The Colorado Springs Historic Preservation Board met on June 2, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Room 701, 30 S. Nevada Ave. The meeting included communications on recent historic preservation milestones, approval of minutes and a consent calendar, and two presentations: the Palmer High School renovation project and the Historic Resource Survey Plan. No formal votes were taken on the presentations.
Go ahead, Paul. All right, good afternoon, and welcome to the Colorado Springs Historic Preservation Board meeting for June 2nd, 2025. The Historic Preservation Board is comprised of seven members appointed by City Council. To administer the Historic Preservation Code. Each member acts independently, carefully assessing all the evidence presented to make their decisions. Melissa, would you please do a roll call? Chair Lowenberg. Board Member Music. Present. Board Member Baumgartner. Here. Board Member Fitzsimmons. Present. Thank you. Board Member Potter. Board Member Beerbaum? Here. And Board Member Hines. Here. Thank you. We have six present. All right. Next, I don't see any changes to the agenda or postponements. So we would go right into communications with Mr. Bill Gray. All right. So this is Bill Gray, with the city planning department. These are communications for the board. Number one, just I think as a reminder, I already said that yourself muted. While we're uh in the meeting, uh you can unmute yourself if you're called upon. Um and a couple, I think very important or maybe the most important thing to announce is that city council approved the parkside historic district on uh May 27th. And I believe we have Cheryl Brown on line, so um wants to give Cheryl a big round of applause and all those strict um that uh I believe this is the first like area wide historic preservation overlay that the city has had in almost 25 years, so um a quarter of a decade. Um so uh we also at the May 27th um city council meeting. We recognized uh historic uh preservation month. It was attended by uh members of the historic preservation alliance, the historic neighborhood partnership. We had historic preservation board members, other um citizens that um uh supported historic preservation. Um pretty decent um uh I think it was a decent turnout for that um and city council um did um give specific recognition to um the two two two properties that were added to the national uh register of historic places um as part of that meeting and also we did recognize the parkside uh historic district at that meeting and then one just one last thing for everyone that's interested in uh what can you also continue to do to celebrate your history? Well, there's a pretty cool opening coming coming to the Pioneer Museum, it's until forever comes. It opens June 12th. So um, yeah, if you want to see something that has um that's been a long time coming and worked specifically with the city and the tribes um in the area, it's gonna be a pretty good pretty good exhibit. And that's all I have for the board. I have a couple things real quick. Thank you. So just a reminder to the board members. Um, next month's meeting will still be in this room. Hopefully, that will be the end of having meetings necessarily give back to 102, where it's a little more spacious. Um, but if that changes, I will let you all know. And then the second thing is I wanted to introduce Salange. She is our new senior business support specialist. So um after six months, I've got some help.