On August 5, 2026, the Radnor Township Historical & Architectural Review Board (HARB) met in the Radnorshire Room, considered eight applications for certificates of appropriateness, and unanimously approved each. The board also approved the July 1, 2026 meeting minutes. The next HARB meeting is scheduled for September 2, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.; applications are due by August 18, 2026.
And as a call to order. Did that. Next is a pledge of allegiance. Join me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Great, thank you. Next we have the approval of meeting minutes for July 1st, 2026. Motion to approve. So seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. And now we can get into our applications for board review. We have eight applications tonight, which is by far the most that I've ever seen for any single meeting. So when you come and present your project, I ask that you please be succinct. Only focus on those aspects of the project which can be seen from the outside. So that's just not part of the discussion for us. With that, let's begin. First, we have Harb 2026-17, 319 Luella Avenue. Yep, come on up. And then Lisa, is everything loaded onto the laptop? Or how are we just doing projection tonight? We can have anything from that. Sure. Okay. I just I know we've been doing lap. So they can use the overhead rejecting. Let's just go back to using the overhead, uh, unless we feel differently. Go ahead. So we have a copy of what was submitted. Oh, yes, we all have copies. I am Chris Berg from Poly Homes. We are the general contractor for the project on behalf of the property owner. Richard Buchanan, Archer Buchanan Architecture. So the um a little background where he's getting organized. This is a Horace Trumbauer house, um, which uh member of our team had renovated 25 years ago. And uh we've been asked by uh prior client who's now purchased the home and uh to look at a couple different things. Um exterior finishes to refresh the outside, um, but I think from a HARB perspective, the concerns are um changes to the outside of the building, um including a first floor bay window, and I'm gonna switch places for you. Um we're um adding a bay window here that is directly below a bay window there so that there's uh on no to the rear elevation of the home. Correct so facing the pool area um and then we're also in this area enclosing an existing porch. So here you see the that porch exists, but presently there's a set of steps down to the garden which we're replacing with this, and then we're adding a glazed interior or enclosure with a fireplace in that space. Um revision of the pool area and addition of about a 400 square foot pool house in keeping. And that's the project correct. Oh, actually, quick question. Is the do you have the pool house sketched or rendered? The pool house at this stage is shown just as a footprint completely behind the house. Uh we haven't designed the pool house, it's gonna be a it'll be back. They'll be back.