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Title: Sacramento (Calif.) Planning Department records
Dates: 1955-2008
Bulk Dates: 1976-1996
Collection number: CTY0008
Creator:
Sacramento (Calif.). City Planning Department
Collection Size:
16 boxes
(16 linear feet)
Repository:
Center for Sacramento History
Sacramento, California 95811-0229
Abstract: The Sacramento (Calif.). City Planning Department records consist of 16 boxes of Sacramento residential and non-residential
building surveys conducted mostly between 1976-1996. Each survey consists of a historical/architectural survey form which
includes information about the structure such as building type, architect, builder, date of construction, style, significant
architectural features, additions/alterations, evaluation desingation and a photograph of the structure.
Physical location: 7H1, 7H2, 7I1
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research use.
All requests to publish or quote from private collections held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Sacramento (Calif.) Planning Department records, CTY0008,
Center for Sacramento History.
Records were transferred to the Center for Sacramento History by the Community Development department in December 2015 (accession
2015/043).
Collection inventory and finding aid created by Sean Heyliger, 2019-08-19.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Sacramento (Calif.). City Planning Department records consist of 16 boxes of Sacramento residential and non-residential
building surveys conducted mostly between 1976-1996. Each survey consists of a historical/architectural survey form which
includes information about the structure such as building type, architect, builder, date of construction, style, significant
architectural features, additions/alterations, evaluation desingation and a photograph of the structure. The surveys were
conducted at the request of the Sacramento City Planning Commission after its creation in 1974 to study the historic preservation
needs of the city. A Historic Structures Advisory Committee was appointed by the Sacramento City Council whose task was to
oversee a survey of historic and culturally significant buildings within the city's downtown area built prior to 1920. The
survey area was limited to Old Sacramento bounded by the Southern Pacific Mainline Railroad levee on the north, Broadway to
the south, the Sacramento River to the west, and Alhambra boulevard to the east.
The residential building survey was initiated in 1975 as the next step following the Historical Structures Advisory Committee's
August 1974 report, "Sacramento Old City, a preservation program." The survey was conducted by the San Francisco urban and
environment planning firm Charles Hall Page and Associates and established a list of 733 residential properties of pre-1920
residential structures of which 577 were designated on the city's official register as either essential, priority, or contributing
structures covered under the city's preservation ordinance. The preservation ordinance allows for the city's preservation
board to review any proposed changes or rehabilitation to listed structures and to deny demolition for a period of up to six
months with the option for renewal by the Sacramento city council. The city planning department recieved additional funds
from the State Office of Historic Preservation in 1979 to perform a non-residential building survey. The survey was conducted
by the consulting firm Historic Environment Consultants beginning on June 2, 1980 and a final report completed on June 15,
1981. The survey was limited to the same downtown area used by the residential survey and surveyed non-residential buildings
built prior to 1942. The survey included churches, schools, public buildings, utilities, parks, fraternal organizations, industrial
buildings and warehouses, and office and commerical buildings. Of the 444 buildings surveyed, 242 were listed on the city's
official register with 166 designated as priority structures and 76 as essential structures.
Series 1. Historic building surveys
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Sacramento (Calif.). City Planning Department
Historic buildings--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Sacramento (Calif.)--history