Merced, CA Historic Preservation: Historic-Cultural Monuments (2026)

54, adopted by Ordinance No. 1474 in 1983. 050, ranging from its role in a significant historic event to its status as the best remaining example of an architectural style in the city. A); the commission holds a public hearing after thirty days' newspaper notice and mailed notice to owners within 300 feet, then forwards a recommendation to the city council, which must find the resource significant and that designation won't impose undue hardship. 100 controls what the owner can do to it: no material change through alteration, construction, relocation or demolition may proceed without a certificate for alteration approved by at least four affirmative commission votes, following its own public hearing with ten days' newspaper notice.

The commission weighs the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines for Rehabilitation and must find the work consistent with the chapter's purposes and not detrimental to the resource's historic significance, unless the applicant shows the work is necessary to fix an unsafe condition or that denial would cause undue hardship. 130). 300.