Good evening and welcome to the excuse me the uh Thursday, February 8th, 2024 session of the City of Frederick 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 the board of Alderman and the City of Int 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.

Introductions currently missing at the moment is our fill in for our administrative assistant who is on her, I guess her last day today.

Shannon Piles filling in for her is um is Brandon and then Commissioner Blair Wilson, uh Commissioner Eva Soller, myself, Commissioner Robert Van Renz, Commissioner Paul Fitzgerald, Commissioner Ann Hart, Historic Preservation Planner Christina Martin Koskey, and Assistant City Attorney Iris Anand.

All applicants and authorized agents, any member of the member of the public who wish to speak tonight must be sworn in.

Please stand if you are able.

Thank you.

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 districts, to foster civic beauty, to strengthen the local economy, and to promote the preservation and appreciation of such 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 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?

All right, seeing none, uh moving on.

Any announcements this evening?

No, none tonight.

Thank you.

All right.

Um approval of minutes.

Minutes from the January 25th, 2024 hearing and workshop.

Commissioners, any concerns about those mini meeting minutes or requests for amendment to them.

All right, seeing none.

Mr.

Chairman, I move to approve the hearing minutes and the workshop minutes from Historic Preservation Commission hearing on January 25th or what's the date?

January 25th, 2024.

And I second.

All right.

Any discussion?

All in favor, please raise your hand.

And that passes unanimously.

Thank you.

Moving on to the administrative approval report.

Ms.

Martin Koske.

Yes, I would like to enter the entire administrative approval report into the record, and I'll just note that we have uh 19 uh uh staff level approvals for this month.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, I didn't catch how many I should read and slow down.

Uh we have 19 uh staff level approvals to note for this last month.

Thank you.

Uh all right, commissioners.

Uh moving on to uh we have no do we have excuse me um okay here we go uh sorry um so we have no consent items and no continuances.

No, but we do have under HPC business uh request for demolition review all right.

So I want to enter the entire memo into the record.

So this is a request for demolition review at 7518A North Market Street.

Now a request for demolition review um for this building, staff has determined that the structure isn't whole or in part 50 years of age or older.

Based on this evaluation, the Historic Preservation Commission is charged with determining if the property is potentially eligible for the national register or or for our local designation based on this national register criteria.

In the memo I outlined the the designation criteria, and this includes things being such as being uh associated with uh an important vents or cultural groups uh being a fine example of um architecture embodying distinctive characteristics of a type or method of construction, uh representing the work of a of a master, architect, or designer, producting really high artistic value, items like that.

Now, when doing the research, I found that the dwelling here at 7518A, North Market Street, was constructed in 1959.

Property records suggest that the building was constructed by Mary C and William N.

Baum, who purchased the property the year prior.

The building remained under their ownership, and the couple uh remained under the ownership of the couple until their death in 2005 and 2008.

The structure retains a good degree of historic integrity, maintaining elements of its original location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, failing, and association.

But it lacks a high degree or high level of architectural significance.

Research has not indicated that the property holds significance for an event or cultural group, nor was any information found to indicate that it is associated with the lives of significant persons.

Therefore, staff finds that the property is not individually eligible for designation and recommends that the commission not pursue a designation application in this case.

And with that, I'll take any questions.

So just to sum up, um, my understanding is that the only criteria under which this is even being considered is that it it meets the 50-year-old threshold.