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Good evening, everyone, and welcome to this month's hearing of the Tuscaloosa Historic Preservation Commission.

I'm Kathy Pagani, I chair the Commission.

I would like to invite my fellow com oh, today's date is September 10th, 2025, and the time is 5 o'clock PM.

I would like to invite my fellow commission members to introduce themselves to you, beginning on my right, please.

Trisha Stone.

Well, bro.

Sonny Davis.

Jordan Morris.

Matt McCool.

Carlabash.

Cooper Shatdock.

Thank you.

And joining us from city staff this evening, we have Mr.

Chad Hobbs, who is the senior associate city attorney, Mr.

Jonathan Bowen, the zoning administrator, and Mr.

Liam O'Leary, who is the planner.

I'd like to thank Kevin Jones for providing audiovisual assistance for us this evening.

Before we move on to our cases for this evening, I'd like to go over the purpose and the procedures for tonight.

The general purpose of the Historic Preservation Commission is that we serve to preserve and protect the buildings, sites, and structures of historic significance in Tuscaloosa's historic neighborhoods.

We are governed by Chapter 20, Article 2 of the Code of Tuscaloosa, which includes design guidelines that are posted on the city's website.

Our decisions are based on those design guidelines and do not consider use or occupancy.

We do consider such factors as architectural style, appropriateness of materials, and how the structure relates to other structures in the immediate neighborhood in determining the appropriateness of an application.

An approval of an application requires five affirmative votes.

If the certificate is approved, please be aware that there will be a final inspection by city staff of approved applications to ensure compliance with what was approved this evening.

Here's our procedure.

This is a public hearing.

It is televised live on local cable, streamed online through Facebook, and is being recorded to be posted on the city's website.

We ask proper decorum, civility, and respect for others at all times.

Prior to this meeting, notice was sent to adjacent property owners, and the public has been notified of the applications to be presented tonight.

This hearing is a chance for the applicant to present their case, for the public to make their views known about the project, and for commission members to gather relevant facts about the application before making its decision.

And here's how we will go through this.

City staff will introduce the application.

The applicant will then have a chance to make any comments.

The commission members will then have an opportunity to ask the applicant questions about the case.

A notarized designation of agent form should have been provided to city staff for any representatives of an application that are not the property owner or immediate family member of the owner prior tonight's hearing.

Immediate family members, and we define that as a spouse, a parent, or a child, do not have to provide such written authorization when speaking on behalf of another immediate family member.

All right, moving on.

The commission members have had a chance to review tonight's agenda items.

Do any commission members have a conflict of interest as defined by section six of the commission bylaws with any of these items?

Seeing none, we'll move on.

I'd like to ask city staff if proper notification has been provided for each of the agenda items.

It has.

Thank you very much.

Let us move on to our first application, please.

Good afternoon, Commission.

Moving on to our first case tonight.

Alison Turner petitions for a certificate of appropriateness to paint previously unpainted brick on the primary structure located at 51 Guildswood in the Guildswood Historic District, Council District 4.

Here we have an aerial view of that property as long as with where it's situated in its historic district.

Here we have the subject property, adjacent property to the east, to the south, and to the west.

The proposal will include painting previously unpainted brick on the primary structure.

Here's that primary structure one more time, along with the rear of that property.

And this is an image provided by the applicant showing what the structure would look like with painted brick.

The applicant did also provide a few photos of other houses in the area with painted brick.

Here's one and another.

They did provide more photos, and those are available for you in the packet.

The material will include paint, and here are applicable design guidelines for painting.

Any questions for staff?

We don't know the date of that house, do we?

I'm sorry.