The Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) met on April 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM in City Hall, Frederick, Maryland, to conduct a public hearing and workshop. Commissioners Paul Fitzgerald (acting chair), Alyssa Fortune, and Ann Hart were present, along with staff from the Division of Historic Preservation. The meeting covered minutes approval, administrative reports, tax credit certification, and five hearing cases, followed by a workshop on two cases for a property at 200 E. Patrick Street. Key topics included partial demolition, additions, rehabilitation, and a pergola installation.
Administrative Approval Report: Staff reviewed and approved 18 applications administratively during the past month. Commissioner Hart requested clarification on line 11 (HPC25-58, a pergola and yard modifications at 32 E. Third Street), confirming that the pergola was being added, not removed. The report was accepted.
Certification of 2024 Historic Preservation Property Tax Credits (Group I): Staff presented the first batch of nine tax credit applications, representing an investment of $139,406.10 and a recommended credit of $28,592.78. The commission certified the batch (3-0), forwarding it to the Director of Finance. Remaining applications will be submitted in subsequent groups.
Good evening and welcome to the April 10th hearing of the City Historic Preservation Commission. There are I believe some agendas over on the table and maybe a sign-in sheet if you plan to speak tonight. If you want to put your name down, you don't have to, but it can help with making sure we get your name spelled right. The technical qualifications of the commission. I feel like I got a lot of feedback here. Uh 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 Secretary of 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. For introductions tonight, I'm Commissioner Paul Fitzgerald serving tonight with Commissioners Alyssa Fortune and Ann Hart from the city staff. We have the department manager for historic preservation planning, Miss Christina Markovski, historic preservation planner. And assistant city attorney Iris Arnan and Administrative Assistant Tanzi Craden. All applicants and authorized agents and members of the public who wish to speak tonight must be sworn in. If you would please stand as you're able. Thanks. In order to be eligible to vote on the application, the commissioner must first have made the required site visit and attended any and all meetings at which such an application was discussed. In the event a commissioner is absent from any such meeting, a commissioner may satisfy the attendance requirement by reviewing a record of that meeting. That being said, are there any commissioners with statements of eligibility? All right, we'll begin with announcements. Any announcements. Yes. At the end of this month, the City of Frederick and the Historic Preservation Commission in partnership with the Cebur Arts Library, Maryland Room, will be hosting a special event uh digging local, where we'll be exploring local archaeological investigations. Um that's going to be held on April 28th at 7:30 in the community room at the CIBAR Arts Library. Thank you. Thanks. Moving on to approval of the minutes. Any changes? Yes, sir. I have a couple of notes, please. On the hearing minutes, we'll start there. Section 7, cases to be heard. Item 7, HPC 25-53. The motion was made by Paul Fitzgerald. Yeah. I don't know who Paul Hart is, but I missed that one myself. Thank you. And then if I may go on to the workshop minutes. Items to be discussed. Items two and three, which were heard together. We work them together. And then under comments for those under the first bullet. Second sentence or first sentence where it says one tenth square foot, it should read 110 square feet. Under bullet two. On to the next page, bullet eight. A commissioner stated that with the replacement design or replacement plan design, the original footprint will not be lost. So that we clarify that it is also defined in bullet four, where there was originally 14 and a half feet, and the new opening will be 12 feet approximately. So that statement on bullet eight needs to be modified. And then on bullet 15, staff asked for clarification around the railing. Given the bullets just previous that it's difficult to discern, so we somehow need to add a statement there.