ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Community Development Director with a Request to Concur with the Recommendation from the Historic Preservation Commission to ADOPT an ORDINANCE Approving the Designation of 1212 WEST MOSS AVENUE (Parcel Identification No. 18-08-204-005), as a LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK (Case No. HPC 540-2021).
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BACKGROUND: The applicant and property owner, the Peoria Historical Society submitted a request to designate the structure located at 1212 W. Moss Avenue as a local historic landmark. The structure is commonly known as the Pettengill-Morron House. The property is currently in the Moss-High local historic district.
On October 27, 2021, the Historic Preservation Commission held a public hearing pursuant to Section 16-38 of the Historic Preservation Ordinance. The Commission voted (4-0-1) to recommend approval of the nomination of 1212 W. Moss Avenue after determining the structure met at least three of the ten designation criteria found in Section 16-38 of the Historic Preservation Ordinance. The recommendation for approval is based on the following nine designation criteria:
Criterion 1: Its character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the city, the county, the state or the United States of America deems it historically significant.
Criterion 2: Its location as a site of a significant local, county, state or national event.
Criterion 3: Its identification with a person who significantly contributed to the development of the city, the state or the nation.
Criterion 4: Its embodiment of distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style valuable for the study of a period, type, method of construction or use of indigenous materials.
Criterion 6: Its embodiment of elements of design, detailing, or craftsmanship that renders it architecturally significant.
Criterion 7: Its embodiment of design elements that make it structurally or architecturally innovative.
Criterion 8: Its unique location or singular physical characteristics that make it an established or familiar visual feature.
Criterion 9: Its character as a particularly fine or unique example of a utilitarian structure with a high level of integrity or architectural significance.
Criterion 10: Owner consent.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: N/A
NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS: No public comment was made at the public hearing.
IMPACT IF APPROVED: The structure would be designated as a local historic landmark in addition to the property’s inclusion in the Moss-High local historic district. A Certificate of Appropriateness would be required for interior construction that affects structural members, exterior alterations, exterior improvements, or removal of significant landscaping.
IMPACT IF DENIED: The structure would remain undesignated as a local historic landmark. The applicant may reapply after 12 months. Interior construction that affects structural members would NOT require a Certificate of Appropriateness. The property would continue to be within the local historic district. Exterior alterations, exterior improvements, or removal of significant landscaping would continue to require a Certificate of Appropriateness.
ALTERNATIVES: N/A
EEO CERTIFICATION NUMBER: N/A
WHICH OF THE GOALS IDENTIFIED IN THE COUNCIL’S 2017 - 2032 STRATEGIC PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION ADVANCE?
1. Beautiful Peoria
WHICH CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR(S) FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOES THIS RECOMMENDATION IMPLEMENT?
1. Reinvest in neighborhoods.
DEPARTMENT: Community Development