A. The City shall identify potentially feasible measures to mitigate significant adverse changes in the significance of a historical resource. The City shall ensure that any adopted mitigation measures to mitigate or avoid significant adverse changes are fully enforceable through permit conditions, agreements or other measures. In rendering any decision under this chapter, the City recognizes that a project which is mitigated or conditioned to follow the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties With Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings"; or the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings" (1995), Weeks and Grimmer, shall be considered as mitigated to a level of less than a significant impact on the historical resource.
B. In addition to any mitigation measures that might be imposed pursuant to the authority of CEQA, the City shall have the right to reasonably condition the issuance of a demolition permit to further the goals of this chapter and to protect the public health, safety and welfare interests of its citizens.
C. If a demolition permit application is conditioned by the imposition of a delay of its issuance, the City shall reasonably cooperate with the applicant and the owner of the structure for the purposes of saving the structure through purchase of the property, relocating the structure, or by any other means to rescue the structure from demolition, in the shortest time possible. The City shall make every reasonable effort to provide for the preservation of the structure, but nothing in this chapter shall require the City to purchase, relocate or otherwise expend City funds in connection with the efforts to save the structure.
(Ord. 2899 §5, 2019)