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HistoricalAdvisoryBoard | 2021-03-04 | 3 | Staff Member Dong said the top category was N (National) then there were S (State), H (Historical), B (Background), and E (Environmental). Board Member Jones asked about the hierarchy within those designations. Staff Member Tai said that N, the national register, was the highest, then S, then B. Then was the E category, where individually they might be insignificant but as a group they were significant. Lastly was H, these buildings might have historical significance but would require further research. Doug Biggs and Chris Ebert, the applicant and the architect, also gave a presentation discussing the history of this site, why they were asking to delist this site from the Historical Buildings Study List, and addressed the opposition to this delisting process. Chair Saxby asked if they had looked into rehabilitating the buildings or doing some type of adaptive reuse for the project. He wanted to know more about the background of the project. Mr. Biggs said from day one the plan for Building 1, the Engineering Building, was to tear it down for a new Built to Purpose Medical Program Building. He said for Building 2/E Shaped they had thought they could rehab the building until they did Exploratory Demo. They determined that the seismic upgrade cost would be too cost-prohibitive to be able to get funding for the project so they are now tearing it down. Chair Saxby asked if the seismic evaluation was done using Historic Building Codes or current codes. Mr. Biggs said it was done with the current building codes. Chair Saxby said these buildings would be eligible for Historic Building Codes. Mr. Biggs said that the Historic Building Code would not save them money on the seismic issues. Chair Saxby was curious why they were not able to view the Page & Turnbull reports which were referenced by the 2003 letter from SHPO (State Historic Preservation Office) Report as to why the location was not eligible for the National Historic Registry. Mr. Biggs said they had reached out to Page & Turnbull, those reports had been archived and it would take a few months to track them down. Also since the site was not eligible back then it would not be now. Chair Saxby reminded Mr. Biggs that their decision would not apply to the local registry. Historical Advisory Board Approved Minutes 3 March 4, 2021 | HistoricalAdvisoryBoard/2021-03-04.pdf |