Rockville Historic District Commission Meeting 10-2024 - December 19, 2024
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Rockville Historic District Commission Meeting 10-2024 - December 19, 2024
This meeting of the Rockville Historic District Commission (HDC) covered routine approvals, planning for the May Preservation Month event, and a decision on meeting format for 2025. The commission also received staff updates on ADU regulations and a cemetery preservation workshop.
Consent Calendar
- Approval of Minutes (November 21, 2024): Motion to approve the minutes passed unanimously (5-0).
Public Comments & Testimony
- No members of the public spoke during the open forum for non-agenda items.
Discussion Items
- May Preservation Month Event: Commissioners discussed potential themes, including sustainability, ADUs, and solar panels. Ideas included a hybrid in-person event with a panel, tours, or homeowner interviews. Staff has begun scouting city-owned historic venues. The commission agreed to continue refining the theme via email and aim for a decision by the next meeting.
- Return to In-Person Meetings in 2025: After discussion, the commission reached a consensus to hold regular hybrid meetings at City Hall starting January 2025, with a remote option for those unable to attend. Staff will confirm availability of council chambers.
Key Outcomes
- Minutes approved (5-0).
- Meeting format change: The HDC will meet in a hybrid format (in-person at City Hall with remote participation) beginning in 2025, contingent on staff confirming space.
- Preservation Month planning: Staff will continue venue research; commissioners will share ideas via email to finalize a theme and date by the next meeting.
- Staff updates: Reported on an ADU webinar (December 12) and a cemetery preservation workshop. The city’s detached ADU ordinance takes effect January 1, 2025, with outreach efforts underway.
- 2025 meeting calendar: Previously approved in November; no additional action needed.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening and welcome to the City of Rockfield Historic District Commission meeting number 10-2024. Today is Thursday, December 19th, 2024. I'm HDC chair, Anita Neal Powell. I am joined by my fellow commissioners. Seth Dimbo, Peter Falserman, Mercy Shinyay, and Michael Goldfinger. We are also joined by city staff, Sheil Fazeri, Preservation Planner, and Katie Gervis, comprehensive planning manager. Meetings of the historic district commissions are being conducted online via WebEx until further notice. Virtual meetings can be viewed on Rockfield 11, Channel 11 on County Cable and live stream at WW.rockfield.gov slash Rockville 11. Each meeting is also available for viewing soon after the meeting.rockfieldmd.gov slash video on demand. The first item on the agenda is committee or organization reports starting with Pierre List Rockfield. I understand they will not be given a report tonight. They will unable to attend. It was a change for me to talk about Lincoln Park's past of demolishing Lincoln Terrace and its future regarding home ownership, which really did not include those who lived at Lincoln Terrace, but it did include new residents in 2007. The event was hosted as part of the 11th annual community development week, October 7 to 11, and primarily sponsored by community development network of Maryland. And this concludes my report. Yes. Is there a presentation that we might share with the community? I don't know if it was recorded or not. I can check on that. Okay. Thank you. I'd like to share with constituents. Okay. Um, I'm not sure about that. I mean, I do have materials and stuff like that, but I don't know if it was actually recorded or not. Any other questions? Okay. C is our next public comments open form. This time is set aside for members of the public who want to comment on any non-agenda item. Is there anyone from the public waiting to comment on any issues not on the agenda? I will close the public comment, open form portion of this meeting. Thank you. We will now move on to item D, HDC and staff comment. Are there any announcements or comments from the commissioners? Just uh in general, madam chair, happy holidays to the commissioners as well as all of the employees and everyone that helps us make things go smoothly for the HCC. Thank you. Thank you. I also attended the navigating navigation of ADU development and historic districts presented online December 12th by the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. It was interesting, and maybe another at another time I can share more information about what we could take away from the presenters. Actually, um that was recorded. So I don't know. Sheila, did you get a copy of the no? No. Okay. So this was something that Sheila has sent out early last month, I guess, right? I don't remember, but I guess I did. Yeah, you really did. And so I just chimed in because I was really interested in ADUs and historic district and how all of that would come together. So I was able to attend the meeting and I will share the video with you. They didn't talk about Maryland at all.
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