The Historic & Landmarks Preservation Board met on April 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM in the Common Council Chamber. The board approved the minutes from the previous meeting and considered one continued application for a Certificate of Appropriateness. A second agenda item was not taken up.
The meeting of the historic and landmark and preservation board. First agenda item is to approve the draft minutes for March 26, 2026's meeting. Were there any questions or concerns about last month's meeting? No questions. Motion to approve as drafted. I move. Second. Second. All in favor? I so minutes are approved. We are going to now call for a continued application for the assumption church with Father Astafon. Good afternoon, everyone. Nice to see you again. I'm waiting for the architect. I I don't know if he got delayed because of traffic or something. So we'll give him a minute. Pardon? We'll give him a minute. If you don't mind, thank you. I appreciate that. If not, I will try my best. No, that's fine. Thank you. Of course. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Sorry I was late. I'm stuck at the light over there, but um good evening. Um okay, so since the uh last month when we were here, uh you guys asked for uh additional information, and so uh the four sketches that we would prepared, um which again um just grab my glasses. The uh four sketches that we prepared basically uh spoke to uh some of the additional information that you wanted to see on the signage. Uh specifically, uh we simplified the corner sign and got rid of the uh the previous sign had said Church of the Assumption of Mary. Uh we got rid of the Vivaldi text on the fourth row, so to speak, and just simplified it to Church of the Assumption. Um I added a bunch of dimensions to um this drawing um so that you guys could start to see kind of the fabrication and the layout and get a real sense of how big it all is. Um so that was um uh SK one as we've uh titled it. Could I could I ask a question uh regarding these signs? Is there a backing material behind the letters or are they suspended across um those one half one half inch bars? It's uh basically uh pinned off of those bars, and uh the reason for that is uh because they are corner signage one of the things we wanted to absolutely make sure of is that we weren't creating a monument sign that you couldn't see through it from a safety perspective. Uh not that uh I'm sure it's not a real huge concern, but we just didn't want anybody hiding behind the sign, or probably more importantly, people coming into that intersection. Um we wanted the ability for them to see cars pulling out of our parking lot, cars uh coming up union into the first to have uh first street uh intersection. And so um ultimately uh that was the strategy, I guess, behind um yeah, uh PSK2. Thank you. Thank you for your clarification. Um and um I'm trying to pull up the second sketch that we prepared um so that you can see I actually included a mount or a picture of the pin mount signage. Some can you help us? Um so the second picture in from the uh left hand side upper corner up there basically shows you uh how a uh uh standoff pin mount uh sign works. And uh again, the idea is uh to make it as transparent, the the whole composition uh to make it as transparent as possible um so that um you know, like I said, we can see through it and other aspects of it. Um this sketch question not to interrupt you, but just to so I understand was that a request for it to be see-through, where that was you uh a design strategy to avoid some of these pitfalls that you um there was no request for that. That was just something that we did ourselves. Um, in the 30 years I've been doing this, um it's uh a pretty solid strategy in terms of applying signage to either a building or in this case, like I said, a monument sign um where you minimize the bulk and um kind of um massing of the whole element. Okay.