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Orange holds study session on a comprehensive historic preservation ordinance
Summary
City staff and preservation consultants presented a plan for a single, comprehensive historic preservation ordinance to centralize rules, clarify designation criteria, and create incentives such as the Mills Act; commissioners and residents pressed for clearer notice, an updated inventory, and neighborhood protections.
City staff and consultants told a joint Planning Commission and Design Review Committee meeting on March 16 that the City of Orange will pursue a comprehensive historic preservation ordinance to consolidate existing rules, clarify designation criteria and strengthen protections for cultural resources.
Anna, the assistant community development director, said the ordinance effort aims to expand content in the Orange Municipal Code to better "manage and protect cultural resources in the community" and to create a clearer nexus with the California Environmental Quality Act. The current code provisions are spread across Chapter 17.17 and a set of district‑specific design standards, she said,…
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