Article II. Obtaining Historical Designation
8.15.200 Criteria for designating a historic building.
A. Preconditions to Listing. A building will only be considered for inclusion on the Atherton historical register, if one or more of the following is met:
1. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
2. The building is listed on the California State Historical Landmarks, Points of Interest, and the California Register of Historical Resources.
3. The building is determined to be of local significance by the city council.
B. Determining Local Significance. The City Council may determine a building is of local significance if it can make any of the following findings with respect to the building:
1. The building is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of the town’s history;
2. The building is associated with a person that played a significant role in the town’s history;
3. The building embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction, that have yielded or may be likely to yield information important in history or prehistory of the town; or
4. The building is listed as a historically significant building in the open space and conservation element of the general plan. (Ord. 652 § 1, 2022)