So it is 545.

So you're going to call this meeting to order.

And we can start with attendance.

My name is Sydney Zuluk.

I represent Flemington City Council District Six.

I am here.

My flare name and that large representative on the council.

Well uh district four city council.

Um something else uh Jennifer Crossley.

I'm Drew Heron.

I'm a real estate agent at Remax Clay properties here in town, and I'm here to interview for the Historic Housing Commission.

Wonderful.

Welcome and thank you for being here.

I'll open the floor to my colleagues on level.

Questions.

Sure.

Yeah, thanks so much for your interest uh in your application uh for the historic preservation commission.

Um maybe we can start by just telling us a little bit more in your own words about like what interests you about the commission, uh why you decided to apply.

Yeah, so um I'll kind of give you a little background about myself a little bit.

So uh I've been in real estate for about three years now.

Um getting ready to get closer to four, and I've been um brought into the new construction side of everything.

So I feel like I've got a really good base on you know, new construction planning and everything and that sort, but then I'm lacking kind of the extra knowledge that would go into the normal historic side of everything.

So I decided to kind of diversify my knowledge and expand my knowledge as well on you know both sides of everything that way.

I can be kind of a well-rounded agent myself for my own business, but also get a better understanding of the uh community that we have here in country with a lot of different historic areas, and it's kind of nice to you and you're still in touch with that.

It seems like the state is as well from some of the research I've been doing that got different layers of historic commission or not commissions, but you know, zoning here independents.

Yeah.

Thank you.

My turn.

Yes.

Okay.

Uh great to meet you, Mr.

Heron.

So um have you have you attended any historic preservation meetings either virtually or or live?

Uh I haven't had a chance to be one live, but I did get to watch a portion of the last meeting that was going on.

So I got a kind of a base understanding of kind of recording in progress that is done during a commission meeting.

So it was uh I had to hear hear a lot about a retaining wall and uh about a 30 minute section of that.

So it was uh, but give me a good understanding of what to expect and also you know how we're helping the community either stay in line with the historic, you know, designations that are out there for certain homes and how to maintain that as well.

Well, good.

Um they had a lot.

I just I noticed their agenda they they had a lot on their agenda.

They had a lot of that was a two-hour and 30-minute meeting, it seemed like I didn't quite get through all of it, but I got a good understanding from there.

Yeah, every everything from you know, allowing solar solar panels to uh a certain gate, certain and so forth.

But there are some there's some major ones like uh demolition delay.

Yeah, and I'm you know, that's probably one of the you know you know most important things that was you know, powers that were given to the commission was the you know the delay and uh demolition to evaluate the the the home and and so forth.

Could could you give us a little feel for like what would you be considering?

Um delay process.

Two of the things that kind of stuck out, and it's still kind of the lines of demolition on two uh smaller aspects, not quite a full-size home itself, but one of them was a garage that was built on the side of a property that was in just disarray, it was really falling apart.

And the petitioner came in asking for it to be demolished, and then proposed a plan and how to reutilize that space.

And part of the reason that she was you know wanting to get the demolition done is because there were college students you know, running around jumping on top of it and then putting themselves at risk.

So putting risk on the property owners and also the college students themselves.

So having the power to give that demolition process, but then also she proposed inside her request to then use the same styling of limestone that was used to rehabilitate that small section.

How that we were gonna do it will kind of determine the overall look, whether that's you know, having a retaining wall and filling in that land just to extend the land overall, and then there was a question about you know parking, which was neither here nor there, but the safety part of it is what a big part of um what I enjoyed about that.

So that was a big part of um something I took out of that.

And the next one was it was um filling in a pool.

So an older uh lady, she's had a pool for about 40 years and uh her kids are gone, her husband's gone, and she was just kind of there by herself, and this pool is falling apart, leaking, and it's just not something that she can utilize anymore.

And it was also becoming a safety hazard for her because she can't swim.

She's on a walker, so if she would rather have it filled in and utilizes more of a green space rather than an empty pool in her backyard is kind of more of a hazard.

So things of that nature uh spoke a lot to me because it was more of a uh safety concern for people in terms of you know demolition of a full home, it just come down to you know how much of and disarray is the home is it too much of a safety hazard to be rebuilt from where it's at.

Is the foundation caving in?

Because if the foundation's already a huge issue, then you're gonna have a hard time keeping the main part of the structure in good shape until that's taken care of.