Historic preservation commission.

Tonight's meeting will be conducted virtually due to the ongoing health emergency.

Members of the Commission, staff, and applicants will all be attending the meeting remotely.

The complete proceedings will be televised on Channel 99 in the city's website.

Public comment will be accepted on each agenda item.

Those wishing to make public comment will be asked to call 301 600 1213 during the staff presentation of the item that they would like to make comment on.

Your call will be answered in the order that it was received and will be transferred to the live feed of the meeting accordingly.

Each person wishing to make public comment must state their name and general address, and then they will be sworn in by the chair before providing testimony.

For applicants, please join the meeting while the case immediately before your item is being discussed.

When we call your presentation after the staff report, please announce your name as well as those members of your team present this evening.

At that time, I will read the oath, and each member of your team should state their name and signify I do.

Thereafter, all members of the team not speaking should mute their microphones.

After your item has been voted on, we ask that you promptly leave the meeting.

The technical qualifications of the commission and staff are on file with the City of Frederick and hereby made a part of each and every case tonight.

The City of Frederick Historic Preservation Commission uses the guidelines adopted by the mayor and board of aldermen and the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Rehabilitation published by the National Park Service, U.S.

Department of the Interior.

These guidelines and standards are hereby made a part of each and every case and are applied as appropriate.

All cases were duly advertised in the Frederick News Post in accordance with Section 301 of the Land Management Code.

It is the purpose of the Historic Preservation Commission to safeguard the historical and cultural heritage of the City of Frederick by preserving sites, structures, or districts that reflect elements of cultural, social, economic, political, archaeological, or architectural history, to stabilize and approve property values of such sites, structures, or districts, to foster civic beauty, to strengthen the local economy, and to promote the preservation and appreciation of such sites, structures, and districts for the education welfare of the residents of the City of Frederick.

I'll now take the official role of commissioners this evening.

Commissioner Alby.

Commissioner De Picro.

Commissioner Hart.

Commissioner Hart present.

And Commissioner Soller.

Commissioner Soller, present.

In order to be eligible to vote on an application, a member of the Commission must have made the requisite site visit and attended any and all meetings at which such application was discussed.

In the event that a member is absent from any such meeting, the member must have reviewed the minutes and listened to the tape recording thereof in order to vote on the application and must enter into the record an oral written statement that he or she has reviewed the minutes and listened to the tape recording.

At this time, I will ask if there are any members of the commission that have a statement of eligibility or need to recuse themselves from any case this evening.

Also in supporting us this evening are Lisa Morasek Murphy and Christina Martinkowski from the planning department and Scott Waxter from the city's legal department.

At this time, I will conduct a swearing in of staff.

Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given and statements made in this hearing before the Historic Preservation Commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

If so, answer I do.

This is Lisa Morazick Murphy, I do.

This is Christina Martin Koske, I do.

Thank you.

And with that, we will move on to announcements.

Any announcements this evening.

Okay.

There are no announcements, so we'll move on to the approval of minutes from the January 27th, 2022 hearing and workshop.

Any commissioners wanting to make any edits to the hearing minutes or workshop minutes or willing to make a motion.

This is Commissioner Bailey, and I move that we approve the January 27th hearing and workshop minutes.

This is Commissioner Hart.

Thank you.

That's a motion by Commissioner Bailey.

Second by Commissioner Hart.

This is Commissioner Bailey, and I vote aye.

Commissioner Hart.

Commissioner Hart, aye.

And Commissioner Soller.

Commissioner Seller, aye.

And that is unanimous.

Moving on to HPC business.

The administrative approval report.

This is Lisa Morazic Murphy, and I just like to enter the entire administrative approval report into the record and note that we had four administrative approvals in January.

Thank you, Ms.

Murphy.

I would move that we approve the administrative approval report.

Commissioner this Commissioner Seller, I'll second.

All right, that's a motion by Commissioner Bailey, second by Commissioner Soller.