Good afternoon, everyone.

I apologize for being late.

Time is 1110.

Uh the colours meeting in order.

Uh wanna go to our left and do introductions.

Joe Carlucci, District 5.

Jimmy Palooza, District 7.

Chris Billings, Municipal Code Compliance.

Carlos Alvis of General Counsel.

Thank you all for being here.

This is meant to be a relatively quick meeting.

You know, Councilmember Carlucci, you were very kind in co-introducing this bill with

me.

This is incredibly important to our historic neighborhoods.

I believe you might have had um a thought on some kind of change or alteration.

And I want to make sure that, you know, for the purpose of getting this bill quickly through uh committees, because we've been working on it for the better part of a year.

I want to make sure that maybe we had a friendly amendment, added it on there and go.

Yeah, no, I appreciate the the question for that.

You're recognized.

Oh man, I appreciate it.

So yeah, I've been working with Michelle on it's a friendly amendment, but what I've what I found as I kind of was diving through the bill was um

a

lot of San Marco isn't historically designated, surprisingly enough, um, but it's also kind of by design, it's been a whole thing.

Um so if anything, it was just gonna be to add an exhibit with a a map that kind of draws in an area of San Marco and St.

Nicholas that says it's all of these areas plus what's in exhibit A, which is exhibit A would just be a map highlighting the certain areas in in my district.

That that would potentially fall into having these uh benefits.

Understood.

I I personally would love to see that.

I think the question was does HPC as a body have purview over those areas.

Um this is obviously going through HPC, and I just do we want Michelle to kind of jump in on that to verify or you're

I mean my my goal was it would fall in they would have purview as it pertains to this process.

Um they might not have purview in like other senses, maybe they like they do uh with certain other approvals that they give for demolition or improvements.

Um but if if they're going through this process to acquire a property that the city's foreclosing on, um, if San Marco Preservation wants to, you know, partake in a revitalization program like that's outlined in the bill, then they would have to go through the same process, um, which maybe if you can outline the process that HBC what is it?

HPC?

Yeah, historic preservation.

Yeah, what what is that process that they have for it right now?

Well,

right now identify.

Right now

there's nothing, right?

So

that's

the demolition by neglect um committee task force went through.

Hey, we think that it'd be great to have these kind of uh opportunities to make sure we can get these properties out of the hands of bad landlords and landowners who have just kind of consistently sat on properties.

When it came to um even Arlington as well, right?

Because we talked about Arlington and San Marco a little bit in some of our other notice meetings.

I think our conversation was well, one of the things we can do is if there is a property um that might be in danger

and

this and there's a lot of code violations or liens, the city might be able to take it and put a once it's in the city's possession, you can put a uh historic landmark status on it.

And now HPC does have purview over it.

So

that was something else that we kind of discussed.

And I, you know, Michelle, I don't want

to

pretend I'm a lawyer here.

I'm gonna throw it to you if you want

to

lawyer it up and tell us how you feel about that.

Oh, I agree with that.

Um that's that's the way it could work, absolutely, is an un designated structure.