Historic Preservation Commission Agenda and Packet 2021 04 19

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Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Minutes 15 March 2021 Page 4 of 8 Burg made a motion to find probable cause and fund a commercial HSA for 724 and 728 Main Street. Dunlap seconded. Motion passed unanimously by roll call vote. ITEMS FROM STAFF Updates on Project List — Historic Structure Assessment Bauer addressed Commissioner Dunlap's question from earlier and shared that she had been working on the table. It was up to the Commissioners if they wanted to share that table with the public, though she had been treating it as an internal working document. Dunlap stated that he was fine with having it as a table for the Commission but he understood that commissioners could not comment on it if it wasn't public. He thought it could be a link on the agenda or something similar and he thought it had to be public. Bauer replied that she intended it to be part of the staff agenda. Haley added that she thought only staff would have access to the document to make changes. Bauer confirmed. Bauer reviewed the HSA memo from the staff packet, which included the following questions: • What are the HSA standards and should they be updated? • What are the city's requirements for an HSA? • Who can complete an HSA? Should or can this be updated? Bauer shared that the standards matched the State of Colorado and those standards were shared with the contractors completing the assessment. She shared the process, which included a more recent change to require that all assessments needed to submit a draft to staff to ensure that it was a complete assessment. Bauer shared that there was a list of potential consultants for people who needed a place to get started, but the City does not give recommendations and potential contractors were not limited to staff's list. She shared the requirements of the consultants, including that the architect and structural engineer must be licensed in the state of Colorado, the architect must be the primary consultant on the project, and the contractors should be able to interpret and apply the Secretary of the Interior historic properties standards. She noted that these were all state -level standards, as well, and that staff had added some of the language recently to clarify the practices that had been ongoing beforehand. Haley stated that the additions were very thorough and made things clearer. She stated that the HSA amount increase had been changed recently and in that conversation the Commission had discussed requiring a structural engineer to be involved in the assessment. Klemme confirmed and noted that the Commission had seen a number of "extraordinary circumstances" requests and if those requests were due to structural integrity, such as foundational issues, maybe the Commission wanted an engineer signing off on that to get better numbers for the "extraordinary circumstances" grant. 4 5