SAN BUENAVENTURA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Statement of Qualifications

January 17, 2013

Historic Resources Consulting Services Since 1980 For over thirty years, San Buenaventura Research Associates has provided professional and cost-effective historic resources expertise to public and private sector clients. We specialize in the production of historic resources evaluations for compliance with state and federal environmental requirements, historic property surveys, and environmental documents to support historic preservation planning efforts. San Buenaventura Research Associates provides qualified Historian and SAN BUENAVENTURA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Architectural Historian services, in 1328 Woodland Drive • Santa Paula, California 93060 accordance with Tel: (805) 525-1909 • Fax/Message: (888) 535-1563 • historicresources.com standards. SAN BUENAVENTURA RESEARCH ASSOCIATES! HISTORICRESOURCES.COM

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

San Buenaventura Research Associates and conducted according to state survey (SBRA) has completed hundreds of historic guidelines. resources investigations in connection with a wide variety of public and private projects National Register of Historic Places within California, Nevada and Arizona. Nominations. SBRA has completed numerous National Register of Historic Historic Resources Reports. San Places nominations, including nominations Buenaventura Research Associates conducts accepted by the Keeper of the National historic resources investigations for private Register for listing at the national level of clients, and federal, state and local agencies significance. to support California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and Section 106 (NEPA) Historic Preservation Planning. San compliance. Buenaventura Research Associates provides qualified planning support services to public These reports typically involve the agencies. SBRA staff has the ability to apply development of historic context statements, in-depth, direct experience with planning architectural descriptions, site-specific agency issues and programs to the developmental histories, land use histories, development of solutions to historic evaluations of significance according to preservation-related problems, including the National Register of Historic Places, production of ordinances, historic California Register of Historical Resources, preservation plans, permit processing and and local criteria, determinations of project environmental review procedures. impacts, production of mitigation programs and historic sites documentation. SBRA Mills Acts Applications. SBRA has specializes in the production of creative, completed the documentation required to community-based historic resources support Mills Acts applications for clients in mitigation and project alternative programs. a number of cities.

Section 106 Eligibility Determinations. SBRA has completed thousands of historic resources evaluations for compliance with Section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

Historic Resources Surveys. SBRA has conducted many large-scale historic resources surveys throughout California, utilizing both intensive-level and reconnaissance methodologies. Many of the comprehensive surveys were funded by the California State Historic Preservation Office

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PRINCIPALS

Judith P. Triem, Principal/Historian, Santa Barbara and has studied Geography in founded San Buenaventura Research Oxford, England. He specializes in the Associates in 1980. Ms. Triem received her production of maps, graphics and computer M.A. from the University of California, Santa databases and geographic information Barbara in 1980 in the field of Public systems, and has developed GIS-assisted History. Her B.A. was completed in 1962 at historic resources survey techniques. He has the University of Arizona, Tucson, with a participated in various capacities in major in Spanish and a minor in history. She designing and conducting urban and rural specializes in conducting Historic Resources historic resources surveys. As a practicing Surveys, National Register of Historic Places city planner, with over ten years of nominations, historic context statements, experience, Mr. Stone has served local land-use histories, Section 106 and CEQA agencies within Ventura, Orange and Los evaluations. Since 1987, her firm has Angeles counties, specializing in maintained a contract with Los Angeles architectural and site plan design review. He County Community Development Commission has completed the Section 106 Training to complete Section 106 compliance for the Course sponsored by the GSA Training Center Community Development Block Grant and the Advisory Council on Historic Program. She has been granted an individual Preservation. programmatic agreement from the National Advisory Council authorizing her to REFERENCES complete direct evaluations of properties to satisfy Section 106 requirements. Ms. Triem Available upon request. is accredited as a Registered Professional Historian and has completed the Section 106 Training Course sponsored by the GSA Training Center and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Mitchel R. Stone, Principal/Preservation Planner, has over thirty years of experience researching historic properties, preparing architectural and historical evaluation reports, including CEQA and Section 106 analyses, National Register of Historic Places nominations and State Historic Landmarks nominations. Mr. Stone received his B.S. in Urban Planning from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1979 and has completed M.A. level studies in Geography at the University of California,

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SELECTED PROJECTS

diversion, and reservoirs constructed from alternatives section of this EIR included the ENVIRONMENTAL the 1880s through the 1970s. SBRA directed evaluation of several adaptive reuse projects IMPACT REPORTS the fulfillment of the mitigation program that would result in a significantly higher adopted in connection with the level of preservation of the historic resource. California Institute of Technology Master environmental documents, including Restoring the building for use as a theater Plan Revision, Pasadena. Historic resources documentation and the development of an and the mandated “no project” alternative technical report associated with the EIR for interpretative plan. [City of Ventura, 2003] were evaluated. This complex alternatives the amendment of the Master Plan revision discussion was supported by an economic for the campus. Involved the review and Azusa Pacific University Specific Plan EIR feasibility analysis. [City of Pasadena, 2000] evaluation of modern-era buildings, Historic Resources Report, Azusa. Historic development of historic context within the resources technical report prepared in Anokia EIR, Arcadia. SBRA evaluated the project area, evaluation of eligibility in conjunction with the master plan for the proposed demolition of a NRHP-eligible accordance with local, state and Federal expansion of a private university. Required a residence and related buildings on a large criteria, determination of impacts and comprehensive inventory of potentially estate for the development of a single development of a mitigation program. [City historic buildings, development of detailed family residential subdivision. Several of Pasadena, 2005] historic context within the project area, preservation alternatives for the property evaluation of eligibility in accordance with were investigated through the EIR. The Coral Casino EIR, Montecito. SBRA provided local, state and Federal criteria, mitigation plan developed by SBRA involved direct support to the County of Santa determination of impacts and development the interpretation of the historic property in Barbara on the completion of an of a mitigation program. [City of Azusa, an appropriate off-site location, including environmental analysis in connection with 2004] relocating some of the property’s significant new construction related to a designated architectural features, and documentation. County Landmark, a private club constructed Glendale Town Center EIR Historic [City of Arcadia, 1999] in Montecito in 1937. The analysis required Resources Evaluation, Glendale. Technical an extensive discussion of the project’s report prepared in connection with the Santa Barbara Airport Master Plan EIR, impacts in terms of the Secretary of the construction of a 475,000 square foot retail- Santa Barbara. Historic Resources Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation as commercial and 338 residential dwelling unit Evaluation in connection with the well as the development of a mitigation mixed-use project on 15.5 acres in an urban development of the airport master plan EIR/ program, the analysis of project alternatives downtown setting. Required a S. Comprehensive inventory of potentially and responding to extensive and detailed comprehensive inventory of potentially historic buildings, development of detailed public comment. [County of Santa Barbara, historic buildings, development of detailed historic context, evaluation of eligibility in 2005] historic context, evaluation of eligibility in accordance with local, state and Federal accordance with local, state and Federal criteria, determination of impacts and Ventura Avenue Water Treatment Plant criteria, determination of impacts and development of mitigation program. [City of EIR/EIS, Ventura. SBRA prepared an historic development of a mitigation program. [City Santa Barbara, 1995] resources analysis for CEQA and Section 106 of Glendale, 2003] compliance in connection with the CEQA Historic Resources Report, East modernization of the City of Ventura’s water Raymond Theater EIR, Pasadena. Historic Gateway Project EIR, Santa Paula. [City of treatment plant. Facilities evaluated resources technical report for the proposed Santa Paula, 2011] included the treatment plant, administration alteration of a disused historic theater for a building, basins, a dam and surface commercial-residential project. The project

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Section 106 and CEQA Historic Resources Historic Resources Report, 54 Day Road, Historic Resources Report, 13215-25 Report, Compton Brickyard Specific Plan Ventura. [City of Ventura, 2012] Orange Street, Norco. [County of Riverside, EIR/S. [City of Compton, 2011] 2004] Historic Resources Report, 1542b Miramar Cavaletto Ranch EIR, Goleta. [County of Beach Drive, Montecito. [County of Santa Phase III Historic Resources Report, Music Santa Barbara, 2010] Barbara, 2012] Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Road, Montecito. [County of Santa Barbara, 2003] Historic Resources Report, El Segundo Historic Resources Report, 6135 N. Rose Aquatics Site Feasibility Alternatives EIR, Avenue, Saticoy. [County of Ventura, 2011] El Segundo. [City of El Segundo, 2010] SECTION 106 Historic Resources Report, 1189 Kingston EVALUATIONS St. Monica Church Campus Enhancement Lane, Ventura. [City of Ventura, 2011] Project EIR, 725 California Avenue, Santa Los Angeles County Community Monica. [City of Santa Monica, 2009] Historic Resources Report, 12220 Development Commission (LACDC) Cotharin Road, Malibu. [County of Ventura, Section 106 Review. Since 1987, SBRA has Beverly Hills Gateway Project EIR, Beverly 2011] maintained an on-call contract with this Hills. [City of Beverly Hills, 2008-12] large county housing agency to complete all Historic Resources Report, 119 and 121 Section 106 Historic Resources Lincoln II So. Elementary School EIR, San N. San Vicente Boulevard, Beverly Hills. environmental reviews connected with the Bernardino. [San Bernardino City Unified [City of Beverly Hills, 2010] expenditure of federal funds on housing School District, 2005] rehabilitation and other housing and Gardena High School Historic Resources economic development projects within all of Historic Resources Report, Arrowhead Report, Gardena. [City of Los Angeles/Los unincorporated Los Angeles County and non- Springs Hotel EIR, San Bernardino. [City of Angeles Unified School District, 2010] entitlement cities. This contract requires San Bernardino, 2005] quick turn-around of reviews, conducted Historic Resources Report, 4353 Marina under a Programatic Agreement between HISTORIC RESOURCES Drive, Hope Ranch. [County of Santa HUD, the California SHPO and the Advisory Barbara, 2010] Council on Historic Preservation. [Los REPORTS Angeles Community Development Historic Resources Report, 6800 Wheeler Commission, 1987-present] Oakdale High School Historic Resources Canyon Road, Santa Paula. [County of Report, Oakdale. Historic resources Ventura, 2010] technical report produced in connection Reevaluation of NRHP Eligibility, Coast Guard Air Station (AIRSTA), with the proposed expansion of the existing Historic Resources Report, 9230-42 Oakdale High School onto a site consisting San Francisco. SBRA reevaluated the Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills. [City of eligibility of properties which had been of 33 residential parcels on 13.7 acres. Beverly Hills, 2009] Comprehensive inventory of potentially previously determined eligible for listing on historic buildings, development of detailed Historic Resources Report, 8600–10 the NRHP as contributors to an historic historic context, evaluation of eligibility in Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood. [City district, pursuant to stipulations in an accordance with local, state and Federal of West Hollywood, 2009] adopted Memorandum of Agreement. [Coast criteria. [Oakdale Unified School District, Guard Air Station, San Francisco, 2004] Stanislaus County, 2003] Historic Resources Report, 2825 Padaro Lane, Carpinteria. [County of Santa Section 106 Historic Resources Report,

Historic Resources Report, 9565–67 and Barbara, 2007] 816 E. Santa Barbara Street, Santa Paula. 9269 Burton Way, Beverly Hills. [City of [Santa Paula Housing Authority, 2012] Beverly Hills, 2012] Historic Resources Report, 1084 Golf Road, Montecito. [County of Santa Barbara, Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Historic Resources Report, 5050 Hollister 2006] Camp Whitsett, Sequoia National Forest, [Boy Scouts of America, 2011] Avenue, Goleta. [County of Santa Barbara, Kernville. 2012] Historic Resources Report, 115-175 Tiburon Bay Lane, Montecito. [County of Ventura Community Memorial Hospital Historic Resources Report, 4227 Hueneme Santa Barbara, 2006] Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Road, Oxnard. [County of Ventura, 2012] Ventura. [Ventura Community Memorial Hospital, 2010]

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Section 106 Reviews for the Housing Evaluation, Big Tujunga Canyon, Angeles significance. The nomination included Authority of the County of Santa Barbara. National Forest. [Los Angeles Unified justifications of McCrea’s significance as a [County of Santa Barbara, 2010] School District/USDA-FS, 2003] film industry figure, and a discussion of the significance and evolution of the early Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Historic Architectural Survey Report for 1930s Ranch House style of architecture. 3005 E. Main Street, Ventura. [City of the Sierra-Baseline Widening Project in [Conejo Parks and Recreation District, 1996] Ventura, 2009] the City of Fontana, San Bernardino County. [Caltrans/City of Fontana, 2002] Fort Rosecrans National Register of Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Historic Places Nomination. SBRA 351 E. Thompson Boulevard, Ventura. [City Historic Architectural Survey Report for documented and nominated to the National of Ventura, 2009] the Cherry Avenue/I-10 Interchange, near Register a district composed of twenty-one Fontana. [Caltrans/County of San early Twentieth Century military buildings. Historic Resources Report (CEQA and Bernardino, 2000] [United States Navy/Point Loma Naval Section 106), Westview Public Housing Submarine Base, San Diego, 1995] Project, Ventura. [City of Ventura and NATIONAL REGISTER Ventura Housing Authority, 2009] Inyo County Courthouse National Register OF HISTORIC PLACES of Historic Places Nomination. [County of Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Inyo, 1997] 220 W. Main Street, Santa Paula. [Santa NOMINATIONS Paula Housing Authority, 2009] First Baptist Church of Ventura National Farnsworth Park and Davies Memorial Register of Historic Places Nomination. Building National Register of Historic Section 106 Historic Resources Report, SBRA prepared a National Register of Places Nomination. [Altadena Heritage, 396-428 Charles Street, Moorpark. [City of Historic Places nomination for listing this 1996] Moorpark, 2009] 1932 Mayan Revival church building designed by the foremost architect of the Union Oil Building National Register of Section 106 Historic Resources Report, style, Robert Stacy-Judd, on the NRHP. This Historic Places Nomination. [Unocal Hayes Avenue Affordable Housing Project nomination was approved by the California Corporation, 1991] Oxnard. [City of Oxnard, 2008] State Historical Resources Commission for Section 106 Historic Resources Report, listing at the national level of significance HISTORIC RESOURCES 4268 Center Street, Piru. [County of for its exemplification of the national SURVEYS Ventura, 2008] architectural exoticism movement of the 1920s and 1930s. [Ventura Church for Ojai Historic Resources Reconnaissance Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Spiritual Living, 2009] Survey, Screening Survey and Context. As 550 Temescal Street, Piru. [County of elements of a three-step process of Ventura, 2008] Rancho Camulos Adobe National Register identifying historic resources in the City of of Historic Places Nomination. This Ojai, SBRA prepared a historic context CEQA and Section 106 Historic Resources nomination resulted in the listing of an statement for the city, conducted a Report, 1150 N. Ventura Avenue, Ventura. 1850s era adobe and outbuildings (near reconnaissance-level survey of the entire [City of Ventura Housing Authority, 2008] Piru, Ventura County) on the NRHP at the city and developed a systematic method for national level of significance and determining the need to conduct future Section 106 Historic Resources Report, designation as a National Historic Landmark. historic resources identification efforts. [City 457 W. Gonzales Road, Oxnard. [City of The nomination involved extensive of Ojai, 2011] Oxnard, 2008] justification of the property’s significance related to the Californio era, early California Downtown Oxnard Historic Resources Section 106 Historic Resources Report, adobe architecture and the social history of Survey. Comprehensive intensive-level 145 S. Ojai Street, Santa Paula. [City of regional settlement and tourism. [Rancho inventory of historic resources covering over Ventura, 2007] Camulos Museum, 1995] 400 parcels within the city’s central business district. Involved the development Section 106 Historic Resources Report, Joel McCrea Ranch National Register of of a detailed historic context statement, 622 E. Main Street, Santa Paula. [County Historic Places Nomination. This documentation, and the evaluation of of Ventura, 2005] nomination resulted in the listing of the property eligibility in accordance with local, Hollywood actor’s ranch home on the NRHP state and Federal criteria. [City of Oxnard, Clear Creek Outdoor Educational Facility at the national level of significance on the 2005] Section 106 Historic Resources basis of both its historical and architectural

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Ventura County Cultural Heritage Survey City Landmark and Mills Act Application, Phase VI: The Santa Clara Valley of HISTORIC 701 Foothill Road, Ojai. [Tiese and Robert Ventura County. SBRA conducted an PRESERVATION Quinn, 2009] intensive-level survey of a rural historic landscape covering 22 square miles and 700 PLANNING City Landmark and Mills Act Application, properties. The survey documented rural Ventura County Historic Preservation Plan. 410 Tico Road, Ojai. [Randy Levitt, 2008] historic districts and individual properties In conjunction with the Ventura County eligible for listing on the National Register Planning Department, SBRA authored a Historic Resources Mitigation Report, 829 of Historic Places utilizing detailed research comprehensive historic preservation plan Park Street, Piru. [David N. Hill, 2007] and GIS analysis techniques. [Resource and policy document covering the Triem, Judith. The Santa Clara Valley of Management Agency, County of Ventura, unincorporated sections of the County and Ventura County. Easton Gallery, 2002. 1999] cities participating in the County’s cultural heritage preservation program. This plan California State University Channel Ventura County Cultural Heritage Survey included a detailed evaluation of current Phase V: The Western Santa Clara Valley of Islands Historic Properties Photographic policy contained within the County and City [California State University Ventura County. SBRA conducted an Documentation. general plans, and a thorough examination Channel Islands, 2001] intensive-level survey of a rural historic of current programs and procedures. landscape covering 40 square miles and 450 Chapters in the plan included: goals, Hansen Agricultural Trust Master Plan, properties. The survey documented rural policies and programs, preservation Historic Resources Section. [Hansen historic districts and individual properties education, historic context, an Agricultural Trust/University of California, eligible for listing on the National Register administrative history of the County’s 2000] of Historic Resources Places utilizing preservation program, state and federal detailed research and GIS analysis regulatory settings, future survey priorities, Harbor Hill Housing Project Historic techniques. [Resource Management Agency, and a future action agenda. The plan American Building Survey Documentation. County of Ventura, 1996] established a set of new programs intended [Los Angeles County Community to promote the implementation of Development Commission, 1999] Pasadena City-Wide Historic Resources preservation goals, including the creation of Survey. SBRA conducted a comprehensive incentives for preservation within the Historic Resources Management Plan, San historic resources survey of the City of zoning ordinance, strengthening of the Diego Naval Station. [United States Naval Pasadena including over 25,000 parcels County’s cultural heritage regulations, and Station San Diego, 1999] covering roughly 80% of the city. The the refinement of environmental review project involved centralizing 18 years of procedures. [Ventura County Resource Historic American Building Survey previous surveys into a unified database and Management Agency, 1997] Documentation, Rincon Oil Piers, Ventura verifying current conditions in the field by County CA. [Mobil Oil Company, 1998] means of a reconnaissance-level survey and City of Burbank Historic Preservation GIS-based analysis. The survey resulted in Plan. [City of Burbank, 1999] Historic Resources Documentation and the identification of 57 potential historic Mitigation Report, Patterson Ranch, Simi districts and over 300 potentially Valley CA. [City of Simi Valley, 1997] individually eligible properties. [City of OTHER REPORTS & Pasadena, 1993] Pacific Pipeline Land Use Sensitivity PUBLICATIONS Analysis. [Science Applications Ventura County Cultural Heritage Survey, Stone, Mitch. The Oaks of Santa Paula: A International/California Public Utilities Phase II, Fillmore. SBRA conducted a History of Santa Paula Canyon and the Commission, 1997] comprehensive historic resources survey of Oaks Neighborhood. Fern Oaks Press, 2011. the downtown commercial and residential Triem, Judith. Mason Family History. Ag areas. [Property Administration Agency, City Landmark and Mills Act Application, Services, Inc., 1995. County of Ventura, 1983] 1001 Foothill Road, Ojai. [Laurel Moore, 2010] Triem, Judith. The Limoneira Company: One Hundred Years of Growing, 1893-1993, Historic Resources Report and Mills Act Ventura County CA. Limoneira Company, Application, 531 S. F Street, Oxnard. [Gino 1993. Dean, 2010] Triem, Judith. Ventura County: Land of Good Fortune. Windsor Publications, 1985.

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