Sep 24, 2024 Landmarks Commission

[CALL TO ORDER]

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>>> WE CALL ORDER. THE COMMISSION DEFINED WITH A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS AND HISTORIC PROJECT TAX REDUCTION CASES. HOWEVER, IT ACTS ONLY AS A RECOMMENDING BOARD THE PLANNING AND COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL ON MATTERS OF HISTORIC OVERLAY. REGARDING CERTIFICATE OF MAY BE APPEALED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION BY WRITTEN REQUEST THE PLANNING DIRECTOR. NO LATER THAN 15 DAYS -- THE 10 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THIS MEETING. OUR OVERALL PURPOSE IS TO ADMINISTER THE PROVISIONS OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, SECTION 2, 344 FOR THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION FOR THE LOCAL HISTORIC PROPERTIES. THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM UNDER DISCUSSION BY THE LANDMARKS COMMISSION AFTER RECEIVING RECOGNITION AT THE CHAIR. SWITCHING TO BE HEARD, APPROACHED THE PODIUM AND STATE YOUR NAME AND PURPOSE FOR THE HEARING. EACH SPEAKER IS ASKED TO LIMIT THE PRESENTATION TO NO

[1. Minutes: Receive a Report, Hold a Discussion and Public Hearing, and Take Action on Minutes from the Regular Scheduled Meeting Held on August 27, 2024.]

>> I WILL MAKE A MOTION. >> SECOND.

>> ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES?

>> AYE. >> ANYONE OPPOSED? THE MOTION

[2. CA-2024-05: Receive a Report, Hold a Discussion and Public Hearing, and Take Action on a Request for Certificate of Appropriateness (CA) for the following improvements located at 601 Sayles Boulevard: Replace and install rain gutters on the main residence Install rain gutters on the carriage house – including soffit repairs Mortar repair – including demolishing small northside wall and rebuilding it exact]

>> THEY SAID THIS ONE IS DEAD. DO I HAVE EVERYTHING? JUST PRESENTED AS YOU NORMALLY WOULD. HOLD IT A LITTLE BIT CLOSER AND IT WILL PICK UP. THE REQUEST IS A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE FOLLOWING IMPROVEMENTS. TO REPLACE AND INSTALL RAIN GUTTERS ON THE MAIN RESIDENCE, AND STORING GUTTERS ON THE CARRIAGE HOUSE INCLUDING SOFFIT REPAIRS AND MORTAR REPAIRS INCLUDING DEMOLISHING AND RECONSTRUCTING A SMALL NORTH SIDE WALL. LOCATED AT 601 SALES BOULEVARD. THE COUCH WAREHOUSE IS A ONE-STORY VENEER OF RESIDENCE FEATURING A BOXY PLAN AND LOW PITCHED GABLE ROOF. IT INCLUDES A REPORT WITH A SECONDARY GABLE ROOF. IT IS SUPPORTED BY SQUARE COLUMNS WITH CAPSTONES. IT INCLUDES A SOLID BALUSTRADE WITH CAST COPING. THE CARRIAGE IS ALSO LOOKING AT THE REAR OF THE PROPERTY. HERE, WE HAVE THE LOCATION MAP. AS WELL AS AN AERIAL MAP. AND WE HAVE THE ZONING MAP, THIS IS OWNED SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND IT DOES HAVE HISTORIC OVERLAY. WE ATTACHED IT HERE OUR PHOTOS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. YOU CAN SEE THE MAIN RESIDENCE AS WELL AS THE CARRIAGE HOUSE LOCATED ALONG THE ALLEY. AND HERE IS A HISTORIC PHOTO OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. AND WE HAVE THE PROPOSED GUTTER INSTALL REPLACEMENT COLORS, AND IT WILL BE THE 007, THE CLASSIC CREAM, WHICH IS THE FIRST ONE ON THE

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TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. >> ARE THERE ANY PHOTOS OF THE

WALL THAT NEEDS REBUILT? >> THERE IS SOME IN THE PACKET.

THE APPLICANT PROVIDED MORE DETAILED PHOTOS, BUT IT IS -- YEAH. SO WHERE THE BLUE WATER HOSE IS, IT IS THAT PORTION OF THE WALL RIGHT THERE. YEAH. YEAH, AND SHE DID PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PHOTOS IN THE PACKET.

>> NICE. >> ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?

>> OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE THE STAFF REPORT. IF THERE IS ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE OR THE APPLICANT WOULD LIKE TO COME UP AND SPEAK, COME UP AND SAY YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO.

STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE.

>> MY NAME IS MARIE DAVID. I MET 601 SALES. I WOULD LIKE TO DO A LOT MORE, BUT WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE SELLER. SO THE RAIN GUTTERS ARE IMPORTANT TO KIND OF PRESERVE THE FOUNDATION. AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE ARE GOING TO START. I DID HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE LOOK AT THE FOUNDATION WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT RECOMMENDATIONS. I HAD A STRUCTURAL ENGINEER LOOK AT IT. HE SAID IT LOOKS GOOD TO HIM, SO I THINK THAT PRESERVING THE RAIN GUTTERS IN THE DRAINAGE AROUND THE FOUNDATION IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW.

>> SO THERE'S GUTTERS ALREADY ON THE HOUSE?

>> THERE'S SOME ON THE FRONT IN THIS AREA, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE CARPORT AREA , WE NEED EVENTUALLY TO DO THE CARPORT.

IT HAS A LOT OF CRACKS IN IT WHERE IT MEETS THE FOUNDATION THERE. IT MAY BE THAT THE WATER THAT'S COMING OFF THE CARRIAGE HOUSE ON THE BACK AND OF THE CARPORT AREA, AND GOES RIGHT TO THE POLLS AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE. WE WANT TO DIVERT THAT WATER TO SEE IF IT DOESN'T MITIGATE THE EROSION THERE. AND YEAH. SO THERE IS NO RAIN GUTTERS IN THE CARRIAGE HOUSE.

NO RAIN GUTTERS ON THE BACK OF THE HOUSE OR THE SIDE. ON THE

SIXTH STREET THERE. >> I WOULD BE THE NORTH SIDE OF

THE HOUSE? >> YES, THE NORTH SIDE.

>> THE GUTTERS THAT ARE ON THERE ARE CREAM-COLORED

ALREADY. >> YEAH, IT PRETTY MUCH MAXED

IS EXACTLY WHAT IS UP THERE. >> ARE YOU REPLACING THE MOMENT

OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE? >> THOSE ARE PROBABLY FOUR INCH GUTTERS, WE WILL PUT THE SIX INCH. IT'S A BIG ROOF. TO CATCH IT AND PULLED AWAY FROM THE HOUSE. THANK YOU FOR ENGAGING IN THIS. MIGHT BE INSTALLING FRENCH TRAINS, OR IS THAT AT A LATER DATE?

>> YEAH. >> TELL US ABOUT THE REBUILDING OF THE WALL. YOU SEE WHERE THAT PORK SWING IS, YOU SEE THE TOP STEP, IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY AT SOME POINT IN TIME DID SOME CONCRETE WORK. FROM THE DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS THAT WERE TAKEN, LIKE THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE IS ACTUALLY HIGHER THAN

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AND SO, THE MAN WHO IS DOING THE MORTAR IS GOING TO COMPLETELY REBUILD IT WITH THE SAME BRICKS. GOING TO TRY TO MATCH THE MORTAR THAT IS ALREADY THERE, BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE OLDER PAIRS WITH THE GRAY MORTAR DOES NOT MATCH AT ALL. SO WE WILL GO AROUND AND CLEAN THAT UP AROUND THE WHOLE

HOUSE. IN THE BRICK. >> WILL YOU DO THE PHOTO WITH THE BLUE WATER HOSE OR THE RIGHT AND LEFT HAND SIDE OR

JUST ONE SIDE? >> LET'S SEE, IT'S -- YOU CAN ONLY SEE LIKE THE FRONT OF THAT. THE WALLS THAT ARE -- LET'S SEE, IS THAT PARALLEL? WITH THE MAIN HOUSE? THOSE ARE INTACT. THEY ARE FINE. UP TOP, EVERYTHING IS FINE. IT'S JUST YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE WAY THE GROUND SINKS AROUND THERE. SO THAT THE WALL JUST ON THE EDGE OF THE STEPS IS KIND

OF LEANING. >> GO, IT'S THAT WALL. OH.

OKAY. I THOUGHT WE WERE KIND OF TAKING APART THE HOUSE WALL.

NOW I UNDERSTAND, YEAH. IT IS THE ONE RIGHT NEXT TO THE STEPS. OKAY. GOODNESS, I'M GLAD YOU EXPLAINED THAT.

>> IF YOU BUILD IT, IT SHOULD GIVE YOU ANOTHER 50 YEARS IF YOU GET THE BALANCE TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER COLOR TO

MATCH A LITTLE BIT. >> YEAH, YEAH, HE SEEMS TO KNOW

WHAT HE IS DOING. >> THE LOWEST STEP, TREAD HAVE TO BE REPAIRED, AS WELL. LOOKS LIKE IT'S A FOUNDATION ISSUE.

TREAD LOOKS LIKE IT'S CRACKED THROUGH TO THE BOTTOM.

>> THAT'S GOING TO BE ANOTHER PROJECT. HE CAN FIX THE WALL WITHOUT BECAUSE THE STEPS ARE PRETTY MUCH LIKE THAT IN THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, THEY ARE IN REALLY NICE SHAPE. I THINK IT'S IN THREE PIECES. I CAN PROBABLY SEE ABOUT GETTING AN ELEVATED TO COME UP TO THAT, BUT THEN WE STILL HAVE THE ISSUE. THAT WOULD BE REALLY HARD TO PRIORITIZE I THINK RIGHT NOW. THE RAIN GUTTERS AND THE DRAINAGE SEEMS TO BE THE FIRST STEP IN GIVING IT A COUPLE OF YEARS TO COME BACK AND LOOK AT THE CONCRETE, DRIVE-BY, SIDEWALKS AND STEPS,

THAT'S ANOTHER BIG STEP. >> THESE HOUSES ARE QUIRKY AND THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FIXED.

>> WILL YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT ROSENBAUM SAID. SHE SAID IT'S A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE. SHE SAYS I WOULD BUY IT JUST THE WAY IT IS. REALLY WELL-BUILT DIRTY HOUSE. HE SAYS FOR ALL I KNOW, IT WAS BUILT WITH THOSE ELEVATION ISSUES. SO I DON'T THINK SO EXACTLY, BECAUSE IT CAN TELL BY THE STEPS, BECAUSE FOR THE MOST PART, IT'S REALLY A LOVELY HOUSE.

>> THAT HOUSE IS BEAUTIFUL INSIDE.

>> WASN'T THAT THE VAN DENTON HOUSE? ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS INSIDE, SO DON'T MAKE ANY APOLOGIES.

>> AND YOU ARE BUILT INTO THE HILL AND THE ARCHITECT KNEW HOW TO ADAPT TO THAT AND NOT TRY TO CHANGE THE ELEVATION, SO IT FITS IN TO THE WELL THERE. HAPPY YOU ARE ABLE TO MAKE THE REPAIRS YOU NEED. NOTHING MORE EXPENSIVE TO THE FOUNDATION.

>> YEAH, THANKFUL THAT YOU ARE TAKING CARE OF IT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? OKAY, THANK YOU.

>> YOU'RE WELCOME. DO WE HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS? OKAY, WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. IS

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>> THE ONLY CHANGE WE'VE GOT IS THE FOUR-INCH OVER TO THE

SIX INCH. >> FROM A DISTANCE, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD EVEN KNOW THAT.

>> GIVEN THE SCALE OF THE HOUSE, IT WILL FIT IN.

>> OH, YEAH, YEAH, IT'S A BIG HOUSE AND IT ALREADY HAS CREAM-COLORED TRIM, SO REALLY -- THAT IS A GORGEOUS HOUSE

INSIDE. DO I HAVE A MOTION? >> WE MAKE A MOTION THAT WE

ACCEPT CA 2024-05 AS WRITTEN. >> I SECOND THAT MOTION.

>> MR. JAN. >>

>> AND THE MOTION TO APPROVE CARRIES.

>> THANK YOU. AND WE

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.