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MEASURE LL - Vote YESLandmarks Preservation Ordinance |
Join with League of Women Voters, Landmarks Preservation Commission, City Council to Vote Yes on LL |
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MEASURE LL - Vote YESLandmarks Preservation Ordinance |
Join with League of Women Voters, Landmarks Preservation Commission, City Council to Vote Yes on LL |
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Measure LL (full text) State Historic Resources Inventory
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Ballot Argument in Support of Measure LL Protect our wonderful historic heritage, support an inclusive public process, and reject the attempt to hijack Berkeley’s landmark laws. The League of Women Voters recommends YES on Measure LL. In 1999, a judge found the City’s landmarks process to be seriously flawed. For six years, members of the public, the Landmarks Commission, the Planning Commission, the City Council, and City staff worked on revisions to maintain strong protections for historic resources while fixing its legal and procedural flaws. In 2006, careful reforms to our landmarks law were overwhelming approved by both the Landmarks Commission and the City Council. Later that year, voters resoundingly defeated a ballot measure sponsored by a small group trying to block those revisions. Incredibly, that same small group of people is once again trying to toss out six years of public process by forcing yet another vote asking you to overturn the community-consensus landmarks ordinance. Here are the facts: Measure LL fixes the City’s landmarks law so that it complies with State law requiring the City make land use decisions within set timelines. If Measure LL fails, the City will likely violate that law – allowing developers to potentially receive automatic approval of their development project -- even if it demolishes a potential landmark. Measure LL allows property owners to find out if their building is a landmark or not. City law prohibits owners from requesting this now. Measure LL sets clear standards for new landmarks and requires that they have “integrity” as defined by State law. Berkeley has diligently protected its history. We have nearly 300 protected historic buildings – more than San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. Measure LL supports legitimate historic preservation. Please join the League of Women Voters, Mayor Bates; Council Members Anderson, Maio, Capitelli, Moore, and Wozniak in voting YES on Measure LL. Signed by: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock Steven R. Winkel, Chair, Landmarks Preservation Commission Fran Packard, Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Alan Tobey, individually and on behalf of, Board Member, Livable Berkeley Sally B. Woodbridge, Architectural Historian |