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Board approves several smaller projects, allows conditioned window replacements
Summary
The board approved a backyard pergola and portal addition at 804 Apodaca Hill, maintained a contributing status and primary facade designation at 203 West Water Street (allowing exclusion of proven nonhistoric materials), and approved conditioned window replacements at 878 East Palace (wood in-kind replacements on primary facades).
The Historic Districts Review Board acted on multiple less controversial items at its July 14 meeting.
• 804 Apodaca Hill (case 2026012701): Staff recommended approval for a 607–670-square-foot portal addition and an existing 100-square-foot pergola on a noncontributing 1996 house; the board approved the project as submitted.
• 203 West Water Street (case 2026012686): After presentation and discussion of archival photographs and Sanborn maps, the board adopted staff recommendations to maintain the commercial building’s contributing status and to designate the south facade as primary. The board specified that materials demonstrated to be nonhistoric can be excluded from the designation when evidence is presented.
• 878 East Palace (case 2026012702): The board approved replacement of multiple windows and required that windows on primary facades be replaced in kind — matching material, configuration and operation — and explicitly excluded aluminum-clad (exterior-clad) windows for the primary-facade replacements.
These approvals carried standard conditions for future permit review and allowed applicants to return with evidence should they wish to demonstrate that particular materials are nonhistoric and therefore excluded from protection.
