Resolution 13679CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO 13 6 7 9
DESIGNATING DEL MONTE BUILDING CITY MONUMENT #28
WHEREAS, an application was made by Peter Wang to request that the City Council
designate Del Monte Building located at 1501 Buena Vista Avenue; and
WHEREAS, the Historical Advisory Board held a public hearing on this request on 4
December 2004 and acted to recommend that the City Council designate the building; and
WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing and examined pertinent documents on 3
February 2004; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Alameda makes the following findings;
The building reflects the broad cultural, political, economic or social history of the Nation,
State or City because it represents the modernization of the food canning industry in America
in its role as the central distributing warehouse for the California Packing Corporation in the
period if its greatest innovation and expansion.
2. The building is identified with a historic personage or important event is the main
currents of National, State or local history because it was a major element in the industrial
development of the north shore of Alameda in the 20th Cent,'
3. The building embodies the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural style because
it is a noteworthy example of 1920's industrial design.
4. The building is a work of a notable master builder, architect or designer because its
construction was associated with a notable builder, R.W. Littlefield.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Alameda finds
that this request is not a project as defined by Section 15378 of the California Environmental Quality
Act; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council designates the Del Monte Building at
1501 Buena Vista Avenue City Monument #28.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting assembled on the 3rd
day of February, 2004, by the following vote to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmembers Daysog, Gilmore, Kerr, Matarrese, an
Mayor Johnson - 3.
None.
None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF,I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
4th day of February, 2004.
Lara Weisiger, City C1
City of Alameda