Preserving the history of Bodega and Duncans Mills
The Sonoma County Landmark Commission will meet May to discuss the future design of Bodega and Duncan Mills. The towns are under study by Painter Preservation and Planning of Petaluma.
The commission is charged with preserving the architectural and historical integrity of the county’s historic resources. A study of the historic resources is incomplete, according to staffer Lisa Posternak, so the issue may be postponed until a later date.
Draft reports are available from Posternak or online through the Permit and Resource Management Department. They contain a comprehensive history of the towns’ construction, and discussion of how to preserve design elements when reconstruction or new construction is considered.
“The earlier concerned people get involved, the less it costs taxpayers in the long run,” Posternak said.
The meeting is at 5 p.m. May 3 at the Permit and Resource Management Department, 2550 Ventura Ave., Santa Rosa, 565-1900.
contact me
Having seen “rules” meant to be broad guidelines, turn into hard lines and criminal charges leveled at people slightly outside the new “rules”, let us not assume that any group could define a local place. I do not believe that there is an iconic design for any local towns, nor could one be mandated without obvious discrepencies upfront. The mandated “adobe” in and around Santa Fe and Taos, is brown terd cement, looks like dog leavings, and is a joke to anybody with open eyes. I saw an “adobe” doublewide by the side of the road in Taos, waiting to be delivered. It looked more real than all, and I do mean all the fake adobe.
Sooooooooooooo, I suggest that all county and city mandated designs, rules for design, general guidelines (which always become strict rules), be specifically vetted to the whole of the public anywhere within the jurisdiction to be “iconified”, no matter what they call the gentrified stupidity.
If the county wants to spend that kind of money, it ought to fund local historic museums and societies, pay reasonable prices to locals for artifacts, and generally garner the local history from locals, rather than pay stupid money to “friends” for bogus historical building concepts. Marin County has historical groups that show up at estate sales of marin “estates”, we don’t have that here, the local historical society thinks it’s really an art museum. They have no budget, at least one they spend, on local historic items, papers, photographs, records, just the “snooty” art they think is important. How could a county like this arrive at any reasonable method of “administering” when they couldn’t administer a “no ridge-line housing or development” in the WHOLE county from the general plan from the when I first got here in the 60′s. Mandated no ridge-line, yeah, depending on how much money you have. There were supposed to be NO ridge line developments visible driving from Petaluma to Headsburg. Take a look folks at what “adminstrators” do, and you wonder why they all seem so rich.
Are these the people you want telling you what color rock to put in your driveway side drains, what style roofing, windows, whatever. Bah, these people are so disgustingly self absorbed that they cannot even see their mistakes when people point them out. This is where “birthers” got their mindset.