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Historic Preservation Commission Meeting Minutes 21 June 2021 Page 2 of 5 Bauer stated that the artist was part of creating another coloring book but it didn't seem like she had made the drawings for that book. Burg shared that the artist, Ms. Satya Wimbish, would do up to two revisions of the images, if needed, which would allow commissioner input, and she would come visit Louisville. Klemme stated that even if Ms. Wimbish had not been an artist on a coloring book like this in the past, she had been through the process and that was clear from her quote. Klemme also suggested being clear about what age group they were aiming for and noted that a kid would have to have fine motor skills to do the more detailed drawings. Dunlap asked if it would be possible to do a variety of options, some complex and some simple. Klemme agreed and suggested having the book read both ways, with one side for kids and one for adults, depending on which way you flipped the book. Burg noted that it might be worthwhile to have the City -owned buildings be the more detailed ones as they could be used in multiple ways, whereas the residential properties might not be as widely reused. She added that kids and adults liked to color. General discussion on the level of detail in the images, in which it was agreed that the Commission was leaning toward having a variety — either using them all in the coloring book or pulling on the variety for several different projects — and that level of detail would be a good thing to discuss with artists. General discussion of which locations to include, in which the following points came up: 1. Residential properties should be landmarked. 2. Many of the non-residential properties on the list were landmarked. 3. It would be difficult to represent agricultural and industrial properties if limiting to landmarked properties. 4. Buildings like Huckleberry and the Methodist Church were national landmarks, not local ones. 5. Different levels of preservation recognition, such as local and national, could be noted in the coloring book. 6. There was general agreement that the list did not have to be limited to landmarks but the non-landmarked buildings should be crowd-pleasers that would increase interest. 7. The Rex Theatre didn't look like a theatre anymore and could be represented by a historic photograph. Burg shared that the information for the properties was ready and just needed to be edited, and the blurbs on the online map were already a good length. The Commission continued to discuss whether to limit the list to landmarks. Haley stated that the book was for outreach, so it should be a way of promoting what had been done versus taking time to explain the different levels of landmarking. She thought that someone could be confused thinking that a property was protected because it was in the book, when it was not protected. That could create a false sense of security and confusion. 2