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Historic and Architectural Review Commission
Minutes
Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.
Council and Courts Building
101 E. Th Street Geor;etown, TX 78626
Members present: Nancy Knight, Vice -Chair; Justin Bohls; Shawn Hood, Richard Mee and Lawrence
Romero.
Commissioners in Training present: Michael Friends and Lynn Williams
Commissioners absent: Lee Bain, Chair; Patty Eason; and CIT, Jan Daum
Staff present: Matt Synatschk, Historic District Planner; Sofia Nelson, Planning Director; and Karen
Frost, Recording Secretary.
Callao Order by Vice -chair Knight at 6:00 p.m. with the reading of the meeting procedures.
Regular Session
A. Welcome and Meeting Procedures
Legislative Regular Agenda
B. Consideration and possible action to approve the minutes of the September 22, 2016 regular
meeting.
Motion by Mee to approve the minutes as submitted. Second by Hood. Approved 5-0-2. (Bain
and Eason absent.)
C. Public Hearing and possible action on a request for a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) for
exterior alterations for the property located at 1264 South Church Street bearing the legal
description of Logan Addition, Block 1, Lot 5-6, 4 (E/PT) (CDC -2016-034)
Synatschk presented the staff report and made a recommendation to approve the changes to the
south fagade and enclosing the second floor balcony on the east fagade. Staff recommends approval
with conditions of the new primary entrance door, excluding the sidelights. Commissioners asked
questions about the original south facing door with the side windows, and about whether the front
porch columns would remain. Synatschk introduced the applicant's representative, Carl Illig who
stated the applicants wanted to have the side windows on the south door. He also asked for
flexibility to remove the front porch columns if it was decided that it would not be structurally
sound to keep them in the enclosed porch. Hood agreed with the concerns about the viability of
being able to waterproof the front enclosure with the porch columns remaining in place.
Vice -chair Knight opened the Public Hearing and with no speakers coming forth, closed the
hearing.
Motion by Bohls to approve the application as submitted by the applicant, allowing the
sidelights. Second by Lawrence. Approved 5 - 0 - 2. (Bain and Eason absent.)
After further discussion, Mee made a motion to allow the applicant flexibility to remove the
columns on the Church Street porch if they so choose. Second by Bohls. Approved 5 - 0 - 2.
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(Bain and Eason absent.)
D. Comments or Questions by Commissioner -in -Training. There were no comments made.
E. Updates on downtown Projects and Events
• Austin Avenue Bridges are still being reviewed. Go to austinavenue@georgetown.org for
more details.
• Historic Resource Survey: work is ongoing by the consultants. They are working on the
forms and the GIS map. Staff is expecting a draft report by the end of October. There will
be notifications of public meetings and a comment period for homeowners to meet with
the consultants and/or staff.
• The next HARC meeting will be Thursday, December 8th
• The next Breakfast Bites meeting will be held November 161h.
Adjournment
Motion by Knight, second by Romero to adjourn at 6:55 p.m. Approved 7 — 0.
Approved, Nancy Knight, Vice -Chair Attest, Lawrence Romero, Secretary
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