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Board asks 833 Center Avenue owner to revise hardship submission rather than approve asphalt roof
Summary
The board questioned the financial‑hardship calculation for 833 Center Avenue’s request to replace a slate tower roof with asphalt shingles, asked for clearer valuation or an appraisal and voted to have the applicant return with revised documentation rather than approve an alternate roofing material at this meeting.
The City of Redding Historic Architecture Review Board spent significant time on a request from the owner of 833 Center Avenue to replace scalloped slate shingles on a tower roof with asphalt shingles and to secure a financial‑hardship finding.
Preservation staff said the tower roof is leaking and the applicant’s hardship calculation used contractor quotes and a composite index. The contractor described high material and labor costs and urged approval of asphalt for economic reasons. One committee member said the submitted inputs produced a hardship ratio “well over” the board’s objective formula and recommended denial without additional documentation. “Based on all the information and based on the calculations, it's well over the value that this formula is an objective formula based on the inputs that we have,” the committee member said (Committee member).
Rather than approving the asphalt substitution at the meeting, the board voted to ask the applicant to resubmit a clearer financial package — either a more complete set of cost inputs, a formal appraisal of property value, or consolidation of the tower work into a larger roof replacement that might change the hardship ratio. Staff noted the board’s hardship formula has been used consistently in the past and that an appraisal or expanded scope can materially affect the outcome. The board left open the possibility that a reconfigured submission could produce a different result.
The board did not make a final determination on roofing materials at 833 Center Avenue; members recommended next steps and asked staff to help the applicant understand what additional documentation would be required. The preservation officer and staff will follow up with written instructions and a timetable for resubmission.
