Buena Park : Plans for Historic District Advanced
Plans to create a historical district near City Hall are moving closer to becoming part of Buena Park’s future.
The City Council, acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency, this week approved plans to move two historic homes to a new site on Beach Boulevard and to demolish buildings now located on the property at a cost of $10,000 to $16,000.
The agency has bought property at 6621 and 6631 Beach Blvd. for the relocated homes, both currently situated at a city park site on Manchester Boulevard near Beach Boulevard.
May Wong Hui, assistant director of development services, said tenants of the Beach Boulevard property will be relocated next month. The homes are scheduled to be moved in mid-May, she said.
The homes are being moved to accommodate the expansion of the city’s auto center, in which a Toyota dealership will relocate to the Manchester Boulevard property.
It is expected to cost $570,000 to move the Whitaker-Jaynes home, built in 1887, and the Bacon House, a squatter’s shack built in the 1850s, and to acquire and make improvements to the historical district site. Redevelopment agency money will pay for the project.
In a separate action, the City Council adopted an ordinance to change the park use of the present Whitaker-Jaynes site to an economic development use, namely the auto dealership.
Under redevelopment law, the city is required to find replacement property for the land converted from park uses to economic development.
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