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fighting us on it, so we have to make sure it is truly historic and worth the fight that we will have to allocate the City's resources to fight. She said we are not here to go out and find things, we are here to judge whether something is or isn't historic, and staff is suppose to come to us and make recommendations, and we are suppose to judge the merits, and,that it has a universal historic value. She noted that the County did two surveys, an archeological and an artifact survey, of our area and they did not find any sites that can be designated other than the three already designated: Newport Pier; the two bridges on Atlantic Isle, actually it was three bridges but at this point we are down to two bridges; and the property at 334 Atlantic Isle which is Water Court Villa. She said she had a long discussion with Ivan Rodriguez regarding when you have a designated historic site and it is destroyed because the bridges going onto Atlantic Isle fall in this category, and the other bridge over the Lagoon is still original although deteriorated. She said in her opinion that a site like that, that there is nothing left of it that is historical and has actually been moved from where the original site was, shouldn't be qualified as an historic site. Chairperson Del Monico noted that Deputy City Attorney Ottinot will place the Ordinance on the Commission agenda in September, and Mr. Schulman and Mr. Udoff will prepare the files for re-designation to present to the Board. 6. DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE SITES FOR FUTURE DESIGNATION. + Action: Mr. Abramson said that we should consider the Rascal House Sign as a designated historic site in Sunny Isles Beach. He said it has been there since 195,4, and everyone knows of the Rascal House. Mr. Chernoff noted that at the last meeting Joe Masters had said if you try to take it down it may fall apart and he had suggested just designating a photograph of it. Chairperson Del Monico said if there are any properties that the staff' Mr. Schulman and Mr. Udoff, feels are eligible for historic designation to prepare a file and 'give it to Deputy City Attorney Ottinot for review, and then present it at the next Board meeting. Mr. Abramson said that artifacts is the subject that the Sunny Isles Beach Civic Cultural and Beautification took on, and as a result of the Trust's efforts, we had the horses donated and are now in Gwen Margolis Park, and there were several other items that were eligible. He said that Mr. Schulman was instrumental in preparing all of those as well as gathering all the pictures of the 50's and are in fact making up the Wall of History at the new City Hall. He said he feels that these artifacts should be part of the consideration for this Board. Chairperson Del Monico said we are very lucky to have Mr. Schulman on our staff, but again she asked Deputy City Attorney Ottinot what the purview of the Board is. Ms. D'Arbelles asked if Epicure Markets is aware that there is discussion regarding making the sign at Rascal House historic, and Mr. Abramson said that they are aware of it. Ms. D'Arbelles noted that there is a house in South Carolina that was donated to the City by its owners, and Deputy Attorney Ottinot noted that Richard Nixon's house in Key Biscayne was recently sold and knocked:down, but if there would have been a Board there, it would have saved the house and designated it as historic. 7. NEW BUSINESS: Action: Chairperson Del Monico asked if there was any new business and Ms. Gabor asked about designating a building as historic, and Chairperson Del Monico said that once a building is designated historic then it falls under a more stringent set of zoning requirements. Mr. Chernoff suggested to get a developers okay to place a plaque in front of a site,ifor instance the Ocean Summary Minutes 2004-0726 HPB Mtg Page 13 of 5