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Home My WebLink AboutHPC Oct 28 1993 minuteso t Historic Preservation Commission 621 CLEVELAND BLVD. CALDWELL, IDAHO 83605 TEL.: (2oB) rr5s-3o06 FAX 45$3003 Caldwell Depot Facing Severth Ave- ( 1906) Plec. lde Ew It@ !o. 45t3021 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA October 28, 1993 I ROLL CALL MINUTES: Approval of Minutes of Augus 26, 1993 Approval of Minutes of September 23, 1993 3.TOWN HALL MEETING: Follow-up Discussion; Nampa - "Town Hall" meeting; discuss content & prepantion of concluding, investigative report, findings and recommendations to the City Council. 4.1994 GRANT APPLICATION: Arlington Addition - Historic Survey a) Set Date for Neighborhood/area field rip b) Set date for selection of survey candidates 5.NEXT MEETING DATES: November/December a) Select one date for next Hi$oric heservation C-ommission Meeting; suggest either December 2 or December 9 in view of holiday conflicts 6. ADJOURNMENT: Attachments: a) b) c) Minutes of August 26, 1993 Minutes of September 23, 1993 City Council Resolution No. 29-92 authorizing Hisoric heservation Commission to investigate possible designation of the downtown area of Caldwell as a historic district. 1994 Grant Application: tulington Addition l€tter ftom Mrs. V. Springer , 1722 Dearbom re Walking Tour d) e) c LOW ae Historic Preservation Commission 621 CLEVELAND BLVD, CALDWELL, IDAHO 83605 TEL.: (208) /rst3ooo FAX 455-3m3 Caldwell Depot Facing Sever)th Ave. (1906) MINUTES Meeting of October 2E,199.3 Present: Chair Madeline Buckendorf, Tom Ensley, Bill Gigray Itr, Elaine trppert . Abscnt: Carol Burbanlq Elaine Carpenter, Vivian McKay, Steve Maughan; Staff: Dennis Crooks The October 28, 1993 meeting of the Historic Preservation C-ommission was called to order in the City Council C-onference Room at 7:05 p.m. The Minutes of the meetings of August 26 and September 23,1993 were approved as submiued. Ihe fust item on the agenda was a follow-up discussion on the Nampa "Town Hall" meeting. the group reviewed the City Council Resolution which authorized the Corunission to investigate the role of a possible historic district in downtown revitalization. There was discussion on a report, findings and recommendations to the City Council. A basic outline or fomlat was agreed upon which included the following principal items: purpose of investigation, summary of presentations, findings in the areas of leadership, interest, the need for a downtown plan, basic infrastructure improvements, the role of Business Improvement Districts, and recruitrnent of firnds from a variety of sources. It was further agreed that Dennis and Bill would initially develop and prepare a draft report and present the draft to the Commission at the next meeting. The next item discussed involved sidewalk installation within historic neighborhoods. Bill cited a couple of insances where the park strip sidewalk concept had been abandoned and the sidewalk had been installed next to the curb. The Commission agreed that the park strip sidewalk concept was an essential feature of the Caldwell historic sEeetscape and that random placement of sidewalks in these areas would adversely affect the streetscape appearance and dramatically change the character of these neighborhoods. A motion was adopted by the C-ommission directing Bill to prepare a resolution for submittal to the Engineering Depafirnent to contain specific sandards to honor and maintain the park strip concept when replacing or reconstructing sidewalks in these older residential neighborhoods. The next item on the agenda was the 1994 grant application involving an historic suwey of the Arlington Addition area of Caldwell. A date and time was set for a group neighborhood held trip (Saturday, November 13 at 10.00 a.m.). The C-ommission will meet at City Hdl and then proceed to t}te area in one or two vehicles and begin the process of selecting survey candidates. It was also suggested to do a press release about the Commissionis efforts and intent to perforn historic survey work in this area. 1 a a Due to holiday conflicts, it was agreed that the next regular meeting of the Historic Preservation C-ommission would be Thursday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m. Meetings which would nomrally occur on November 25 and December 23 were cancelled due to Thanksgiving and Chrisurns holiday conflicts. With no was adjofrred affi]]0-p1n. With no fluther discussion, the meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m. The next regularly scheduled meethg of the C-orrmission will be December 9, L993. y submitted, Dennis Crooks, Director Plarming and Zoning ')