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<, am going to defer this matter until next month. Truthfully, I don't need to have another approval by this commission for 619 Sherman since it has already been approved twice. I asked Catherine to put this on the agenda because I wanted to hear if anything new was coming up. JOHN LIVINGSTON: I did talk to Cathy Brucker and she has no problem with it. I believe the house has been boarded up since then. JOHN OXIAN: It has been boarded up and if we continue on playing games with it like we have done for two years now; invariably there is not going to be much left of it. LYNN PATRICK: I have one addendum to add to this for the benefit of the commission. When I visited the property on Sunday, a woman from the neighborhood and a man driving by in a truck told me that this property was listed somewhere for sale for rent to own. I have not found that ad or anything about it. Something is going on with this property. The woman I spoke with said that the ad was in the neighborhood newspaper. I went to Lincoln Way Foods and looked around and could not find any neighborhood newspaper. JOHN OXIAN: I receive the neighborhood newspaper/newsletter and the ad is not in there. I am going to go and talk with the neighborhood director, Karen Ainsley, about this and see if she has anything in mind for this property. Maybe I can encourage her to do something with this property since they have been picking up properties around there and further down on Cushing Street. I am going to say to her that there is another half to the neighborhood besides just that area and it is time she makes her move to do so. 2. 16977 Adams Interim Protection for Grass Roots Proposal to Landmark 1880 Barn TIMOTHY JANOWIAK: (Refer to white copy of letter sent by Mr. Janowiak to Catherine Hostetler, HPC director, requesting an interim protection for landmark status for an 1880 barn located at 16977 Adams Road in Granger, Indiana). Mr. Janowiak briefly informed the commission that he believes the present owner, Mr. James Sieradzki, plans to destroy the 1880 barn that is on his property to build three new houses. A few years ago, the barn had been restored by Amish craftsmen. It is solid, straight with a field stone foundation; possibly older 1865-1870. It is beautiful, majestic and should remain part of the neighborhood. There is also a milk house/cooler on the property. It is one of the few bams remaining in Granger. Mr. Janowiak also brought in the original abstract of the property for commission members to look over. The commission asked Mr. Janowiak if he would allow them to make a copy of the original abstract for their office records, and he stated that he would allow them to do so. John Oxian stated that sometime between the late 1970's and the early 1980's he had sent a letter to the owner to make the property a landmark. Since it was one of his earlier landmarks he only tried to make the barn a landmark and not the house. The homeowners denied his request because they wanted both the house and the barn made landmarks. The only way you are going to stop the present owner and make him reconsider is to find out how soon he plans to do this project and then go in for an interim protection. John then read the ordinance on the procedures on how to establish interim protection for a building. A brief detailed discussion was then held between Mr. Janowiak and commission members regarding what further steps need to be taken to protect this 1880's barn from being tom down.