What: Certified Local Government (federal pass-through) grants for historic context work, starting with the Sunnyside neighborhood.
Where it stands: Contracts were signed; staff are working on procurement to bring in a consulting firm.
Next: Phase one is a Sunnyside context statement (and inventory work if money remains); phase two is a loose update of the other historic contexts, which need to be carried past 1935 before further inventory and evaluation.
Details
Built from the auto-generated captions of the October 21 meeting; names and numbers may be misheard. No minutes are posted.
The grant amounts were about $20,000 from the current cycle plus about $13,000 of leftover state funds, matched by staff and intern time. The City began a Sunnyside context project about five years ago and did not finish it.
Staff update under informational items. Commissioners welcomed the grants and noted that historic buildings in Sunnyside keep disappearing, including one recently demolished under the imminent-hazard provision of the code.