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Landmark designation of 515 Cedar Street

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The property owner applied for local landmark designation of 515 Cedar Street. Staff found the application met the designation standards and proposed a recommendation of approval. On February 3, 2021 the Historic Preservation Commission voted 8–0 to recommend that the City Council approve the landmark. The council ordinance is not part of this record. The draft minutes were later approved as amended.

Documented status: Recorded step (recorded), Nov 3 2021. Evidence dated . Later outcomes require a later source.

What changed, and when did it take effect?

  1. · Committee recommendation · Recorded in draft minutes

    Historic Preservation Commission recommends landmark designation

    Meeting date: Feb 3 2021. Item D.2: the motion carried (8 to 0).

    • p. 2 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes - Regular Meeting Minutes of February 3, 2021 (Draft Minutes), Historic Preservation Commission, Mar 3 2021. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes - Regular Meeting Minutes of February 3, 2021 (Draft Minutes), Historic Preservation Commission, Mar 3 2021. Open the quote and source.

  2. · Proposed · Recorded in draft minutes

    Staff recommends City Council approval of the landmark designation

    Meeting date: Feb 3 2021. Address: 515 Cedar Street. Applicant: DONALD L. SITKIEWICZ. Address: 515 Cedar Street.

    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Landmark Status – 515 Cedar (Staff Report), Historic Preservation Commission, Feb 3 2021. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Staff memo of Landmark Status – 515 Cedar (Staff Report), Historic Preservation Commission, Feb 3 2021. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Staff memo of Landmark Status – 515 Cedar (Staff Report), Historic Preservation Commission, Feb 3 2021. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 1 · Draft minutes of Approval of Minutes - Regular Meeting Minutes of February 3, 2021 (Draft Minutes), Historic Preservation Commission, Mar 3 2021. Open the quote and source.

  3. · Other · Recorded in minutes

    Commission postpones discussion of the landmark plaque wording

    Meeting date: Nov 3 2021. Address: 515 Cedar.

    • p. 1 · Approved minutes of Historic Preservation Commission minutes, 2021-11-03, Historic Preservation Commission, Nov 3 2021. Open the quote and source.
    • p. 2 · Approved minutes of Historic Preservation Commission minutes, 2021-11-03, Historic Preservation Commission, Nov 3 2021. Open the quote and source.

What was requested, recommended, approved, contracted, reported paid and completed?

Amounts are read from the cited pages and added up by code. A recommendation, an award or an authorized amount does not establish that money was paid.

No amount is published for this item.

Contracts, payments and completion

No contract, payment or completion record is published for this item. Approval alone does not establish completion.

Which parcels, agencies, businesses and projects are explicitly connected?

Official identifiers and exhibit listings connect records. A name, an address or distance alone only suggests a connection.

No explicit connection is published for this item.

What remains unresolved?

No condition or deadline is published for this item. That is a limit of the published research, not evidence that none exist.

Open questions

No open question is recorded for this item.

What does the evidence suggest, and what would change it?

No conflicting records are published for this item.

Permits at this address since the first recorded event

No approval, award or execution is recorded, so permits are counted after the first dated event, Feb 3, 2021 (Historic Preservation Commission recommends landmark designation).

Computed by code from the building permits in the Park Ridge property release (the county permit feed), as of Nov 1, 2026. A permit shows that work was authorized, not that it was completed, and no permit recorded does not establish that nothing was built. A parcel matched by address is nominated by the address written in the record; that does not prove the record concerns it.

  • Matched by address: 515 Cedar Street

    515 Cedar St

    No permits recorded after Feb 3, 2021 through Nov 1, 2026.

  • Matched by address: 515 Cedar Street

    515 Cedar St

    No permits recorded after Feb 3, 2021 through Nov 1, 2026.

Official source records

  1. Approval of Minutes - Regular Meeting Minutes of February 3, 2021 (Draft Minutes)

    Historic Preservation Commission, Mar 3 2021

  2. Landmark Status – 515 Cedar (Staff Report)

    Historic Preservation Commission, Feb 3 2021

  3. Historic Preservation Commission minutes, 2021-11-03

    Historic Preservation Commission, Nov 3 2021

Editions and corrections

Each published change is a new edition. Corrections say what changed and why.

  1. Edition 2(current)

    Edition 2: 3 revised.

  2. Edition 1Read this edition

    First edition.

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Suggested citation: GroundSignal, “Landmark designation of 515 Cedar Street,” sources reviewed 2026-09-27, source records listed on this page.

Initial permanent evidence page published September 10, 2026. Follow the dated evidence above for later additions and changes. A source-check date alone does not establish a government action or project outcome.