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Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Minutes September 24, 2018 Page3of5 Chuck Thomas made a motion to find probable cause for 533 Lincoln. Fahey seconded. Roll call. Motion passed unanimously. DISCUSSION/DIRECTION/ACTION 726/720 Front PUD Amendment • Applicant and Representative: Arch11, Inc. James Trewitt 3100 Carbon Place, #100 Boulder, CO 80301 • Case Manager: Kristin Dean, Principal Planner Applicant: Archll, Inc. Dickinson stated that he was a tenant of the two-story structure next door which is owned by the same entity as the building under review, but he did not think it posed an issue since the conversation was about the first -story structure. Haley asked if any of the other commissioners saw an issue with Dickinson's disclosure. None did. Dean presented a request for a PUD amendment to remove and replace the existing materials on the facade of 720 Front Street. She guided the commissioners through the criteria in the guidebook. She also presented the history of the building, which was built as a cement block building in 1958 and refaced around 1990 with stucco. Dean also described the application. There is an eclectic mix of materials on the block currently, including stucco, brick, wood, CMU, and metal. Fiber -cement is not common, but has been approved in the past. The applicants believe that the proposed materials contributed to the aesthetics of the block. The next steps for the application were the Planning Commission and City Council. Haley invited the applicant to speak. James Trewitt, 1360 Elizabeth Street in Denver, stated that he wanted to return some identity to the single -story building, which had been subsumed by the newer second - story building next to it. The applicant also wanted to return it to some of its original aesthetic. The cement block had been damaged by the insulation and the stucco, so the applicant provided a material that was similar to reintroduce the 8-inch banding that was there in the original building. The applicant also wanted to reintroduce a stronger scale difference between the storefront and the larger building. The metal accent material was meant to be a secondary material to draw attention to the human -scale areas of the building. Dickinson asked if the windows were changing.