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HPAC Committee Minutes
December 6, 2023
5:00PM – 6:00PM
Community Development/Engineering Services Building – 51 Winburn Way
5:00PM CALL TO ORDER
Hovenkamp called the meeting to order at 5:01
Commissioners Present: Council Liaison:
Shostrom Jeff Dahle
Hovenkamp Staff Present:
Emery Derek Severson; Planning Manager
Repp Regan Trapp; Admin Support
Scharen
Whitford
Bonetti
Commissioners Absent: Skibby
READING OF LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Land Acknowledgement was read by Hovenkamp.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA (5 min)
Commissioner suggested amendments to Agenda.
Amendments to the agenda include the following:
o Heritage Tourism Workshop - 15 min presentation during public forum.
o Input on upcoming curb ramp project in the Historic Districts (ODOT)
o 774 B Street project.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES (5 min)
Historic Commission meeting of November 8, 2023.
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PUBLIC FORUM (15 min)
Maureen Battistella spoke regarding the Heritage Tourism Workshop. (See attachment A)
Travel Southern Oregon has funded (by a grant) Jackson County Heritage Advocacy to
present the upcoming workshops and fund a new travel brochure to include historic
Ashland. Maureen would like the brochure to include a link to the Ashland.or.us/historic
website which would include all State of Oregon history and heritage websites.
(See attachment B)
ODOT Curb Ramp Project
Charlotte Helmer with ODOT presented the options for the project with upgrades along E. Main
and Lithia. They are required to follow accessibility standards that have color, detectable edges,
and surfaces for all their designs. She welcomes the Committee’s feedback and comments
and will take them back to the team for further research. There are incredibly specific guidelines
and standards that they must follow but they do have flexibility in some cases. They are
mandated to move quickly on this project and need to have suggestions submitted soon.
(See attachment C)
Committee Suggestions
Raised curb with better contained bark and landscaping to be maintained by the city.
Charlotte encourages the Committee to write ODOT voicing their preferences (items specifically
addressing the impact to the historic districts) to this project so that in upcoming phases, they
can take suggestions (outside the preferred choices or comments on Phase 1) into
consideration. Letters from the Committee need to be submitted to ODOT and PW Works
Director, Scott Fleury, by mid-December 2023.
Severson to verify the timeline for the ODOT project.
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LIAISON REPORTS (5 min)
Councilor Dahle gave a liaison report. Items discussed were:
Councilor Dahle expressed thanks to the Committee members for their hard work.
5G wireless ordinance and how it affects visual in the public ROW. He will be looking for
input from the committee. (This item will be reviewed by the Committee in January or
February)
Severson gave the staff report. Items discussed were:
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Committee appreciation event and workplan review is on December 18 at council
chambers. Trapp to send reminder to Committee to put on their calendar.
(5:40) PLANNING ACTION REVIEW (20 min)
PLANNING ACTION: PA-T1-2023-00220
SUBJECT PROPERTY: 38 E Main St
APPLICANT/OWNER: Cynthia Guthrie for Bingham Sacks LLC
DESCRIPTION: A request for a Site Review for an exterior change to a Historic Contributing
building. Changes include adding a roll up window with a new counter on the left side of the
entrance and removing existing planter boxes at the corner window to the right of the
entrance. The entrance itself is to remain unchanged. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DESIGNATION:
Commercial; ZONING: C-1-D; MAP: 39 1E 09 BB; TAX LOT: 99001
There was no conflict of interest or ex-parte contact indicated by the Committee.
There were no applicants present.
Severson gave the staff report for PA-T1-2023-00220.
(4:55) DISCUSSION ITEMS (10 min)
A. Review Board
B. Heritage Tourism Workshop
C. 774 B Street project – Details of the project were discussed, and the Historic Review Board
will be reviewing the plans on 12/7/2023.
ADJOURNMENT
Next meeting is scheduled January 3, 2024, at 4:00pm at, 51 Winburn Way
There being no other items to discuss, the meeting adjourned at 7:06pm
Respectfully submitted by Regan Trapp
Attachment C
DRAFT: ODOT ADA
C. Helmer, v.11.17.2023
Summary
This document is intended to provide basic
commonly used to create non-walkable surfaces around curb ramps. ODOT uses a variety of treatments
site-
that non-walkable surfaces have
and color contraFlares (also
in this document are provided by ODOT. hotos
provided
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that each curb
ramp is .
sidewalk. This is done to shorten (area where pedestrians are .
-can create asymmetrical or curbed islands.
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Bark M L
Concerns include maintenance burden to reinstall or re-seed
pedestrian routes.
Attachment C
Attachment C
RM
tendency for people to throw rocks, tendency for material to spread into roadways and pedestrian
. This treatment was previously used as a
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of repair, and
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or stamped rock concrete. ;
sandstone is in development.
and
(such as brick are typically too smooth to meet accessibility standards. The
color-s
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