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• • • MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Regular Monthly Meeting (Revised) 7:30 p.m. County Commissioner's Conference Room Monday March 17, 1997 7th Floor County -City Building I. Call to Order John Oxian, President of the commission, brought the meeting to order at 7:35 p.m. II. Roll Call Commission members present were: John Borkowski, Richard Bullene, Martha Choitz, Catherine Hostetler, John Oxian, Janeanne Petrass, J. Edward Talley. and Jerry Wiener. Commission staff present were: David Duvall, Director, Melody VanZant, Administrative Assistant, and Aladean DeRose, Counsel. III. Public Hearing A. Certificates of Appropriateness 1. 1997-0304 - 1028 East Wayne Street (LL) - Gutter Installation Mr. Duvall read the Staff comments and distributed photographs. He also called to attention the previous COA that was issued back on November 21, 1991. That COA asked to replace the roof to resemble the original. However, the roof was put on without the pediment over the porch which_ is nota causing the problem of water dripping on the steps forming a hazard. Mr. Duvall noted that the contact person is Randy McKinley, a maintenance person, who seems willing to work with HPC, although, he did not show up at the meeting of which he was aware. Mr. Oxian stated that the previous COA was turned over to a committee. At that time, someone from the Family and Children's Center was present at the meeting. JoAnn Sporleder, Chairman of the committee, was at that meeting. Mr. Oxian said he could not imagine Ms. Sporleder giving permission to remove a pediment. " What they did", said Mr. Oxian, "was their own fault, and without the approval of the commission". He stated that the roofing people that the Children's Center hired was in violation of the COA. Mr. Duvall stated that there were framing plans in .the 1991 file that indicated how the framing was to run. The drawings did not indicate the pediment roof which would be built up over the other roof anyway, and it wouldn't have been necessary to express that in the plans, but it did create a little ambiguity in the record that there were plans indicating the roof to be built a certain way, but no elevations indicating what the finished product would look like. The presumption and understanding would be that the pediment would have been reconstructed. Mr. Oxian remarked that the initial reason this was sent to the committee was that the owners wanted to eliminate the pediment. Mr. Oxian stated that he could not imagine the committee disagreeing only to later agree with the owners. Mr. Talley remarked how this was an excellent example of why we should do follow up once a COA is given. He asked if it would be a problem to install a pediment now that the roof was already shingled and Mr. Duvall assured that it would be no problem with the exception of minor color mismatch. Mrs. Choitz expressed how important it was to always take minutes at the committee meetings for reasons such as this. Mr. Duvall mentioned that what was requested on the COA should have been followed. Mr. Oxian stated that this was clearly a violation of the COA. Father Bullene made a motion to deny the 1997 COA due to the violation of the