Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2019 04 29

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Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Minutes March 18, 2019 Page 10 of 13 Dickinson replied that the bonus was not about compensating for the time spent in landmarking, it was about providing enough of an incentive. He thought that offering $10,000 to landmark was the cheapest way to incentivize landmarking. Zuccaro asked if the bonus language would be the same for commercial and residential properties. Dickinson thought the reasoning was the same so the language should be the same. Ulm thought $75,000 was a lot of money to give just for landmarking, even if that's what the City wanted applicants to do. He was worried that a citizen who didn't care about landmarking might wonder why an applicant was getting that much money to preserve something like a clock. Dickinson replied that there were not a lot of commercial buildings that could use this money and the citizens of Louisville had asked the City to stop demolitions. Haley added that there were few landmarked commercial buildings and there was a push to landmark them. Dickinson moved to change the $10,000 unmatched grant to a signing bonus for residential and the $75,000 for commercial to a signing bonus as well; remove the wording of extraordinary circumstances and change to "showing of good cause" for timeline extensions; and to remove the landmark language from the new construction rants for commercial and residential structures. Thomas seconded. Voice vote. 6 yays. Commissioner Klemme abstained. Motion passed. Recess at 8:33 PM. Reconvened at 8:42 PM. Public Outreach Selvoski presented several future outreach ideas from staff, including a meeting with the Downtown Business Association, direct mailings to residents, continuing the coaster program, hosting a public speaker series, increased social media presence, and reaching out to realtors. She invited other suggestions from the Commission. She also requested direction from the commissioners about how they wanted to implement the outreach programs. Parris recommended having a discussion on what the Commission wanted to do and then deciding how the commissioners wanted to organize the process. She noted that a two -person subcommittee for all outreach work, as they had done last year, was too much work for that small group. Haley suggested having a subcommittee for each outreach project. Dickinson agreed.