Last Chance to SAVE the Roadhouse!

topic posted Thu, August 9, 2007 - 12:46 PM by  offlineDj ABC
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:06:04 -0700
> From: pleasure_point_1@yahoo.com
> Subject: Fwd: Save the Roadhouse!
> To: liveoakneighbors@yahoogroups.com; liveoakannouncements@yahoogroups.com; lohp@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> --- pleasure point <saveroadhouse@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:20:11 -0700
> > From: 'pleasure point' <saveroadhouse@gmail.com>
> > To: saveroadhouse@gmail.com
> > Subject: Save the Roadhouse!
> >
> > We have less then a week to help free the Roadhouse.
> > Information on how to contact the Supervisors.
> > You can call 454-2200 and ask to talk to them
> > You can write
> > Room 500
> > 701 Ocean St SC
> > Letters are added to the record.
> > If you can get people to go to the meeting Aug 14,
> > they can make a statement
> > in support of listing the Roadhouse as historic and
> > a park site.
> > They can use the above contacts too.
> > Check on the meeting at
> >
> sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/bd...asp
> >
> >
> >
> sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/bd...asp
> >
> > should get you to the meeting agenda, it may not be
> > available until Thu
> > evening
> > You can send an Email through this link
> > The attachment shows how the Roadhouse is evaluated
> > as being Historic
> > through this Criteria
> > Thank you !!
> > People for the Preservation of Pleasure Point
> >
>
> Following are criteria for
> Historic evaluation
>
> The National Register Criteria for Evaluation
> is...'the basis for judging a property's significance
> for their association with important events or
> persons, for their importance in design or
> construction, or for their information potential...'
> National Register Bulletin 15. The National Register
> Criteria recognizes the following categories:
>
> • Associative Value: Criterion A: properties
> significant for their association or linkages to
> events
>
> • Associative Value: Criterion B: properties
> significant for their association to persons important
> to the past
>
> • Design or Construction Value: Criterion C:
> properties significant as representatives of the
> fabricated expression of culture or technology
>
> • Information Value: Criterion D: properties
> significant for their ability to yield important
> information about prehistory or history
>
> Evaluation of Integrity
>
> Integrity is the measure by which properties are
> evaluated. To retain integrity a property must have
> most of the seven aspects of integrity as defined by
> the National Register Criteria for Evaluation. The
> seven aspects of integrity are quoted as follows:
>
> • Location = Location is the place where the historic
> property was constructed or the place where the
> historic event occurred.
>
> • Design = Design is the combination of elements that
> create the form, plan, space, structure, and style of
> a property.
>
> • Setting = Setting is the physical environment of the
> historic property.
>
> • Materials = Materials are the physical elements that
> were combined or deposited during a particular period
> of time and in a particular pattern or configuration
> form a historic property.
>
> • Workmanship = Workmanship is the physical evidence
> of the crafts of a particular culture or people during
> any given period in history or prehistory.
>
> • Feeling = Feeling is a property's expression of the
> aesthetic or historic sense of a particular period of
> time.
>
> Bulletin 15 further explains that a determination must
> be made on how the theme of the context is significant
> in the history of the local area, the State, or the
> nation. 'A theme is a means of organizing properties
> into coherent patterns based on elements such as
> environment, social/ethnic groups, transportation
> networks, technology, or political developments that
> have influenced the development of an area during one
> or more periods of prehistory or history. A theme is
> considered significant if it can be demonstrated,
> through scholarly research, to be important in
> American history. Many significant themes can be found
> in the list of Areas of Significance used by the
> National Register.' This list is quoted as follows:
>
> Areas of Significance
>
> *Agriculture (The Barn- similar to Wilder)
>
> *Architecture (Craftsmen style with good materials and
> workmenship. Possible link to Esti-Pogonip Clubhouse,
> Houghtons son in law-same style house)
>
> Archeology
>
> • Prehistoric
>
> • Historic—Aboriginal
>
> • Historic—Non-Aboriginal Art
>
> *Commerce (gas station, store, room and cabin rental)
>
> Communications
>
> Community Planning and Development Conservation
> Economics
>
> *Education Engineering Entertainment/Recreation (
> vacation destination-Cozy cottages)
>
> Ethnic Heritage
>
> • Asian
>
> • Black
>
> • European
>
> • Hispanic
>
> • Native American
>
> • Pacific Islander
>
> • Other
>
> Exploration/Settlement Health/Medicine Industry
> Invention
>
> Landscape Architecture Law
>
> Literature Maritime History Military Performing Arts
> Philosophy Politics/Government Religion Science Social
> *History/Transportation (Gas station)
>
> Other
>
> Evaluation for Significance: The California Register
> Criteria for Evaluation
>
> The California Register of Historic Places is the
> official list of properties, structures, districts,
> and objects significant at the local, state or
> national level. California Register properties must
> have significance under one of the four following
> criteria. Properties that are eligible for the
> National Register are automatically eligible for the
> California Register.
>
> • 1) Associated with events that have made a
> significant contribution to broad patterns of local or
> regional history, or cultural heritage of California
> of the United States;
>
> • 2) Associated with the lives of persons important to
> the local, California or national history
>
> • 3) Embodies the distinctive characteristics of a
> design-type, period, region, or method of
> construction, or represents the work of a master, or
> possesses high artistic value; or
>
> • 4) Yields important information about prehistory or
> history of the local area, California or the nation.
>
> Evaluation for Significance: The County of Santa Cruz
> Criteria for Evaluation
>
> The County of Santa Cruz recognizes significant
> historical resources in unincorporated portions of the
> County. The Historic Preservation Chapter (16.42) of
> the County General Plan describes Historic Resource
> Designation in (section 16.42.080). The designation
> criteria sections are quoted, in part, below :
>
> Designation Criteria
>
> 'Structures, objects, sites and districts shall be
> designated as historic resources if, and only if, they
> meet one or more of the following criteria and have
> retained their architectural integrity and historic
> value:
>
> 1. The resource is associated with person of local,
> state or national historical significance.
>
> 2. The resource is associated with an historic event
> or thematic activity of local, state or national
> importance.
>
> 3. The resource is representative of a distinct
> architectural style and/or construction method of a
> particular historic period or way of life, or the
> resource represents the work of a master builder or
> architect or possesses high artistic values.
>
> 4. The resource has yielded, or may likely yield
> information important to history or pre-history.'
posted by:
Dj ABC
California