Landmarks preservation board meeting of September 18th, 2025.

Present at this meeting are Nicole Fregmito.

Kyle Gregoring.

Julia Marshall, Hilary Donho.

Robert Searing.

Martha Hartsburg Corporation Council's Office.

Amber Dellon.

And Kate Alwetter.

Thank you.

May I have a motion to accept the minutes of August 28th, 2025.

Is there a second?

Second.

Any modifications to the minutes?

All in favor of the minute of the minutes is submitted.

Any opposition?

Any abstentions?

Minutes are adopted.

The board will now conduct the public hearings on today's agenda.

First, the applicant or the applicant's representative will be invited to describe the proposed scope of work and to present any material or documentation regarding the proposal to the board.

Next, persons wishing to speak in favor of the proposal will be given the opportunity to address the board.

Then persons wishing to speak in opposition will be allowed to address the board.

Finally, the applicant or a representative will be given the opportunity to make closing comments to the board.

Following public comment, the board may vote to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the application just heard.

The board may also decide to hold its decision until the next public hearing.

If the hearing is closed, no additional information will be allowed into the record except for information that the board may request.

That information will be available for public review with board staff.

Kate, would you like to introduce the first application?

Yeah.

So this is uh CA-25-28 28.

It is an application of uh for 103 Dorset Road, a certificate of appropriateness.

Um it involves the uh some rear site work as well as new steps of the rear of the house.

Uh the property is in the Berkeley Park Preservation District.

And uh we have the applicant here this morning.

Please come up and state your name and address, please.

Good morning.

My name is Melissa Shapiro Lopo, and I live at 103 Dorset Rip.

Okay.

You want to describe what you're trying to do?

Yeah, sure, of course.

Um, as you can see from the photo, um our back step area.

Um uh it's referred to in the survey as a deck, but um it's not historically significant, nor is it in very good shape.

So we are looking to remove that wooden deck area and a patio that extends from it that is um fairly dilapidated for lack of a better um, and uh have that removed and then replaced with historically accurate appearing materials.

Um inspired by Bellevue Country Club on the west side, which is a historic building, and we really like not only the materials but the design.

What we're looking to do is not have the raised pillars, but to have the patio, as you'll see from this photo, extend from the walkway flat.

Um, and eventually, not in the first phase, but in the second phase, we would like to add a pergola over the top of it.

And then also in the second phase, we're applying to put a copper awning over the back door.

Um because we have a problem with overhang and we get ice, uh thick ice, and this past winter was particularly hard.

And then lastly, privacy gardens surrounding the um the patio and the the wall the curving walkway because um it is open on one side our yard, and um while we love our neighbors, it's it's also nice to have a little separation too.

So and and we also have um a rental behind us despite it being in the historic preservation district, and so we would like to have a little more separation from the the lovely students who live behind us.

Um did you bring samples?

Oh did not materials no, we I don't actually have any, but um no.

Can you just describe the materials you'd like to use?

Yeah, they're I'm sorry, they're I yeah, but um so I'm not actually sure what the pavers are made out of, but um they are part of Bellegard's historic series.

Um so we're looking at doing that gray color on the bottom with either uh black, like a dark gray-black color that's either the so the bottom right will be we're looking to do the patio and the walkway, and then just above that on the right hand side.

Um we were looking at either that for the border or just above that, you can see a slim paver, and it's called, yep, thank you.

Um right there, yeah, just up in the upper right-hand corner, up there, it's kind of a brown, but they make it in a the same color as the the blocks below.

Um it's called Brooklyn.

Um so either Brooklyn or Charlestone for the border.

Quite honestly, we like them both, and um it would be more of an availability issue because I think sometimes Charlestone is not necessarily readily available.

And of course, what the board approves.