Historic Preservation Board - Regular Meeting

Good? Alright. Good evening. I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Delray Beaches Historic Preservation Board for 05/06/2026. Can you please call the order call the roll? I'm sorry.

Chris Cabasis?

Here.

Peter Dwyer is absent. Carol Perez is absent. Jake Liopoulos?

Here. Benjamin Baffer?

Here.

Richard Kassar?

Here. John Miller?

Here. Is there any changes to the agenda this Okay. Get a motion to approve.

Make a motion.

I'll second.

Motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Looks like we have minutes from the April 15 meeting. Anybody want to comment or any edits or

I move to approve the minutes.

I'll second. You can take it. I'll second.

Okay. We have a motion to second on the approval of the minutes of 04/15/2026. All in favor say aye. Aye. Okay.

Swearing into the public. If anybody is going to speak tonight on a quasi judicial item, even if you think you may want to speak, now is the time to stand up and be sworn in.

Please raise your right hand. By the authority vested in me as a notary in

the state of Florida, do you swear or

affirm that the testimony you're

about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but

the truth?

Alright. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Alright. Comments from the public. If any member of the public is here tonight and would like to speak on an item which is not on the agenda to address the board, now is your opportunity. Seeing none, we're gonna move on to quasi judicial hearings.

And beforehand, I'm gonna read the rules for quasi judicial hearing. This hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the city of Delray Beach's quasi judicial rules. The applicant and the city may shall be permitted to present their case. The public shall be allowed to speak for three minutes each or for a maximum of six minutes if the person represents an organization or a group of people who are present but agree not to speak. The city commission, board members, staff, and the applicant may be allowed to cross examine a witness.

The city or the applicant will be allowed to offer rebuttal testimony. The decision to approve or deny an application or appeal may not legally be made upon personal views as to whether a project is a good project or not. Nor may a decision be based on the number of citizens who support or oppose a particular project. The law requires that all decisions must be made on the basis of whether the project meets the requirements of law, the comprehensive plan, and the land development regulations. Okay. We're moving on to item A, HP four forty six twenty twenty six. Are there any ex parte communications on this item?

None. I did walk by it and I walked the Sunday Bill property.

Great. Alright. Staff?

For the record, I'm Katharina Pellavoda, senior historic preservation planner. I'd like to officially enter file number HP44026 into record the level one in certificate of appropriateness it's for Sunday Village Building a also known as directory for the taco stand believe the applicants are here One second. We just have to load your presentation in.

Thanks. Good evening. My name is McKenna West. I'm a land planner and agent acting behalf of the applicant this evening. My address for the record is 1501 Yamato Road, Suite 200, Boca Raton 33431.

Tonight, before you, we have a level one site, site plan modification and request for certificate of appropriateness for the Rectory Building at Sunday Village. I recognize the date is wrong on my presentation. I'm sorry. So this evening, we have a request to allow limited exterior modifications to the existing historic structure on-site. The modifications are needed to support tenant occupancy by the taco stand while maintaining character of the building.

The applicant team is a Sunday West LLC as owner. The tenant prospective tenant is the taco stand. Myself, MW Land Planning as agent, and the architect of record is Madsen Design. The property is located at 25 Southwest 1st Avenue. As shown here, Building A is located within the larger Sunday Village development within the Old School Square Historic Arts District.

These photos show the existing condition of the property as it exists today within the development. It's already been relocated, restored, and preserved as part of the Sunday Village project. The subject site is approximately 6.9 acres. The existing and proposed land use is commercial. The site's located within the old school Old School Square Historic Arts District.

Surrounding zoning context includes, OSSHAD, CBD, and community facilities zoning. The future land use is historic mixed use with zoning OSSHAD. No change to the future land use or zoning is proposed. A little bit more background. It's located in the Historic District, part of the Sunday Village mixed use site, as I stated.

The site also includes Sunday House, which is part of the National Historic Register and which is currently operating as a restaurant. Building A was relocated and restored and is currently transitioning into active tenant occupancy, which is why we're before you today. The site plan. Minor modification to the site plan is shown in red. The proposed work is limited to the existing structure and does not change the overall site layout.

The request is focused on mechanical screening, ground mounted equipment, roof venting, and limited window treatment associated with the restaurant use. The overall approach to our project is an adaptive reuse. The former residential structure has been preserved on-site and is entitled to commercial use. The proposed modifications are minor and are intended to be the least impactful architectural approach to support that use. Specific modifications, hood vents being added to the rear side of the roof.

These are required for kitchen operations and are proposed to be screened with false chimney design. The enclosures will be clad with wood clapboard and siding to match the existing building materials. The next modification is screening around the mechanical equipment on the rear roof terrace. The locate the location is on the west side of the building. The screening will be a wood enclosure designed to match the existing siding of the building for which we did work very closely with staff on deciding this this this option.

So we hope that you agree this is a good solution. And the next is the ground mounted mechanical equipment I showed on the site plan, which is on the north side of the structure to be screened with existing landscaping, not proposed to be, impacted by the addition of the equipment. And finally, the final modification relates to the windows that need to be closed off from the interior to allow for kitchen space. So these are on the north side of the building. From the exterior, the clear glass and operability will remain unchanged, but blinds will be added to maintain the residential appearance from the interior, and the interior concealment is reversible.

And the details shown on the slide. In summary, our request is limited and functional. The proposed alterations meet the requirements set forth by land development regulations and the secretary of interior standards for historic treatment of historic structures. And with that, I respectfully request your approval of the level on-site plan modification and the certificate of appropriateness. And I'm also accompanied this evening evening by the architect of record and the general contractor. If you have any questions, we're all available one: to answer. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm sure we will after staff presents.

This is a level one certificate appropriateness for Sunday Village. This will be Building A also known as Rectory And then their new occupant is gonna be the taco stand. So here you can see their location. There is with your with the agenda, there was a very long history of the Sunday Village project that was attached. So I won't go into the full history of it.

But for the most part, you'll see here located facing Swinton, the historic structures. These were all relocated within the site and then vertically elevated. So the subject structure that we're discussing tonight is going to be the most northern historic structure on-site. And that's known as Building A, also known as the Rectory. Okay.

So here you can see their site plan. The little areas in red are just specifically the mechanical equipment on the ground and there's no other proposed modifications to the actual site other than within the structure. So here you can see the existing front elevation of the rectory. This is the southeast elevation. This is the north side.

So the two windows on the Ground Floor are going to be part of the request. And then this is the northwest elevation. So you can see the very top area that currently exists. That's where the rest of the mechanical equipment, which will note, which was noted in the staff report, that the mechanical equipment that was on the roof terrace was previously approved in another COA application. We're just looking at the screening for that.

Okay. And then here's a Southwest elevation where you can see the area on the rooftop a little bit better. And then the West elevation. So here's the proposal. They are putting two faux chimneys as types of screening for their hood vents on the roof.

The original approval included a Hardie board material. They're actually going to be using wood and a siding to actually match the existing siding on the structure for these two faux chimneys. Here you can see the proposed north side. So we do have a view of the faux chimneys along with the screening for the roof terrace and then the windows on the north side. Okay, this is a south side proposal.

And then here in the rear where most of the mechanical equipment is, which we do consider the most appropriate side because it's to the rear of the structure and not as visible from the public right away. This is a proposed roof plan. So here we can see the proposed windows. They are going to be using the existing clear glass that already exists on the structure. So the glass will actually still match the rest of the entire existing structure.

They are going to put a sort of wall windows, but the entire wall so they can include the use for the kitchen on the north side of their structure. They are going be using a decorative blind, which is pretty typical and appropriate for a historic structure. It's just going to look like just regular white blinds and they're going to have the windows will still be operable so if they need to clean or maintain it, they can access the window from the exterior. Okay. Here's a close-up.

This is also in the plans, but you kind of get more of the detail of the maintenance and the materials that they're proposing for the window. And then this is a rendering of what it's going to look like. Okay. Here are the screenings. They will all be wood panels.

They will match existing wood siding on the structure. You see the two faux chimneys at the top and then the screening for the roof terrace. Colors and materials will match what's existing on-site. And here you can kind of see detail with the wood material and it's slightly open so there is some venting in there. Okay.

So this shows the renderings. You can see from the front east side the chimneys are slightly visible, but technically the original structure did have a chimney that was removed. So it's original, but for the purpose of screening, this is a very appropriate way to screen a hood vent. This is from the rear. So you can see the screening for all three areas.

And then on the side, the landscape the existing landscape for the ground equipment. And here we can see from the west side, we can see the faux chimney, the screening, as well as windows and the mechanical equipment on the ground. This is the south side. These are the Secretary of Interior Standards that apply to the application. With regard to the windows, it is an appropriate way to conceal the windows.

We have had a lot of tenants within the Sunday Village project. There has been a lot of issues with regards to the back of house and how they can properly screen windows and allow for more room for their back of house, which means somehow blocking the windows. This version is very appropriate. It does still give off a residential look. But because they are concealing the interior of the window, which can be removed in the future so there's no real concern for it, this was a request that needed to come to the board.

So the board will need to decide whether or not the request for the window and the screening is appropriate. These are the Secretary of the Interior standards or sorry, these are the Visual Compatibility Standards that apply to the request. The hood vents are also no concerns with regard to it. We did note in the staff report it was originally approved for Hardie Board and they're coming in with the existing materials that are on the site to match. And then let's see.

We don't have any concerns regarding, like, the size or the the screening for the roof terrace. No. Okay. This also notes the windows for visual compatibility. We do consider this a compatible, solution to how they're presenting their back of house within the historic structure, but the board needs to make that determination on whether or not it's appropriate.

Okay. And here's some additional screenshots just showing the existing versus proposed for all of the requests. And here you can see the existing versus the proposed again. And then these are your findings for your certificate of appropriateness. And that concludes my presentation.

Thank you. Any members of the public want to comment on this item? Seeing none. Applicant any rebuttal or cross? Staff?

No rebuttal from staff.

Alright moving into board discussion. Anybody have any thoughts?

I have some questions Sure. Of the applicant.

Yes. Thank you.

Yes. My two two things. The mechanical the makeup air unit that's going to be on the roof, and this is, I guess, for the applicant and staff. It that screening will fully cover it.

Yes.

Right? Okay. So no visibility. And then is that part of a condition of approval that it has to be fully covered, cannot be visible from?

We don't have it as a condition of approval. But based on what was already approved and what they're proposing for screening, we had no concerns with it towering up. If that issue were to arise, I know the applicant would probably let us know and we would more than likely try to figure out a resolution for that.

Yeah. But

so far we yeah. We don't have any concerns with what they already have existing to go on the roof.

Okay. Mhmm. With regards to the windows, what do they face? So what's on the north side of the property?

So they're facing, like, an alley. And then the the the larger building that that is on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Swinton. Okay.

So it's not a heavily traversed area?

I wouldn't I wouldn't say so. No.

And there's landscaping because you have the HVAC HVAC equipment on the ground in front of them, there's landscaping to screen that. Right?

So, yes, the landscaping is already there. I'm actually not sure if there's already some equipment there. Do you know?

Good evening. My name is Norberto Loiano, principal at Hudson Design. My address is 416 South East 5th Street, Delray Beach, Florida 33483. To the north is a loading area, and the existing landscape is in place. We are not modifying it whatsoever. You know, in between the two buildings is this loading area and very ample. I, you know, don't don't envision any any any, you know, issues with with that. Okay.

And, staff, you have no concerns about false windows being there that could potentially just be dark at night? No.

The windows were a concern. I don't remember if we've reviewed other versions of this. We have so many applications for Sunday Village that are for windows, but a lot of them are just wanting to do the blackout films instead of just putting know, some nice treatment. This is actually a pretty nice appropriate version for it because it still kind of looks like the, you know, the blinds are drawn and there's curtains. So this was very, I feel like, respectful to the structure.

Light wise, I don't really know because you're gonna have the wall right there, so no light's really gonna come in. But it could, you know, it could just be at night there's a light off in the in the room. But, yeah, for this for this one, not a lot of concerns. There were concerns for other projects but not not so much this one. Okay.

Yeah. Mean, my and and the landscaping that's there, the existing landscaping, that will mostly cover these windows. Right?

Not the windows.

Not the windows? Okay.

No. I mean, at maturity, I'm not sure. I'm not the expert. But as of right now, they don't they don't cover the windows.

And is that the taco stands that is that maintenance of that landscaping? Is that Sunday Village's responsibility or your the applicant?

Sunday Village. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, my my concern is just that we're gonna have this really vibrant building and then to just dark blind you know, blinds closed windows. And I think it's a really creative option for it. And, you know, just walking by, I couldn't quite place it after reviewing this. And that's that's just kinda what I struggle with is that Sunny Village is, you know, when it's built and done, very light.

The lighting is is is really nice there. But now we're just gonna have an area that people walk by. And again in a building that will probably be crowded all the time with two blinds closed windows on the Ground Floor. And that's just what I struggle with. I think if the city is accepting of this and this obviously seems like you guys have worked very collaboratively on this and you could have just put a dark film over it and I think this is a great option. It's probably the

best We actually did originally come forward with a black film so this is what we came to.

Yeah. And I know from an interior build out and improvement improvement perspective, this is not cost effective and, you know, this is definitely something that is is creative. And so I I definitely applaud you with this. Again, I just struggle with having two dark windows.

I just have one more comment. So for the most part, this North Side area and staff, we've been on the site many times. We we never walk through this area and it's not as visible. It's next to a three story building. I I don't see these north windows being an issue. If it's a South side, we'd probably have more of a concern. But I don't see people frequenting this area as much. So it yeah. I don't I don't think this maybe some other ones, but this was probably the lease side of concern. With landscaping and the fact that there's it's not really that walkable to that area, you can, but I don't think we've ever even walked on that in between the structure.

And I would like to add a couple of things because this is exactly the type of comment as a board member that you should be making and inquiring about. And this is what we warn applicants that this is the type of concern that comes up. The struggle with these houses is that they're all adaptive reuse for restaurant based use. So to us, our takeaway on this is a learning lesson is to really encourage the applicants to be thinking about what the back of house looks like earlier in the process. In this instance, to be fair for Sunday Village, they were getting the project approved, and they didn't have tenants yet.

So they've been slowly adding tenants. They did come through with a mechanical screening plan a year ago, was it? It was a while ago. But, obviously, in this instance, these folks need more substantial equipment than was outfitted or approved for the building. As far as the windows are concerned, if this was a residence and there were blackout curtains, you wouldn't be looking in these windows.

It's not technically an alley too. While it feels like an alley on the north side of this, it's technically a service court or a pedestrian walkway. So it is meant for high pedestrian traffic funneling in and out of the site. This is much improved over what we we got. It's not necessarily the desired approach because of the way the secretary of the interior standards are written that they should be actual windows that you can see from the inside out.

And the secretary of the interior state, I think, that you shouldn't be blocking it up with drywall on the inside to obscure. But there really wasn't a lot of options. This is a very small space on the inside. So this is why it's in your court. Right?

If if they had some other nonserious solution, we would have approved that, the windows, administratively. So we also identified the same issue that you are. So thank you for bringing it up. If the board members, I know many of you are design professionals, know of a different solution or want applicant to re relook at this in a different way, you have the right to provide them that direction.

Thank That was those were just my my main two concerns, the makeup air and then the windows. Again, mean, I think it's probably the best solution out there. But, again, it's just something that I I struggle a little bit with. But that's it.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Yeah. Katerina, could you pull up the the side by side rendering? We had the two it's in our in our packet. I I think it was in the presentation. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe not. Is

that what you're

looking Yeah. That one there. So the windows that are black out are the the two that are along the ramp, is it?

No. They're on the North Side. They're over here. So these two that are shown on the left, if you're looking at this house from the rear like we are here, they're around the left side of the building.

Alright. Because I I'm and go back to the side by side rendering. It look on the porch, it looks like there is another window that's being removed. But is that

I think that's the rendering is showing that incorrectly. Are you all proposing It's removal of the window.

This one you, like, see there's a window here?

No. Not at all. We are not removing any window.

Right here.

Right there.

You see this window right here?

That that is the rendering, but we no. We are not removing it.

Yeah. And then you're you're not changing the other windows. Right? Because the windows on the on the rendering look smaller, and and you're not removing the gingerbread.

Good catch, but, no, we are not removing it.

Yeah. So, like, I think I think the chimneys are are a good solution. I'm okay with the the vent stacks exposed. I think you've got a good a good compromise solution for for the windows. I'm a little bit troubled with the equipment screen, and I think it's because looking at looking at this rendering where you're proposing to use the, the board siding in a horizontal fashion where once upon a time this was or it's previously a railing.

Right? So I'm thinking maybe if you did some fenestration vertically instead of horizontally and maybe use some moldings or something or made this made this to where it doesn't just feel like a blank wall that give give it a feel like what the railing was before. I mean, I I don't know if you can get creative and do something with that so this doesn't just look like a a big blind mass on top of on top of this porch.

Well, yeah. Obviously, can look at that, but, you know, like in the section that we show is is a gap in between the the wood slats.

Yeah. So I'm thinking maybe the the those gaps were vertical instead instead of horizontal. Right.

I think that we discussed

I'm sorry. It might make it feel less less of a mass, you know, to give give a little more open look to to kind of go back to the the visually of what it looked like when there was a railing there as opposed to something in a horizontal plane.

And we discussed.

Yeah. We we discussed this with stuff. And and I believe that, you know, trying to mimic a a railing with other material is not going to be nice. It's going to look like a patchwork in my opinion, humble opinion. And this is more in line with the siding.

We did see that.

I thought about that.

We've had some pre ops. We've

had Yes. Correct.

C comment reviews. We've seen, I think, two iterations of this. One where it was just porch railings. Two where it was vertical. And there's the issue is as you pass by because the slats are there, there's still some level of capturing those mechanical units that are on the rooftop. But I think one of the solutions maybe where you're going because it's feeling like a blank wall is perhaps if these vertical members, which are very hard to see here. Right? You see them right here? If they were maybe more substantial?

Make those a little more prominent to give it to just give it some some vertical orient like those were Okay. You've got your post and your I'm just I I I almost feel like we'd be better off with it being not a 100% opaque, you know, even if you did see as you're going by, like, the the shadows of of the equipment that's behind it, you know, and not not make it completely opaque if you just saw some some lighter, you know, knew that. And I just it just makes this elevation look so blind where you're you're blocking the the windows that are there.

The third thing with that is there is a code requirement in the LDRs that states that the equipment shall be

completely screened.

Completely screened. Yeah.

You know, even we were it's from

level Is it line of sight? Is it of sight?

Right? Line of sight.

It's not

line of sight. It's height. The height.

So It's the height. So we even discussed that when you're on the rooftop of Building 3, they have an employee space, like a really beautiful I hesitate to call it a break room because it's so big.

Yeah. It's like a lounge. Yeah.

Very large lounge with an outdoor patio, and that outdoor patio overlooks this so you can look down onto them. And we've talked about, you know, potential solutions. Do you do a pergola across the top that they can't really have that equipment above? It it is a tough spot to design something that's obscured. But from a elevation standpoint, the top of the mechanical equipment is where the top of that fence has to come, and it has to be completely obscured.

Thanks.

It's tough. It's a conundrum.

I know you've you've thought about it. I just wish that there was a way that it just didn't feel so such like a

mass. Mass We agree. In there.

They would lighten it up. You could do some

I mean, there's it's kind of a blank wall. So there to to his point, there there are some options for adding some creative,

you know, colors or Or even doing something We're not

here to redesign it, though. We're here to But

but that's my point. Is there is there something we can do creatively to just I mean

I mean, as a board, you can

say Put some window frame molding through

We can put

it as a as a, you know, an option that if they wanted to take a little flexibility one way or the other in in the motion. Whoever wants to make the motion can certainly give some leeway there.

I hesitate to to really say do it as an option because the last project we did it as an option. The applicant did not do what the board was looking for. So I think for their purposes, it's best to be clear on what you're asking for whether it's providing more architectural detail, you know, something that would look obscure the area a little bit, may reduce the impact of a blank wall, work with staff, give us an opportunity, and then if we can't come to terms, they come back. But giving the option, they always don't do what you're asking for. So it's kind of like, why even put it there?

Yeah. At some point, we even, you know, had a rendering that all that perimeter was planters. And, you know, stuff didn't didn't like it. So, you know, we it's it's been discussed and, you know, and then this is like the the fourth option that we have. Yeah.

When you look at elevations, the black and white elevations, you do see those those horizontal lines a little darker. So I'm thinking maybe the rendering is not showing the contrast of the the horizontal slats as much as it maybe you'll see it in person.

Rendering is never gonna be a 100%. Exactly. It depends on the lighting situation and everything else.

So I

I also think that if you try to mimic the original, then it's trying to take its place while this is showing that this is an addition to an existing historical structure. So making it different is actually showing that this is not original to the to the historic house. It is unfortunate that it's so big. It's blocking the windows behind it. I I love the look of it like this with the three windows.

I was imagining different scenarios of how can that window stay in that patterning. It's just a you know, it's a it's a reuse of a building for a restaurant that some things are gonna have to go. So I'm okay with these changes. I think they're tasteful. It's not a large house, so the kitchen has to go somewhere inside. You would lose a window. I'm sure anywhere inside, I think it was, out of all the options, the right window to to lose. Yes. I do like your idea of it popped into my mind. If a light can turn on at night to make it look like, you know, there was Yeah.

Definitely, we can do that.

That's an interesting thing that I haven't seen before. What do you mean by that? Well, at night, it'll just be a dark blacked out window. But if there was some sort of way that a light came on in front of the blackout Yes. It just looked like there's a little depth and someone's there rather than just a dark.

And the windows are designed to open from the exterior for maintenance purposes. So that would, if a light bulb went out, allow you to fix a light bulb. Correct?

Yeah. We we can look at, you know, other other means to to access on on that. Yeah.

Yeah. Like an LED strip Yeah. That's on a timer might be interesting. Absolutely. Yeah. Like, liven up that that part of the the house. So overall, I I'm I'm in favor of the changes. Thank you. Thank you.

Jake, any comment or anything? Quick quick question. What what is it what is the roof the roof material? Is it Shake. Shakes? Mhmm. When you think about putting shakes on that screen?

Like a mansard.

You know, like, make it look like a cake cothouse.

Gingerbreading. Yeah. That could be an option. I mean, what I would suggest is that you form your condition, right, however you wish, and tell the you know, say to the applicant, improve the exterior elevation of that area, work with staff. Come on. But John is right. Designing from the dais is not the goal.

Yeah. I think if you guys are gonna if you guys are going to adjust that, it would be something like you want it to be more the rhythm of solids to voids more match up with the historic. And, you know, doing something like that so that they can come up with their own ideas to adjust rather than but, I mean, obviously, they've listened to you as well. So if those are some of the ideas that they wanna grab on to, they will. You know? So but

Well, I think, you know, three d renderings, they could be misleading sometimes. Going by the drawings, it does look like they're trying to somewhat match the characteristics as it has right now. And so it's difficult going from residential to a restaurant. And then given its historical, that only adds on to it. The main indifference I had was the screening around the mechanical unit, but it's not facing the public right away. And you're really limited to to what you can put around it to hide the full thing. I think I'm in favor of this.

Thank you. Thank you.

Quick question. Per the windows again, and this comes to our purview. We're technically not purview to anything inside. So is this considered inside? Is this how is this part of our review process?

Because the windows aren't operational clear glass. The secretary of the interior standards specifically say when you're replacing windows or changing windows that you don't do this.

But this is clear glass and it is operational. It's just that there's something behind it. I mean, if they, for argument's sake, wanted to just put a black screen behind it three inches off the window.

So we had discussions with this applicant and I'm sorry. Others in the block without saying which ones.

Oh, I

know which one.

Right.

With the same thing, you know, just actually do a curtain. Then it doesn't have to go to the board. But the minute it's not actually a window anymore in the sense of you can open the window Mhmm. It does come before the board.

Yeah. The other one was prominent location on Atlantic Avenue. Right? The other one that I'm picking up.

This I think we have three.

Okay. So Alright. Five. So So it's the intent.

You're gonna be seeing others. Okay. And so it's a good question because because you're you're kind kind of of setting setting yourself yourself an expectation Mhmm. For what you might be asking of other applicants as they come through and giving them an understanding. This is the first one with the window change that's come before you. Okay. But, yes, I get where you're going. And we looked at the standards as well, the guidelines, and it actually does have to come to you for decision. Okay. But if it was just curtains, blackout curtains, we wouldn't even break bring it

to

you. Anybody else have any other thoughts, questions, comments? Are we ready for a motion? I saw some scribbling.

I mean, I'll I'll I'll go ahead and make a motion. So I'll make the motion to approve the level one site plan modification and certificate of appropriateness, HPDash446Dash2026 for the property located at Sunday Village Building A, the Rectory, Old School Square Historic District, by finding that the request and approval thereof is consistent with the comprehensive plan and meets the criteria set forth in the land development regulations subject

to the following

condition, add lighting to the inside of the window on the north side of the building.

I second.

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Okay. Please call the roll.

Chris Gabesis? Yes. Peter Dwyer is absent. Carol Perez is absent. Jay Giliopoulos?

Yes.

Benjamin Baffer? Yes. Richard Castor?

Yes.

John Miller?

Yes. Thank you. Good luck.

Okay. Now moving on to the fun stuff.

This is exciting stuff. Right? This is first, I wanna say to everybody here, to all of these fine folks, thank you for coming tonight for the awards portion of our annual HPD Awards. So thank you so much, and give yourselves a hand because you've done a wonderful job. Okay.

National Historic Preservation Month. And each year, we, the board, and staff work together to identify potential award winners for projects that have been completed. Why do we celebrate historic preservation month? The National Trust for Historic Preservation deems the month of May, National Historic Preservation Month. So we're going along with our partners throughout the state and across The US to honor efforts in the community that went above and beyond for preservation.

So our contribution to this locally is recognizing these homeowners who have made that contribution to preservation Delray Beach. This year the each year the trust puts together a theme and this year it's I Heart Saving Places. It takes on also the meaning of greater opportunity to celebrate diverse and unique heritage in this country. So, you know, it's all people are created equal is also their theme for National Historic Preservation Month. And great appreciation to preservationists, all of us, in making these places endure and continue on in our city.

Oh, and not to forget, this year marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the declaration of independence and the state of Florida and The United States are celebrating the the anniversary. So without further ado we had six categories and seven winners. The first category and winner is for Sandra And let me get organized here. Sorry. Okay.

Sandra Amani and Nikki Mercedes for their improvement of 108. This is in the West Settlers Historic District. This property was approved many years ago for a small renovation and there were some hiccups along the way that owner was not able to complete the renovation project and the home sat for a number of years. Sandra and Nikki came along and purchased the home, came through the COA process for an addition and exterior alterations. And you can see here this is the after view of the front.

Here's another before looking down the side of the building of this 1949 cottage. And you can see part of the addition on the left there as well. New paint, the shutters, preservation of the little medallion in the in the gable in the front, landscaping package, and then a lot of the improvements were done in the rear. It's kind of hard to see. I I kept going back and forth here.

This is the before of the rear and this is the after. So they did have a large addition added on to the back and the swimming pool, sodding. Of course, this was our photograph right after it was completed, and I know it's grown in and gotten even more beautiful as time's gone on. So here we are for 108 Northwest 4th Avenue, and much thanks to Sandra, Amani, and Nikki Mercedes. Are you guys here tonight?

We are. Yes.

Okay. We would love to give you your award. And if you wanted to address the board, you'd certainly can. Thank you so much. Congrats. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. If you wanted to say a word or two, you don't

have to. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Well

done. Okay.

Next, we have this property owner is MJZ Properties, Mindy and Jeff Booster, who purchased 503 Northeast 2nd Avenue. This is residential contributing for exterior alterations. This little 1947 streamlined modern house is the only streamlined modern in the Delaida Park Historic District. And this structure is just one of the original photographs post construction. So we were really lucky to have some old documentation of the house in photograph.

So they came in and this is what the property looked like when they purchased the home. And they brought back the porthole window. They did window replacements, door replacements. They painted beautiful landscaping upgrades to this property. The interior is really cute. I don't know. I didn't wanna put all of the interior photos because somebody's living here, I think. But you could go look it up on Zillow. It's really cute. It's totally mid century modern with all the way down to the appliances.

It just is adorable inside. You can see here on the left, they preserved a gate which has a special design in it and they preserved that. There's one on the front and on the rear. Here we're looking at a before Google Image Street view, this gorgeous Poinciana tree on the side that also has been preserved in place. They utilized ribbon strip driveway here which is a historic driveway type.

It's just such a contrast between the before and after. There was a pool added in the rear. Again, more landscaping. There's that other gate on the backside of the building. You can kind of see it that attaches to the it's like a hallway that was connecting to the house. So it's quite a contribution to the Delaida Park Historic District, and we're so grateful to Jeff and Mindy. Are you all here tonight?

So this project was a lot of fun. We really love this house. We didn't have to add anything as far as square footage. We just really brought back to life the original home, and it just turned out wonderful. It's a such a prominent corner, and everybody sees it,

and we're really proud

of it.

So thank you.

Don't go far. We're going to talk about you right now again.

Okay. We'll just stay here. So

the next award is also MJZ Properties for the adjoining lot that was behind the house at 05:03 Northeast Second Avenue. And this is 209 Northeast 5th Street. This was a vacant lot that sat behind the little house that we just looked at. And this was new construction. The board members will remember you came back three times, I think.

You did a beautiful job. Two story addition in the masonry vernacular style. Adjacent to this property, interestingly, the two little houses were also done by RTG. So that's what you can kind of see peeking over on the right. And I did take a liberty with a few photos from your Zillow because they were so beautiful. Here, we can see the front. This one, they pushed that garage back, kind of offset the front garage a little bit with a pergola. Beautiful rear pool. Your photographer really is great.

Thank you.

I did do a couple inside shots. Just that every detail was taken on this home, and it's a a gorgeous addition to the Delaida Park Historic District. So congratulations on your second award.

Thank you. You.

You. Michelle,

can we get a group? Oh, you should get one with the board. Well, I would love all of us. Maybe we can at the end get everybody.

Okay. That be great. Okay.

Thank you. You're welcome. It won't take too long.

Yeah. So thank you again. This was actually the the fifth house on the street that we when we started on this road fourteen years ago, there was a lot of really nasty duplexes and vacant lots and the the corner 503 House. So, you know, over fourteen years, we feel we've really transformed that road, and it's really pretty to drive down. You know, with all the mature trees and the cottage style homes, it's we're happy with it, and thank you for recognizing it.

Welcome. Well done.

Congratulations. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Okay. Next we have Alex and Margo Platt with 403 North Swinton Avenue.

This little house was built in 1925 and it originally existed on Northeast 4th Avenue down closer to Atlantic and it was moved here many years ago, I think in the seventies. And it was a dentist office for many, many, many years. As far back as I can remember, this has been a dentist office. Alex and Margo came in to put their office here, their Compass Real Estate in this spot and they worked with us and then came through to the board for approval of windows and the use of a metal roof, painting the house pink. All of the landscaping has been installed and they really did a lovely job getting a really important corner as you enter into one of our kind of the juxtaposition of two different historic districts.

They did a really lovely job with this renovation, a house that I think needed some TLC over the years. So I'm I can't wait to see how all the landscaping grows in and the contribution that they've made to this important intersection is is very valuable. So we're grateful to Alex Alex and Margo for their contribution here, and we would like to give them an award as well. Congratulations.

Well, we'd I wasn't able to come and speak when we had our like, things that we had to get passed by the board. We were actually giving birth to our baby that day. So our

A year ago.

Come on.

A year ago tomorrow. So we actually went in

a year ago

tomorrow, and our associate Kate came, spoke with on our behalf, and it was an easier process than I thought it would be going into making changes to historic property. So I appreciate the award and we're really happy with how the corner turned out. Big shout out to Rogalini Construction Zach Berneau. He did an amazing job.

And thank you so much to Michelle. Michelle was incredible.

Both of both

of us. The team.

Both of whole team.

So thank you. I really appreciate it. Thank you.

Excellent work.

Thank you. And

we would invite everybody to wait just two more.

So you can take as many as you want.

But just we'd like to get a group picture with the board as well. Thank you. Alright. So our next award recipient is the CRA. The Community Redevelopment Agency purchased 98 Northwest 5th Avenue, is a 1972 structure that was on the cusp of becoming a contributor.

And they, along with the board, the CRA board, came up with a design to do an adaptive reuse of this building. You can see on the Ground Floor there used to be a parking area underneath the building and that was converted into usable space. So there's a variety of users, office, I think some retail. Do we have a restaurant yet? Not yet.

Almost. Lots

of good things are coming. We see applicants coming through with their business tax receipt for this location frequently. So what was added here was an elevator on the north side, some roof over the existing stairwells, improved painting, windows, railings, awning eyebrow features. There was really no part of the building they didn't touch. It's turned absolutely gorgeous.

This is in the West Settlers Historic District. I believe the Top Floor is at a work share space, right? Co working space. So there's just a lot of value being added to the community for this commercial structure, and we're so grateful to the contribution, that was made to West Settlers by the Community Redevelopment Agency. Thank you.

Hi everyone, Renee Jadasinghe, Executive Director of the CRA, I guess I'm used to saying that sitting in this position. But I just want to thank the board, the city, obviously city staff. I also wanted to recognize our contractor and architects that are here. So we have George. We wanna say hi, Wave, from Waypoint Construction. We also have Manny or sorry. Well, we worked with Manny. Manny no longer, but we have Moshe and Merrill here from Stratus Architects. So we really couldn't have done it without them. I mean, we did the effort to purchase the building.

Our board at the time really wanted to figure out should we put this residential? Should we make it commercial? But 5th Avenue is really the African American historical commercial business space on in the in the said area. So we tried so hard to preserve it and tried to bring this something that could be useful many different to many different businesses besides just what was there before. We didn't want to tear it down. So that's where our architects came in with Stratus and did an incredible job to repurpose this. And then the construction team came in, the building almost collapsed, think several times, but they did a great job saving it and preserving it. We've raised the roof and just put a lot of time and effort into it. I also wanted to call out the naming of the building. So that really was a community led effort to call it the Edmunds Baines Building.

So the Edmunds Baines were the two initial families that first built this building, and rebuilt this building. So Mr. Bain was actually here at the city commission yesterday. He had the wrong day. He's 94 years old and he wanted to come here just to see his name on the building. His family drove him over there. I told him I'd extend his thank you as well. He's really happy to be honored. So we didn't just preserve the building, we also preserved the history and families in the community in the set. So thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank very much.

Okay. Our next award winner is the Sandaway Discovery Center. So some of you may have been here, right? I hope all of you have. It's really special space. It's on South Ocean Boulevard, 142 South Ocean. This property is individually designated as historic. It was built in 1936, and it's in the resort colonial architectural style. This is a Samogran senior building, so there's quite a bit of value. Interestingly, this site is owned by Palm Beach County, leased by the city, and then sublet out to the Sandaway Discovery Center.

So we have really worked well with them over the years and their architectural team over the years and are thankful that they have made the investments that they've made in this property to continue its longevity. The main change that occurred here was new entry doors, new railings, porch enclosures. They were dealing with a lot of humidity, bringing a lot of kids through the site and being hot, maybe needing that air conditioned space to have a break after the field trip. So this gives them that ability to have that improvement. So thank you so much. Think is Ms. Susan Russo here tonight to accept the award?

Just on behalf of Sandoway, I wanna thank you, Michelle and Katharina and the whole board. And if I can call one person on the board out, if I'm allowed to, Jake, thank you. Sandoway away is a very special place in Delray Beach, so I appreciate you all for recognizing that. Thank you. Thank you.

And the plans right there, if you could take those back with you, those are your certified plan sets.

Thank you.

Just for the record. Okay, next we actually have a two part. I don't know, did anybody come tonight from the Colony Hotel? I wasn't sure that they were able to come. But we have a two part presentation. So our next award winner is the Colony Hotel. This is Justina Bowden and Hillary Roche. They needed to have a maintenance building installed on the property for laundry, for back of house, basically. This was mister Roy Simon's, I think, second or last second to last project. He was the architect on this building.

This is in the north side of the site, so it's between the federals, kinda tucked back. It's hard to see when you're driving by, but they did a really nice job. Roy was fun to work with on this. At his age, his ability to flex and learn technology was just amazing to us. We'd ask for a revision or comment changes and there was Roy with his edits on a hand drawn plan.

Like he it was just amazing to us. He was able to modify and send PDFs and emails. I mean, it was just really impressive, the commitment that he he made to this project and to his craft as an architect. So this award is given for the owners, but I also wanted to take a moment to honor mister Simon. Simon.

For those who don't know, he passed about a year and a half ago. So this award will get it over to the Boutin Roche ladies, but we do have an award for them. The The second part ladies, of this presentation, it might be a tiny bit, a lot of information, but I really want to make sure we honor the fact that the Colony Hotel, thanks to John for reminding us, John Miller, our chair, It turned a 100 years or is turning a 100 years old this year. So we wanted to take a moment and highlight the valuable historic resource that we have in Delray Beach known as the Colony Hotel. It did not start out that way.

It started as the Altarip Hotel in 1926. A group of investors led by Albert T. Rep spent $350,000 financing the construction of this building. They really wanted to have a brand new hotel in town because Delray was flourishing as an artist and writer's colony. We had so many people coming here resorting and wintering in Delray Beach.

This was the roaring twenties. Martha Luther Hampton was the original architect who designed the All Trip Hotel. Many believed and many still believe that this is one of the greatest structures built within the city. It's in the Spanish colonial revival style. They have signature, towers with domes on the front of of the building.

It's just gorgeous stucco walls and the traditional arches and windows that you might get with the historic architecture of the Spanish colonial style. Despite its grand and luxurious character, they struggled with the All Trip Hotel initially. Just as it seemed that they were turning a corner financially, the great depression struck, and they had to foreclose on the property. There was there's no recouping what happened. Shortly after, George and Agnes Boughton came through Delray Beach, they were actually initially headed to Key West for their honeymoon, and they were going to leave Key West to go over to Cuba.

There was issues happening politically, and it was not a great time to be going to Cuba, so they unexpectedly canceled their trip to Havana. They began their drive back north and stopped in Delray Beach, and they immediately fell in love with abandoned and shuttered All Trip Hotel. They spoke with George's father, Charlie, about acquiring the bankrupted business, and they ended up buying. The Boutons did. They bought the hotel for $50,000 in 1935.

Just a matter of note, I searched high and low for a picture of George and Agnes. I've only found a picture of Agnes. I could not find a picture of George. So this is not actually them. But it was the best representation I could give graphically. So here's another photograph following their purchase of the property and the investment that they made. This was a huge stewardship that they did. The hotel quickly emerged as the hottest attraction in Del Beach. They invested heavily into its revitalization and adding a wealth of new amenities. This is a black and white picture.

I wasn't able to confirm the year but it does look like a black and white of a newer picture. I can't quite tell. But I just wanna read this. A Spanish galleon is carved into the lobby's central mantle highlighting its hues in gold and silver. Stunning terrazzo floor tiles proliferated throughout the space as did wrought iron chandeliers, sumptuous antique floor lamps, an Otis and Company elevator ferried guests throughout the building to one of several dozen guest rooms located on-site.

That elevator featured cut glass panels, dark wood trim and even a hand closed metal gate. Fix Reed wicker furniture filled every public space and the guest rooms. They acquired those originally from the upscale John Wanamaker store in Philadelphia. These furnishings are still existing in the hotel today. It's part of its charm.

Building on their success, George Boughton acquired another historic resort in 1948 in Kennebunkport, Maine. Originally constructed in 1872, the destination went by the name of Breakwater Court. They rebranded it as the Colony Hotel to complement their first hotel in Delray Beach. Both are still owned and operated by the Bouton family today. And this is what it looks like today with an addition on the left side.

So in 1949, George wanted to enhance appeal of the Colony Hotel. So he developed a thrilling new outdoor venue called the Cabana Club. This is a two fifty foot strip along A1A just at the intersection of Linton Boulevard. This contains still today heated saltwater pool, a private beach, authentic tropical fauna, and complimentary cabanas. And this is what we can see out there today.

It's meticulously cared for. Sadly in 1986 George passed away ending his five decade long tenure as the Colony Hotel and Cabana Club's co owner. This is the picture I could find of Agnes. Here she is accepting a trophy at the Delray Beach Women's Golf Association luncheon held at Patio Del Rey. This is courtesy of the Historical Society.

Agnes went on to run the business for the next several years until she passed in 1994. George and Agnes's daughter, Justina Bowden, and their niece, Roche then assumed control over the resort and went on to bring it forward with many improvements. They joined the Historic Hotels of America program. This is a national trust preservation program for historic hotels. You can actually go to their directory and find a whole wealth of information on hotels across the country.

This is still one of the most unique destinations to visit here in Florida. And it's not just for its architecture or its current appeal or how well they cared for it. But I think it's also rooted in the longevity of the family ownership of this hotel. In 2001, the Boughton family did a massive series of renovations seeing every public space updated inside of the hotel and the club. There were new services added, including the presence of air conditioning units because the hotel was not air conditioned originally.

This is an artist rendition. It has been the subject of many artists in the community. But I think it's really important to note too what Justina and Hillary have given back to the community. Have Justina, I believe, as a registered landscape architect professionally, she was really committed to preservation and environmental conservation, still is. They donated at one time $1 from every room night to a variety of local charitable causes and then giving the Delray Beach Historical Society $10,000 in 2015.

Here we have their front desk. These are a few photographs. Of course a lot of these photographs are from their website. But all 70 guest rooms that are here today feature the original furniture, furniture, tropical fabrics and colors, hardwood floors, unique Florida artwork and appointments. They also feature dreamy beds. So for those who haven't stayed there or have family coming in town, these are super comfortable beds. You should totally go stay. They have a wonderful amount of things to do. I'm sure many of you have spent time on the patio, the front patio of the Colony Hotel where they've had entertainment. They have a small bar inside.

They have a breakfast as well at the property. This is a screenshot here of Google Maps looking at the property from an aerial view. You can see the cabana here. That's oceanfront. They have, like I said before, that heated saltwater pool. They also serve lunch daily here. The club offers a beautiful setting. So does anybody need to have an event here? I mean they can do it all. They can have sunset cocktail parties, dinners, beach weddings and receptions.

It's really just simply gorgeous, beautiful property. So we just want to say thank you to the Colony Hotel for their continued contribution to historic preservation. They are one of the most historic holiday destinations in all of Florida. And many have hailed this resort a timelessness and that it's a masterpiece and as the best known landmark in Delray Beach. It certainly is not to be missed as you come down Atlantic Avenue. So congratulations to the Colony Hotel in celebrating one hundred years in Delray Beach.

That was fantastic. Thank you. Yes. So a couple of comments on the colony as well. So the bartender's name is George, tell him John sent you.

We actually have the menu, one of the menus from the opening night as well as the guest list on who attended opening night nineteen twenty six. One of my uncles was an investor, lost everything, and then one of my other uncles was at the opening party.

So a

lot of history with the hotel. So yeah, that's George there over on the left. It's a fantastic organization. The family couldn't be any nicer. A lot of people that's in town, you don't even go downtown sometimes if you're local. That's one place you really need to visit and bring visitors from out of town. It's fantastic. So great job.

Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Okay, and then our final what we'd like to do is a touch on we tend to do this little touch every once in a while with Sunday Village. And so we would like to do just a quick touch and update for preservation month to our partners here at the Sunday Village site, Peb Capital. So here is a picture and many of you might remember this is where Subculture Coffee was.

The Delray Beach running company was here. This is the Southwest Corner Of Atlantic in Swinton and what it used to look like. I remember when this building was designed and built in the nineties, early two thousands. This is no longer there, but we do have a very beautiful structure in its place. Sunday Village is, you know, a mixed use project.

It has office and retail and restaurant throughout the site. It actually spans four blocks, so it includes this entire block, the Sunday House, and then two parcels to the east over on Northeast 1st Avenue. So we just wanted to give you some photographs so you could see these are through our site visits. We're constantly out there in a good way. Katharina touches the project every single day just about whether it's through building permits, business tax receipt, site visits.

Other COAs.

Other COAs. I have to say you've done a wonderful job on this project. You're quite the steward in helping all that you do here. Here's some, thank you for giving me a moment to thank her. But here's some more photographs.

You can see in this picture the windmill has been put in place. We were kind of waiting for that with great anticipation. So I think they have really done a wonderful job with this site. They're coming in almost. Think on this site they're probably nearly booked with all of the retail locations and I know the entire office on the 2nd And 3rd Floor of the main building is fully rented.

I think I said booked but I meant rented. This is their pedestrian via that cuts from Lenox in the corner through to the pedestrian via that goes all the way like a spine through the site. And it's really nicely curated. If you have not been out here, take some time and walk the site. They have committed and completed with great help from Winnie at the Historical Society a story map, a personal story map that you can walk through and read a little bit about each of the historic homes.

We have a few before and afters for you to see. So this is the taco stand that we just saw that was known as the Rectory and there was the tea shop, Yaxi Tea Shop I think it was called in this This one I think we refer to as Building C. This now has Van Lewin's ice cream shop here. This is so cute and fun, great place to take the family here for a bite of ice cream. So you can just see the investment.

This was a very important feature to so many people in town. Their original rock wall that over the years just kept shrinking in size. Some of it would fall off, some of it would just disappear and walk off. So they actually dismantled this entire wall, stored it south of the Sunday house and then they came back and reinstalled it. So it's actually mortar installed here on a concrete base. They've got the liriope planted in front. It's really quite gorgeous. This is in front of the Cathcart House. And that leads us to some before and progress and after photos here. This French colonial style structure was the inspiration for the architecture that is on Atlantic Avenue.

You can see that in their railings, their style, the scale of some of their window openings on the upper floor. What you're seeing here was quite a feat. They had to structurally support this building because all of the historic homes on the site were vertically elevated so that a new concrete foundation could be installed underneath and then they were lowered back down. Again ensuring the longevity and preservation of these structures. And what is resulting is just absolutely breathtaking what's happened on the site.

They've done a wonderful job. I think we called this one the Peach House. This had another building brought to it almost sandwiched to its side. This will be a single user in this space. The two structures are not connected through an interior connection but there is a small roof connection. You can kind of see in the background right there. That all came through the board for review and approval. This one we called the Yellow House and it is completed and ready as well for its new tenant. Again you can see these historical markers with the detailing of the story on the site. This landscaping is growing in so gorgeous.

This is the pedestrian via spine that goes up through the middle. This is a public space. So it is dedicated to the public. Some believe that it's private, but it actually is and was negotiated to be a public space. So we encourage you to go out all here and go check out Sunday Village.

It's really turned out to be quite the project. This is the East two blocks that is it's getting very close to being completed where there's a public private parking garage under construction and a multi story two to four story building built. This is at the corner of Northeast and I'm sorry, Southeast 1st Street and Southeast 1st Avenue. It's farther along than it is here. Every day a little bit more happens.

One of the most interesting pieces of this part is they actually have an arcade that extends over the public sidewalk. It's one of the first that the city has had in this configuration. So I would encourage you to go look at that too. And then finally, this is a time lapse video where you can see the houses being prepared. There's actually pilings going in around the site.

The houses are prepared and lifted and they're all moved and shifted out of the way while an underground drainage retention area is being constructed. This is the parking garage that's being constructed right now in this view. We're grateful to them for having the time lapse. They time lapse the entire time they were building. So this is pretty cool to see how fast it goes but it did take some time.

So there is an underground parking garage that houses over 200 parking spaces I believe for use across the site. You can see in the distance here the buildings Atlantic went vertical. Now we're getting the buildings on Southeast 1st Avenue vertical. This is if you were at the Sunday House looking north. So we're looking up that pedestrian spine through the center of the project.

All of the houses are in their final configuration and resting spot, which is close to either exactly where they were or slightly shifted through the relocation approval process with the board. The style of building on the left is also French colonial inspired is in the Anglo Caribbean architectural style. You can see the roofs are going on here. What's also interesting is this pedestrian space that looks like all concrete now actually has landscaping on top, whether they're planters with trees or bushes and they're just starting to come out of the ground here and creates that curvy organic feel as you navigate through the site. And I think it's so impressive to see how large they are with the amount of landscaping that has to be installed here rooting right.

The trees and plants can actually root in these spaces. It's I think nearing completion. We're almost done. You're gonna see the colors come on the house I think next. There was also road improvements that had to happen here which now you're seeing in this image.

They're preparing the right of way for new on street parking. How old is this? This is, I think, two years. So here are the on street parking, on street landscaping, all coming in in play. We don't get an opportunity to show you this enough. It's pretty cool. You can see the deck on the back of the house going in where there will be some outdoor dining.

That's it. Very cool.

So that concludes our honoring of all who have made their important contributions to preservation in Delray Beach and not to be forgotten are all of you. Thank you for coming here once a month and making a commitment to the community and the people that you serve in the community and for always being here for staff as we need your support. So thank you so much for your service to the city.

Thank you. On that note, there will be openings for this board later in the summer, one or two. So if there's anybody who's interested in throwing your hat in the ring, I would encourage you to go on the city website and apply.

Thank you. Before we leave, could we get the award winners and the board together to take a group photograph?

Yeah. Absolutely. There are no reports or comments. I'm gonna adjourn the meeting.

Sure. That's fine. I

had one one comment because I I I've been driving around with a copy of the Wall Street Journal for months. Did you know that you were quoted in the Wall Street Journal?

No. Hope it was good.

It was it was good. They did a really big article on the Paul Rudolph Okay. House and controversy.

Alright.

And and you were quoted, and and it was actually my sister in in Virginia says, hey. Do you know this project? I'm

like, oh.

Look. They quoted

I'd love to see it. Michelle. Wouldn't mind sharing

it. When when we go out, I've I've been dragging it around for for months.

I'm like,

I keep forgetting to bring it in.

Thank you. Awesome. Thank you so much.

Alright. Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Take some pictures.

Yes. Should we stand up here?