Reso PC19-11 PC Reso 0084 55 Perry

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• Actively encourage and promote the preservation of Redwood City's historic resources, and reduce the deferral of judgement on how to preserve them as much as possible. • Create a strong employment district and "vital center". The project would revitalize a building, which has been vacant for several years in a visible section of the downtown. The project would result in adaptive re -use of a historic resource and would rehabilitate a vacant building into an office space to strengthen the employment district. The proposed project would modify the exterior fagade, completely renovate the interior, and perform streetscape improvements. The interior has structural issues that would be fixed as part of the project. The project does not seek any deviations from the standards and guidelines of the DTPP and complies with historic preservation requirements of the DTPP. B. The establishment, maintenance or operation of the use will not, under the circumstances of the particular case, be detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare of persons residing or working in the neighborhood of the proposed use, or the property and improvements in the neighborhood, or the City. The project would not be detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare of the neighborhood. The project would take a derelict vacant building and would completely renovate the interior of the building to be compliant with all current code requirements for building and fire safety. The project would improve the interior, exterior facade, utilities, and site improvements. The project involves a change in use to a commercial office space and would not expand any floor area. Under the DTPP, existing on-site parking is considered sufficient for specified historic resources provided that the building is not expanded and modifications are consistent with regulations specific to the resource. Therefore, the project would comply with DTPP parking requirements. In addition, the site would be adjacent to a city parking lot, Caltrain parking lot, and walking distance to the Sequoia Station transit center. The site would provide more employment next to a local and regional transit hub. Section 4. Under Section 2.0.3.A.3 of the DTPP, the Planning Commission has reviewed the Project and hereby finds that the Project is in conformance with the applicable Historic Resources Preservation Standards and Guidelines of the DTPP. Section 5. Under Section 2.1.4.A of the DTPP, the Planning Commission finds that the Project conforms to the DTPP Additional Impact Mitigation Measures for properties that contain historic resources to be preserved and complies with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings (1995), Weeks and Grimmer and analyzed in the historian's report by M -Group, and would not adversely affect the character of the non -designated historic resource. Page 3 of 9 ATTY/RES0.0084/PC RE50 55 PERRY REV: 08-22-19 PR