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Resident urges Santa Barbara to create a Department of Historic Preservation to protect trees, curbs and other nonbuilding resources
Summary
At the Oct. 8 Historic Landmarks Commission meeting, resident Sherry Ray urged the city to broaden protections for nonbuilding historic resources — notably trees and stone curbs — and proposed creating a department dedicated to historic preservation beyond architecture.
Sherry Ray urged the Historic Landmarks Commission on Oct. 8 to broaden local preservation efforts to include nonbuilding resources and to establish a department of historic preservation.
Ray told the commission the city’s recent loss of a stand of Italian stone pines showed current protections focus primarily on buildings and left other historic resources "completely unprotected."…
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