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HDC_11 10 20081 DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 723 West Markham Street Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1334 Phone: (501) 371-4790 Fax: (501) 399-3435 LITTLE ROCK HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION MINUTES Monday, November 10, 2008, 5:00 p.m. Sister Cities’ Conference Room, City Hall I. Roll Call Quorum was present being five (5) in number. Members Present: Marshall Peters Julie Wiedower Susan Bell Bob Wood Randy Ripley Members Absent: None City Attorney: Debra Weldon Staff Present: Eve Gieringer Brian Minyard Citizens Present: Boyd Maher II. Approval of Minutes A motion was made by Commissioner Julie Wiedower to approve the minutes of October 13, 2008 with corrections as noted. The corrections are on page 4 – change “the’ to “she”; page 10 change “CLG” to “CDBG”, page 10 – change “owners hip” to “ownership”, page 8 change “be come” to “become” and page 7 change “1950” to ‘1950’s”. Commissioner Bob Wood seconded and the minutes were approved with a vote of 5 ayes and 0 noes. III. Deferred Certificates of Appropriateness None IV. Certificates of Appropriateness None 2 V. Other Matters A: Enforcement issues: Handouts were given to the commissioners. Tonya Robinson Fisher will need to have her lights down by mid November (30 days from meeting). Caroline Apartments – Debra Weldon, City Attorney’s office, is to check into enforcement on this item. This will be covered in a workshop item. Arc Arkansas is making progress on this item. Lisa Lynn Ross is repairing and does not have her windows back. There was a meeting on site with Staff and the owners and it was a good meeting. Chairman Marshall Peters asked Ms. Weldon about changes of ownership and if the COA transfers to the new owners. That item is on the workshop items. Ms. Weldon is checking on this. Commissioner Julie Wiedower asked about the house on Daisy Bates (Arlene Sullivan). Staff stated that they are painting inside and continuing work. B: Preservation Plan Update: There should be another meeting in November for our second phase. The Staff is ready to do the mailing for the next meeting. The City of Little Rock is further along than any other city in the State. C: Ownership of the Dunbar Survey: Mr. Minyard spoke with Lisa Spigner, CDBG coordinator, about the ownership. The document will be a City of Little Rock owned document. Staff left it at that point for now with the Housing staff. Staff is scanning MacArthur Park right now to make it more available to the public; Staff would like to scan the Dunbar Survey when it is finished. The consultant is required to survey to the AHPP standards. Boyd Maher is worried that his Staff may be reluctant to review it for national register eligibility unless the original is in their archives. Staff is confident that the ownership issue can be worked out. A discussion was held about the national standards about slide issues and not using digital images. A discussion was held concerning the timeline of the Dunbar Survey and a discussion was had about writing a letter (individually or by the commission as a whole) to the City Manager about the timeline. The commissioners are asking for an update. A motion was made by Commissioner Susan Bell to request that the City Manager attend the next hearing to discuss the status of the project. It was seconded by Commissioner Julie Wiedower. The motion passed with a vote of 5 ayes and 0 noes. Bob Wood suggested that the wording be “request the city manager to appear”; it would be more 3 forceful. Chairman Peters said that it should be more informal and use the word invite. A motion was made by Commissioner Susan Bell to request that additionally Andre Bernard and Lisa Spigner should be invited the next hearing to discuss the status of the project in relation to the CDBG funding cycles. It was seconded by Commissioner Julie Wiedower. The motion passed with a vote of 5 ayes, 0 noes C: MacArthur Park Group Master Plan for MacArthur Park Commissioner Julie Wiedower commented on the conflict of the MacArthur Park design meetings with the HDC meetings. She expressed concern that the HDC meetings are rushed to accommodate their schedule. It was stated that this was anticipated to be the last meeting of the series. Brian Minyard has requested of Sharon Priest and Truman Tollfree that the Conway Schulte group make a presentation to the Historic District Commission concerning the plan. Chairmen Peters asked what happens if a department of the city executes work in the MacArthur Park district without a COA. Ms. Weldon stated that it would be an enforcement issue. Chairmen Peters expressed his concern over the approval of the Conway Schulte plan without HDC approval. Commissioner Wiedower asked about the construction of structures or implementation of the plan. Debra Weldon stated that before implementation of any part of the plan occurs, the City of Little Rock would be required to obtain a COA from the HDC; i.e.: Korean Memorial. The Police Substation was also mentioned. A discussion was held about appeals to the HDC going to court instead of the Board of Directors. D: Work Plan Commissioner Wiedower complimented Staff on the format of the work plan. She continued that if the commission were going to adjourn in time, there would not be any discussion on the work plan tonight. On page 6 and 7, on the vinyl windows, she asked about the terminology of clad windows and vinyl windows. After the discussion, the Suggested Text of Policy Section on page 7 stands with no changes. Boyd Maher, AHPP, discussed the cons of using vinyl windows. E: Citizen Communication: None. VI. Adjournment There was a motion to adjourn. The meeting ended at 5:48 p.m. 4 Attest: ___________________________ _________________________ Chair Date ___________________________ _________________________ Secretary/Staff Date