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10 <br /> <br />Analysis of the Historic Resources regulations further demonstrates that the Project <br />does not conflict with any historic resource standards or guidelines. As with all other <br />sections of Book 2, the Historic Resources regulations are compiled into mandatory <br />standards and recommended guidelines. Each identified historic resource in the Plan <br />area has its own standards and guidelines that regulate modifications, if any, that can <br />be made to that individual resource. For the historic resource at 620 Jefferson Avenue, <br />the DTPP lists four standards and six guidelines, but all of the regulations pertain to <br />modifications specific to that property only (e.g., there are no architectural review <br />standards or guidelines limiting the height of buildings adjacent to or across the street <br />from 620 Jefferson, other than the standard height limitation of 8 stories as discussed <br />elsewhere in this report), and they do not control development on the site at 603 <br />Jefferson Avenue. Being that the resources at 605 Middlefield and 611 Middlefield are <br />located on another street and are not in any way adjacent to the Project site, the DTPP <br />does not require any review or analysis of the potential for the 603 Jefferson Project to <br />create impacts on those two resources. As such, the Project is in compliance with all <br />historic preservation provisions. <br /> <br />Second, the Project is in compliance with all measures of the DTPP which apply to non- <br />historic sites (such as the subject site) that are adjacent to historic resources. All non- <br />historic parcels in downtown, including the Project site, are placed into non-historic <br />mitigation groups ranging from 1 to 6, with group 1 having the most mitigation measures <br />and group 6 having the least. (DTPP, p. 31 [Historic Resources Preservation Chart]) <br />The groups have mitigation measures, or development restrictions, meant to minimize <br />impacts to the adjacent historic resource(s). The Project site is in non-historic mitigation <br />group 6, which requires review by an architectural historian and the HRAC. <br /> <br />As a result, the City was required to review the Project for any potential “substantial <br />adverse change” to the adjacent resource across the street at 620 Jefferson Avenue. <br />(DTPP, p. 43 [2.1.4(D)]) The Applicant hired Richard Brandi, a qualified architectural <br />historian, to review the potential impacts to the significance of 620 Jefferson Avenue. <br />Mr. Brandi’s report explains that the Project would not have an impact on the <br />significance of the historic resource at 620 Jefferson Avenue, nor would the Project <br />create a “substantial adverse change” that would affect the eligibility of the resource to <br />be listed on the California Register of Historic Resources. The HRAC and the Planning <br />Commission relied on this report to conclude that the Project would not cause a <br />substantial adverse change to the significance of the historic resource at 620 Jefferson <br />Avenue, as required by the DTPP (Section 2.1.4.D) and the certified EIR mitigation <br />measures. Thus, the Project is in compliance with all required non-historic mitigation <br />measures that apply to the Project site at 603 Jefferson Avenue. <br /> <br />8.C. - Page 10