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Memorandum <br />Date: November 14, 2010 <br />To: City of Eugene Planning Staff ' <br />From: Ken Gutowski, Historic Consultant ' <br />Subject: Brunner- Schmitz House Historic Designation (HD 10-1) <br />To assist the City of Eugene Staff in providing a recommendation to the Historic Review Board, <br />the following findings are presented regarding City Historic Landmark Designation approval <br />criteria {shown below in -bold typeface }. . <br />EC 9.8165(1): Designation is consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro Plan and <br />applicable refinement plans. <br />Applicable provisions of the Metropolitan Area General Plan IMetro Plan) and applicable <br />refinement plan, the River Road-- Santa Clara _Urban Facilities_ Plan are addressed below. <br />Metro Plan — Historic Preservafion Element <br />Adopt and implement historic preseNation policies, regulations, and incentive programs that <br />-encourage the inventory, preservation, and'restoration of structures, landmarks, sites, and <br />areas of cultural, historic, or archeological significance, consistent with overall policies." <br />(Policy 1, page 111-1 -2) <br />Recognition of the historic significance of the Brunner - Schmitz House as a City of Eugene <br />Historic Landmark aids in implementation of this policy because it Was identified and <br />documented in the River Road Cultural Resource Survey of 2005. Historic landmark designation <br />will encourage the preservation and. restoration of the Brunner - Schmitz House and its <br />significant, historic landscape for the future through compliance with historic alteration, ' <br />moving and demolition requirements of Eugene's land use code. ' <br />• Institute and support projects and programs that increase citizen and visitor awareness of the <br />area's-history and encourage citizen participation in and support of programs designed to <br />recognize and memorialize the area's history." (Policy 2, page. 111• -1 -2) ' <br />Listing of the Brun ner.;5chmitz House as a City of Eugene Historic Landmark is consistent with <br />_ this policy as the research found in the application contributes to the body of knowledge that <br />the City of Eugene maintains on the history of development of the River Road area of Eugene. <br />Historic landmark designation helps to ensure the preservation the Brunner- Schmitz House <br />and will help to increase citizen awareness of historic preservation and local history. <br />KRO•agenda - Page 4 <br />