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Pacific Grove council moves to merge architecture and historic review panels after debate over owner consent
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The Pacific Grove City Council voted to direct staff to draft ordinance amendments to combine the Architectural Review Board and Historic Resources Commission into a single historic and architectural resources commission and begin the public review process.
The Pacific Grove City Council voted to direct staff to prepare ordinance amendments to merge the Architectural Review Board and the Historic Resources Commission into a single historic and architectural resources commission and start the public review process.
City Attorney Patrick Pierrick told the council that, under the city’s municipal code (citing sections 23.76.025 and 23.76.030), inclusion on the Historic Resources Inventory is discretionary and that neither state nor federal law requires a city to obtain a property owner’s consent to add a property to a local inventory. “There are evaluation criteria and those criteria are used to determine whether or not the property qualifies,” Pierrick said during…
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