The New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission (HDLC) met on August 12, 2026, at 1:00 PM in the City Council Chamber. The meeting, which covered a lengthy agenda from July and August, was chaired by newly elected Chair Jenny West. The commission addressed landmark nominations, consent agenda items, demolition applications, retention applications, and a special waiver of state legislation. Eight commissioners were present, constituting a quorum. The commission aimed to complete all items before a potential loss of quorum at 4:00 PM.
All right. Good afternoon, everyone. Um, we have quorum, so we're going to get started with the meeting. Let's go ahead and do roll call, please. Jimmy West, present, Jason King, present, Adaro Lewis present, Tim Wupin present, Ross Carson, absent, Annie Clark, absent, Annie Urban, present, Jim Ashby, present, Greg Hackenberg, present, Jennifer Green absent, Shawan de Pore present. That's eight members constitute the quorum. Welcome to the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission meeting of August twelfth, twenty twenty-six. We would like to thank you for attending and appreciate your support and cooperation with the HDLC. The HDLC is located in City Hall on the seventh floor at the city's one stop shop. Our mission is to safeguard the heritage of the City of New Orleans by preserving and regulating historic landmarks and districts which reflect elements of its cultural, social, economic, political, and architectural history. Once a C of A is issued, changes must be approved before work and commence on these changes. If you have any questions about our policies or procedures, we have a highly qualified staff ready to assist you. We ask that you pay attention to the following meeting rules. If you plan on speaking and are not the applicant, you must fill out a speaker's card and hand it to the staff before the meeting. All speakers must state their name and address for the record. Our meetings are televised and recorded. There is a two-minute speaking time limit. We ask that you turn all cell phones off or on vibrate. Phone conversations should be conducted outside of this room. And if your application is denied or there's a no action vote, you have 10 calendar days from the date of this meeting to appeal to city council in writing. And the staff will furnish you with the details of this appeals process. Thank you. I'd like to note we did not have a meeting in July, so we have a very lengthy agenda today. We are also potentially lose quorum at 4 p.m. today. So I've asked that our commissioners work very diligently to get through the full agenda for both July and August. We've asked that the staff shorten the reports as needed so that we can accomplish this, but we want to make sure that all projects move forward and can conduct and move forward in their business. Um just wanted to note that as we start. We'll ask that you kind of keep that in mind as well as you're making your comments so we can get through all agenda items. So with that, um item two minutes of the Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 meeting. Do we have a motion for approval? Commissioner King approves, seconded by Commissioner Poi, thank you. All those in favor, all those opposed. The motion carries unanimously. Um and at this point, we're going to move an item from the end of our agenda forward so we can hear it. Forgive me. This is under HDLC reports and communication. A waiver of amendments to LARS 254742 contained in the state bill 198. Um, sorry, 198. Um, Andrew, I'm gonna let you take it from here. So actually, we need to suspend the rules. Yes, thank you. We will need three motions to do this. So we need a motion to suspend the rules. Motion to suspend the rules. Uh, Commissioner Hackenberg, and I think I heard Commissioner Lupin. Thank you. Um, all those in favor? Great. Uh second is motion to hear it first, and then um to hear this item.