Good evening.

I'd like to call to order the Thursday, October 26th, 2023 session of the Frederick Frederick City Historic Preservation Commission.

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

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

Department of the Interior National Park Service, and these guidelines are made a part of each and every case.

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

To begin with introductions, on my left, the audience's right, we have HPC Administrative Assistant, Shannon Piles, Commissioner Blair Wilson, Commissioner Eva Soller, myself, Commissioner Robert Van Rennes, Commissioner Paul Fitzgerald, and Commissioner Ann Hart.

And then moving on to city staff, we have Commissioner Commissioner Lisa Mrotchik Murphy, Assistant City Attorney Michael Fry.

Well, everyone with business before the Commission this evening, please stand up and be sworn in.

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

If so, answer I do.

I do.

Thank you.

Please be seated.

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 the cultural, social, economic, political, archaeological, or architectural history to stabilize and improve property values of such site structures or districts, to foster civic beauties, to strengthen the local economy, and to promote the preservation and appreciation of such site structures and districts for the education and welfare of the residents of the City of Frederick.

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

In the event that a commissioner is absent from any such meeting, the commissioner may satisfy the attendance requirement by reviewing the record of that meeting.

That being said, are any commissioners are there any commissioners with statements of eligibility?

All right.

Seeing none, let's move on.

If the city city staff, do you have any announcements this evening?

Um just one regarding item number four on the agenda.

Um HBC 231108 DR at 140 East South Street.

Um the applicant has requested a postponement of that item, which they can do under Section 423A 7 or 30 days after the original 15-day deadline.

Um so that's not something the commission needs to vote on at this time, but it'll it will be automatically postponed.

I'm sorry, I missed the last part of what we're doing.

It'll be just be automatically postponed.

Okay, thank you.

All right, moving on to approval of minutes.

The October 12th, 2023 hearing and workshop minutes.

Commissioners, any corrections or questions regarding those minutes.

And I'll second.

All right.

Any further discussion?

All in favor, please raise your hand.

All right.

And those are unanimously approved.

Moving on to HPC business.

Uh HPC 23-1106 DR.

Request for demolition review 136 East South Street.

Ms.

Martin Koskey.

Um, this request for demolition review is submitted per section 423A of the land management code for a dwelling and former garage at 136 East South Street.

Planning staff has determined that the structures are in whole or in part 50 years older older.

And based on this evaluation, the commission is charged with determining if the property is potentially eligible for individual historic designation.

The designation criteria from Section 423D are outlined in the staff memo.

For this property, it is identified as a contributing resource in the 2022 Frederick Historic District National Register nomination.

However, the former garage was evaluated as a separate resource and is identified as non-contributing to the historic district.

The property is situated on the former site of the BF Winchester Brickyard.

The area was platted into residential lots in 1894.

Sandborne maps indicate that the brick dwelling was constructed between 1897 and 1904.

The dwelling retains a good degree of historic integrity, maintaining many elements of the original design, setting materials, workmanship, feeling and association.

The non-contributing garage first appears on the 1922 Sanborne Fire Inturance map and has been greatly altered, although its general form has been retained.

This demolition review request was submitted as part of a larger group of nine applications and impacts the entire south side of the 100 block of East South Street.

Rather, the importance of the property is best interpreted as part of a broader historic context encapsulated in the Frederick National Register Historic District.

More specifically, the 1894 plates of the BF Winchester Brickyard and the nearby Clark Place illustrate the earliest expansions of the town grid, a precursor for early suburban development that took place in the the following century.

The loss of such a significant number of historic buildings negatively impacts the integrity of the National Register Historic District.

However, staff recommends that the commission not initiate an application for historic preservation overlay for either structure at this property through the demolition review process as it is not individually eligible for designation.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.