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Mountain View council advances historic-preservation ordinance update, asks staff to refine register and outreach
Summary
City staff proposed updating the historic preservation ordinance and a draft register of about 101 privately‑owned properties; after hours of public comment and council questioning about owner notice, Mills Act impacts and SB 79, council supported staff recommendations and asked for a matrix of eligibility, owner outreach and options for a district process before final listings are adopted.
Mountain View City Council on Dec. 9 reviewed a multi-year update to the city’s historic preservation ordinance and a draft register of properties staff identified as potentially eligible for local listing.
Planning manager Eric Anderson told the council the project — begun in 2022 — produced three deliverables: a historic-context statement, an intensive property survey and an ordinance rewrite. Staff presented a draft list of roughly 101 privately owned properties as eligible under proposed significance and integrity thresholds and recommended excluding religious sites from further consideration unless owners affirmatively request listing.
The update would add explicit “integrity thresholds,” change nomination and delisting procedures, and clarify what kinds of alterations are exempt from historic‑preservation review. Anderson said the approach is intended to provide clearer, more consistent rules for property owners and the city’s review processes. “The project team has conducted an intensive survey of properties as directed by the city council,”…
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