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All right.

Well, welcome everyone to the historical and architectural review board meeting for today, uh, May 6th.

Uh, first on the agenda is a call to order.

Did that.

Uh, next on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please join me.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republicans.

One nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all.

Sorry.

Great.

Um, next on the agenda is the approval of the meeting minutes uh for the last meeting, which was April 2nd.

Um, do I have a motion to approve?

Motion to approve.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Great.

All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Great.

Approved.

And now we can get into the applications for board review.

Uh, first we have Harb 2026-07, uh, 124 Poplar Ave.

This is a two-car garage edition with a family room and deck area at the first floor level above the garage.

Um, so if you'd like to come up, uh describe your project, um, and we'll we'll go from there.

Sure.

Good evening.

Uh, so this is 124 Poplar and my clients, Louise and Charles Carrington.

And um, primarily the what they're looking to do is towards the back of the property and and house that's existing.

So I think you've probably all had a chance to look through the application, but the now this is turned 90 degrees, so probably not ideal on the screen, but basically all the context, and I just tried to very clearly locate from vantage point of what was shot um and looking around.

And you can see that the existing house, it's all kind of a buff to yellow kind of stucco finish, and um then there's a there's a little bit of clabber only in kind of the eaves and some of the um the enclosed porch, that sort of thing.

So basically the whole house is pretty uh homogeneous that way in terms of the finish.

So what they are uh looking to do, you know, some of this is gonna be vetted out with the zoning and um through the building process, but they have an existing non-conforming use.

So the civil engineers put together this plan which shows that they're rather close on the existing property and that side lot, and it's just ever so slightly getting closer to the side lot.

Obviously, they're never perfectly parallel.

Um, so our proposition is to offset it another 10 inches or more where there's currently a retaining wall of about four feet high because of the grading and stuff.

So that's where the garage would be, and it's basically at a at a basement level because of the way the grade really slopes down towards the back of the property.

And so functionally the two-car garage that we're adding, what's existing there, which you could see in some of the pictures, it's two separate garage vehicle doors, and it's just really difficult to navigate, um, and there's just not a lot of space in the inside either.

And so they're really trying to get away from some of that and have a side approach, just a single two-car uh garage door, and a little more of a paved area to give them the ability to turn around and that sort of thing.

And then above that, which you'll see in the elevations, and I can talk through the architectural plan, uh, a little more living space over part of the garage, and then a deck at the balance of it.

So let me go to the next page.

Uh let me see a little bit.

So what you're seeing is each of the floors, um, the bottom right is the attic, and I have that on the plan, but we're not really doing anything up there, um, but just for context.

So basically, you're seeing here all the way to the left, that's the basement level.

So existing basement, totally under underground, below grade, same with the kind of the second part.

So what you're seeing that front of the house, that's the original say 1920s structure, and then where it becomes more of that L shape off the back, all of that part was a 1998 edition.

And so we're just kind of taking that same approach and adding on to the 1998 edition, not touching anything really in terms of the shell beyond that.

And so we're seeing the two-car garage, and then at the main level, you're seeing the proposed family room over half of the garage, more or less, and then a deck on the other part.

We are shifting the stair.

So right now, it's rather inconvenient the way the first floor is laid out, and actually the second.

Real quick, I will say we have no.

Oh, okay.

I didn't know if you want context.

Great.

Okay, sorry.

Okay.

Great.