Coronado’s City Council adopted a document that would revise the city’s standards and requirements for historical buildings at the Oct. 21 meeting, meaning city staff will return in two weeks with the final ordinance to be passed by council.
If that passes, the ordinance goes into effect 30 days later.
This new implementation is designed to streamline the historic review process and provide a citywide inventory of potentially architecturally-significant properties.
Dudek, an environmental planning firm, provided a listing of homes in three categories of historical significance: Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3. The third tier comprises homes not eligible for designation because they no longer reflect a historic style.
As drafted, the ordinance would exclude 1,058 Tier 3 homes from the review process.
However, according to Senior Planner Tricia Olsen, owners of those houses would still be able to submit a request for historic designation and have the Historic Resource Commission review their homes.
She also stated that nothing will change with Tier 1 and Tier 2 homes.
