Historic Resources

  • The Board of Education adopted the Treatment of Historical Resources Policy (BP & AR 7113.01) at their Feb. 9, 2021 meeting. SMMUSD is one of the first school Districts to approve and implement a historic-resources policy. The school board directed the review of the facility by historic resources consultants to determine potential historic resources.

    Historic resources are assessed prior to development as part of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reviews. The board policy directed staff to engage historic resources consultants prior to CEQA analysis.

    Board Policy 7113.01 Treatment of Historical Resources
    Administrative Regulation 7113.01 Treatment of Historical Resources

    Historic Resources Reports

    Attached are the historic resources reports prepared by the Architectural Resources Group and Historical Resources Group. These reports identify facilities that would potentially be considered eligible for listing under the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historical Resources, or City of Santa Monica Designated Historic Resources

    Executive Summary of Historic Resources

    Prior to the board policy being established, the historic resources reports were completed during CEQA reviews of the campus plans.
    The District is in the process of developing historic resources reports for Webster Elementary, Malibu Elementary, and the Washington Campus.

    SMMUSD Requests Community Input about Potential Historic Resources on District Campuses

    As directed by Board Policy 7133, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District will hold a series of online community meetings on June 21 and June 22nd to develop the Historic Resource Inventories for its elementary and middle schools. This is an opportunity for the community to provide input to the District’s Historic Resources Consultants to help determine whether a building or property would qualify as a historic resource. The consultants will review the process and methodology.

    At this meeting, our consultants will ask for the community’s input and comments on the buildings, artwork and other features of the campus that might be a historical resource. This is your opportunity to guide the investigation. The District’s Historic Resources Consultants will review the process and methodology that goes into determining whether a building or property will qualify as a historic resource.

    Later this year, the recommendations from the Historic Resources Consultants will be made public for review and another round of community meetings will be scheduled to receive feedback on the Historical Resource Inventory reports. Following revisions, the Board of Education will receive and adopt the reports.

    The meetings are part of the district’s campus assessment process as it continues to align its instructional programs and environments to the way students learn and the jobs of the 21st century and to make those environments adaptable for future changes in coming decades.

    Campus planning presentations from June 2021 meetings:
    June 21, 2021, Architectural Resources Group
    Grant Elementary School
    Franklin Elementary School
    Lincoln Middle School

    June 22, 2021, Historic Resources Group
    Rogers Elementary School
    McKinley Elementary School
    Roosevelt Elementary School
    John Adams Middle School