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Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.5 Cultural and Historic ResourcesThe procedure for establishing an HD Overlay Zone is similar to that required for designating ahistorical landmark or point of interest and includes recommendations by the HistoricPreservation Committee and Planning Commission to the City Council for consideration at noticedpublic hearings. After designation as a historical landmark, point of interest, or Historic District,future development that might have an impact on designated buildings, structures, or areas issubject to design review for compliance with any architectural and development guidelines thatthe City Council has adopted as a part of the designation process.The City has adopted the Mills Act, a state law that grants local governments the authority todirectly implement a historic preservation program to encourage the preservation and restorationof designated Historic Landmarks. In exchange for property tax relief, property owners agree tomaintain and preserve the exterior of their properties according to the Secretary of the Interior'sStandards for the Treatment of Historical Properties guidelines.d. Project Area Cultural Resources. Below is a discussion of historic properties andarchaeological resources within the Project Area.Archaeological Sites. Four archaeological sites are located within the Saticoy & WellsProject Area and are all located on the former Rancho Attilio, which is located in southernportion of the Project Area. The western half of Rancho Attilio has been sold and developedwith residential units. The orchards have been cleared from the eastern half of the property forfuture development of a Veteran’s Residential Care Center.CA-VEN-31. This site marks the remnants of the Chumash village Sa’aqtik’oy. Theoriginal springs that helped support the village are visible during the wet years. The site islocated within a swale on the Vanoni property known as Rancho Attilio. The swale was filledwith up to 4.5 meters to 6 meters of fill during terracing of the property in the mid-1950s. Theartifact assemblage observed by Dr. Charles Rozaire at that time included a complement ofprojectile points, scrapers, blades, drills, manos, mortars, pestles, bone awls, shell beads, andglass trade beads. Also, a limited subsurface testing program performed by Conejo in 1999identified a burial within CA-VEN-31. This area has been set aside as a Chumash Preservationarea. The Saticoy Springs and Chumash Indian Village Sa’aqtik’py site is the only VenturaCounty Point of Historical Interest located within the Saticoy & Wells Project Area.CA-VEN-32. This is a cemetery site located on a small knoll on Rancho Attiliooverlooking CA-VEN-31. At least four burials have been associated with the cemetery whichwas likely destroyed by bulldozing to prepare land for citrus trees. Conejo excavated ten testtrenches within CA-VEN-32 in 1999. All ten trenches were sterile of cultural material with theexception of one flake, further indicating that this site had been destroyed during the 1950sgrading.CA-VEN-33. This site was discovered on Rancho Attilio in 1931 during irrigationtrenching and consisted of 48 whole metates, 16 metate fragments, six manos, six mortars andbowls, 14 pestles, and three stone balls. This collection has since been lost after the artifactswere taken from the site and loaned to the Ventura County Courthouse for display in the 1930s.4.5-6City of Ventura