The Ocala Historic Preservation Advisory Board met on July 2, 2026, at 4:00 PM in Ocala City Hall to review three Certificates of Appropriateness (COAs) for historic district properties. The board voted to approve one COA, disapprove another, and approve a third with conditions, and also welcomed a new board member.
COA 26-0007 – 726 SE Third Street
COA 26-0023 – 216 SE 13th Avenue
COA 26-0024 – 722 NE Second Street
I did not see and maybe I'm not seeing it on here uh a gutter system, but has drainage and runoff been submitted as well. So in terms of the drainage and runoff, that I can't speak to. They wouldn't need to get their COA before they can get into that too far into the permitting process, but I think that that would be addressed when they have to go through the permitting um to be able to build the structure. Um and in terms of what percentage coverage of percentages. Correct. Um that is something that honestly would have to get with my planning colleagues to get a better understanding of in terms of what the coverage is right now. Okay. Um again, I can refer to the previous C way that was approved, and I'm with under the assumption that they reviewed it at that point, but I can't say for certain where this lands in terms of percentage of lot the lot coverage and and where this would be once this is built. The pad is poured, so technically this would not really change the coverage in terms of like ground coverage for the lot. Um if I think if the lot or the the ground coverage or if the the foundation, there we go. Um had not already been poured. Right, the setbacks have all have already been um have been approved, but they have expired. So this would require um a reduction or recommendation for a reduction of the setbacks um from eight feet to five feet and a reduction of the required rear yard and set back from 25 feet to three feet. Which is an eighty-eight percent from which option, which is quite substantial. It definitely is. Yeah. Um and we see for some of our um our historic district properties when they're doing additions or other types of work, even fencing, that root setbacks on uh a request for rear setback or reductions are are common because so many of the lots in our historic district are quite small, so it's it's not uncommon to see a request for a reduction in setbacks. Um but I do understand that that's still a concern and something we want to be. Yeah. Um and my and I and I do keep hearing, and maybe I can't find it anywhere, or I just didn't see it, and I apologize um if somebody wants to point it out. But I know you keep saying the comparable heights. I thought it was 18 feet. Maybe I'm incorrect, and I'm sorry, I apologize because I know this was at just under a couple inches under 26 feet. So is that is it? Again, this is something I'd have to get from my planning colleagues to be specific, but my understanding is that it may have something to do with the whether they're attached versus detached, and I think that changes the requirement in terms of height, but I'll let you uh Aubrey Hale planning director. So I I can answer a couple of those questions. So the uh with regarding to the build it it goes by building coverage, not lot coverage. So um building coverage uh generally for the city of Ocala is 35 percent for residential lots. Okay. Uh when we previously reviewed it, he's this is basically coming back with that existing going over the existing concrete pad that was previously approved through a building permit. It went through some maturations where they went were gonna do some changes ultimately they um the permits expired, so they haven't come back in and do it, but they're going back in. So the but building coverage is not would not be uh an issue in that with it that regard. And then um Charlita was correct. Since they're providing that attachment to the main structure, it's any kind of attachment, it still classifies that as part of the main structure, which it has a maximum height of 35 feet. Okay, it was a standalone structure um an accessory structure, then your max height would be 18 feet. So because of the uh breeze way that's being added or the yeah, so that's what changes the the foot. Okay. Okay. And now that now makes it part of the attached structure. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. Uh as far as questions, I don't have any other questions, but anyone else have questions for staff? I do not. All right. And um is the applicant or the representative here? No. No. Okay.