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2. ADOPT a Mitigation Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) for the Mission Inn Booster Station Installation & Pressure Rezoning Project; and 3. APPROVE Planning Case PI 6 -0877 based on the facts for findings outlined in the staff report, and subject to the attached conditions, thereby issuing a Certificate of Appropriateness for the project. FACTS FOR FINDINGS: The Cultural Heritage Board and Historic Preservation Officer shall make findings of the following standards when applicable to approving or denying a Certificate of Appropriateness (Section 20.25.050 of the Riverside Municipal Code). FINDINGS: The application proposal is consistent or compatible with the architectural period and the character - defining elements of the historic building; FACTS: The proposed Mission Inn Booster Station utilizes features, materials, finishes, and methods such as faux stone, neutral colors, and natural landscaping to best blend with the natural open space setting of Loring Park. Massing and orientation reduce its prominence on the landscape. As designed and further conditioned, vegetation that screens both vertically and horizontally with mixed height and varied concentration of coverage in a natural growth pattern and color palette is selected over a manicured, sculpted, and excessively colorful look. FINDINGS: The application proposal is compatible with existing adjacent or nearby Cultural Resources and their character - defining elements; FACTS: The project incorporates design elements of the nearest Cultural Resources without creating a false sense of historiocity. Specifically, faux stone siding made of modern materials in a neutral tan finish seeks to blend with the natural stone and neutral palette of the nearby Buena Vista Bridge and stone wall along Mount Rubidoux Drive. The use of minimized massing, stone and ironwork detail, brown key stone block retaining wall, and natural landscaping also achieves harmony with the natural and historic features of the Mount Rubidoux Historic District and its varied architectural fabric as well as in the west residential end of the Seventh Street Historic District. FINDINGS: The colors, textures, materials, fenestration, decorative features and details, height, scale, massing and methods of construction proposed are consistent with the period and /or compatible with adjacent Cultural Resources; FACTS: Although faux, stone - stamped concrete rather than real stone is proposed, its use and that of wrought iron accents and fencing, faux wood and iron hardware, faux wood grain windows, partial red the roof, as well as compacted decomposed granite paving make these material selections and design choices both functional and compatible with existing historic features and materials throughout the Mount Rubidoux Historic District and Cultural Heritage Board — May 17, 2017 2 of 11 P 16 -0877