The City of Frederick Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) met on Thursday, November 9, 2023, at 6:00 PM in City Hall. The meeting included a public hearing, approval of minutes, an administrative report, a consent item, and a workshop on a proposed rehabilitation project at 337 S. Market Street. Commissioners unanimously approved the consent agenda and provided extensive guidance on the workshop case.
Good evening. Welcome to the Thursday, November 9th, 2023 session of the City of Frederick Historic Preservation Commission. 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 Rehabilit 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. I begin with introductions. On my left, the audience is right. We have filling in for our administrative assistant. We um the manager of community planning and urban design, Brandon Mark, and we have Commissioners Blair Wilson, Eva Soller, myself, Commissioner Robert Van Renz, Commissioners Paul Fitzgerald Ann Hart, and then Historic Preservation Planner Christina Martin Koske, Assistant City Attorney Michael Fry, and Aldermanic liaison Donica Zomczek. Anyone who has business before the commission this evening, please rise 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 Commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so, answer 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 sites, structures or district, 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 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. It is presumed if a commissioner makes no statement at this time that they have done so and are prepared to vote on the agenda this evening. That being said, are there any commissioners with statements of eligibility? Seeing none, let's move on. I I do have one actually. No, those have been processed based on the commission's findings at the last meeting. All right, thank you. All right. Um let's move on to approval of minutes. Minutes from the October 26th, 2023 hearing. Commissioners, any need for any questions or need for corrections in those minutes. All right, can I get a motion? I'll move that we approve the hearing minutes from the Historic Preservation Commission meeting held on October 26, 2023. I'll second. All right. All in favor, please raise your hand. All right, that passes unanimously. Thank you. All right, moving on to HPC business. Uh the administrative approval report. Ms. Martin Koskey. Yes, uh, at this time I'll just want to note that uh 22 uh administrative approval uh re excuse me, administrative approval applications were processed uh last month. Thank you. All right. And then moving on. Oh, and we so the next item there was withdrawn. So moving on to the consent agenda. HPC 22-495 15 West Church Street. Ms. Martin Koske. So this is um a yes or no yes or no vote uh without need for further disc uh uh discussion. Um and it's to uh seek approval for 15 West Church Street to uh construct a uh column callumbarium um the materials that are uh requested to be approved as the written scope of work, the product literature, drawings and rendering some photographs of existing conditions that was provided to the commission.