Alhambra City Hall (Photo – W.K)
Alhambra’s first ever Historic Preservation Commission will hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, September 25, at 6:00 pm, on the second floor of Alhambra City Hall.
By Brian Rodriguez
The Alhambra Historic Preservation Commission has been a work carefully developed. On July 13, 2020, the Alhambra City Council voted to implement a preservation program including three phases.
Implementing one phase, a year later, on October 11, 2021, the City Council established an ordinance to create the Alhambra Historic Preservation Commission to advise the City Council on the drafts of the city’s new historic context statement, the historic resource city-wide survey, and a historic preservation ordinance.
The ordinance states that the five commissioners will serve without compensation, must be residents of Alhambra, and will be appointed by each member of the City Council annually.
Preservation Program Developed in Three Phases
The City hired Historic Resources Group (HRG) consultancy to draft the preservation program in three phases. HRG completed a Historic Context Statement draft in March 2022 (Phase 1). On September 26, 2022, HRG was hired again to draft a city-wide survey of potentially historic properties and neighborhoods (Phase 2). On May 13, 2024, HRG presented the survey to the public and the City Council.
Alhambra’s First Historic Preservation Commissioners
Meanwhile, Melissa Michelson, Joyce Amaro, and Dylan Littlefield were appointed to the Commission on March 25, 2024. Bert Ng has since been appointed. The District 2 seat is currently vacant.
A draft of a historic preservation commission (Phase 3) will be released online on September 26, 2024, followed by five community input meetings.
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