Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Tuscaloosa Historic Preservation Commission hearing.

Today is January 14th, 2026, and the time is 5 o'clock PM.

My name is Jordan Morris, and I am the Vice Chair of the Historic Preservation Commission, and I would like to ask my fellow commission members to introduce themselves beginning at my left, please.

Cooper Shattock.

Matt McCool.

Wayne Yarbrough.

I would also like to introduce our city staff in attendance with us tonight.

They are Mr.

Hudson Cheshire, Associate City Attorney, Mr.

Josh McKinney, Zoning Administrator, and Ms.

Cynthia DeSantiago, planner.

The purpose of the HPC is that we strive to serve to preserve and protect the building sites and structures of historic significance and interest 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 the application.

Any approval of an application ref 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 by the commission.

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 the 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 his or her case, for the public to make their views known about the project, and for the commission members to gather relevant facts about the application before making its decision.

City staff will introduce the application.

Commissioners will then have an opportunity to ask the applicant questions about the case.

I will then open the hearing for public comment.

At the close of public comment, the commission will then discuss the matter and vote on the application.

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 an immediate family member of the owner prior to tonight's hearing.

Immediate family members, those are defined as a spouse, parent, or child, do not have to provide such written authorization when speaking on behalf of another immediate family member.

We remind applicants to leave the signs in the yard as staff will be out in the next couple of days to pick them up.

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

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

Hearing none, I would like to ask the staff if proper notification has been provided for each of the agenda items.

It has.

All right.

Move on to the first case.

Good evening, Commission.

This microphone.

Can you all hear me?

I'll project my voice.

So our first case tonight is HPCO 126, where Sean Coller is petitioning for a certificate of appropriateness for a material change to the windows at the property located at 412 17th Avenue in the Pinehurst Historic District, Council District 4.

So here's an aerial view of that property.

And where it's situated in its historic district.

Here's a view of that property from the street.

The adjacent property to the south.

And to the north.

So the petitioner is proposing to replace three windows on the primary structure.

The existing windows are wood and the proposed windows are fiber's.

They're also proposing a change in the light pattern, going from an 8 over 8 to a single pane windows.

Here are those three windows proposing to be changed.

They're at the back of the primary structure.

Here's the spec sheet for the window to the far right.

That middle window and then that left window.

The materials are Fibrex windows.

Here are the applicable design guidelines for windows.

And the materials.

I would like to uh invite the applicant or applicant's representative to come forward.

Please state your name and address for the record, please.

Sean collar, um 3309 Cahava Heights Road.

Is there anything that you would like to add to the staff presentation?

Um I don't think so, not at this time.