The Chapel Hill Historic District Commission (HDC) held its regular meeting on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Vice-Chair Brian Daniels chaired in the absence of Chair Don Tise. The commission voted unanimously on several consent items and new business, including a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) for 260 Glandon Drive and a recommendation to list the Coker Hills neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The commission also discussed the reception of Historic Preservation Month activities and plans for future outreach.
Good evening. Welcome to the uh January 13th Historic District Commission. I'm gonna get started by taking roll call. Uh Glenn. Present. Uh Josh. Present. Nancy. Present. Laura. Present. Uh and Don is not going to be here tonight, so I will chair, and I'm Brian. Um if you would please, uh Sharnika or Anna Scott read the procedures into the record. I'll now read into the record the following. The commission operates under NC General Statutes 160 D 940, which gives local governments historic preservation authority, and the Chapel Hill Land Use Management Ordinance, including Article 3, which establish the local historic districts and sets forth regulations governing them. And the Chapel Hill Historic District's design principles and standards, which sets forth standards for changes in the historic districts and the rules of procedure adopted by the Chapel Hill Historic District Commission, as well as the significance reports from all three historic districts and photographs. I also call to your attention each of the applications and associated materials in your agenda packet. All of these items are hereby entered into the record. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, and I will now read the public charge. The body asks the public to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner, both with the body and with the fellow members of the public. Should any member of the body or any member of the public fail to observe this charge at any time? The chair will ask the offending person uh to leave the meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should a decorum fail to be restored, the chair will recess the meeting until a gentleman commitment to this public charge is observed. Okay. Moving on to the next item on the agenda, uh approval of the agenda. I think kind of before we approve the agenda, I'm going to add one item to the end of the agenda this evening, which is the discussion of historic preservation month, which we have traditionally in the month of May asked the uh town council to approve. So we're gonna discuss that this evening. Does anybody have sounds good? Okay, that's great. Any other uh requests for changes to the agenda this evening. Okay, could I ask for a motion to approve the agenda in a second, please? Move the agenda to be approved as submitted with the addition. Second, thank you. Uh all in favor, if you would please say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, passes unanimously. Thank you. Uh announcements. Uh Kevin, did you want to take the mic? So hopefully uh you all have received and you should have, I think, in front of you an updated guide to quasi judicial evidentiary hearings and procedure. Should also have an updated motion script or example set of example motions. This is something that I've prepared and we try to update over the years, every year or so for for your benefit. The guide really is started out at one point as a very short guide. It's now become fairly lengthy and detailed, but it's a guide that kind of helps walk through some suggested approaches to quasi judicial evidentiary hearings, the development of a factual record, those sorts of things. Um so again, that's just for your benefit. Um read it, you know, take as much of it into account and implement as much of it as you'd like. Um this is your hearing, so you're not obligated to follow any of the recommended guidance in the in the guide.