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Council upholds historic‑inventory delisting for 81 Pepper Drive after peer review
Summary
Following peer review and public testimony, Los Altos Council upheld a historical commission decision to remove 81 Pepper Drive from the local Historic Resources Inventory, finding the record and peer evaluation did not support local significance under the city criteria.
The Los Altos City Council on Jan. 13 upheld a historical commission decision to remove 81 Pepper Drive from the city’s Historic Resources Inventory (HRI) after an extended hearing that included expert letters and archival testimony.
The property owner had asked the city to delist the 1929 residence. A historic‑resource evaluation prepared for the owner concluded the house did not meet the three criteria for local listing (age, integrity, significance). The city then commissioned an independent peer review (Paige & Trumbull), which agreed the property met the age and integrity tests but did not find the degree of historic significance required by the HRI criteria.
Appellants argued the property is an intact example of the Cape Cod sub‑type of Colonial Revival architecture and that newly located archival evidence and local historical sources demonstrate the…
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