Have present all members except the vice chair uh Tom O'Neill who is in France.

Um we have Julie Pasteur, our parliamentarian, uh we have Rick Brown, we have Don Shoreman, JP Andrews, and Lucas Mason, and I'm Helen Aikman, the chair for 2026.

Um this evening uh we would we need to begin by adopting the meeting agenda.

Does anyone have any questions about the agenda or change changes that need to be made?

Otherwise, we can have a motion to adopt the agenda, please.

So moved.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion from JP Andrews and a second from Don Scheuerman.

All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed.

Okay, so the uh meeting agenda is adopted by a vote of six in favor and one absent, none opposed.

All right, the next item on the agenda is BAR member disclosures.

This is an opportunity for members of the BAR to disclose conflicts of interest or other conversations or items of information that they feel are relevant to the issues being presented this evening.

Uh I will recuse myself from TLHPBR 2026-0019 as I had a meeting with the applicant about a potential project, which I would have an interest.

Okay, thank you very much.

Anyone else have anything to disclose?

No, excellent.

Let's go forward.

The next item is petitioners and presentations.

This is an opportunity for folks who are here from the public to address items that are not on the agenda tonight.

As you know, we have one item on the agenda tonight, or at least in the way of cases, we have one item on the agenda, which is TLH PBR 2026-00199 Royal Street.

If there's anyone here who wishes to discuss for the board anything other than that, please come forward.

No one.

Excellent.

Okay.

So the next item is discussion of deferred cases.

The case we have, as I just said, is TLHPBR 2026-0019, which is the case of the House at 9 Royal Street Southeast.

And before the staff begins, I just want to lay a couple of things out tonight.

So first we're gonna hear from the staff, then we're gonna hear from the applicant, then we're gonna hear from the public because we have the public hearing still open.

Um, and then we'll have the board's deliberations, and I have we'll have some guidelines for the deliberations when we get there.

Um, and we'll see where, you know, we'll see where we end up.

One thing we're not going to have tonight is any back and forth conversation between the applicant and members of the public.

Everyone will when who comes forward to speak, the applicant and the public, you will be addressing the board or the staff as appropriate, but you're not to address the other side, if you will.

There are a lot of strong feelings in this case, and I just don't think it does any good to have back and forth at all between the applicant and and the public.

So the staff.

First, uh before you begin, I would like to congratulate you all on an exceptionally uh well-done staff report.

I think it was really extremely helpful, so thank you.

Thank you very much.

It was uh fun and stressful at the same time.

Um and a team effort.

So uh yes, as uh Madam Chair is saying, we're here for TLHPR 2026 0019 again for an addition, large accessory structure and site improvements at 9 Royal Street Southeast.

Subject property was constructed circa 1850-ish.

Um it is obviously a contributing structure to the old and historic district.

There's only one previously approved uh case that's never been completed of this size uh on the property.

It was to turn this single residential structure into um a slightly higher style duplex.

So the current proposal is to raise the historic roof height, a large two-story addition on the rear, wrapping the uh from the rear around to the part uh of the rear part of the left uh from porch alterations to bring that back into its historical accuracy, historic accuracy, a large accessory structure in the rear, and some site improvements.

Um again, I've been through this on a few times now because it's my favorite thing to do with a house.

Uh this is the history of its alterations, beginning in 1850 with its construction and all the way through 2026 as it is today.

Each of the alterations and additions are historic in their own right.

Um we have a just to be clear, according to your graph there, your your visual, the last before now, the last modifications to the structure were in 1930.

Between 1930 and 1937.

That's okay.

Go ahead.

And um as is stated in the staff report, um, there is quite a bit about this proposal that is actually appropriate for the guidelines, but all of that hinges on whether or not you guys want to approve increasing the roof height.

So keep just wanna, I'm gonna interrupt you a couple of times okay.

So forgive me, but they're appropriate taken individually and separately from each other.

It is not clear that they are approvable, just to be very clear about that.

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you.