Northside - City of Riverside

V. METHODOLOGY
Methodology for planning and conducting the Reconnaissance Survey and Context
Statement for a Portion of the Northside project, which included an oral history
component, was guided by National Register Bulletin 24: Guidelines for Local Surveys:
A Basis for Preservation Planning and Instructions for Recording Historical Resources
(March 1995), and project deliverables were prepared in accordance with the
Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Preservation Planning, Identification, Evaluation,
and Registration, as applicable.
As the survey results and the identification of potentially significant individual and
district resources were primarily for use in local preservation and planning, JRMC
balanced historic preservation tenets with the purposes expressed in the City of
Riverside’s Cultural Resources Ordinance (Title 20, Ord. 6263 (1996), as amended).
This merge of historic preservation with community development planning
provides the basis for the protection of the City’s historic resources, while facilitating
the effective use of resources that are determined not significant under federal, state,
and local preservation law.
In May 2005, a comprehensive revision to Title 20 was initiated by the Riverside City
Council, and a committee was formed to evaluate the current ordinance and
recommend improvements. Because changes to the cultural resources ordinance
were not finalized prior to the completion of this survey, JMRC used the adopted
ordinance (Ord. 6263 (1996), as amended) for guidance in determining local
preservation goals and objectives and for evaluating extant resources within the
survey area (Appendix I).
VI.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Specific techniques outlined in National Register Bulletin 24: Guidelines for Local
Surveys: A Basis for Preservation Planning and Instructions for Recording Historical
Resources (March 1995) helped guide the practical conduction of fieldwork, the
organization of archival research, the completion of oral history sessions, the
development of the historic context statement, the incorporation of existing data, the
recordation of survey data, and the evaluation of historic resources. In addition,
JMRC applied techniques that have proven successful in past survey efforts to
complete the reconnaissance survey of a portion of the Northside.
It was anticipated prior to commencement of the survey that potentially significant
individual and district resources would be evaluated at all levels - National, State,
and local - using the criteria established for inclusion in the National Register of
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