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Home My WebLink About2016-11-02 Historic MIN ASHLAND HISTORIC COMMISSION Meeting Minutes November 2, 2016 Community Development/Engineering Services Building 51 Winburn Way Siskiyou Room CALL TO ORDER: Commission Chair, Shostrom called the meeting to order at 6:01pm in the Siskiyou Room at the Community Development and Engineering Offices located at 51 Winburn Way, Ashland OR 97520. Commissioners Present: Council Liaison: Shostrom Carol Voisin Skibby Leonard Staff Present: Whitford Mark Schexnayder; Staff Liaison Emery Regan Trapp; Secretary Swink Von Chamier Commissioners Absent: Giordano APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Swink motioned to approve minutes from October 5, 2016. Leonard seconded. Voice vote; All AYES. Motion passed PUBLIC FORUM: There was no one in the audience wishing to speak. COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT: Voisin gave the Council Liaison report. Items discussed were: The City Hall discussion is coming back to City Council meeting on Dec 20. Voisin stated that she th will ask if this discussion can be moved to a later date. The Schaeffer case has been settled. The removal of trees at Lithia Way/Pioneer moved to Dec 20 meeting. th Council will review removing public art from Chapter 18 on Nov 15 at 7PM. Historic Commission is th encouraged to come. Winter shelter for the homeless has been approved for Tue/Thurs evenings (Pioneer Hall) and Sunday may be added as well. Council considered and passed a motion to purchase land necessary for the Washington Street extension. cost $331,000. This is an 800 foot street that comes out on Tolman Creek Rd and will come to a cost of about 2 million dollars. Council wanted change their mind. Electricity will increase 7% for rates and 1.50 for the base charge to eventually reach 14.00. This is called cost of service for the operations of the electric department and the Council will have to vote on this. DISCUSSION ITEMS: Continued discussion of proposed ordinance amendments for public art installations on historic contributing buildings. Shostrom gave a brief history on the relationship of the PAC and the Historic Commission and what has happened in the past year. The Historic Commission (HC) had a lengthy discussion which included many positive comments including 1) appreciation that the draft ordinance include HC review both early (call for artists) and later in the public art process (public art concepts) for proposals in the historic districts, 2) that Section f reflects suggestion 4 of hen concepts for public art in or near a historic district are being considered for final approval HC written input should be requested by the PAC and linked to online n the Earthly Goods corridor public art process including the Public Arts Commission Chair presenting the RFP and the opportunity for the HC to review and comment on the RFP Draft AMC 2.29.165 · Section A: Call for artists (call for entries, RFQ, RFP) artist to all public art in historic districts rather than limiting to listed or contributing structures. · Sections B - E change to public art installations on structures in historic districts permitted on noncontributing structures using process and standards outlined in sections B thru E. Prohibit public art installations on individually listed or historic contributing structures. The HC concern is that painting or attaching public art to a historic contributing building permanently alters the building materials, structure and/or architectural features. Additionally, the HC discussed that public art, like buildings, can be in place for long periods of time and therefore a change to a historic contributing structure can last a generation or more. Cities in Oregon such as Portland, Salem and Milwaukie prohibit public art installations on historic contributing g buildings to address potential damage to buildings, changes to architectural features, and broader concerns regarding degree of change in nature or character of the historic districts as a whole. · B.3 advertisements) may be professionally restored but shall not be painted over, even if faded. · Section C Item 1: Scale replace with criteria from AMC 2.29.130.B.6 in a site where it is overwhelmed or competing with the scale of the site, adjacent architecture, Items 5-7 move items 5-7 to section B. · Section E - increase notice are to 300 feet of the perimeter of the subject site. · Section F Public art concepts (public art proposals) Art Commission shall be provided with 45 days of delivery of the artists concepts to the Other · Historic Commission Powers and Duties Add review of public art to list of items the Historic Commission reviews (2.24.040) Clarify that public art sited or installed on structures includes murals and pieces affixed to a structure. There was a straw vote (4-3 to not allow public art installations on any buildings in historic district) The following Commissioners were in favor: Shostrom, Skibby, Leonard, and Swink. o The following Commissioners were against: Whitford, Von Chamier, and Emery. o 5-2 only allow public art installations on noncontributing buildings. The following Commissioners were in favor: Shostrom, Swink, Emery, Von Chamier, and Whitford. o The following Commissioners were against: Skibby and Leonard. o Ms. Harris interjected and let the Commission know that in the Downtown Historic District 28% of the buildings are noncontributing and 72% are contributing (section B-E). There were some questions from Leonard about increasing the noticing area to 300 feet (Section E). Ms. Harris explained that 200 feet would be consistent with land use application notices. NEW ITEMS: Review board schedule Commission adjourned before this item could get done. Trapp will send the schedule through email. Project assignments for planning actions This item did not get taken care of and will be pushed to the next meeting. Historic Preservation Week: May 14 20 2017 was the date decided for this event. thth OLD BUSINESS: No old business to discuss. COMMISSION ITEMS NOT ON AGENDA: There were no items to discuss. Review Board Schedule Nov 3rd Terry, Keith, Bill Nov 10th Terry, Taylor, Sam Nov 17th Terry, Taylor, Sam Weds Nov 23rd Terry December 1st Terry, Bill, Piper December 8th Terry, Bill, Keith Project Assignments for Planning Actions PA-2014-01956 Lithia & First All PA-2014-00710/711 143/135 Nutley Swink & Whitford PA-2014-01283 172 Skidmore Shostrom PA-2014-02206 485 A Street NEED ASSIGNED PA-2015-00178 156 Van Ness Ave Shostrom PA -2015-00374 160 Lithia Way Emery PA-2015-00878 35 S. Pioneer NEED ASSIGNED PA-2015-01496 35 S. Second-Winchester Inn Shostrom PA-2015-01695 399 Beach Skibby PA-2015-01769 860 C NEED ASSIGNED PA-2015-01517 209 Oak Shostrom PA-2015-02203 868 A Street Whitford PA-2016-00073 151 Pioneer Swink PA-2016-00275 574 Allison Emery PA-2016-00387 95 N. Main Shostrom PA-2016-00763 5 N. Main Swink PA-2016-00209 25 N. Main NEED ASSIGNED PA-2016-00818 175 Pioneer Shostrom & Skibby PA-2016-00847 252 B Street Whitford PA-2016-00587 872 Siskiyou Blvd Skibby PA-2016-01027 276 B Street Shostrom & Leonard PA-2016-01641 221 Oak Street Shostrom ANNOUNCEMENTS & INFORMATIONAL ITEMS: Next meeting is scheduled December 7, 2016 at 6:00 pm There being no other items to discuss, the meeting adjourned at 8:05pm Respectfully submitted by Regan Trapp