(Santa Monica) City Council members make crucial decisions on landmark nominations, zoning constraints and incentives, and other matters affecting our cultural resources. To help our members and friends evaluate the candidates’ understanding and knowledge of their important role in historic … more
Image: The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Source: State Historical Preservation Office (SHPO) This Friday, August 2nd, the State Historical Resources Commission will vote on the Conservancy’s nomination to add the Civic Auditorium to the National Register of Historic Places! We urge you to support this … more
The Santa Monica Conservancy strongly supports the School District’s plans to modernize Santa Monica High School’s (Samohi) 100 year-old English Building for school uses. In historic preservation terms, the modernization plans are considered an “adaptive reuse” of the historic building … more
Important City Council Budget Session Tuesday, May 23 *Attend Meeting and/or Write to Council* Your Conservancy Board is very concerned about the negative impact the city budget cuts of the last three years have had on our Historic Preservation Program. These … more
The Conservancy would like to thank the 700 citizens who wrote to our City Council to successfully urge them to write a letter to the State Housing and Community Development asking that the Neighborhood Commercial zones not be upzoned as … more