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Consultants, commission discuss 12‑month reconnaissance plan to survey midcentury multifamily and other Littleton resources
Summary
Consultants from Pinion presented a kickoff for Littleton’s citywide survey plan, outlining a 12‑month reconnaissance effort focused on post–World War II multifamily housing, revisitation of previously surveyed resources, and recommendations for future full surveys. Staff said the project will produce a prioritized plan rather than full surveys.
Dan Gilbert of Pinion introduced a citywide survey plan kickoff to the Historic Preservation Commission, saying the work is a reconnaissance-level planning effort to inventory existing information, prioritize future survey areas and recommend steps for later preservation planning.
Gilbert and Pinion’s consultant (Sarah, historic preservation consultant at Pinion) said the scope is a plan to survey, not a set of full-level historic evaluations. They described a roughly 12‑month timeline to gather records, conduct reconnaissance-level documentation and produce a prioritized survey plan and recommendations that could inform a later preservation plan.
The consultant said Pinion will prepare up to 15–17 reconnaissance site forms and up to four or five revisitation site forms (previously evaluated resources). The team is focusing on mid‑century multifamily housing — apartment complexes, duplexes and trailer courts — that previous context studies largely overlooked, but staff said they will consider additional single-family neighborhoods, mid‑century churches and grocery‑store architecture for future work.
Pinion showed mapping layers the team produced from Arapahoe County assessor data, color-coded by construction date, and flagged clusters of midcentury multifamily candidates: clusters near Littleton Boulevard and Gallup, an area near Kettering and the Littleton Museum, several U‑shaped apartment complexes and smaller multiunit clusters, and a Sternberg‑designed long, low building on Stern Parkway the commission identified as an ideal candidate for reconnaissance.
Commissioners asked whether reconnaissance forms will revisit already-evaluated resources and whether the commission would be asked to help with “windshield surveys.” Consultants said the scope includes revisiting a small number of previously evaluated resources (up to five) and welcomed commission participation for reconnaissance/windshield work; staff said they can supply tablets and software for field documentation.
Consultants said the project team created their own construction-date layer by marrying assessor databases and that staff will distribute Google Earth/KMZ files to commissioners who want them. Commissioners suggested additional candidate areas — Aberdeen Village, Bow Mar South, Front Range/Rose Ridge subdivisions and several apartment complexes — and staff said they would include those suggestions in the reconnaissance candidate list and in the survey-plan recommendations.
Gilbert and the Pinion consultant said the reconnaissance results and recommendations will be used to prioritize future full surveys, and the final plan will identify resources, recommended survey methods and a recommended order of work for the city.
