The Loudoun County Historic District Review Committee (HDRC) met on September 17, 2026, to consider two action items and one new business item. The major agenda item was a certificate of appropriateness application for a pavilion, hardscaping, and outdoor kitchen in the Goose Creek Historic District. The committee approved the application with a condition regarding stone veneer material. A rezoning application for the Unison Historic Overlay District was deferred due to the addition of approximately 200 acres of adjacent properties. The committee also approved the August 10, 2026 action summary.
With that, staff, would you please confuse meeting the application? Um I'm sorry about our last minute change of the the agenda. We got word this is warned that we discuss historic district. Apparently, several adjacent property owners are hoping to be added into the district. All are not actually in the application previously. As they've recently been doing more public outreach about the you know the guideline drafting meeting and um the rezoning process in general. That's exciting, but unfortunately, we it sounds like there's some more review that needs to be done since there's a whole extra 200 acres in the application than there used to be. So last minute change, but thank you all for your your flexibility there. So sorry. I was just gonna add um that the historic district guidelines component of the project. We're gonna keep moving that forward. So we're still having the community meeting on the 27th. I think um sorry that's listened to the community input. Well, it's probably told you we have uh a consultant that's looking on that. We need that conversation. So uh our only application agenda is uh second submission of last month's application. Mr. He's back here. Since CAP 2026, zero 10, Bali Rahim Partscaping Pavilion and Outdoor Kitchen, item 19184 Project Trust Report in the Greek Crete Historic District. Deferred to August 10th, 2026, the Each year of the meeting. Um, I think I've seen this. I think all of you were here last month, if I recall. Um this property, just over an acre in the meeting house farm subdivision, um recently approved. Subdivision relative uh in the Greeks Creek Historic District. There's a pool house that was approved in the rear yard um in 2023 by you all. Um, and the current proposal was buried at August 10th, 2026 meeting. Um the application is just under 3100 square feet of partscaping behind the existing dwelling with um a pre-cast paver patio with the path to the existing driveway, um steps from the existing first level rear door for the patio, fire pit with bench seating, outdoor kitchen feature, uh prefabricated over pavilion and fireplace, um, some low walls at the edge of the hardscaping area, and um the the there's been several changes here, um, but one is that the vertical elements of the application are now proposed to be clad in a stone veneer rather than recast material as previously proposed. Um it's proposing to change the pool house from its approval in 2023 in a minor way, it sounds like it's aware of the requirements there. Um say that again. Is the applicants aware of the requirements associated with uh modifying uh a previously approved cap approval? Um so the issues you all identified last time, as I understand, are um the design of the pavilion, the materials, colors, and roof form and pitch of that uh pavilion structure, um, the material selections for the uh surfacing elements, um, and and also the vertical elements, the application, and just general questions about your purview in this instance. Um, so the previous staff report took issue with the consistency of material choices of the post patio, outdoor kitchen, fire pit, and the design materials of the post pavilion. Um, it also identified uh concrete papers and the staff report itself, but the meeting discussion review they were actually more accurately could be described as precast, which exposes the same thing, but where you said I wanted to note that that was what the previous submission was. Um we didn't request a new zoning referral because the footprint of the application didn't change, so there are no new zoning issues for you all to be aware of. Here you are for context in the Greek Crete Historic District. This is a view of the facade of the property in question from within meeting house farms. Another view again from meeting house farms looking uh northeast. This is from the backyard looking at the rear of the structure where the post improvements are where the improvements are proposed. And telegraph springs is past where the house is and past where actually the further houses and the tree line are just another view of the backyard. This is a view of the um barn at the Isaac Nichols house property, which is uh something I didn't know at the last meeting is that it is fairly uh downhill from Meeting House Farms. Um they they don't see where I am right now. Um if someone were standing at that barn, they wouldn't see me taking this picture. Um, at least if I was exactly where the patio and other outdoor elements in this application are proposed. And this is the view from Telebranch Picture Road again. Um, this is the subject property here. So you can just just barely see the roof line, but most of the property you cannot see from the um storic right-of-way. Um, this is another just a series of views like I presented last month on the view from the I think's house property. You really won't see in trying to give you the most comprehensive look at you know how visible are these changes from the historic right of way and adjacent historic property. I've basically given you a series of you know snapshots from that historic property looking this way. Um there is one of them at which I think you might be able to see the proposed improvements, but I'm not sure you would see divert horizontal elements at all.