City Council - Regular Meeting

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All right, it's 3:31. So, I'll call this regular meeting of the historical landmark commission to order and call for roll call, please. Chairman Leage, here. Commissioner here. Brandon here. Commissioner Crawford here. Commissioner Hambrite here. Commissioner Kelly absent. Commissioner Min here. Commissioner Provo is absent. Commissioner Raby here. Commissioner Sige is absent. Commissioner Strawberger is absent. Commissioner Thomas here. Thank you.

All right. Our first order of business is approval of the minute minutes from the regular meeting held March 9th, 2026. The commission was all sent that report in your packet. I'd ask now for any corrections, additions, or approval of the minutes, please. Motion to approve the minutes as presented. I second. Okay, we have a uh a motion by Commissioner Min, a second by Commissioner Thomas. Uh we'll now ask for uh all in favor, please signify by saying I. I.

All oppose, same sign. So, it's unanimous approval of the minutes. We'll now move into our regular meeting. Uh our first file is PZ 20226-105. It's a request for a certificate of appropriateness to move and replace the front door and install two support columns. The applicant is Cody uh Wyelhos and the location is 2550 Ashley Avenue. Uh city report, please. Cody Wahberhals is requesting a certificate of appropriateness to move and replace the front door and install two support columns for the property located at 2550 Ashley Avenue. The applicant intends to move the front door forward to establish a clearly defined primary entrance and to replace the current front door with the historically appropriate design while adding two columns to stabilize, preserve, and reinforce the existing iron work that is deteriorating. The columns will be made of wood and the woodwork will match the large windows on each side of the home that has large ornate framing around them. The home is not listed in the spare bone survey. Planning staff recommends approval of the request with the following condition. All applicable permits are obtained through the building codes department. On your screen, you can see the um property and here's just a rendering of what they plan for it to look like. and an o overall aerial view. And we have the property owner here in attendance.

All right. Uh first, any questions for staff? Can we just go back to the proposed picture? Okay. Sorry. Just so I can look at it. No other questions. No questions for staff. Okay. Um I'll ask you to come forward. Please just state your name and your address, your current address for our records, please. Cody Weeble House, 2550 Ashley Street. All right, Cody, you want to just tell us what you're trying to do? And

um so we are going to the goal is to move the front door forward. We have added a U-shaped driveway. It's installed now. And so bringing the we got the approval to paint. And so when we started the paint job, um we realized that all the iron work is deteriorating. So we can either take it down completely or we can add support columns to fix the large um steel beam that goes across the front. So the goal is to keep the iron work there and just add the support columns. And while we do that, we would bring the front door forward. All right. Any questions for the applicant? No, y'all are doing a beautiful job on that place. Oh,

thank you. All right. Seeing no uh no questions. Thank you very much. All right. I'll uh open the report for any comments from the commission or a motion. I make a motion that we approve file PZ 20226-105 with the one condition. Thank you. All right. And second. I'll second.

All right. We have a we have motion and a second. Uh these, as you remember, require a roll call vote. So I'll ask Susan to make roll call vote, please. Chairman Leage, four. Commissioner Bubby four. Commissioner Brandon four. Commissioner Crawford four. Commissioner Hambrite four. Commissioner Min Commissioner Ravy Commissioner Thomas four. Thank you. All right. We show everyone voting for the motion. Thank you both. Uh we appreciate people coming into the historic neighborhood and really wanting to to do a great job with the architecture. So, thank you.

And I just wanted to comment. I'm glad you are keeping the iron work which was original to Mr. Stab's creation cuz it would look completely different if you had removed that. So, thank you. Beautiful. Thanks. All right. Our our second U report is PZ 2022-137. It's a request for a certificate of demolition to demolish a garage structure and a certificate of appropriateness for an addition to the rear of the home

uh the applicant is JN Custom Homes LLC and the location is 23 uh 2395 Long Avenue. Staff report.

JN Custom Homes LLC is requesting a certificate of demolition to demolish a garage structure and a certificate of appropriateness for an addition to the rear of the home located at 2395 Long Avenue. The applicant intends to demolish the garage structure in the rear of the home to allow for an addition of a master suite to the rear of the home. The property is listed in the 1991 Spare Bone Mud Survey as built circa 1938 and classified as a neocclassical revival. The recorder noted that the house is well-maintained. The significance of this home is listed as an example of an upper class late 1930s house. Planning staff recommends the certificate of appropriateness to be tabled until the June meeting as the applicant has not provided details of the addition or an elevation or site plan showing the proposed addition. Planning staff recommends approval of the request for a certificate of demolition with the following conditions. All applicable permits are obtained through the building codes department. We sent out 14 property owner notice letters and we received two in favor. On your screens you can see the property. This is a picture of the garage structure to be demolished. There is site plan for the demolition and the aerial Google view. And we have the applicants here.

Okay. Um, we have any questions for staff? I have some questions. Yes, ma'am. Um, is uh is the garage original to the property itself? Is it is it part of the on the spare survey? Um, that's my first question. I'm not sure. I don't I don't think it mentioned anything about the garage in the spare survey.

Okay. Well, that lead into my second question if not when it was built and um is the sole reason to tear down the garage just to I mean the garage appears to be in in excellent shape and so the toll reason sole reason to build to tear it down is to build a primary is is that why no ma'am one second please we'll we'll they'll have to answer they may have to answer that question we're still just questions for staff thank you any other questions for staff. All right. Please state your name and your your address, please, for the record. And uh I think we have a question.

Okay. I'm Natalie Briggs and my address is 59520th Street in Bumont. He's just going to kind of be my backup because he looked at the structure better than I did. I Okay. Are you the owner? I am J. I am the owner of Jay and Custom Homes. Okay. Let's together. The owner of this house is um Sandy Monica. Okay. Um you go ahead and tell them about the structure, fell. The structure your name, please, sir. I'm sorry. Joel Deville. Talk into the Joel Deville. Thank you.

No, the structure looks great from the picture, but it's failing. the foundation is failing and the bricks are falling off the back which had an engineer come out and look at it and we she wanted at first just to redo it but then she changed her mind since the fell the structures failing costwise we're just going to go back basically with the same look maybe a little taller pitch and she'll have a new structure I not a you know I don't know nothing about the historic district but I don't think it's part of the home because there's a walkway that connects it from I don't know if you look at the if you look at the overhead view of the um

yes that see where it kind of comes out skinnier right there it looks it appears that it has been added on to the home what year that was though I don't know and I don't think she does either be I think they bought this house in 2021 they haven't owned it a really long time and her husband passed away in December so she's kind of trying to she's trying to wing in this on her own um the backside is failing and go back to the other picture where you can actually see that. Okay, if you look in front of the garage door, they have even because there was a problem with water from the neighbor, their water when it would rain would come onto her property, which I think why there's so many issues with this building. If you look just in front of that white truck in front of the garage door, they actually have had to she can't even use the garage is actually has a cement slab where they've had they've had to go and build the cement up at a slant like this to keep water from going in the garage. So, the whole thing needs to be completely regraded in a whole new a whole new slab. Anyway, so that's why she made a decision to just tear it down and start over.

So, is it if this is approved, is the new part going to be attached directly to the house itself or is it still going to have the walkway thing? I mean, the walkway is closed in to the home. It's just a kind of a narrow. You can just kind of tell that they did add that on later, but it will be attached to the home. Yes. It goes from um I believe a room in her house. is like her office and then it walks into a more narrow space that we would plan on widening to give more space getting back there because it's kind of odd looking right now but just for aesthetics. Garage is not being used at all storage. We had storage. She had a bunch of stuff just stored in there. Will the addition include a garage?

No, she wants to build a carport later in front of it where the trucks at. Just a open structure, but she's not doing that right now. So it's changing everything up. Yes sir. Well remember from from staff report staff is suggesting that the demolition be the only thing that we considered today. Correct. I think that would be fair to both them and to us since nobody's put down a plan of what exactly is going to happen yet. So

we have someone drafting everything right now and we plan to present that at the next meeting next month. Um, so yeah, as of right now, we're really just trying to get this structure down and get the grading done. Any other questions? All right. Thank you very much. Mr. Deville, could you please state your address for the record, please? 595. We just moved 595 20th Street in Bulmont. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion? And if not, a motion, please.

Discussion. So, we're only discussing the actual demolition of the existing garage as it is right now. Nothing else. Correct. We're discussing it all right now. But we're waiting until the the motion will will state what we will actually be voting on.

Okay. Well, my concern is if we approve the demolition and then um the permits haven't been issued yet, how long will it take to, you know, it might be multiple process of getting the addition approved and then you've got, you know, a demolition site back there. I don't know if that's a big issue or not. If you know, how long is the city going to take to approve a drawing or if they submit drawings and then it doesn't, you know, meet their criteria and then they got to go back to the drawing board and resubmit again. I would think that we would get the drawings for the building before we approve the demolition. Once it's down, it's gone. It's no putting it back.

I mean, it sounds like it needs to go either way though from what they're saying. either way because it's it's any other comments. I think that the re the reason for this request is because it does take time to do the demolition. So, the contractor is trying to get a jump on the start of the new addition. Um, but uh it it appears to me that this is not it's not really built in the same style as the original house. So, we would look at this like any other garage demolition that we've looked at before. Um, you know, yeah, you can take it down, but you got to get approval for what you're going to put back up. So, that's I guess that would be up to the owner whether they wanted to do that or not. I'll make a motion to approve the certificate of demolition for file PZ2026-137 and table the certificate of appropriateness for a later meeting.

And will that be with the condition? With the condition. Yes. Thank you. Seconded. I'm sorry. Who was the second? Thank you. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? If not, we'll ask for a roll call vote, please. Susan Chairman Leich, four. Commissioner Buribbe, four. Commissioner Brandon, four. Commissioner Crawford, four. Commissioner Hambrite, Commissioner Min, four. Commissioner Ravy, Commissioner Thomas, four. Thank you.

All right. Our next order of business is the historic district code enforcement report. Thank you all. It's not necessary that you stay, but uh that'll allow you to get started on your project.

Um I'll be giving the historic inspection report since Abigail's out of office. Um, she had a total of 401 inspections for March and for April she had one general nuisance notice, one general new nuisance pre-court inspection, one historic preservation notice, four historic preservation pre-court inspections, nine historic preservation inspections, 44 weed notices, 19 weed inspections, 14 weed reinspections, two litter notices, three litter pre-court inspections, four junk vehicle reinspections, 32 zoning notices, 74 zoning reinspections, and 17 zoning pre-court inspections for a total of 225 inspections. Any questions on the report? All right. Anybody have any other business?

Yes, ma'am.

I don't have a question. the very the very tall fence. It's um you know the one I'm talking about. So the there's a business at 2490 McFaden and they built like a 8ft tall wood fence around that property to and it goes all the way to the street. It seems like it comes past the the line where it should come. And so because they were trying to hide the really um unkempt property at 2487 North Street, that rental with like four or five units that we're always complaining about.

Um I'm not sure. I am not sure. I'll have to do some research. But the address was 2490 McFatten. Well, that business 2490 McFadden, they built a fence. Would you say it's like at least eight, nine feet tall? Say probably eight.

Eight feet tall. And it goes all the way from McFadden Street behind their business all the way to north almost well to the sidewalk on North Street. So it seems like it comes way past where anybody would have a fence line. And then um because they're wanting to hide that property at 2487 North that always has a lot of issues and has lots of complaints about it. Okay. And then there's somebody who lives in 2487 North and they park their vehicle which used to be a driveway, but it's been torn out the driveway, but there's remnants of an easement and they park their vehicle there all the time and it looks like that easement has been when they did the fence like some it looks like somebody tried to break it up but they still park there. So they're blocking they're continuously blocking the walkway.

I'll look into it. And if it's city property where that was a city easement, then it needs to be removed because it's it's all broken. Okay. And I just wanted to see if 2601 long was on your radar. It's a brick building that they've started painting, but then looks familiar. I have to look into it, too. Yeah, that's fine. But this house Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. See no other business, will stand adjourn. Thank you all for being here.

Thank you. Good job.