senior Historian for these projects, wherein he authored literature reviews, historic
context statements, and integrity thresholds for state (California Public Utilities Commission) and federal
reviewers (BLM and NPS). Scott Solliday, John Hyche, Alex Baker, and Alexia Landa documented and
evaluated each age-eligible site on California site records and Nevada ARA Forms. The team researched each
property to determine eligibility under state registers and the NRHP. Ms. Landa and Ms. Baker were
additionally responsible for managing all database and GIS mapping of site boundaries, project boundaries,
and APE boundaries. Our extensive experience in multi-parcel property research will inform our methods for
La Quinta. Having proper staffing to appropriately divide up the work ensures that all research resources are
accounted for and that each team member has a back-up should an obstacle, like illness or some other
unanticipated event, occur. We bring the organizational skills, academic and professional specialization, and
necessary research experience to successfully complete the task.
Prior to completing reconnaissance and intensive level survey work, Urbana will initiate contextual and
property-specific research to inform a detailed history of La Quinta and corresponding historic context
statement that builds upon the themes developed in the 2011 draft context effort. Urbana’s research task
involves in-person and remote / digital research of resources on file at the City of La Quinta, the City of La
Quinta and Riverside County Library system, Riverside Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder, UC Riverside, and
the La Quinta Museum and Historical Society. The research component represents the fact-finding and story-
telling portion of the survey and context effort with each resource and archive offering a specific use and
result. Tract maps help to verify the original neighborhood boundaries and arrangement and dimensions of
lots, and additionally offer insight on the pace of growth for the city via survey and recordation dates.
Assessor-Recorder data informs year-built dates for improvements within the city and will be used to develop
the survey spreadsheet. Oral history interviews and newspaper accounts provide firsthand accounts of
experiences of individuals associated with the city at different points in time. Census enumeration reports
give glimpse to the racial and ethnic composition of the city and its environs prior to incorporation. Historic
photographs, both aerial and street-view, demonstrate the city’s growth and architectural styles, which help
to establish character-defining features and additionally verify integrity status of larger tracts and individual
buildings and structures within. The contextual research will help to update La Quinta’s documented history,
to expand the historic context statement, and to establish periods of significance along with thresholds for
significance. Research will be led by Dr. Kupel and Mr. Solliday with support of Urbana historians Alex Baker
and Alexia Landa.
Schedule: Focused research will occur in February through May 2022 and will continue as-needed until
submission of final survey report.
Urbana Deliverable: Draft history and updated context statement.
Associated Personnel: Doug Kupel, Scott Solliday, Alex Baker, and Alexia Landa.
Request To City: None identified under this task.
TASK 3. DESK AND FIELD SURVEY
Drawing on our team’s multi-parcel large-scale survey experience, we will strategically and effectively execute
the La Quinta survey effort by employing comprehensive safety, planning, and project management
practices. Safety is an important component of every Urbana project and is particularly important while
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surveying communities and visiting repositories. We maintain a safety program that includes use and
maintenance of proper PPE, including COVID-19 specific PPE, situational awareness training, pedestrian and
auto-safety checks, location monitoring for field personnel, and daily on-board and off-boarding
communications. Part of field survey best practices involve clearly identifying locations, schedule, and
environmental conditions prior to commencement. The Urbana field survey team begin all survey work with
routes, locations, equipment, schedule, and plans in place, employing the ‘measure twice, cut once’
philosophy of preparation.
Under Task 3, Urbana will complete a desk survey that will then inform the field survey effort. Reconnaissance
Surveys are regarded as fast-moving and best used for large areas, or when documenting a potential historic
district. This type of survey can be especially helpful when dealing with resources constructed after 1940 like
large, master-planned housing developments. Desk surveys fall into the reconnaissance umbrella and involve
identification of parcels, year-built data, property type, corresponding architectural styles, and alterations and
integrity status. This information is compiled into a survey spreadsheet that will then inform updates to
previously recorded properties and selection of intensive level documentation and evaluation of newly
identified properties. The survey spreadsheet will also serve as the basis for identifying age-eligible properties
targeted for field survey.
Scott Solliday, MA and John Hyche, MA, will execute the physical survey activities with the support of staff
historians Alex Baker, MCP and Alexia Landa, BA as pairs of two teams working in concert. Messers Solliday
and Hyche have led and executed large scale surveys for private and agency clients including the National Park
Service, various municipalities, and the Arizona DOT. The teams will complete survey activities
simultaneously over several days, working systematically by subdivision tract boundaries. Representative
house types, architectural styles and stylistic variations, common hardscape / landscape features, streetscape
features, and community facilities within La Quinta shall be photographed. Historic and current views of
properties will be included as figures in the survey report, in both the detailed history and to identify examples
of contextual property types. Post-processing of survey efforts involves preparation of photo sheets that
include all images and revision to the shape files in ArcGIS as-needed based on field survey observations. Ms.
Baker and Ms. Landa will maintain the survey spreadsheet / database and GIS mapping.
Schedule: Survey activities will occur in March 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: Photo sheet organized by property address and subdivision tract, survey
spreadsheet.
Associated Personnel: Scott Solliday, John Hyche, Alex Baker, and Alexia Landa.
Request To City: ArcGIS layer / parcel data.
TASK 4. REPORTING
Upon completion of field survey activities, Urbana shall initiate updated and new documentation for survey
properties, preparation of a survey report, update and expansion of draft historic context statement, and
recommendations for code language revisions. All property documentation shall conform to the California
SHPO Instructions for Recording Historical Resources (1995 as amended) and reporting shall conform to a pre-
approved template presented to the City. Our team is experienced in preparing similar deliverables in
numerous states including California, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois, and Maryland. Our
approach to documenting pre-and-post-WWII communities will additionally inform our work in La Quinta. In
the 22,000-parcel community of Clairemont, in San Diego, our detailed history and reconnaissance survey
report prepared for the City’s community plan update process directly translates to our contextual knowledge
of suburban development and community building, and frames survey, recordation and analysis of La Quinta.
Previous survey studies indicate that by 2006, 262 properties in La Quinta were age-eligible / historic-era and
thus were subject to documentation and significance evaluation. The proposed survey effort will update
findings for the 262 previously recorded properties. Urbana will prepare DPR 523 L (Continuation Sheet)
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forms for each previously recorded resource with an updated photograph, description of integrity, and
eligibility conclusions based on integrity observations. In addition to these updated records, Urbana will
document and evaluate up to 100 newly identified properties that are age-eligible / historic-era using DPR 523
Series Forms including 523A Primary Record; 523B Building, Structure, Object Record; and 523J Location
Record. If more than 100 properties are identified, Urbana will assess each property to determine level of
alterations and integrity status and will focus intensive documentation and evaluation on those properties
that would appear to qualify as historical resources more readily under CEQA. Properties that are clearly
altered and do not retain sufficient integrity, or that clearly appear ineligible for designation or listing on the
Local, CRHR, or NRHP will be detailed on the survey spreadsheet with an ‘ineligible pending intensive
evaluation’ recommendation. Where subdivisions tracts exist, Urbana will work to obtain the tract map and
boundary and will document the tract as a single resource / potential historic district.
The La Quinta survey report shall include the following sections: Executive Summary, Introduction,
Methodological Approach, City History, Historic Context Statement, Survey Findings, and Recommendations
for Future Action. Imagery, both historic and current, will be included throughout, and maps depicting survey
boundaries, tract boundaries, and location of properties recommended for future action will be similarly
included. DPR Forms will be included in the report appendices. All shape files will be delivered to the City,
along with raw data files in TIFF, PNG formats, Word, Excel, and PDF formats. The detailed city history and
historic context statement shall be prepared from research. The historic context, property-specific research,
and field survey observations will inform draft Local, CRHR, and NRHP eligibility conclusions, and will be
reflected in the “Recommendations for Future Action” section.
A draft report will be submitted to the City in May of 2022, with draft findings proposed for presentation at
the Planning Commission and City Council meetings. Urbana will finalize the draft report and forms based on
City and stakeholder feedback received. The final report and associated work products are anticipated for
submission in June 2022, with a final presentation to the City Council planned for June 21, 2022. Ms. Tinsley
Becker will direct preparation of the survey report, context update, and survey forms, with Dr. Kupel and Mr.
Solliday authoring much of the report including the detailed history. Ms. Landa and Ms. Baker will prepare
the draft and final DPR Forms, with Ms. Baker additionally preparing all project mapping. Finally, Ms. Becker
will review existing code language and prepare a package with her revision recommendations which the City
may pursue as part of a future endeavor.
Schedule: Report and form preparation will occur in March 2022 – May 2022, draft findings and report
will be submitted in May 2022, final draft of the survey report, context statement update, and code
revision package will be submitted in June 2022.
Urbana Deliverable: Updated Context Statement, Draft and Final Survey Report and DPR Forms with
all required contents and appendices, and Code Revision Recommendation Package.
Associated Personnel: Wendy Tinsley Becker, Scott Solliday, John Hyche, Alex Baker, and Alexia
Landa.
Request To City: None identified under this task.
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SCHEDULE / TIMELINE
2022TasksDeliverable / MilestoeTimelineFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneProject Start-Up and Stakeholder / Community NotificationsDraft stakeholder list, draft survey handoutLate February 2022Public Meeting No. 1: Planning CommissionIntroductory PPT PresentationMarch 22, 2022Public Meeting No. 2: Planning CommissionFindings PPT PresentationJune 14, 2022Public Meeting No. 3: City CouncilFindings PPT PresentationJune 21, 2022Task 2. ResearchDraft history and updated context statementFebruary 2022 through May 2022Task 3. Desk and Field SurveyPhoto sheet, survey spreadsheet March 2022Task 4. Reporting - DraftDraft Survey Report and Context UpdateMay 1, 2022Task 4. Reporting - FinalSurvey Report, Context Update, Policy and Code language revision packageJune 14, 2022
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COST PROPOSAL
SUBMITTED TOSUBMITTED BYCity of La QuintaUrbana Preservation & Planning, LLC Attn. Danny Castro, Design and Development DirectorWendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal 78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA 92247-1504(760) 777-7069 | dcastro@laquintaca.govwendy@urbanapreservation.com | (844) 872-2623Urbana Task #Proposed TasksPrincipal / Project ManagerSenior HistorianSenior Associate HistorianAssociate HistorianHistorianCost Per Task % of Total CostAnticipated Project TimelineTask 1Meetings and Public Hearings: (1) Kick Off, (1) Planning Commission, and (1) City Council meeting866$2,530.004%February 2022, March 2022, & June 2022Task 2Research: Contextual and Property Specific Research4040100$17,900.0030%February 2022-May 2022Task 3Desk and Field Survey404080$15,200.0026%March 2022Reporting: March 2022-June 2022a) DPR Forms (261 Updates, up to 100 new)40100$12,500.0021%June 2022b) Survey Report and Context3240$8,400.0014%March 2022, June 2022c) Code and Policy Revision Package 16$2,240.004%June 2022Total Hours247812680280$58,770.00100%Hourly Billing Rate$140.00$125.00$110.00$100.00$85.00Subtotal Per Team Member$3,360$9,750$13,860$8,000$23,800Labor CostAssumptions$58,770.00Urbana Preservation & Planning, LLC - Cost ProposalLA QUINTA CITY-WIDE HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY UPDATE1. All evaluations shall be performed by Urbana's staff of 36 CFR Part 61 qualified professionals.2. Urbana anticipates attendance the (4) Meetings.3. Task 4 assumes completion of up to (261) 523L Continuation forms and up to (100) new DPR 523 Series sets. Additional forms may be produced for additional cost under the established rates listed above and with City's approval.7705 El Cajon Blvd. # 1, La Mesa, CA 91942Task 4
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Appendix A. Resumes
Firm Resume
urbana@urbanapreservation.com
Profile
Established in 2005, Urbana Preservation & Planning (Urbana) offers specialized urban
planning, historic preservation, history, and architectural history services. The firm is a
single-member Limited Liability Company (LLC) managed by Founding Principal Wendy L.
Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP. Our company is headquartered out of San Diego County,
California and maintains satellite locations in the San Francisco Bay Area (Oakland), the
Southwest Region (Arizona), the Mountain Region (Montana), and the Midwest Region
(Illinois).
Urbana’s team of historic preservation specialists meet The Secretary of the Interior’s
Professional Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of history, architectural history, and
historical archaeology, as well as the draft standards in historic preservation and land use /
community planning. The Urbana team offers a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach
with a multigenerational and cross-trained staff as well as experience spanning historic
preservation and archaeology across the United States. Urbana represents more than 100
years of experience with the built environment and has prepared surveys for a myriad of
environments, property types, and architectural styles.
Mission
Urbana's mission is to inform the future of the built environment by acknowledging the
past. We educate and engage people on the history of place and the importance of
recognizing and retaining historically and architecturally significant properties. We provide
regulatory compliance support for owners and occupants of historic-era properties.
Urbana delivers results with technical expertise, consensus-building, and creative
solutions.
We are particularly cognizant of the relationship between historic preservation and
economic development, and how social history – the history of ordinary people and places
– provides focus on major issues of public debate and can inform placemaking and
economic development strategies. Preservation is an impetus for revitalization and
economic development efforts. The creation of a forward-looking economic development
strategy, with a focused effort on proactive identification, registration, and treatment of
significant properties ensures compliance with The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for
Preservation Planning and provides clients with the necessary information to make well-
informed decisions about project financing, timelines, and programming. We view a
successful project as one that includes a strong participatory component with a resulting
work product that is regularly used as a point of reference in the local planning and
development process. The resulting work product should include eligibility findings
supported by an established historic context, detailed architectural descriptions, and a
period of significance that guides decision-making for the treatment of character-defining
features.
Safety Program and Insurance Coverage
Urbana maintains General Commercial and Professional Liability coverage at $1M per
occurrence and $2M aggregate, with a $2M umbrella. With these coverages in place, safety
is an important component of every Urbana project. We maintain a safety program that
includes use and maintenance of proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including
COVID-19 specific PPE, situational awareness and Occupational Health and Safety
training, pedestrian and auto-safety checks, location monitoring for field personnel, and
daily on-board and off-boarding communications.
Owner / Manager / Principal
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
Toll Free: 1-(844)-URBANA3
Year Established
2005
DUNS / CAGE #
132735254 / 4JAU8
Certifications
U.S. Small Business Administration
8(a) #308096 + WOSB / EDWOSB
U.S. Dept of Housing & Urban Development
Section 3 Business
CA Unified Certification Program
SWBE + DBE #35330
CA Department of General Services
MB #1091341
CPUC Supplier Clearinghouse
WBE #9HN00013
Professional Memberships
American Planning Association
Association for Preservation Technology
Association of Environmental Professionals
NAICS Codes
541310 541690 561790
541490 541720 712120
541620 541990 925120
SIC Codes
8712 8733
8999
874802
87489905
PSC Codes
B503
B510
B521
C219
F999
R410
R503
R512
R521
NIGP Classifications
906-10
906-29
906-64
906-48
907-00
918-12
918-43
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Org Chart
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Firm Services
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Past Performance
Our firm provides services as a prime contractor, sub-contractor, and teaming partner for a
variety of client types including municipalities, local, state and federal government
agencies, planning and development firms, private property owners, architects, attorneys,
non-profit preservation advocacy groups, allied professionals and utility providers. Urbana
has specialized expertise in surveying and analyzing historic properties. We have an
extensive portfolio of survey reports, historic context statements, design review analysis,
regulatory studies, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American
Engineering Record (HAER)/Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) documentation
packages, and other treatment and mitigation deliverables for a host of local, state, and
federal agencies, and private applicants, including the United States Bureau of Land
Management, the USDA Forest Service, the National Park Service (NPS), State Historic
Preservation Offices (SHPO), and Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the largest
utility providers in the United States. We have long-standing experience in the provision
of preservation services to municipalities, including expert witness consulting in state and
federal jurisdictions, preparation of preservation plans and ordinances, authoring historic
context statements, creation of economic development focused business improvement
guidelines, and surveying historic properties as part of as-needed services contracts.
Recent experience includes preparation of historic resource studies for the United States
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the United States Department of Agriculture –
Forest Service (USFS) Pacific Southwest Region. For the past decade, Urbana has served
as the lead historian / preservation consultant for Southern California Edison Company
(SCE), the country’s second largest utility provider, supporting major capital projects
throughout BLM and USFS lands in California, Nevada, and Arizona. These infrastructure
projects encompass corridors ranging between 200 and 400 miles and include thousands
of historic-era sites. Urbana’s work includes preparation of Class III Cultural Resources
Surveys and Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Reports with stand-alone historical
narratives and context statements authored for a diverse range of historical themes. Our
recent civil works experience includes the 2015 publication “Historic-Era Electrical
Infrastructure Management Program” (HEIMP) prepared for SCE, with a second / revised
edition issued in 2017. The HEIMP and associated guidance document has become a model
for context development for properties associated with electrical generation, transmission,
and distribution. The HEIMP has been presented to the Utilities Roundtable on Cultural
Resources several times and creates an educational and engaging management and
treatment discussion for agency officials tasked with NHPA Section 106 compliance. Using
the HEIMP as a model, in 2020 Urbana authored a second management program and
guidance document for SCE’s water-related properties titled “Santa Catalina Island
Historic-Era Water Systems Management Program.”
Urbana’s experience in preparing intensive level surveys and NRHP Nominations, Historic
Preservation Certification Applications (HPCA), and National Historic Preservation Act
Section 106 Historic Property Survey Reports informs our methods and capabilities to
successfully prepare small, medium, and large-scale surveys and associated reporting.
Urbana personnel have completed NRHP survey, documentation, eligibility evaluation and
district nomination efforts for hundreds of projects.
Representative survey and nomination projects are listed on the following pages.
Refer to www.urbanapreservation.com for additional project information.
Services Offered
CEQA, NEPA, NHPA Studies
Historical Resource / Property Analysis
Regulatory / Policy Review
Eligibility Evaluations
Project Alternatives & Mitigation Development
and Execution
Design Guidelines
Aesthetic / Visual Analysis
Character-Defining Feature Studies
Design Review (Residential / Commercial)
NRHP Nominations
Archaeological / Cultural Resource Surveys
Historic Structure Reports
Integrity & Conditions Assessments
Municipal / Agency Program Development
Historic Preservation Ordinance Preparation
General Plan HP Elements / Specific Plans
Workshops / Charrette Facilitation
Preservation Incentives Analysis
Mills Act & Federal Historic Rehabilitation
Investment Tax Credit Consulting
HABS / HAER / HALS Documentation
Commission / Board / Group Training
Outreach / Educational Campaigns
Historical Surveys & Context Statements
Sectors
Federal
State
Local / Municipal
Utility / Energy
Education
Non-Profit / Advocacy
Residential Development
Commercial Development
Expert Witness
Transportation
Allied Professionals
Environmental
Real Estate and Tax Credits
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Representative Projects – Large-Scale Reconnaissance & Intensive Level Surveys by Urbana Personnel
Project Location Urbana Personnel
Pomona Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvements
Caltrans Project
Pomona, California Wendy Tinsley Becker, Douglas
Kupel, Alexia Landa, & Alex
Baker
Treat Avenue Bicycle Boulevard Historic Property
Survey
Tucson, Arizona Scott Solliday
Barney Ford Reconnaisance Survey and Historic
Context
USA, Nicaragua Douglas Kupel, John Hyche
Glen Canyon National Park Service Post 1955
Housing
Page, Arizona Scott Solliday, Alexia Landa
Post Rock Resources of Kansas Survey Lincoln, Mitchell, Rush, and
Russell Counties, Kansas
Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug
Kupel, & Alex Baker
B-Line Extension Historic Property Survey Bloomington, Indiana Scott Solliday
Control-Silver Peak Historic Property Survey Report
NHPA Section 106 / BLM Class III Survey & Inventory
Forms
Mono and Inyo Counties,
California
Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug
Kupel, Alexia Landa & Alex
Baker
Avenida del Yaqui Historic Property Survey Guadalupe, Arizona Scott Solliday
State Route 30 (East): SR 303L to SR 202L Historic
Property Survey
Phoenix, Avondale,
Goodyear, and Buckeye,
Arizona
Scott Solliday
Ivanpah-Control Historic Property Survey Report
NHPA Section 106 / BLM Class III Survey & Inventory
Forms
Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, &
San Bernardino Counties,
California
Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug
Kupel, Alexia Landa & Alex
Baker
Southern California Edison Catalina Island Historic-
Era Water Infrastructure System Survey and
Management Program
Catalina Island, California Wendy Tinsley Becker, Douglas
Kupel
Phoenix Community Noise Reduction Program
(CNRP)
Phoenix, Arizona Scott Solliday
Kern River Historic Property Survey Report NHPA
Section 106 / CPUC Survey & Inventory Forms
Kern and Los Angeles
Counties, California
Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug
Kupel, Alexia Landa & Alex
Baker
Interstate 19/Ajo Way Traffic Interchange
Residential and Historic Water System Survey
Tucson, Arizona Scott Solliday
Eldorado-Lugo-Pisgah Historic Property Survey
Report NHPA Section 106 / BLM Class III Survey &
Inventory Forms
Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, and
San Bernardino Counties,
CA & Clark County, NV
Wendy Tinsley Becker, Doug
Kupel, Alexia Landa & Alex
Baker
City of San Diego Culverwell and Taggart’s Historic
District Inventory, Context & Nomination
San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Avenida Rio Salado/West Broadway Road Design
Industrial Area Survey
Phoenix, Arizona Scott Solliday
City of San Diego Arizona Street Tract Historic
District Inventory, Context & Nomination
San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Jefferson Park Historical Review Survey and
National Register Nomination
Tucson, Arizona Scott Solliday
City of San Diego Park Blvd Residential Historic
District Inventory, Context & Nomination Package
San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Fresno Arts-Culture District Historical Resource
Survey
Fresno, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Fresno Upper Triangle Area Historical Resource
Survey
Fresno, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
City-Wide Asian American Historic Property Survey Phoenix, Arizona Scott Solliday
East Village / Centre City East Survey Update San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Bayside Survey Update San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Centre City Development Corp. Area Over 45
Survey
San Diego, California Wendy Tinsley Becker
Tempe City-Wide Post World War II Subdivisions Tempe, Arizona Scott Solliday
City-Wide Ethnic History Survey of Glendale Glendale, Arizona Douglas Kupel
Historic Resources Survey of the Robson Historic
District
Mesa, Arizona Douglas Kupel
City-Wide Reconnaissance Survey of Historic
Resources in Mesa
Mesa, Arizona Douglas Kupel
Firm Resume
urbana@urbanapreservation.com
Representative Projects – Building and Historic District Nominations
Project Location Urbana Personnel
Avo Theater HPCA Part 1 Determination of NRHP
Eligibility Vista, CA Wendy Tinsley Becker
Imig Manor / Lafayette Hotel Property HPCA Part 1
Determination of NRHP Eligibility & NRHP Nomination San Diego, CA Wendy Tinsley Becker
Commercial Club of Southern California NRHP
Nomination
Los Angeles,
CA Wendy Tinsley Becker
Thompson Draw Historic District NRHP Nomination Payson, AZ Doug Kupel
De Soto Dealership NRHP Nomination Phoenix, AZ Doug Kupel
Sage Acres Historic District NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Date Palm Manor Historic District Nomination Tempe, AZ Scott Solliday
Sands Estates Historic District NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Myrtle Avenue Historic District NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Bunch / Perez House NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
City & County of Honolulu Little Makalapa NRHP
Nomination Peer Review Honolulu, HI Wendy Tinsley Becker
Tomlinson Estates Historic District Nomination Tempe, AZ Scott Solliday
City & County of Honolulu Big Makalapa NRHP
Nomination Peer Review Honolulu, HI Wendy Tinsley Becker
61st Avenue Historic District NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Floralcroft Historic District NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Fort Tuthill Historic District NRHP Nomination Flagstaff, AZ Doug Kupel
Borden Homes Historic District Nomination Tempe, AZ Scott Solliday
San Clemente Historic District NRHP Nomination Tucson, AZ Doug Kupel
Catalina Vista Historic District NRHP Nomination Tucson, AZ Doug Kupel
Temple Historic District NRHP Nomination Mesa, AZ Doug Kupel
Jefferson Park Historical Review Nomination Tucson, AZ Scott Solliday
Evergreen Historic District NRHP Nomination Mesa, AZ Doug Kupel
West Second Street Historic District NRHP Nomination Mesa, AZ Doug Kupel
Wilbur Street Historic District NRHP Nomination Mesa, AZ Doug Kupel
NASA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory 40’ x 80’ Wind
Tunnel NRHP Nomination
Mountain
View, CA Wendy Tinsley Becker
NASA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory Administration
Building NRHP Nomination
Mountain
View, CA Wendy Tinsley Becker
Manistee Ranch NRHP Nomination Glendale, AZ Doug Kupel
Multiple Resource Area NRHP Nomination Phoenix, AZ Doug Kupel
Period of Conflict Between Native Americans and the
U.S. Military in Arizona, 1846-1886 NRHP Nomination /
Multiple Property Listing
AZ Doug Kupel
Henning Block NRHP Nomination Holbrook, AZ Doug Kupel
University of Arizona Historic District NRHP Nomination Tucson, AZ Doug Kupel
Plank Road Discontiguous Historic District NRHP
Nomination AZ Doug Kupel
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
Founding Principal, Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, brings an expert background in
American history, architecture, and urban planning, with a particular emphasis on issues
relating to historic preservation. Her experience includes extensive historical resources
survey work, design review under The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment
of Historic Properties, single-site historic property research and documentation, and
practice in municipal regulatory planning and cultural resources compliance issues
including code compliance, revision and review, CEQA, NEPA, and Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act. As a preservation-planning consultant she participates
in the development and administration of local land use regulations, policies, programs and
projects; prepares reports involving research and analysis of various planning issues;
conducts site-specific project and design review; and facilitates project coordination
between contractors, architects, developers, citizens and other stakeholders. Wendy
meets the Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications
Standards in the disciplines of History and Architectural History and the draft standards
established for Historic Preservation and Land Use/Community Planning. She is included
on the California Council for the Promotion of History’s Register of Professional Historians
and also maintains professional certification in the American Institute of Certified Planners
(AICP).
Wendy is a co-author and editor of the AICP Certified Urban Designer Exam Study Guide
(V1.0) released in March 2016. From 2013 forward she has provided professional training
to AICP exam applicants as part of the American Planning Association California Chapter –
San Diego Section annual exam training program.
Wendy has assisted municipalities, utility providers, and lead agencies in preservation
planning program development and implementation efforts. She regularly consults for
private and agency applicants on historical resource and historic property analysis for
discretionary projects and undertakings pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act and the California Environmental Quality Act, as well as Federal
Rehabilitation Tax Credit proposals at National Register listed or eligible properties, which
are subject to review by the State Office of Historic Preservation and the National Park
Service. She was the author / facilitator and lead historic preservation consultant for the
City of Chula Vista’s award-winning Municipal Preservation Planning Program. She
authored the Historic Preservation Element for the City of La Mesa’s award winning 2011 /
2030 General Plan update process. She provides survey, architectural history, context
development, programmatic agreement, and historic preservation planning consulting
services for the Southern California Edison Company including preparation of a
programmatic guide for the treatment of all historic-era properties in the company’s
55,000 square mile service territory. She served as the lead Architectural Historian for the
City and County of Honolulu High Capacity Transit Corridor Project’s Kako’o (Section 106
Programmatic Agreement Program manager) consultant team. Wendy’s professional
analysis and determinations are reviewed for compliance and concurrence by numerous
municipalities, and state and federal agencies including the California State Office of
Historic Preservation, the California Public Utilities Commission, the USDA Forest Service,
the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service.
Her current interests include facilitating approvals for brick and mortar construction and
building rehabilitation projects, and working with community-based organizations that
emphasize public participation while striving for the improvement of the built environment
through good urban and architectural design and associated social programs.
EDUCATION
Master of City Planning,
Preservation & Urban Design Emphasis
San Diego State University
—
Bachelor of Arts – History
San Diego State University
REGISTRATIONS
American Institute of Certified Planners
(#022838)
Register of Professional Historians
(#612)
EXPERIENCE
2005-present: Founding Principal
Urbana Preservation & Planning, LLC
—
2012-present: Faculty Lecturer
San Diego State University
City Planning Graduate Program
—
2006-2017: Faculty Instructor
University of California, San Diego
Urban Planning & Development Program
—
2002-2005: Historian / Planner
Architectural Resources Group
—
2001-2002: Historian / Planner
Historic Research Services
—
2000-2001: Historian
Office of Marie Burke Lia, Esq.
—
1996-1999: Asst. Coordinator +
Researcher:
SHPO/CHRIS
South Coastal Information Center
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
PROJECT EXPERIENCE*
In-Progress Post Rock Resources of Kansas National Register Nominations; Lincoln,
Mitchell, Rush, and Russell Counties, KS.
In-Progress USACE Santa Fe Dam Evaluation; Los Angeles, CA.
2021 City of Laguna Beach Preservation 101 Workshop – Staff Training, Laguna
Beach, CA.
2021 Post Rock Resources of Kansas Survey and MPDF; Lincoln, Mitchell, Rush,
and Russell Counties, KS.
2021 Historic Resource Research Report: 3800 University Ave; San Diego, CA.
2021 860 Muender Ave Historic Integrity Memo; Sunnyvale, CA.
2021 Lafayette Hotel Rehabilitation & Tax Credit Consulting; San Diego, CA.
2021 Old Tavern Rehabilitation & Tax Credit Consulting; Sacramento, CA.
2021 Historic Resource Research Report: 4070-72 Georgia Street; San Diego, CA.
2021 Transmission Line Rating & Remediation Project, Ivanpah Control Line,
Archival Research Package, Southern California Edison, Southern California.
2021 528 E. Mission Road Historic Resource Analysis Report; San Marcos, CA.
2021 4055 Lytle Street – Getchell Ranch / The Stone House Historic American
Building Record (HABS) Level II Documentation, Fontana, CA.
2021 Norco Egg Ranch Historic American Building Record (HABS) Level II
Documentation, Norco, CA.
2021 East Gilman Channel Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) &
Monument Consulting, Banning, CA.
2021 5265 N. 4th Street Historical Resource Summary; Irwindale, CA.
2021 Historic Resource Analysis Report: 3611 Hyacinth Drive Historic Designation
Package, San Diego, CA.
2021 Historic Resource Analysis Report: 2675 Clove Street Historic Designation
Package, San Diego, CA.
2021 Historic Resource Analysis Report: 8301 La Mesa Blvd Historic Assessment;
La Mesa, CA.
2021 1033 Pandora Drive Historic Designation; La Mesa, CA.
2021 7345 Remley Place Mills Act Application and Rehabilitation Plan, San Diego,
CA.
2021 3629 Front St Mills Act Application and Rehabilitation Plan, San Diego, CA.
2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Ivanpah-Control Transmission Corridor, Historic-Era
Built Environment Survey Report.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
1135 Devonshire Drive, San Diego, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation Package, 3575 Via
Flores, San Diego, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Analysis Report and CA DPR Forms, Archibald and
Schaefer RV Park, City of Ontario, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
2275 Evergreen Street, San Diego, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
9434 Sierra Vista Drive, La Mesa, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Analysis Report: CEQA Evaluation and CA DPR Forms,
Mira Loma Quartermaster Depot, Rutan & Tucker, LLP, Jurupa Valley, CA.
2020 Historical Resource Evaluation Memorandum & CA DPR Forms, Ontario RV
Storage Mitigated Negative Declaration, Ontario, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation 1610 Santa Barbara
Street, San Diego, CA.
2020 Red Fox Room Retroactive Review, JCG Development, San Diego, CA.
BOARDS + COMMITTEES
Chair / Immediate Past Chair:
American Planning Association
National Urban Design & Preservation
Division, 04/2012-12/2016
—
Founder + Volunteer Executive
Director / Ex –Officio Director: Built
Environment Education Program
(BEEP) San Diego, 2008-2015
—
Education Committee Member:
California Preservation Foundation,
04/2012-04/2014
—
Vice-Chair + Newsletter Editor: APA
National Urban Design & Preservation
Division, 01/2010-03/2012
—
Director & Education Chair: San Diego
Architectural Foundation, 11/2008-
2011
—
Appointed Public Member: City of San
Diego Historical Resources Board
Incentives Subcommittee, 08/2008-
02/2010
—
Advisor/Member – UCSD Extension
Advisory Group Urban Planning &
Development Certificate Program,
2007 forward
—
Founding President – Jack London
District Association, 2005-2006
SELECT AWARDS
2016 - Award of Excellence for
Preservation Advancement - City of San
Diego Historical Resources Board
(recognized for Urbana's preservation
planning study for the San Diego State
Normal School Campus & San Diego
City Schools Historic District).
—
2014 - American Planning Association
(APA) San Diego Chapter – Planning
Agency Award for preparation of La
Mesa 2030 General Plan. *Historic
Preservation Element prepared by
WLTB / Urbana.
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
2020 Rancho Miramonte Section 106 Evaluation: Historic Property Survey Report,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chino, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Technical Report: 2956 Roosevelt Street, Sterling
Corporation, Carlsbad, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
4350 Nabal Drive, La Mesa, CA.
2020 4630 Date Street Historic Landmark Nomination, La Mesa, CA.
2020 Avo Theater Rehabilitation Tax Credit Consulting, JCG Development, Vista,
CA.
2020 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Kern River to Los Angeles Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
1025 Devonshire Drive, San Diego, CA.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report: Historic Designation & Mills Act Package,
“The Muse” 1020 Prospect Street, La Jolla, CA.
2020 Historic District Nomination Package: Culverwell and Taggarts, City of San
Diego, CA.
2020 Historic District Nomination Package, Arizona Street Tract, Park Villas
Subdivision, City of San Diego, CA.
2020 Historical Resource Analysis Report, Moiola School, Fountain Valley, CA.
2020 Historical Resource Survey, Proposed Merrill Commerce Center Specific Plan,
Ontario, CA.
2020 Historic Property Survey Report :Evan Hewes Highway and Bridge
Evaluation, Imperial County, CA.
2020 Historical Resource Analysis Report: Historic Designation and Mills Act
Application 552 Rushville Street, San Diego, CA.
2019 Historic Context and Preservation Element Historical Resource Analysis
Report / Historic Property Survey Report for Southern California Edison
Company Lindsay Substation and Bliss-Lindsay 66kV Sub-Transmission
Line.
2019 To Kalon Vineyard / Robert Mondavi Winery Patent Litigation Expert Witness
Consulting, Oakville, CA.
2019 Historical Resource Analysis Report, Vic Braden Tennis College, 23333 Ave La
Caza, Coto De Caza, CA.
2019 Church of God in Christ Bulletin 580 Package.
2019 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 7407 Alvarado Road, La Mesa, CA.
2019 City of Laguna Beach Preservation Ordinance and Program Consulting.
2019 Historic Resource Research Report and Conditions Consulting, 8445 Avenida
de las Ondas, La Jolla, CA.
2019 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Control-Silver Peak Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report.
2019 Southern California Edison Catalina Island Historic-Era Water System
Management Program, Catalina Island, CA.
2019 Historical Resource Analysis Report / Historic Property Survey Report,
Southern California Edison Catalina Island Wrigley Pipeline Project, Catalina
Island, CA.
2019 Retroactive Historical Resource Research Report, 31st Street, San Diego, CA.
2019 Historical Resource Analysis Report / Historic Property Survey Report
Southern California Edison Pedley Powerhouse Complex, Norco, California.
2019 Historical Resource Analysis Report / Historic Property Survey Report
Southern California Edison Company Eastern Sierras Transmission System,
Mono County and Inyo County, California.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Member: County of San Diego Valle de
Oro Community Planning Group,
09/2016 forward
—
Director + Civic Improvement Chair,
Grossmont-Mt. Helix Improvement
Association, 08/2016 forward
—
Mentor: San Diego State University
Aztec Mentor Program, Spring 2016
Cohort
—
Co-Author / Editor: AICP Certified Urban
Designer Exam Study Guide, Version 1.0
(released March 2016)
—
AICP Exam Course Speaker: California
Chapter, San Diego Section, (annually)
02/2013-present
—
Retreat Facilitator: Beautiful Pacific
Beach, Annual Board of Directors
Retreat, (annually) 2016-present
—
Invited Panel Speaker: Density and
Design: The Future of Housing in San
Diego, American Planning Association
San Diego Section, San Diego, 09/2017
—
Invited Speaker: Building Community
and Character – Preservation is Place; 1st
Annual Historic Preservation
Conference Nebraska State Office of
Historic Preservation, Omaha (NE),
06/2013
—
Panel Speaker: Preservation Toolkit for
Small Cities, American Planning
Association California Chapter
Conference, 10/2012
—
Invited Speaker: Preliminary Findings –
The Status of Preservation Planning
Regulatory Programs in the San Diego
Region - 2012, Association of
Environmental Professionals San
Diego Chapter September Luncheon,
09/2012
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
2019 Historical Resource Research Report, 3629 Front Street, San Diego, CA.
2019 Programmatic Agreement Among the Bureau of Land Management –
California, the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, California
Utility Providers, and the California Office of Historic Preservation, Regarding
the Identification, Evaluation, Management, and Exemption of Historic-Era
Electrical Infrastructure Facilities in the State of California.
2019 City of San Diego Clairemont Community Plan Update, Historic Context and
Preservation Element.
2019 Historic Site Report, 10446 Russell Road, La Mesa, CA.
2019 City of Coronado, As-Needed Historic Research Consulting, Coronado, CA.
2019 Historical Resource Research Report, 4250-52 Cleveland Ave, San Diego, CA.
2018 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Control-Silver Peak Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report – Phase 1 Desk Survey.
2018 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Control-Haiwee Transmission Corridor, Historic-Era
Built Environment Survey Report – Phase 1 Desk Survey.
2018 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program ICKI Transmission Corridor, Historic-Era Built
Environment Survey Report – Phase 1 Desk Survey.
2018 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Eldorado-Lugo-Pisgah Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report – Phase 1 Desk Survey.
2018 City of San Diego Park Boulevard Residential Historic District Historic
Context Statement and Nomination Package.
2018 California Department of General Services, Metropolitan State Hospital
Project Historical Resource Analysis Report.
2018 City of San Juan Capistrano, River Street Marketplace Historical Resource
Analysis Report.
2018 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Kern River to Los Angeles Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report – Phase 1 Desk Survey.
2017 Historic Site Designation Package, Wexler House 1088 Sierra Vista Avenue,
La Mesa, California.
2017 Nelson-Sloan Otay Rock Plant Property, Chula Vista, California 91910.
2017 Adams Avenue, Murrieta, California, Tract Map Historical, Cultural, and
Paleontological Report.
2017 4 Greenwood Common (Berkeley Landmark No. 125) Mills Act Application
Package, Berkeley, CA.
2017 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 1201 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles,
California.
2017 Design Review Analysis and Historical Resource Research Report, 4884
Marlborough Avenue, San Diego, California.
2017 Historical Resource Analysis Report / Historic Property Survey Report, SCE
MacNeil Substation, Burbank, California.
2017 Peer Review Statement, 400 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California.
2017 4617-4619 and 4621-4625 Park Boulevard, San Diego, California, Historical
Resource Technical Report.
2017 Historical Resource Research Report, 707 17th Street, San Diego, California.
2017 5064 Lotus Street, San Diego, California, Historical Resource Technical
Report.
2017 Historical Resource Technical Report, 550 Sicard Street, San Diego,
California.
SELECT AWARDS (CONT.)
2013 – American Planning Association
National Division Executive Committee
Recipient – Division Achievement
Award (recognized for professional
development webinars on historic
preservation, urban design, and
development topics developed on behalf
of the APA Urban Design & Preservation
Division).
—
2012 - American Association of
Environmental Professionals San Diego
Chapter – Outstanding Planning
Document Award for preparation of the
City of Chula Vista Historic Preservation
Program & Ordinance. *Historic
Preservation Ordinance& Program
prepared by WLTB / Urbana.
—
2012 - American Planning Association
National Division Executive Committee
Recipient – Education Excellence Award
(recognized for education efforts on
behalf of the APA Urban Design &
Preservation Division).
—
2011 - American Planning Association
National Division Executive Committee
Recipient Branding Award (recognized
for visibility, outreach, and education
efforts on behalf of the APA Urban
Design & Preservation Division).
—
2010 - Award of Excellence in Education
- City of San Diego City Planning &
Community Investment Department
Historical Resources Board (recognized
for the Built Environment Education
Program developed for the San Diego
Architectural Foundation / BEEP San
Diego).
—
2009 - San Diego Public Library
Foundation / Friends of the San Diego
Public Library 2008-2009 Chapter
Volunteer Award, University Heights
Branch (recognized for preservation
planning work at the historic San Diego
State Normal College campus).
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
2017 Historic Landmark Designation Package, 9415-9425 Eldorado Lane, La
Mesa, California.
2017 6035 University Avenue, San Diego, California, Historical Resource Technical
Report.
2016 Expert Witness Consulting, Bernati Ticino Trust v. City of San Diego
2016 4365-4369 Ohio Street, San Diego, California, Historical Resource Technical
Report.
2016 4505 Park Boulevard, San Diego California, Historical Resource Technical
Report.
2016 Designation and Mills Act Rehabilitation Reporting and Consulting for the
Edwin K. Hurlbert House, 2930 Chatsworth Boulevard, San Diego, CA.
2016 NHPA Section 106 Historic Property Analysis and Findings of Effect
Statement for the Southern California Yeshiva High School, San Diego, CA.
2016 Peak Valley Solar Farm CEQA Cultural Resources Analysis (Historical
Resources, Cultural Resources, and Paleontological Resources), San
Bernardino County, CA.
September 2016 City of Oceanside / Caltrans, Coast Highway (Hill Street) Bridge over the San
Luis Rey River Replacement Project Historical Resources Evaluation Report,
Oceanside, CA.
August 2016 Historical Resource Technical Report – 715 Muirlands Vista Way, La Jolla, CA.
June 2016 Class III Cultural Resources Inventory / NRHP Eligibility Determination, SCE
Eldorado 500kV Transmission System, California, Arizona, Nevada.
June 2016 Casa de las Flores Property Carriage House / Garage Building, Historical
Resource Analysis Report, Chula Vista, CA.
May 2016 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-167-O – Southern
California Edison Company Big Creek Hydroelectric System Vincent 220kV
Transmission Line, Kern, Fresno, and Los Angeles Counties.
May 2016 San Diego Gas & Electric Company Eastern Division Property Eligibility
Review Memo, El Cajon, CA.
March 2016 Historical Resource Review - 1347-1349 Locust Street, Walnut Creek, CA.
March 2016 City of La Mesa Collier Park NHPA Section 106 Review, La Mesa, CA.
March 2016 Redwood Solar Farm 4 CEQA Cultural Resources Analysis (Historical
Resources, Cultural Resources, and Paleontological Resources), Kern County,
CA.
March 2016 City of La Mesa Vista La Mesa Park NHPA Section 106 Review, La Mesa, CA.
February 2016 City of Chula Vista Third Avenue Community Character + Business
Improvement Guidelines.
February 2016 City of San Diego HRB No. 461 / Anderson House, San Diego County Historic
Site Designation and Mills Act Rehabilitation Consulting, 3841 Sweetwater
Road, Bonita, CA.
January 2016 Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) No. CA-122 – Collier Park, La
Mesa, CA.
December 2015 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-2138 – Southern
California Edison Company Substations: Monumental Type, Santa Barbara,
Kern, Fresno, and Los Angeles Counties.
December 2015 Pacific Gas & Electric Company South of Palermo Project Historical Resource
Analysis Report / Historic Property Survey Report.
November 2015 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-167-N – Amendment
to Southern California Edison Company Big Creek Hydroelectric System East
& West Transmission Line.
November 2015 Designation and Mills Act Rehabilitation Reporting and Consulting for the
Alexander Schreiber Spec House No. 1 / Payne House, 1429 Dale Street, San
Diego, CA.
RELATED EXPERIENCE (CONT.)
Attendee: National Charrette
Institute, Introduction to Dynamic
Planning (Level 1 NCI Charrette
Manager Certification Training), San
Diego (CA) 10/2003
—
Attendee: CA Preservation Foundation,
Incentives for Historic Preservation
Projects, Berkeley (CA) 09/2003
—
Attendee: University of Southern CA,
Preservation Planning & Law, Los
Angeles (CA) 07/2003
—
Attendee: League of CA Cities, Smart
Growth Zoning Codes, Lodi (CA) 12/2002
—
Invited Participant: Second Natures,
Redefining the Los Angeles Riverfront,
Los Angeles (CA) 01/2002 (2-Day
Planning & Design Charrette hosted by
MOCA & The Geffen)
—
Selected Smart Growth Researcher: San
Diego State University Foundation &
City Planning Graduate Program, Dr.
Roger Caves, 01/2001 – 08/2001 (Grant
Topic: Planning for Sprawl in the U.S)
—
Attendee: Section 106 An Introductory
Course, National Preservation Institute,
San Francisco (CA) 04/1999
COURSES CREATED & TAUGHT
BUSA 40687 - Historic Preservation
Planning (UCSD 2006-2012)
—
BUSA 40515 - Fundamentals of City
Planning (UCSD 2007)
—
BUSA 40748 - Foundations of Urban
Planning & The Built Environment
(UCSD 2009-2012)
—
BUSA 40749 - Functions & Processes of
City Planning (UCSD 2011-2012)
—
ART 40436 - American Architectural
History I & II (UCSD 2008-2014)
—
CP 670 - History of Urban Planning
(SDSU 2012)
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
October 2015 Designation and Mills Act Rehabilitation Reporting and Consulting for the
Florence Palmer Spec. House II of III, 350 Fern Glen, San Diego, CA.
May 2015 Historic-era Electrical Infrastructure Management Program: A Program for
the Identification, Review, Exemption, and Treatment of Generating
Facilities, Transmission Lines, Sub-transmission Lines, Distribution Lines, and
Substations within the Southern California Edison Company’s Service
Territory.
March 2015 Class III Cultural Resources Inventory for Southern California Edison’s
Coolwater-Lugo Transmission Project, San Bernardino County, California –
Volume 1: Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report.
2014-2015 Los Angeles Regional Intercommunications System NHPA Section 106
Assessment of 125 sites located throughout Los Angeles County.
2014 Historic Preservation and Urban Planning Expert Witness, Brandon Milan v.
City of San Diego, State of California Superior Court Case No. 37-2013-
00067039-CU-EI-CTL.
2013-2014 Historic Preservation and Urban Planning Expert Witness, Edward Valerio v.
City of San Diego, U.S.D.C. Case No. 12C1200W (WMC)
November 2014 Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report, NRHP / CRHR Eligibility
Evaluations, and Concurrence Consulting for proposed Coolwater Lugo
Transmission Project (approx. 200 built environment sites over 13 segments
in the vicinity of Apple Valley, Barstow, and Hesperia, California).
November 2014 Herald Examiner Building, 1101-1139 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, Historic
Preservation Certification Application: Part 1 – Determination of Eligibility –
Draft Submittal.
November 2014 Cecil Hotel Building, 640 Main Street, Los Angeles, CA, Historic Preservation
Certification Application: Part 1 – Determination of Eligibility – Draft
Submittal.
November 2014 Cecil Hotel Building, 640 Main Street, Los Angeles, CA, City of Los Angeles
Historic Cultural Monument Application Package – Draft Submittal.
November 2014 Historic-Era Electrical Infrastructure Management Program: A Program for
the Identification, Review, Exemption, and Treatment of Generating
Facilities, Transmission Lines, Sub-transmission Lines, Distribution Lines, and
Substations within the SCE Service Territory.
October 2014 Commercial Exchange Building, 416 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA, Historic
Preservation Certification Application: Part 2 – Description of Rehabilitation
– Draft Submittal.
October 2014 NRHP / CRHR Eligibility Review, SCE Lighthipe and Laguna Bell Substations,
Long Beach and Commerce, California.
October 2014 NRHP / CRHR Eligibility Review, SCE Eagle Rock Substation, Los Angeles,
California.
October 2014 NRHP / CRHR Eligibility Review, SCE Colton Substation, Colton, California.
September 2014 City and County of Honolulu Little Makalapa National Register of Historic
Places Nomination Peer Review.
September 2014 City and County of Honolulu Big Makalapa National Register of Historic
Places Nomination Peer Review.
September 2014 Sudberry Properties Strawberry Fields Historic Cultural Landscape Analysis
Report, Chula Vista, CA.
July 2014 Friday Morning Club Building, 938 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA, Historic
Preservation Certification Application: Part 2 – Description of Rehabilitation
– Draft Submittal.
May 2014 Commercial Club of Southern California Building / Case Hotel Part 2
Determination of Eligibility, Los Angeles, CA.
May 2014 City and County of Fresno Tertiary Treatment and Disinfection Facility –
Plant 2 NHPA Section 106 and CEQA Historical Resource Assessment.
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
April 2014 City and County of Honolulu Aloha Stadium Station Project Treatment Plan
Peer Review, Honolulu, CA.
April 2014 Redwood Solar Farm Historic Property Survey / Historical Resource Report,
Kern County, CA.
April 2014 4th@ Broadway EIR Mitigated Negative Declaration – Historical Resource
Assessment Report, Los Angeles, CA
March 2014 Commercial Club of Southern California Building / Case Hotel Part 1
Determination of Eligibility, Los Angeles, CA.
February 2014 Commercial Club of Southern California Building / Case Hotel Historic
Cultural Monument Application, Los Angeles, CA.
January 2014 1560 S. Escondido Boulevard NHPA Section 106 Review and Concurrence
Consulting.
November 2013 Consulting for Two Historic House Relocations to the City of San Diego
Development Services Department, Public Works Department, and City
Attorney’s Office.
September 2013 Caltrans Section 106 Historic Property and CEQA Historical Resource Survey
– Gilbert Street, Santa Ana, CA.
October 2013 NHPA Section 106 Historic Property and CEQA Historical Resource Survey
Report, Proposed Coolwater Lugo Transmission Project.
June 2013 Historic Agricultural Landscapes of Visalia and Tulare County electronic book
and exhibit – Tulare County Museum of Farm Labor and Agriculture, Visalia,
CA
January 2013 National Park Service Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II
Documentation (Large Format Negative Photography & Narrative) – Big
Creek Hydroelectric System East & West Transmission Line, Fresno to Los
Angeles, CA
January 2013 Historical and Architectural Eligibility Evaluation of Delano Substation
Complex.
October 2012 Historical and Architectural Eligibility Evaluations of the Southern California
Edison Company Historic-Era Casitas, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Santa
Clara, and Goleta Substations
October 2012 City and County of San Francisco, 2419-2435 Lombard Street Historical
Resource Evaluation Report.
2011-2013 Historic Preservation Expert Witness, Academy of Our Lady of Peace v. City
of San Diego, U.S.D.C. Case No. 09CV0962 WQH (MDD)
In-process San Diego Municipal Anglers Building Historical Resource Designation
Report, San Diego, CA
July 2012 National Park Service Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) Level II
Documentation (Large Format Negative Photography & Narrative) – SCE
San Joaquin Cross Valley Loop Project, Visalia, CA
June 2012 Historic Structure Report - Casa Peralta, 384 West Estudillo Avenue, San
Leandro, CA
June 2012 County of San Diego Historic Site Designation Report, John N. Mortenson’s
Hines Residence, Mt. Helix, CA
April 2012 NHPA Section 106 Review, Lodi Municipal Stadium, Lodi, CA
March 2012 Federal Rehabilitation Certification Application – Part 3 Request for
Certification of Completed Work – Imig Manor / Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El
Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA
February 2012 National Register of Historic Places Nomination, Imig Manor / Lafayette
Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA
February 2012 Sequoia National Forest Electric Power Conveyance Systems NRHP
Eligibility Evaluations, Tulare County, CA
January 2012 NHPA Section 106 Review, La Mesa Youth Center, La Mesa, CA
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
December 2011 City of La Mesa 2012 General Plan Update – 2030 Historic Preservation
Element, La Mesa, CA
December 2011 Crown City Medical Center EIR Historical Resource Initial Study, Pasadena,
CA
November 2011 NHPA Section 106 Review, 4470 Acacia Avenue, La Mesa, CA
September 2011 Big Creek Hydroelectric System Historic District Vincent 220kV Transmission
Line NRHP Eligibility Evaluation and Historic Property Treatment Plan.
July 2011 Historic-Era Electric Power Conveyance Systems Programmatic Agreement
(SCE, BLM, & CA, NV SHPO) (Context, Typology, Identification, Integrity
Qualifications, & Treatment Processes)
June 2011 Aesthetic impact Analysis Report, Hollywoodland Historic Rock Retaining
Walls, Los Angeles, CA
April 2011 Kern River – Los Angeles 60 / 66kV Transmission Line NRHP Eligibility
Evaluation, Kern & L.A. Counties
December 2010 Historic Structure Report - Linda Vista Federal Defense Housing Project
Tenant Activity Building, San Diego, CA
October 2010 City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency, Historic Property / Historical
Resource Analysis Report of the Linda Vista Federal Defense Housing Project
Tenant Activity Building, San Diego, CA
November 2010 Historic Designation Report, Burt F, Raynes Residence, 299 Hilltop Drive,
Chula Vista, CA
August 2010 Southern California Edison Company Tehachapi Renewable Transmission
Project Antelope-Vincent No. 1 220kV Transmission Line NRHP/CRHR
Review
July 2010 Southern California Edison Company Tehachapi Renewable Transmission
Project Rosamond Substation NRHP/CRHR Review, Montebello, California
July 2010 Southern California Edison Company Tehachapi Renewable Transmission
Project Antelope-Mesa 220kV Transmission Line NRHP/CRHR Review
June 2010 Southern California Edison Company Tehachapi Renewable Transmission
Project Chino-Mesa 220kV Transmission Line NRHP/CRHR Review
June 2010 Southern California Edison Company Tehachapi Renewable Transmission
Project Chino Substation NRHP/CRHR Review, Chino, California
April 2010 Historical Resource Analysis Report, Hollywoodland Historic Rock Retaining
Walls, Los Angeles, CA
March 2010 Imig Manor/ Lafayette Hotel Part 2 20% Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit
Application
January 2010 CEQA Historical Resource Analysis Report, 2629 National Avenue, San Diego
CA
December 2009 City of Santa Ana Warner Avenue Transportation Study Historical Resource
Survey, Santa Ana, CA
December 2009 Proposed Heidi Square Redevelopment Project – Project Management,
Preservation Planning & Subdivision Re-Design Consulting, San Lorenzo, CA
November 2009 City of San Diego Redevelopment Agency, Historical Resource Review of
4102-4122 University Avenue, San Diego, CA
November 2009 CEQA Historical Resource Analysis Report, 7195 Country Club Drive, La Jolla,
CA
November 2009 Imig Manor/ Lafayette Hotel Part 1 20% Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit
Application
August 2009 CEQA Historical Resource Analysis Report, 5511 Calumet Avenue, La Jolla,
CA
August 2009 Preservation Planning Study, Site Development, & Rehabilitation Analysis of
the Herman Hotel Carriage House, Chula Vista, CA
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
August 2009 Historical Site Designation, Design Review, & Mills Act Property Tax
Consulting for the Dennstedt Building Company’s Calavo Gardens Queen
Avenue Dwelling, Mt. Helix, CA
August 2009 CEQA and NHPA Section 106 Review of the Nike Missile Defense System -
LA - 14/29 Commemorative Site, unincorporated Los Angeles, CA
July 2009 Code Compliance & Resource Review, 2341 Irving Avenue, San Diego, CA
July 2009 City of Santa Ana Bristol & 17th Transportation Study Historical Resource
Survey, Santa Ana, CA
May 2009 Fresno Unified School District Historical Resource Survey of the Proposed M-
4 Site, Fresno, CA
May 2009 Section 106 Review of Casa Blanca – 716 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, CA
April 2009 Design Review Analysis for the 2110 Glenneyre Street Property, Laguna
Beach, CA
April 2009 Section 106 Review of the Fairfax Theatre, Oakland, CA
March 2009 National Register of Historic Places Documentation & Eligibility Evaluation
for the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project, Placer County,
California
February 2009 Historical Resource Analysis Report & Design Review – 337 Hawthorne Road,
Laguna Beach, CA
February 2009 San Diego Normal School Campus Phase I Preservation Planning Study &
Historical Resource Survey, San Diego, CA
January 2009 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 634 2nd Avenue, Chula Vista, CA
October 2008 Pier 29 National Historic Preservation Act Finding of Effects Statement, San
Francisco, CA
2007-2008 Lead Consultant – City of Chula Vista Historic Preservation Program
Development – City of Chula Vista Historic Preservation Program Binder
(ordinance, historic inventory database, historical overview statement,
incentives, project review process and related permit application and
processing forms
August 2008 Mayor John Gill Residence, Designation, Mills Act & Rehabilitation
Consulting, San Leandro, CA
July 2008 California Portland Cement Company P&H Excavators #3 & #4 Historic
Context Statement & California Register Eligibility Review, Mojave, CA
July 2008 Historic Context Statement – Bean Springs Site, Rosamond, CA
June 2008 Cultural Resource Report & Regulatory Review, PL-SCE-Tehachapi-10H,
Acton, CA
May 2008 Historical Resource Documentation & Review, San Diego Aqueduct, San
Diego, CA
April 2008 Historic Site Designation & Mills Act Historic Property Tax Consulting for the
Goldberg Residence, 4654 Iowa Street, San Diego, CA
April 2008 Storefront Improvement / Façade Revitalization Historical Resource Analysis
& Design Review Assistance, 3201 Adams Avenue, San Diego, CA
March 2008 Lombardi Ranch CEQA Review, San Ardo, California
February 2008 Del-Sur Saugus Mining Complex Historical Resource Review, Grass Valley,
CA
February 2008 Foothill Ranch Historical Resource Review, Palmdale, CA
January 2008 Section 106 Review 1425-1475 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA
January 2008 Historic Site Designation Report & Mills Act Property Tax Consulting - Ocean
Beach Cottage Emerging Historic District Contributor, 4670 Del Monte Ave.,
San Diego, CA
November 2007 Historic Site Designation & Mills Act Historic Property Tax Consulting for the
Olmstead Building Company’s Calavo Gardens Project #531, Mt. Helix, CA
October 2007 Southern CA Edison Company’s Del Sur-Saugus Transmission Line Historical
Resource Review, Lancaster - Palmdale, CA
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
October 2007 Southern CA Edison Company’s Antelope Substation Historical Resource
Review, Lancaster, CA
September 2007 Historical Resource Review & Data Responses for the Proposed SDG&E
Orange Grove Energy Project in Pala, CA
September 2007 SCE Kaiser Pass Cabin Historic Property Assessment, Fresno Co., CA
August 2007 USDA Forest Service Meeks Creeks Bridge Assessment, Lake Tahoe, CA
July 2007 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 433 W. Meadow Drive, Palo Alto, CA
May 2007 Historic Preservation Assessment & New Project Planning and Design
Consulting – 3994 Jackdaw Street, San Diego (CA)
February 2007 419 Park Way Historical Resource Analysis Report, Chula Vista, CA
January 2007 Upper Triangle Areas Historic Property Survey (Historic Context Statement
and Architectural/Historical Documentation of 50 Properties over 15 City
Blocks), Fresno, CA
December 2006 Historic Site Designation & Mills Act Historic Property Tax Consulting for the
Charles Wakefield Cadman Residence, Mt. Helix, CA.
November 2006 Historical Resource Analysis of the 4303 Narragansett Avenue Property, San
Diego, CA
September 2006 Section 106 Review of the 1333 Balboa Street Property, San Francisco, CA
September 2006 Section 106 Review of the Historic Delta-Mendota Canal, Los Banos, CA
August 2006 Historical Evaluation Report – 2959 East Avenue, Hayward, CA
June 2006 Historical Resource Analysis Report: 418-450 10th Avenue Properties, San
Diego, CA
May 2006 Section 106 Review of the Cocoanut Grove Building – Santa Cruz Beach
Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA
May 2006 Historical Resource Evaluation Report for the 70 15th Street Warehouse, San
Diego, CA
April 2006 Historic Site Designation Report & Mills Act Property Tax Consulting - Ocean
Beach Cottage Emerging Historic District Contributor, 4528 Saratoga
Avenue, San Diego, CA
March 2006 City of Fresno Arts-Culture District Historic Property Survey (Historic Context
Statement and Architectural/Historical Documentation of 90-100 Properties
over 18 City Blocks), Fresno, CA
March 2006 South Mossdale Historic-Era House Evaluation, Lathrop, CA
February 2006 Westwind Barn Historic Preservation Study, Los Altos Hills, CA
January 2006 Section 106 Review of the 2654 Mission Street Property, San Francisco, CA
January 2006 Section 106 Review of the 325 Mowry Avenue Property, Fremont, CA 94536
January 2006 Section 106 Review of Ardenwood 34551 Ardenwood Bouevard, Fremont, CA
94555
December 2005 Section 106 Review of the 1230 N Street Property, Sacramento, CA 95814
December 2005 Section 106 Review of the Sacramento City College Water Tower,
Sacramento, CA
November 2005 Section 106 Review of Fair Oaks Watts, 525 La Sierra Drive, Sacramento, CA
November 2005 Napa Valley College Bus Shelter West Historical Resource Analysis Report,
Napa, CA
October 2005 Section 106 Review of the 1025 3rd Street Property, Sacramento, CA 95818
September 2005 City of Davis, Historic Anderson Bank Building Research, Documentation &
Design Review Analysis, 203 G Street, Davis, CA
September 2005 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 1212 & 1214 Second Street, San Rafael,
CA
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
August 2005 Historical Resource Analysis Report – Somky Property/Thompson’s Soscol
Ranch, Napa, CA 94558
July 2005 Walnut Creek Women’s Club Environmental Impact Report, 1224 Lincoln
Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA
June 2005 Tam Property Lot Split Historic Preservation Consulting, Castro Valley, CA
May 2005 Historical Resource Analysis Report, 7329-7331 Eads Avenue, San Diego, CA
March 2005 Ehlers Estate Historical Resource Analysis, 3222 Ehlers Lane, St. Helena, CA
March 2005 University of CA at Santa Cruz Preservation Consulting (Campus Wide
Cultural Resources Inventory, Historic Context Statement – Campus
Planning History)
February 2005 Hall Winery Historical Resource Analysis, St. Helena, CA
January 2005 Historical Resource Evaluation, 700 28th Avenue, San Mateo, CA
January 2005 Historical Resource Evaluation, 312 & 318 Highland Avenue, San Mateo, CA
December 2004 San Mateo Motel Historical Resource Report – Park Bayshore Townhomes –
Environmental Impact Report (Revised February 2005)
November 2004 Historical Evaluation of the San Mateo Motel, 801 South Bayshore
Boulevard, San Mateo, CA
October 2004 Stonegate Homes Subdivision Plan, and Single-and-Multi-Family Dwellings
Design Review, San Mateo, CA
September 2004 University of CA at Santa Cruz, Getty Campus Heritage Grant Application
September 2004 City of Riverside Downtown Fire Station No.1 Cultural Resources Analysis,
Riverside, CA
August 2004 Residential Remodel Design Review – Glazenwood Historic District
Contributor, 929 Laurel Avenue, San Mateo, CA
August 2004 Odd Fellows Hall, Historic Structure Report, 113 South B Street, San Mateo,
CA (with Conservator Seth Bergstein)
July 2004 Design Review Analysis – Schneider’s Building, 208 East Third Street, San
Mateo, CA 94401
July 2004 Embarcadero Cove Development Project Initial Study – Preliminary Historical
Resource Analysis, Oakland, CA 94606
July 2004 Historical Resource Evaluation Report – 4830 Cape May Avenue, San Diego,
CA 92107 (Revised January 2005)
June 2004 City of Monterey Alvarado Street Mixed-Use Project - APE Survey, Monterey,
CA
June 2004 City and County of San Francisco Historical Resource Evaluation Report –
450 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
June 2004 Design Review Analysis – 117 Clark Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402
May 2004 Historical Evaluation of the 426 Clark Drive Residence, San Mateo, CA 94402
April 2004 City and County of San Francisco Historical Resource Evaluation Report –
1272 42nd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122
April 2004 City of Fresno Broadway Row Historical Resource Survey, Fresno, CA
March 2004 Historical Evaluation of the 117 Clark Drive Residence, San Mateo, CA 94402
March 2004 Historical Evaluation of The Fresno Republican/McMahan’s Building, 2030
Tulare Street, Fresno, CA 93721
February 2004 Crocker Bank Building Preservation Planning Considerations Memorandum
January 2004 Historical Evaluation of the 501 Walnut Street Residence, San Carlos, CA
94070
January 2004 Historical Evaluation of the 20 Madison Avenue and 29 Hobart Avenue
Properties, San Mateo, CA 94402
January 2004 Historical Evaluation of The Residence Located At 571 Valley Street, San
Francisco, CA
January 2004 Historical Evaluation of the 3925 20th Street Residence, San Francisco, CA
94131
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
November 2003 Historical Evaluation of Commercial Building Located at 1022 El Camino
Real, San Carlos, CA
November 2003 Peer Review Statement for the K & T Foods Building, 451 University Avenue,
Palo Alto, CA
November 2003 Historical Evaluation of the Greer-O’Brine Property, 51 Encina Avenue, Palo
Alto, CA,
November 2003 Embarcadero Hotel Environmental Impact Report, Historical Resources
Analysis and Design Review Statement
October 2003 City of San Leandro Historical Resources Survey, Historic Context
Statement, Historic Preservation Ordinance, and Draft Historic Preservation
Benefits/Incentive Program
August 2003 Palm Theater Environmental Impact Report, Historical Resources Analysis
July 2003 Historical Evaluation of The First Christian Church Building, 2701 Flores
Street, San Mateo, CA 94403
June 2003 Alameda Naval Air Station Reuse Project Historic Preservation Regulatory
and Policy Memorandum (Prepared for Alameda Point Community
Partners-Master Developer for NAS Alameda)
May 2003 Historical Evaluation of The Residence Located At 606 Dorchester Road, San
Mateo, CA
March 2003 Ames Aeronautical Laboratory 40’ x 80’ Wind Tunnel National Register
Nomination (Prepared for NASA Ames Research Center)
March 2003 Ames Aeronautical Laboratory 6’ x 6’ Supersonic Wind Tunnel National
Register Nomination (Prepared for NASA Ames Research Center)
March 2003 Ames Aeronautical Laboratory Administration Building National Register
Nomination (Prepared for NASA Ames Research Center)
March 2003 Historical Evaluation of The Residence Located At 1015 South Grant Street,
San Mateo, CA
February 2003 8th & Market, 10 United Nations Plaza, Cell Site Impact Review, San
Francisco, CA
February 2003 Existing Conditions and Subdivision Design Alternatives for The Proposed
Hayman Homes Tract No. 7267, Proctor Road, Castro Valley, CA
February 2003 Historical Evaluation of The Residence Located At 336 West Poplar Avenue,
San Mateo, CA
January 2003 Historical Evaluation of The Residence Located At 744 Occidental Avenue,
San Mateo, CA
January 2003 Historical Evaluation of the 131 and 141 West Third Avenue Apartment
Buildings, San Mateo, CA
December 2002 CA State Capitol Building, Historical Resource Review, Sacramento, CA
November 2002 Wireless Antenna Site Review, Medical Arts Building, 2000 Van Ness
Avenue, San Francisco, CA
October 2002 Historical Evaluation of The LeDucq Winery Estate, 3222 Ehlers Lane, St.
Helena, CA 94574 (Revised June 2003)
October 2002 Historical Assessment of The St. Patrick’s Parish Community Building
Located At 3585 30th Street, San Diego, CA, 92104
September 2002 Historical Assessment of The Building Located At 4257 Third Street, San
Diego, CA,
April 2002 Historical Assessment of The Building Located At 3567 Ray Street, San
Diego, CA,
October 2001 Historical Assessment of The Gustafson’s Furniture Building Located At 2930
El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, CA, 92104
September 2001 Historical Review of Lots A, B, K & L, Block 93, Horton’s Addition Lockling,
San Diego, CA
August 2011 El Cortez Hotel Part 3 - Request for Certification of Completed Work
Wendy L. Tinsley Becker, RPH, AICP, Principal
Architectural Historian + Urban / Preservation Planner
wendy@urbanapreservation.com
August 2001 Core Inventory of All Sites Appearing to Be More Than 45 Years of Age Not
Previously Documented (Prepared For Centre City Development
Corporation)
August 2001 Urbana Project Abstract Bibliography (Prepared for Dr. Roger Caves, San
Diego State University and San Diego State University Foundation)
July 2001 Historical Assessment of The Kirkland Apartments Building Located At 2309
Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92103
July 2001 Historical Assessment of The Building Located At 4230 Maryland Street, San
Diego, CA, 92103 (With Kathleen A. Crawford)
June 2001 Historical Assessment of the 2525-2529, 2537-2547, 2561 First Avenue
Residences, San Diego, CA 92103
May 2001 Update of The November 1988 Historic Site Inventory of Centre City East for
Centre City Development Corporation (with Scott Moomjian)
April 2001 East Village Inventory of All Sites Appearing to Be More Than 45 Years of
Age Not Previously Documented (Prepared for Centre City Development
Corporation)
April 2001 Update of The May 1989 Historic Site Inventory of Bayside for Centre City
Development Corporation
January 2001 Historic Survey Report of The Former Teledyne-Ryan Aeronautical Complex
2701 North Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101(with Scott Moomjian)
January 2001 Historical Assessment of The Fletcher-Salmons Building 602-624 Broadway,
San Diego, CA 92101
December 2000 Cultural Resource Report for The Winona Avenue Area Elementary School
Preferred Site, Alternative 1 Site, and Alternative 2 SiteNovember 2000
Cultural Resource Report for The Edison/Hamilton/Parks Area
Elementary School Preferred Site and Alternative Sites
November 2000 Cultural Resource Report for The Adams/Franklin Area Elementary School
Preferred Site and Alternative Site
October 2000 The National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary; Old Town San Diego
August 2000 Cultural Resource Report for The Winona Avenue Area Elementary School
Preferred Site and Alternative Sites
July 2000 Cultural Resource Report, 52nd Street Area Elementary School Preferred &
Alternative Sites, San Diego, CA
July 2000 Historical Assessment of the 3658 Warner Street Residence, San Diego, CA
92106
July 2000 Historical Assessment of the 367 Catalina Boulevard Residence, San Diego,
CA 92106
July 2000 Historical Assessment of the 906 West Lewis Street Residence, San Diego,
CA 92103
May 2000 Historical Assessment of the 501-503, 507 and 509 14th Street Residences,
San Diego, CA
May 2000 The San Diego Flume Company System Redwood Pipeline, San Diego
County, CA
March 2000 Historical Assessment of The Society for Crippled Children’s Hydrotherapy
Gymnasium Located at 851 South 35th Street, San Diego, CA 92113
*Visit www.urbanapreservation.com for project profiles and additional information.
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
Senior Historian and Archaeologist, Douglas Kupel, holds a Ph.D. in History from Arizona
State University, a graduate certificate in Archaeology from the University of South
Carolina, master’s degrees from the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University,
and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Oregon. Doug is a cultural resources
expert with a diverse background in sustainable water resources, environmental planning,
and historic preservation. He meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation
Professional Qualifications Standards in the disciplines of History, Architectural History, and
Historical Archaeology. He brings extensive experience in preparing National Register
Nominations and completing cultural resource surveys and inventories for properties in
California, Nevada, and Arizona. He maintains exceptional leadership and project
management skills having served as the Deputy Water Services Director and Environmental
Program Manager for the City of Glendale, Arizona. In these positions Doug supervised
several divisions and managed nine divisional budgets. He additionally worked for the City
of Phoenix as a Water Advisor and Natural Resources Historian.
Doug began his career working as an archaeological and historic sites consultant in
California and Arizona, and later served as a Historian for the Arizona State Historic
Preservation Officer (SHPO), and the Cities of Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona. As the former
National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Coordinator for the Arizona SHPO, Doug
processed many large and complex historic district nominations early in his career. He has
continued his association with the NRHP program by serving on Arizona’s Historic Sites
Review Committee. Doug has authored 37 NRHP nominations including the Multiple
Property Format NRHP Nomination for the Period of Conflict Between Native Americans
and the U.S. Military in Arizona, 1846-1886, and the NRHP Nomination of the Fort Tuthill
Historic District, Flagstaff, Arizona. Dr. Kupel is a court-recognized expert on water rights
and has conducted substantive research and analysis on statewide water management and
policy. For the City of Phoenix Law Department, he organized and directed research for
litigation and water resources planning in the Arizona General Stream adjudication. He has
served as expert witness for Native American and municipal water history topics. Dr. Kupel
has worked on a number of significant Native American water rights settlements during his
career at Phoenix and Glendale. These include the White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT)
Water Rights Settlement, Verde River Yavapai – Apache Settlement, Gila River Indian
Community Water Rights Settlement, Fort McDowell Indian Community Water Rights
Settlement, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Water Rights Settlement.
He has more than 30 years of experience in water civil engineering projects, including
authoring historical narratives, manuscripts, and eligibility evaluations for the Bureau of
Reclamation Salt River Project, and the Central Arizona Project. His experience provides
understanding not only to historic properties and cultural resources, but also to larger
management concerns and the federal regulatory process. His management of large
publicly owned utilities speaks directly to his ability to supervise and organize large-scale
projects in a complex regulatory environment. Dr. Kupel led a research and planning group
as Deputy Director of a water utility and has wide experience with a variety of water
resources, planning, safety, and emergency management programs. Dr. Kupel has served
as a liaison on water planning and policy issues between municipal utilities and a wide range
of local, state, and Federal agencies. His knowledge of imported water contracts, water
supply planning efforts, and financial and economic analysis related to natural resources
highlights his ability to integrate cultural resources planning within larger planning efforts.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. – History School of
Historical, Philosophical and
Religious Studies
Arizona State University
Dissertation Title: Urban Water in
the Arid West: Municipal Water and
Sewer Utilities in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Master of Arts – History
University of Arizona
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Master of Education – Educational
Leadership
Northern Arizona University
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Graduate Certificate –
Archaeology
University of South Carolina
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Bachelor of Arts – History
University of Oregon, Eugene
REGISTRATIONS
Society of Professional
Archaeologists – Registered
Professional Archaeologist,
No. 10353
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Organization of American
Historians
No. 48527
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PUBLICATIONS
Fuel for Growth: Water and
Arizona's Urban Environment
University of Arizona Press, 2003
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
SELECT PROJECT EXPERIENCE
In Process Post Rock Resources of Kansas National Register Nominations ( Lincoln,
Mitchell, Rush, and Russell Counties, KS).
In-Process Caltrans Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project Environmental
Clearance (Pomona, CA).
2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Ivanpah- Control Transmission Corridor, Tribal
Consultation (Southern CA ).
2021 Coast Highway Bridge Replacement Project – Caltrans Environmental
Clearance (Oceanside, CA)
2021 Post Rock Resources of Kansas Survey and MPDF ( Lincoln, Mitchell,
Rush, and Russell Counties, KS).
2021 4055 Lytle Creek Historic American Building Survey (HABS) Level II
Documentation (Fontana, CA).
2021 Eisen Egg Ranch Historic American Building Survey (HABS) Level II
Documentation (Norco, CA).
2019-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Ivanpah- Control Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report (Southern CA).
2020-21 US Patent Litigation Expert Witness Consulting; Hunton, Andrews, Kurth,
LLP (Napa, CA).
2020-21 Avo Theater Rehabilitation Tax Credit Consulting, JCG Development
(Vista, CA).
2020 Miraloma Quartermaster Depot Historical Resource Analysis Report, Link
Logistics Real Estate (Jurupa Valley, CA).
2020 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Kern River to Los Angeles Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report (Southern CA).
2020 Rancho Miramonte Section 106 Historic Property Survey Report, TH
Miramonte Investors, LLC (Rancho Miramonte, CA).
2020 Historic Designation Report Peer Review: 1135 Devonshire Drive (San
Diego, CA).
2020 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Eldorado-Lugo-Pisgah Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report (Southern CA + Clark
County, Nevada).
2020-21 Determination of Historic Significance Report Peer Reviews, City of
Coronado (Coronado, CA).
2020 East Gilman Channel Mitigation – Historic American Engineering Record
(HAER) Documentation, Envicom (Banning, CA).
2019 Southern California Edison Catalina Island Historic-Era Water System
Management Program (Catalina Island, CA).
2012 Thompson Draw Historic District National Register Nomination, Payson,
Arizona, Metropolis Design Group. (Phoenix, AZ)
2012 De Soto Dealership National Register Nomination, Phoenix, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2011 Sage Acres Historic District National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2011 Historic American Building Survey Documentation of the Fort Defiance
Hospital and Associated Buildings, Fort Defiance, Arizona. Metropolis
Design Group, Phoenix.
2010 Sands Estates Historic District National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Historian / Archaeologist:
Urbana Preservation & Planning,
LLC (San Diego, CA) 2019-present
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Adjunct Faculty:
Grand Canyon University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University
Arizona State University (Main,
Downtown, and West Campus)
Gateway Community College
Phoenix College
1996 - present
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Deputy Water Services Director
City of Glendale (Glendale, AZ)
2014-2018
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Environmental Program Manager
City of Glendale (Glendale, AZ)
2012-2014
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Water Advisor
City of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ)
2011-2012
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Assistant Water Advisor
City of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ)
2007-2010
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Historian
City of Phoenix (Phoenix, AZ)
1988-2007
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Historian: Arizona State Historic
Preservation Office, Phoenix,
Arizona
1986-1988
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Consulting Historian /
Archaeologist: Independent
Consultant (California, Arizona,
Nevada, and South Carolina)
1979-1986
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
2007 Historic Building Analysis of Morcomb Service Station and House, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2007 Myrtle Avenue Historic District National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2007 Bunch / Perez House National Register Nomination, Glendale, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2007 61st Avenue Historic District National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2007 Hoghe Bunk House National Register Nomination, Glendale, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2007 George Dowdy Rental Cottage National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2006 Catlin Court Historic District Expansion, Glendale, Arizona. Metropolis
Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 C. H. Tinker House National Register Nomination, Glendale, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 First United Methodist Church National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 Glendale High School Auditorium National Register Nomination,
Glendale, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 Glendale Elementary One-Room School Building National Register
Nomination, Glendale, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 Jonas McNair House National Register Nomination, Glendale, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2005 Floralcroft Historic District National Register Nomination, Glendale,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2004 Ethnic History Survey of Glendale, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group,
Phoenix.
2003 National Register Nomination of the Fort Tuthill Historic District,
Flagstaff, Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
2003 Historic Building Analysis of the Big Horn Ranch Service Station,
Maricopa County, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2002 Historic Building Analysis of the Palmerita Ranch, La Paz and Yuma
Counties, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2002 Historic Building Analysis of the Gold King Mansion, Mohave County,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2002 National Register Nomination of the San Clemente Historic District,
Tucson, Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
2002 Historic Building Analysis of the Wahweap Trailer Village, Glen Canyon
National Recreation Area, Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2002 Historic Resources Survey of the Evergreen Neighborhood, Casa Grande,
Arizona. Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2001 Historic Resources Survey of Fifty Properties in Clifton, Arizona.
Metropolis Design Group, Phoenix.
2001 National Register Nomination of the Catalina Vista Historic District,
Tucson, Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
2001 Historic Building Analysis of the Tucson Southern Pacific Depot. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
2000 Historic Resources Survey of the Blenman – Elm Neighborhood, Tucson,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
2000 Historic Structures Report, Lee’s Ferry, Glen Canyon National Recreation
Area. Alliance Architects, Phoenix.
2000 Historic Resources Survey of the Robson Historic District, Mesa, Arizona.
Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
1999 National Register Nomination of the Temple Historic District, Mesa,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1999 National Register Nomination of the Irving School, Mesa, Arizona. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1999 Historic Resources Survey of Gila Bend, Arizona. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1999 Historic Building Analysis of the Eisendrath House, Tempe, Arizona.
Alliance Architects, Phoenix.
1998 Reconnaissance Survey of Historic Resources in Mesa, Arizona. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1998 National Register Nomination of the Jokake Inn Bell Towers, Phoenix,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1998 National Register Nomination of the Evergreen Historic District, Mesa,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1998 National Register Nomination of the West Second Street Historic District,
Mesa, Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1998 National Register Nomination of the Wilbur Street Historic District, Mesa,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1998 Historic Building Documentation of the Bagley/Wallace House, Mesa,
Arizona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1998 Historic Resources Survey of BHP Superior West Plant Site, Superior,
Arizona. Alliance Architects, Phoenix.
1997 Historic Resources Survey of Chandler, Arizona. Alliance Architects,
Phoenix.
1997 National Register Nomination of the John and Isabella Greenway House,
Ajo, Arizona. Prepared for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office,
Phoenix.
1997 National Register Nomination of the N. Clyde Pierce House, Phoenix,
Arizona. Prepared for Greg and Judy Pierce (owners), Phoenix.
1997 Historic Resources Survey of Glendale, Arizona. Alliance Architects,
Phoenix.
1997 Historic Resources Survey of Ash Fork, Arizona. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1997 National Register Nomination for the Manistee Ranch, Glendale, Arizona.
Alliance Architects, Phoenix.
1997 Historic Resources Survey of Tempe, Arizona, and Update of Tempe
Multiple Resource Area National Register Nomination. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1996 National Register Nomination of the Queen Creek School, Arizona. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1996 Historic Building Analysis of the Irving School, Mesa. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1996 Historic Building Analysis of the Sun Valley Court Motel, Mesa. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1996 Multiple Property Format National Register Nomination for the Period of
Conflict Between Native Americans and the U.S. Military in Arizona, 1846-
1886. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1995 Historic Resources Survey of Historic Route 66 in Arizona. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1995 National Register Nomination of the Laveen School Auditorium, Laveen,
Arizona. Laveen Elementary School District No. 59. Laveen.
1995 Historic Building Analysis of the Flagstaff Freight Depot, Flagstaff. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
1994 National Register Nomination of the Henning Block, Holbrook. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1994 Historic Building Analysis of the John A. Freeman House, Snowflake.
Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1994 Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation of the Clifton Historic
District, Clifton. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1994 Historic Building Analysis of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church,
Tombstone. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1994 National Register Nomination of the Swindall House, Phoenix. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1994 National Register Determination of Eligibility Peach Springs Tourist Court
and the Standard Oil Warehouse. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1994 Historic Building Analysis of the Yuma Quartermaster Depot Corral
House, Yuma. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1993 Historic Building Analysis of the Thomas House and the Baird Machine
Shop, Phoenix. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1993 National Register Nomination of the Kitchel House, Phoenix. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1993 Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation of the Thunderbird
Tavern, Holbrook. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1993 Historic American Buildings Survey Documentation of the Ortega
Homestead, Holbrook. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1993 Historic Building Analysis of the Western Drug Warehouse, Phoenix.
Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1993 Historic Resources Survey of the Town of Patagonia. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1992 Historic Building Analysis of the Elias/Rodriguez House, Tempe. Ryden
Architects, Phoenix.
1992 Historic Building Analysis of the Constable Ice and Fuel Co. Warehouse,
Phoenix. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1992 Historic Resources Survey of Sedona. Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1991 Historic Resources Survey of the Town of Holbrook. Ryden Architects,
Phoenix.
1990 Historic Building Analysis of the Central Wholesale Terminal, Phoenix.
Ryden Architects, Phoenix.
1988 National Register Nomination for City-County Building, Phoenix,
Maricopa County. Gerald A. Doyle and Associates, Phoenix.
1985 Historical and Archaeological Character, Fort Lowell Park Master Plan.
Acuna-Coffeen Landscape Architects, Tucson.
1985 University of Arizona National Register District Nomination Form (with
Robert C. Giebner, David Blackburn, and Adelaide Elm).
1985 San Xavier Historic Artifact Analysis. Cultural and Environmental
Systems, Tucson.
1984 Diversity Through Adversity: Water Control at San Xavier. TerraMar
International Services, San Diego.
1984 A Proposal to Construct a Plank Road Exhibit at the Proposed Imperial
Safety Roadside Rest. Prepared for the California Department of
Transportation.
1984 Historic Property Survey Report, Proposed Sand Hills Interchange.
Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1984 Request for Determination of Effect, Plank Road. Prepared for the
California Department of Transportation.
Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., RPA
Senior Historian / Archaeologist
doug@urbanapreservation.com
1984 First Addendum Archaeological Survey Report, Proposed Sand Hills
Interchange. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1983 Historic Property Survey Report, Proposed MTDB East Urban Transit
Corridor. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1983 Architectural Survey Report, Proposed MTDB East Urban Transit Corridor.
Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1983 Request for Determination of Eligibility, La Mesa Depot (with John W.
Snyder). Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1983 Plank Road Discontiguous District Nomination form (with Pat Welch and
Lisa Capper).
1983 Plank Road Research. Wirth Environmental Services, San Diego, Califonia.
1983 Picacho Basin Historic Research. Wirth Environmental Services, San
Diego.
1983 Miguel Substation Historic Research. Wirth Associates, San Diego.
1982 The Calhoun Street Parking Lot: A Historical and Archaeological
Investigation of Block 408, Old Town San Diego. Prepared for the
California Department of Transportation.
1982 Archaeological Survey of the Old Town Maintenance Station, Old Town
San Diego. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1982 Archaeological Survey Report of the Old Town Excess Parcel Sale, Blocks
379, 380 and 395, Old Town San Diego. Prepared for the California
Department of Transportation.
1982 Archaeological Survey Report of the Calhoun Street Parking Lot, Old
Town San Diego. Prepared for the California Department of
Transportation.
1981 Proposed Archaeological Phase II Excavation at SDi 8873H (with Joan M.
DeCosta). Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1981 Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Proposed Old Town
Excess Parcel Sale, Blocks 379, 380, and 395. Old San Diego. Prepared for
the California Department of Transportation.
1981 A Modern Material Culture Study: South Carolina's Migrant Farmworkers.
Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, USC, Columbia.
1981 Historical Evaluation of the Sunset Street Property, Lot 1, Block 394, Old
San Diego. Prepared for the California Department of Transportation.
1980 Conservation Management Strategies: State Departments of
Transportation. Department of Anthropology, University of South
Carolina, Columbia.
1980 Final Report of the Rincon, et al., Cultural Resource Survey; Jamul.
Regional Environmental Consultants, San Diego (with Paige Talley).
1980 Final Report of the Rincon, et al., Cultural Resource Survey: La Jolla.
Regional Environmental Consultants, San Diego (with Paige Talley).
1980 Final Report of the Rincon; et al., Cultural Resource Survey: Pala. Regional
Environmental Consultants, San Diego (with Paige Talley).
1979 Cultural Resource Study of a Proposed Electrical Transmission Line from
Jade to the Sand Hills, Imperial County, California. Regional
Environmental Consultants, San Diego (with Carol Walker).
Scott Solliday, MA
Senior Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
scott@urbanapreservation.com
Scott Solliday holds a Master of Arts in United States History / Public History from Arizona
State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Arizona State University. Scott meets
The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications Standards in the
disciplines of History, Historic Preservation, and Architectural History. He has been a
professional historian for more than 30 years, completing an array of projects in community
history, historic preservation and cultural resource management. Scott has solid foundational
experience in all aspects of historic preservation: research, field documentation, assessment,
mitigation, and the appropriate application of the criteria of the National Register of Historic
Places. His portfolio of work spans a broad range of studies supporting environmental
planning, city planning, and private development, with a proven track record of working
effectively to meet the requirements of clients, the State Historic Preservation Office, and
the National Park Service. Areas of specialization include history of Arizona and Maricopa
County, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, agriculture and irrigation engineering, and
post-World War II America.
Mr. Solliday started his career teaching Arizona history and anthropology in college and
community-based programs, including the Mesa Southwest Museum (now Arizona Museum
of Natural History), Mesa Arts Center, and Western International University. He was a
museum curator for 13 years, and was responsible for research, collections management,
exhibits and public programs. Since 2000 Scott has worked in historic preservation and
cultural resource management. Professional experience includes historic property surveys
and inventories, National Register of Historic Places nominations and eligibility assessments,
HABS / HAER documentation, historic context studies and historic preservation planning
documents, assessing project effects on historic properties and ensuring compliance with
historic preservation regulations and stipulations, and Section 106 consultation with state
and federal agencies, municipalities, and tribes. Scott has worked with private, municipal,
state, and federal agencies within the relevant regulatory frameworks including projects
requiring clearance under the National Environmental Policy Act and Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act. He is well versed in coordination with the State Historic
Preservation Office, programmatic agreements and memoranda of understanding,
archaeological field survey and construction monitoring. He has extensive recent experience
completing Historic Property Surveys and Eligibility Assessments for the Arizona
Department of Transportation. During his tenure as adjunct faculty at Chandler Gilbert
Community College, he taught courses in U.S. History, Arizona History, and the History of
the Southwest.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
In Progress US 60X Sossaman to Meridian #x60-C(202)A Project (ADOT) Historic
Assessment Survey Report; Tucson, AZ.
In-Progress USACE Santa Fe Dam Evaluation; Los Angeles, CA.
In-Progress Glen Canyon National Park Service Post 1955 Housing Survey and MPDF;
Page, AZ.
2021 Mule Pass Tunnel Historic Evaluation and Inventory Form (ADOT); Tucson,
AZ.
2021 222 W Mariposa Street Historic Resource Analysis Report (San Clemente,
CA)
2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Kern River to Los Angeles Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report (Los Angeles, CA).
EDUCATION
Master of Arts
United States History / Public History
Arizona State University
—
Bachelor of Arts
History
Arizona State University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Associate Historian /
Preservation Planner: Urbana
Preservation & Planning, LLC
(San Diego, CA) 2021 – present
—
Historian: Independent Consultant
(Mesa, AZ), 2000-2021
—
Senior Architectural Historian:
AZTEC Engineering Group
(Phoenix, AZ), 2011-2021
—
Senior Historian, Archaeological
Consulting Services
(Tempe, AZ) 2007–2010
—
Curator of History, Tempe
Historical Museum
(Tempe, AZ), 1991–1999
—
Curator, Chandler Museum
(Chandler, AZ), 1986-1991
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Beyond Compliance: Historic
Preservation in Transportation
(Section 106 Workshop), National
Highway Institute, 2013
—
Scott Solliday, MA
Senior Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
scott@urbanapreservation.com
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CON’T
Section 4(f) Workshop, Arizona
Department of Transportation,
2013
—
Traditional Cultural Places
Workshop, Arizona Preservation
Conference, 2013
—
Categorical Exclusion Workshop,
Arizona Department of
Transportation, 2013
—
Section 404, Clean Water Act &
Section 106, National Historic
Preservation Act Consultant
Workshop, City of Phoenix, 2012
—
Natural and Cultural Resource
Regulatory Compliance Workshop,
City of Phoenix, 2012
—
Section 106 Workshop, Arizona
Preservation Conference, 2004
MEMBERSHIPS
Tempe Historic Preservation
Commission, 2012-2018
—
Board of Directors, Coordinating
Committee for History in Arizona,
2015-2017
—
Board of Directors, Friends of Arizona
Archives, 2000-2006
—
Museum Management Planning
Committee, Gilbert Historical Society,
2004
—
Tempe Tardeada Planning Committee,
City of Tempe, 1998-2001
—
Board of Directors, Tempe Hispanic
Heritage International, 1998-1999
—
2021 Transmission Line Rating & Remediation Project, Ivanpah Control Line,
Archival Research Package, Southern California Edison, Southern
California.
2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Ivanpah-Control Transmission Corridor, Historic-Era
Built Environment Survey Report.
2021 Treat Avenue Bicycle Boulevard Historic Property Survey and National
Register Eligibility Assessment; Tucson, AZ (City of Tucson)
2020 Sage Memorial Hospital Master Plan Historic Property Survey and National
Register Eligibility Assessment; Ganado, AZ (Hoeffer Wysocki)
2020 Avenida del Yaqui Historic Property Survey; Guadalupe, AZ (ADOT)
2020 San Pedro Bridge National Register Eligibility Assessment and Historic
American Engineering Record Report (HAER AZ-98); Benson, AZ (ADOT)
2019-2020 B-Line Extension Project Historic Property Survey and National Register
Eligibility Assessment, Bloomington, IN (City of Bloomington)
2019 Granite Reef Diversion Dam Gatekeeper’s House Assessment (Salt River
Project)
2019 Historic Property Survey of Properties in the Vicinity of Indian School Road
between 19th Avenue and 31st Avenue; Phoenix, AZ (ADOT)
2018 State Route 30 (East): SR 303L to SR 202L Historic Property Survey; South
Phoenix, Avondale, Goodyear, and Buckeye, AZ (ADOT 2012, updated
2018)
2018 Jokake Inn Main Building HABS Report (HABS No. AZ-232); Phoenix, AZ
(Host Hotels, LLC)
2016-2018 US Route 60 Pinto Creek Bridge National Register Eligibility Assessment and
Project Effects Assessment, Section 4(f) Evaluation, HAER Report (HAER AZ-
97); Gila County, AZ (ADOT)
2016-2017 Historic Property Assessments and Historic Properties Management Plan for
Redevelopment of the Community Noise Reduction Program (CNRP) Project
Area; Phoenix, AZ (City of Phoenix)
2015-2016 Charles Hayden House Historic American Building Survey Report (HABS No.
AZ-228); Tempe, AZ (Douglas Wilson Companies)
2014 Date Palm Manor Historic District Nomination; Tempe, AZ (Date Palm
Manor Neighborhood Association)
2014 Tomlinson Estates Historic District National Register Nomination; Tempe,
AZ (University Heights Neighborhood Association)
2010-2013 Interstate 10/State Route 303L Traffic Interchange; Goodyear, AZ (ADOT)
2013 Interstate 19/Ajo Way Traffic Interchange; Tucson, AZ (ADOT)
2012 South Mountain Transportation Corridor; Phoenix, AZ (ADOT)
2011 Avenida Rio Salado/West Broadway Road Design; Phoenix, AZ (City of
Phoenix)
2009-2010 Jefferson Park Historical Review Survey Report and National Register
Nomination (City of Tucson)
2009 Cultural Resources Survey of 793 Acres for the Goodyear Airport
Improvements Project; Goodyear, Maricopa County, Arizona
2009 A Cultural Resource Survey of the Tony Ranch Homestead in Haunted
Canyon, Pinal County, Arizona.
2009 A Class I Cultural Resources Literature Review and Historic Building Inventory
Survey for the Broadway Road Streetscape Plan, Tempe, Maricopa County,
Arizona. ACS.
Scott Solliday, MA
Senior Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
scott@urbanapreservation.com
MEMBERSHIPS CONTINUED
Grant Review Panel, Institute of
Museum and Library Services, 1998
—
Grant Review Panel, Arizona
Humanities Council, 1996
—
Rittenhouse School Preservation
Committee, San Tan Historical Society,
1994
—
Board of Directors, Central Arizona
Museum Association, 1989–1992
FELLOWSHIPS
National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship, 1999:
Mexico/Arizona Biographical Survey –
Investigation of Mexican-American
Settlement and Economic Development
in the Arizona Territory from 1848-1912
2009 A Historic Context for Roosevelt Irrigation District Zanjero Houses, State
Route 85, Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona.
2008 Roosevelt Addition Historic District National Register Nomination.
2008 A Cultural Resource and Historic Building Survey for a remedial
investigation/feasibility study at the Iron King Mine/Humboldt Smelter
Superfund Cleanup Site, Dewey–Humboldt, Yavapai County, Arizona.
2008 Presentation: Mill Workers, Mill Families. Paper presented for the Historic
Architecture and Historic Preservation Planning of the Hayden Flour Mill
session. Arizona Preservation Conference, Rio Rico, Arizona.
2008 Homesteading and Ranching in the Vicinity of Lake Pleasant Regional Park,
Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona.
2008 Cultural and Environmental Synthesis of the East Range, Fort Huachuca
Military Reservation, Cochise County, Arizona.
2007 Hayden Flour Mill: Landscape, Economy, and Community Diversity in Tempe,
Arizona, Vol. 1: Introduction, Historical Research, and Historic
Architecture. ACS Cultural Resources Report No. 143.
2007 A National Register Eligibility Assessment for a Roosevelt Irrigation District
Zanjero House, State Route 85, Milepost 153.2, Buckeye, Maricopa County,
Arizona.
2007 Phoenix Asian American Historic Property Survey, City of Phoenix Historic
Preservation Office.
2006 Phoenix Community Noise Reduction Program Supplemental Survey, City of
Phoenix Historic Preservation Office.
2006 Historical Overview of the Tunon Homestead in The Mission Ranch
Archaeological Project: Investigations at the Antonio Tunon Homestead, Site
AZ AA:2:223 (ASM), in Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona, by Thomas E.
Wright. Archaeological Research Services, Tempe.
2006 Presentation: Undocumented Settlers: Mexican and Native American
Development of Agriculture in the Salt River Valley. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association for State and Local History,
Phoenix, Arizona
2005 Historic and Architectural Overview of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Arizona
Biltmore Hotel Villas Condominium Association
2005 Phoenix Madison Square Garden Historic Site Documentation, National
Government Properties
2005 History of the Sotelo Addition in La Plaza y La Cremaría: Archaeological
Investigations in Part of AZ U:9:165 (ASM), a Multicomponent Site in Tempe,
Maricopa County, Arizona, Archaeological Research Services
2005 Exhibit: Arizona Constitutional Convention of 1910 (preliminary script);
Arizona State Capitol Museum
2004 Tempe (Hayden) Butte & Environs Archaeological & Cultural Resource Study;
City of Tempe Development Services Department, Tempe, AZ
2004 Presentation: Documenting Arizona’s Invisible Pioneers: the Mexico/Arizona
Biographical Survey. Paper presented at the Annual Arizona History
Convention, Safford, Arizona
2003 Presentation: North, South. East, and West: The Sudden Rise of Suburban
Tempe in the Mid-20th Century; Paper presented at the Annual Arizona
History Convention, Tempe, Arizona
2002 Presentation: An Archive of the Barrios. Paper presented at the Annual
Conference of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch,
Tucson, Arizona
Scott Solliday, MA
Senior Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
scott@urbanapreservation.com
2002 Presentation: Invisible Minority: Sonorans and the Development of
Territorial Arizona. Lecture presented at Arizona State University–
Downtown Phoenix
2001 Post World War II Subdivisions, Tempe Arizona: 1945-1960; Neighborhood
and House-type Context Development. City of Tempe Development
Services Department
2000 History, Photographs, and Drawings of the Roosevelt Water Conservation
District Canal. Salt River Project
2000 Presentation: E. W. Hudson: The Man Who Leveled the Salt River Valley.
Paper presented at the Annual Arizona History Convention, Yuma, Arizona
2000 Southeast Phoenix Land Use History: Historic Overview of the Golden Gate,
Cuatro Milpas, Hollywood Barrios, the Jefferson Neighborhood, and Sacred
Heart Parrish; History International, Inc. / Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Phoenix, AZ
1999 Exhibit: La Familia. Tempe Historical Museum.
1997 Presentation: Hispanic Genealogy in Central Arizona. Lecture presented at
Researching Hispanic History Workshop, Arizona State University–Tempe
1997 Exhibit: Rio Salado: Putting Water Back in the Salt. Tempe Historical
Museum
1997 Exhibit: The Cactus League: Fifty Years of Spring Training in Arizona. Tempe
Historical Museum
1996 Exhibit: Doors to the Past: Preserving Tempe’s Historic and Architectural
Heritage. Tempe Historical Museum
1996 Chandler, Pioneer City of the New West. Chandler Historical Society.
1995 Exhibit: Buffaloes, Bulldogs, and Bowl Games: One Hundred Years of
Football in Tempe. Tempe Historical Museum
1994 Exhibit: Cotton Futures: The Rise and Fall of Tempe’s First Big Industry.
Tempe Historical Museum
1993 Exhibit: Baseball on the Desert: Spring Training and the Cactus League.
Tempe Historical Museum
1993 Presentation: Journey to Rio Salado: Hispanic Pioneers in Central Arizona.
Paper presented at the Annual Arizona Historical Convention, Tempe,
Arizona
1992 Exhibit: The Barrios. Tempe Historical Museum
1992 Exhibit: River Crossings. Tempe Historical Museum
1993 The Journey to Rio Salado: Hispanic Migrations to Tempe, Arizona. Master’s
thesis, Arizona State University
1991 Wright’s First Desert Adventure. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly 2:8-11
1991 Goodyear Townsite Historic Property Survey; Chandler Historical Society.
Chandler, AZ
1991 Exhibit: On the Homefront: Posters from World War II. Tempe Historical
Museum
1990 Exhibit: Frank Lloyd Wright in Chandler. Chandler Museum
1989 Exhibit: The City Beautiful: Early City Planning and Architecture in Chandler.
Chandler Museum
1989 San Marcos Plaza Historic Property Survey; Chandler Historical Society.
Chandler, AZ
1988 Exhibit: Main Exhibit Hall Permanent Exhibits. Chandler Museum
John Hyche, MAA
Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
john@urbanapreservation.com
John Hyche holds a Bachelor of Arts in History, with a minor in Anthropology, from the
University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Master of Applied Anthropology and a
Certification in Historic Preservation from the University of Maryland, College Park. He
meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional Qualifications
Standards in the discipline of History, Historic Preservation, and Historical Archaeology.
John brings practical and applied knowledge of historical and archeological research
principles, methods, and processes to conduct systematic inquiries into cultural resources.
He is a former National Park Service (NPS) Certified Local Government (CLG) Assistant in
the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division, an NPS Cultural Resource Technician, and a
Project Reviewer with the D.C. Historic Preservation Office (DCHPO).
John’s experience includes participation and supervision of Section 106 survey projects,
completion of technical reports, evaluation and review of CLG nominations, and processing
competitive grant applications from towns, municipalities, universities, and individual
applicants nationwide. As a Cultural Resource Technician, he evaluated the results of
preservation maintenance and repair work at historic properties, and coordinated with
researchers, subject matter experts, and resource managers from other areas of the NPS to
encourage and facilitate cooperative regional resources management strategies. John has
authored National Register Determination of Eligibility forms and National Register
nominations, as well as proposed mitigation at rehabilitation measures for projects in
compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). He has completed research in support of Class III Cultural
Resource Inventory reports and aided in the development of treatment plans. His technical
competence and regulatory compliance expertise is matched by his practical skills in data
management, including proficiencies in Microsoft Office applications, Adobe Creative Suite,
ArcGIS, AutoCAD, HTML, and the Esri GIS Trimble.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
In Process Old Tavern Rehabilitation Tax Credit Consulting; JCG Development,
Sacramento, California
In-Process Lafayette Hotel Rehabilitation Tax Credit Consulting; San Diego, California
2020-2021 Historic Preservation Fund Grants Manual – Certified Local Governments |
National Park Service | Washington, DC.
2020-2021 ArcGIS Collector CRSurveyor Archeology Survey Application | National Park
Service | Washington, DC.
2019 Grand Teton National Park Telecommunications Improvement Project
Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service | Grand Teton National
Park, Wyoming.
2019 Wyoming Determination of Eligibility for the Kelly Ranger Station | National
Park Service | Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Jackson Lake Lodge Concrete Rehabilitation Project | National Park Service |
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Mormon Row “Pink House” Architectural Survey | National Park Service |
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Brinkerhoff Historic Resource Condition Assessment | National Park Service |
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Paintbrush Divide & Hurricane Pass Cultural Resource Inventory | National
Park Service | Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Triangle X Ranch Improvement Project | National Park Service | Grand Teton
National Park, Wyoming.
EDUCATION
Master of Applied Anthropology,
University of Maryland
—
Graduate Certificate – Historic
Preservation,
University of Maryland
—
Bachelor of Arts - History
Minor - Anthropology,
University of California-Santa Cruz
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Historian / Preservation
Planner: Urbana Preservation &
Planning, LLC (San Diego, CA)
2021 – present
—
Certified Local Government
Assistant: State, Tribal, Local,
Plans & Grants Division – National
Park Service
(Washington, DC), 2020-2021
—
Cultural Resource Technician:
Grand Teton National Park –
National Park Service
(Grand Teton National Park, WY),
2019
—
Archaeology Intern: D.C. Historic
Preservation Office
(Washington, DC), 2018-
2019
—
Archeology Collections Assistant:
Cooperative Ecosystems Study
Unit, National Park Service
Museum Resource Center
(Hyattsville, MD), 2017-2019
John Hyche, MAA
Associate Historian / Preservation Planner
john@urbanapreservation.com
2019 Deadman’s Bar Landing Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service
| Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Climber’s Ranch Historic Resource Conservation & Condition Assessment |
National Park Service | Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Jackson Island Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service | Grand
Teton National Park, Wyoming.
2019 Congressional Cemetery Archaeological Survey | D.C. Historic Preservation
Office | Washington, DC.
2018 Julia Child Olive Street House Rehabilitation Project | D.C. Historic
Preservation Office | Washington, DC.
2016-2018 Capitol Hill “Shotgun House” Archaeological Survey | D.C. Historic
Preservation Office | Washington, DC.
2018 Arlington House Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service |
Arlington, Virginia.
2018 Prince William Forest Park Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park
Service | Prince William Forest Park, Virginia.
2018 Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Cultural Resource Inventory |
National Park Service | Washington, DC.
2018 Catoctin National Park Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service |
Catoctin National Park, MD.
2018 Antietam National Battlefield Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park
Service | Antietam National Battlefield, MD.
2017 Manassas National Battlefield Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park
Service | Manassas National Battlefield, VA.
2017 Rock Creek Park Cultural Resource Inventory | National Park Service | Rock
Creek Park, DC.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE,
CONT’D
Historical Archaeology Graduate
Intern: University of Maryland,
College Park
(College Park, MD), 2017
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Archaeological Field Technician:
Shotgun House Public Archaeology
Project, D.C. Historic Preservation
Office (Capitol Hill, DC), 2016-2017
—
Archaeological Field School:
Charlestowne Landing State Historic
Park (Charleston, SC), 2016
—
Geophysical Archaeological Field
School: Saint Louis University (Lough
Key, County Roscommon, Ireland),
2015
ARTICLES
“Beyond the Fence: Reaching Out to the
Capitol Hill Community through Urban
Archaeology” Practicing Anthropology
39(3): pp. 14-15, 2017
MEMBERSHIPS
Society for American Archaeology
(2017-Present)
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Society for Historical Archaeology
(2017-Present)
Alexandrea Baker, MCP
Urban / Preservation Planner + GIS Technician
alex@urbanapreservation.com
Urban / Preservation Planner + GIS Technician, Alexandrea Baker, Alexandrea holds a
Bachelor of Arts in Geography, with a minor in Community and Regional Planning, from the
University of Nebraska and a Master of City Planning from San Diego State University. The
capstone project for her graduate degree was a partnership with Metropolitan Transit
System evaluating the shared bus / bike lane on El Cajon Boulevard, a historic auto corridor
envisioned for revitalization and increased density. Alex brings previous municipal
experience having worked for the City of Richmond, California, where she completed
research for a safe parking program, helped process project approvals, processed CEQA
documents, and supported public outreach. Alex additionally worked for Alta Planning +
Design where she coordinated public outreach, scheduled site visits, and completed
mapping for proposed planning projects. She is a recognized GIS and cultural landscape
specialist on the Urbana team. At Urbana she surveys historic-era built environment sites,
conducts property specific and contextual research, identifies cultural landscapes consistent
with National Register Bulletin No. 36, and prepares GIS maps for all Urbana projects.
Having completed graduate school, and with her roots in the Midwestern states of
Wisconsin and Illinois, Alex recently relocated from California to her hometown of St.
Charles and is working to expand Urbana’s presence in the region.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
2021 Olson Townhomes Historic Architectural Evaluation (Huntington Beach, CA)
2019-2021 GIS Mapping of Historic-Era Built Environment Cultural Resources within the
SCE Service Territory | Mono, Tulare, Inyo, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, San
Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange Counties, California.
2021 Post Rock Resources of Kansas Survey; Lincoln, Mitchell, Rush, and Russell
Counties, KS.
2021 GIS Mapping for the To Kalon Vineyard Patent Litigation Project | Hunton
Andrews Kurth, LLP; Napa Valley, California.
2021 Determination of Historic Significance Report for 135 I Avenue | Coronado,
California.
2021 Determination of Historic Significance Report for 777 B Avenue | Coronado,
California.
2021 Determination of Historic Significance Report for 1425 7th Street | Coronado,
California.
2021 Historical Resource Designation and Mills Act Application for 2275 Evergreen
Street | San Diego, California.
2019-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Ivanpah - Control Transmission Corridor, Historic-Era
Built Environment Survey Report | Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino,
Counties, California. and Clark County, Nevada.
2019-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Kern River to Los Angeles Transmission Corridor,
Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report | Kern and Los Angeles
Counties, California.
2020-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Eldorado-Pisgah-Lugo Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report | San Bernardino County, California.
2020-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating and
Remediation Program Control-Silver Peak Transmission Corridor, Historic-
Era Built Environment Survey Report | Inyo and Mono Counties, California.
EDUCATION
Master of City Planning
San Diego State University
—
Bachelor of Arts– Geography,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Urban / Preservation Planner + GIS
Technician: Urbana Preservation &
Planning, LLC (San Diego, CA)
2018 – present
—
Planning Intern: Alta Planning
(San Diego, CA), 2019
—
Planning Intern: City of Richmond
(Richmond, CA), 2019
—
Planning Intern: Maxable
(San Diego, CA), 2018-
2019
—
Para Educator: Mid Valley Special
Education Cooperative (St.
Charles, IL), 2017-2018
—
Teacher Assistant: Lincoln Family
Services (Lincoln, NE), 2016-2017
MEMBERSHIPS
American Planning Association
RELATED COURSEWORK
Community and Regional Planning
GIS Applications in Planning
Plan and Design: Built
Environment
Alexandrea Baker, MCP
Urban / Preservation Planner + GIS Technician
alex@urbanapreservation.com
2020 Historic Property Survey Report, Rancho Miramonte Project | Chino,
California.
2020 Historic Site Designation Report for 4350 Nabal Drive | La Mesa, California.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report for 4630 Date Avenue | La Mesa,
California.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report for 2956 Roosevelt Street | Carlsbad,
California.
2020 Historic Resource Research Report for 5930 Division Street | San Diego,
California.
2020 Middle Ranch Pipeline Historic Resource Analysis Report | Santa Catalina
Island, California.
2019 California’s Mojave Desert Region Cultural Landscape Survey, Eligibility,
Documentation and Mapping Project | Mojave Desert, California.
2018 Owens Valley, California Historic Cultural Landscape Survey, Eligibility
Documentation and Mapping Project | Owens Valley, California.
2018 Kern County Region Historic Agricultural Landscape Survey, Eligibility,
Documentation, and Mapping Project | Kern County, California.
RELATED COURSEWORK CON’T
Urbanization of Rural Land
Active and Healthy Community
Development
Environmental Planning and Policy
Analysis and Public Affairs
SAP Environment, Health, and
Safety for Operational
Sustainability (2021 Edition)
Alexia Landa, BA
Historian + Archaeologist
alexia@urbanapreservation.com
Alexia Landa is a Veteran of the United States Navy having served from 2007-2012, including
deployments in the Middle East. For the USN, she served as an Aircrew Survival
Equipmentman. In this capacity she inspected aircraft and aircrew life-support equipment for
evidence of abuse, damage, or malfunction. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (double major) in
History and Anthropology from San Diego State University. Prior to joining Urbana, Alexia
served as an Archaeological Specialist for the California Department of Parks and Recreation
Southern Service Center where she performed archaeological monitoring and site
assessment activities for a variety of project types including State Park facility improvements,
historic building maintenance, and municipal water and sewer system repair and
replacement. She meets The Secretary of the Interior's Historic Preservation Professional
Qualifications Standards in the discipline of History. At Urbana Alexia leads field survey and
monitoring activities, conducts contextual and site-specific research, prepares historic
context statements, and authors technical reports and site records. Ms. Landa’s passion for
history is demonstrated through her volunteer work with the Museum of Man, the San Diego
Museum of Natural History, and as a member of the Board of Directors for the San Diego
County Archaeological Society.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
In-Progress Glen Canyon National Park Service Post 1955 Housing Survey and MPDF,
Page, AZ
2021 351 Watson St. Historic Evaluation; Monterey, CA
2018-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating
Remediation Program, Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report |
Ivanpah-Control Project, Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties, CA
2021 Transmission Line Rating & Remediation Project, Ivanpah Control Line,
Archival Research Package, Southern California Edison, Southern CA
2020-2021 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating
Remediation Program, Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report |
Eldorado -Pisgah-Lugo Project, San Bernardino County, California and
Clark County, Nevada
2021 City of Escondido Delisting and Re-evaluation, 340 Waverly Place, San
Diego, CA
2021 City of Monrovia Historia Resource Analysis Report, 213-217 Novice Lane,
Monrovia, CA
2021 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 710 10th Street,
Coronado, CA
2021 City of San Diego Historic Property Survey Report, 3167 Market Street,
San Diego, CA
2021 Village of Fallbrook DPR Evaluation, 129 S. Vine Street, Fallbrook, CA
2021 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 202 B Street-
1216 2nd Street, Coronado, CA
2021 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 136 F Avenue,
Coronado, CA
2021 American Silk Factors Mill Historic Resource Analysis Report, 528 N.
Mission Road, San Marcos, CA
2021 Irwindale DPR Evaluation, 5265 N 4th Street, Los Angeles, California
2021 East Gilman Channel Mitigation Historic American Engineering Record,
Banning, California
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts-
History and Anthropology
School of Arts and Letters,
California State University, San Diego
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Historian + Archaeologist: Urbana
Preservation & Planning, LLC
(San Diego) 2018 – present
—
Field Archaeologist / Historian:
Loveless & Linton, Inc. Cultural
Preservation & Archaeology
(San Diego) 2017-2019
—
Archaeological Project Leader:
California State Parks, Southern
Service Center (San
Diego) 2017-present
—
Field Archaeologist:
PanGIS, Inc. (San Diego) 2017
—
Field Archaeologist:
Channel Islands National Parks
Services (Santa Rosa) 2017
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Society of California Archaeology
—
Board Member: San Diego County
Archaeological Society
—
Society of Architectural Historians
Alexia Landa, BA
Historian + Archaeologist
alexia@urbanapreservation.com
2021 Getchell Ranch Historic American Building Survey, 4055 Lytle Creek Road,
Fontana, California.
2020 Jurupa Valley Mira Loma Quartermaster Depot Historic Resource Analysis
Report, Riverside County, CA
2020 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 457 E Avenue,
Coronado, CA
2020 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 518 Adella Lane,
Coronado, CA
2020 Rancho Miramonte Project Historic Property Survey Report, Chino, CA
2020 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 800 1st Street,
Coronado, CA
2020 City of Coronado Determination of Historic Significance, 610 10th Street,
Coronado, CA
2020 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating
Remediation Program, Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report |
Kern River to Los Angeles Project, Kern and Los Angeles Counties,
California
2020 Even Hewes Highway / Coyote Wash Bridge Historic Property Survey
Report, Imperial County, California
2019-2020 Southern California Edison Company Transmission Line Rating
Remediation Program, Historic-Era Built Environment Survey Report |
Control-Silver Peak Transmission Corridor, Inyo and Mono Counties,
California
2019 Lindsay Substation and Bliss-Lindsay 66kV Sub-Transmission Line Historic
Property Survey Report, Lindsay, CA
2019 Pedley Powerhouse Historic Property Survey Report, Norco, California
2017-2019 Crew Chief / Archaeological Monitor for linear trench utility excavations;
prepared daily reporting, photo documentation, and artifact recordation;
facilitate contractor and crew communications.
2017 Site excavation, artifact identification, screening, and lab analysis for
ancient paleocoastal site at Santa Rosa Island within Channel Islands
National Park
2017-2020 Archaeological Project Leader for California State Parks projects in San
Diego, Imperial, Kern, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San
Luis Obispo Counties.
ACTIVITIES & HONORS
SDSU School of Arts and Letters,
Dean’s List
—
SDSU Anthropology Graduate
Students Association
Undergraduate Writing
Contest,1st Place Winner, 2016
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SDSU Spencer Lee Rogers
Alumni Award Nominee, 2017