The Historic and Design Review Commission convened on December 3, 2025, to review six items on the Consent Agenda and four substantive applications. The meeting focused primarily on the safety and design compatibility of proposed Green Line bus stops within historic districts, as well as proposed modifications to three residential properties in historic neighborhoods.
Green Line Bus Stops (Case 2025-325):
I'd like to call to order this historic design review commission meeting for Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025. May I have a roll call, please? Mammon. Present. Seveno. Here. Velasquez Galloway. Here. Mazuka. Here. Givata. Here. Group? Here. Cervantes. Commissioner Cervantes, I think you're frozen. Do you want to try that again? Can you hear me? Here. All right, thank you. Yes. Holland Fetzer? Here. And Gibbs. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. May I have translation services, please. Good afternoon, everyone. Buenas tardes a todos. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you. The Historic and Design Review Commission is an advisory board appointed by City Council. I am J. Maurice Gibbs, Chairman and the Vice Chair is Jeffrey Fetzer. It is the function of the Commission to advise the city manager in all relevant city departments concerning all applications for permits for properties and historic districts for landmarks on city property in the river improvement overlay and for demolitions. And considering whether to recommend approval or disapproval of an application for certificate of appropriateness, the commission shall be guided by the city's unified development code and design guidelines and standards that have been adopted by City Council. An appeal of a decision by administrative official can be filed in accordance with the city's unified development code. If anyone present wishes to speak in favor or in opposition to any item on today's agenda, please sign up on a public comment sheet. It is not necessary to sign up if you are the owner of or representative for a project on the agenda. You will be called on as the case is called. Case representatives will be given no more than 15 minutes to present their case with an additional two minutes to respond to public comments. Speakers for or opposed to a case will be limited to two minutes each. Speakers may also sign up to yield their two minutes to another speaker who has signed up. Anyone who is yielding their time must be present at the time the speaker is called upon. Speakers will be called upon in the order in which they are signed up. Following public testimony, any commissioner may call upon any speaker to respond to further questions. Approval by the commission does not take the place of any type of permits. Permits must be attained for all work.