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• with and because obviously they are not going to want to see a structure sitting on a leasehold that has a finite term being designated as historic which means that they are going to be stuck with it after the term of their lease is over, so that is something that we should understand as we are going forward. Mayor Edelcup said one of the things you need to decide also is, is it worthy of consideration, and Chairperson Del Monico said that was her next question to Richard and to the City Attorney, what are the points for historic designation on this property. 'She said it needs to be clearly defined and presented to the Board at the next meeting, a poirit by point presentation. She noted that in the file there are guidelines for doing this, the process you need to go through in order to present formally a property for designation to the Board andtit would give you certain points that you basically check off or acknowledge that yes this exists,;etc., and this is why we think it should be, and until we have that we really shouldn't do much more because we really don't know, we know it is maybe 50 years old, but that alone is not enough to make something historic worthy. Mr. Schulman said that there are historic criteria that have been printed in the paper, and he presented an article that was published in the Wall Street Journal 'last week, and read a paragraph: "Local criteria for designation varies. Usually, codes draw on guidelines from the Secretary of the Interior, which say landmarks should have characteristics that individually or collectively represents historic or artistic significance, or are related to important historic people or events. Different cities have their own twist." Chairperson Del Monico said that you have that and you have the Federal Guidelines because we each got a copy of that at one point. She said to take that and go through it and determine what it is that you believe this particular property's characteristics it possesses that make it worthy for historic designation, and then present that to the Board: Deputy City Attorney SaintVil-Joseph said that was correct, and in addition, the Ordinance lays out specific procedures in Section 4 that we need to follow in order to properly dedicate this site. She said that she was able to contact the County and spoke to David Hertzberg'and he has advised her that the County has initiated a County-wide survey to assist in identifying certain properties that they will eventually propose as historic sites and that they have already completed Phase I of their projects and that included blighted and low-income areas which did not include Sunny Isles Beach. She said however, that Phase II will include Sunny Isles Beach and once they have concluded their survey, they will then share their findings with usdif we are inclined to use their findings. Chairperson Del Monico asked if they had a timeline on that because the last time she spoke to them about a year ago, they told her that Sunny Isles Beach would be at least 5-7 years out in their survey process. Deputy City Attorney SaintVil-Joseph said according to Mr. Hertzberg, he has indicated to her that Phase II is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007. Chairperson Del Monico said that it is a terrific tool, and that they haven't done that in about 20 years, although she doesn't know if it will help with the Strand at this point just because it is a couple of years out and she doesn't know if the Board wants to wait that long. It was mentioned that if you decree an historical site that the property would be devalued, what would make it devalue and would that affect the fact that it be designated an historic site. Chairperson Del Monico said that she doesn't think that that is a good topic for our Board because we are not involved in that and if you start doing that, you are acknowledging that historic preservation in some way takes away property rights, and it has been constitutionally Summary Minutes 2006-0328 HPB Mtg Page 4 of 6