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Salinas Historic Resources Board advances citywide survey, refines certificate design options
Summary
The Historic Resources Board discussed 2025 priorities including a comprehensive, citywide historic-resources survey by Page & Turnbull, steps to digitize survey records and DPR forms, and next steps for a certificate-of-appreciation program with separate residential and commercial templates under development.
At a meeting of the City of Salinas Historic Resources Board (HRB), board members reviewed proposed priorities for 2025 and discussed two staff-led projects: a comprehensive update to the city’s historic-resources survey and refinements to a certificate-of-appreciation template.
Board members and staff emphasized the survey’s scope and outreach role. Grant Leonard, planning manager, said the city contracted Page & Turnbull and that the firm is under contract "as of December 3rd." The HRB heard that the survey scope includes writing a historic context statement, resurveying previously identified properties and historic districts, and producing DPR inventory forms for individual resources to be integrated with the city’s planning/permit systems.
Why it matters: the survey will determine which properties are documented as historic or potentially eligible for designation, shape how the city flags resources in permitting, and provide research the public can access online.
Board discussion and details - Contract and scope: Board members confirmed the…
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