With the advice of the Commission, the City Council may designate a property, site, public art, park, cultural landscape, or natural feature as a historic landmark and add it to the San Gabriel Register if it meets the requirements described in divisions (A) and (B) below:
(A) The property meets one of the following eligibility criteria:
(1) It is or was once associated or identified with important events or broad patterns of development that have made a significant contribution to the cultural, architectural, social, historical, economic, and political heritage of the city, region, state, or nation.
(2) It is or was once associated with an important person or persons who made a significant contribution to the history, development, and/or culture of the city, region, state, or nation.
(3) It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a style, type, period, or method of construction; represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic or aesthetic values; or it represents one of the last, best remaining examples of an architectural type or style in a neighborhood or the city that was once common but is increasingly rare.
(4) It has yielded or has the potential to yield information important to the prehistory or history of the city, region, state, or nation.
(B) The property retains integrity from its period of significance, as determined by a qualified architectural historian or historian. A proposed historic landmark need not retain all seven aspects of historic integrity (location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association), but it must retain sufficient integrity to convey the reasons for its cultural, architectural, social, historical, economic, and political significance.
(C) Neither the deferred maintenance of a proposed historic landmark nor its dilapidated condition shall, on its own, be equated with a loss of integrity. Integrity shall be judged with reference to the particular characteristics that support the property’s eligibility under the appropriate criteria and theme of significance.
(Ord. 636-C.S., passed 8-15-17)