The Saratoga City Council on Nov. 5 voted to strip two houses of their heritage resource designations. The houses are located at 14650 Sixth St. and 19050 Camino Barco.

“This isn’t something I take lightly, removing it from that heritage resource, because I think it’s a really valuable thing we do as a city, and in general, that our residents work very hard to maintain,” said Mayor Belal Aftab of one of the designation terminations.

The house at 14650 Sixth St. is known as the Nardie house and was built in the Queen Anne style. It was added to the city’s Heritage Resource Inventory in 1988 because it met two of the listed criteria in the municipal code: embodying distinctive characteristics of style, type, period or method or construction and being a valuable example of the use of indige

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