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Historic Preservation Commission <br />Meeting Minutes <br />February 18, 2019 <br />Page 7 of 13 <br />Ulm added that the matching language in the commercial grant helped make the <br />program simpler. And no one had done a project for under that amount. <br />Gordon Medona, History Commission liaison, who lived on Garfield in Louisville, stated <br />that back in the 1980s the City of Louisville waived permit and square footage fees for <br />adding onto old structures. He suggested waiving the fees rather than giving $15,000. <br />Thomas asked for staff's input on the fee question. <br />Zuccaro replied that this had come up before and the issue with fee forgiveness — <br />whether an impact fee or a building permit fee — the issue was that when the City <br />reimbursed those fees other parts of the City paid, not the Fund. The City could not <br />waive fees outright for that reason. The money would have to come in the form of a <br />reimbursement from the Historic Preservation Fund. <br />Dickinson thought it was more complicated to do fees than get money from the Fund <br />directly. He noted that if an applicant was going to build a brand-new building, they <br />would still have to pay those fees. <br />Haley added that if the $15,000 and the fee amount might be similar. <br />Klemme and Haley discussed covering fees up to a certain amount. <br />Ulm stated that any money given needed to be directly for preservation. He also wanted <br />to let applicants decide how to allocate their grants within the confines of the approved <br />scope of work. <br />Zuccaro gave the example of a 1200-square foot addition for which the fee would be <br />about $7,000 plus taxes. <br />Haley noted that in that case the $15,000 would cover the fees and then some. <br />Ulm asked if there was anything that said applicants could not use the money for permit <br />fees. <br />Haley replied that she did not think so. <br />Thomas stated that the purpose of the grants were to incentivize additions that the <br />Commission approved. <br />Klemme stated that they could leave it out of the language but use the fee idea as a <br />way to market the Fund <br />Dickinson summarized that the Commission was recommending $50,000 plus $15,000 <br />and matching, and matching the commercial $75,000. <br />