HPC Meeting — 2012-03-28
Present: Burl Gilliam (Chairman), R. Lee Derr (Vice-Chairman), Ashley Anderson, Sean Shope, Margaret Telford, Ted Ware Absent: Justin Powers, Shane Wilbanks Liaisons: Monica Hotelling (P&Z Liaison) Staff: David Klempin (Historic Preservation Officer), Mary Bush (Historic Preservation Secretary)
Public hearing items
CA12-11 — 1331 West Wall Street
Work: Subdivide the historic H. H. Yancy Farmhouse (1897) property; rezone southern portion into two R-7.5 single-family lots; create two PO office lots; restore the farmhouse exterior and adaptively reuse the interior as professional offices Type: other Staff rec: Approve with conditions that all plans, materials, doors, windows and paint colors be approved under separate CAs Discussion: Klempin praised the plans for keeping open space so the property 'still appear[s] as a farmstead'; Derr raised landmark-overlay questions about crushed-granite drives and wanted the new rear homes to blend with Pebble Brook Drive; Shope insisted on a historic marker, and Telford and Ware agreed it should be at the commission's ('our') expense with a Grapevine Historical Society medallion; Ware was 'happy to see this property come forward.' Outcome: approved with conditions (5-0 (recorded ayes: Gilliam, Derr, Anderson, Shope, Ware)) — moved Margaret Telford, second Ted Ware Conditions: Separate CAs required to subdivide and rezone the south lots; All materials, stone, windows and doors to be approved by Certificate of Appropriateness
CA12-12 — 309 West College Street ⭐College St
Work: Construct new two-car garage and wood deck in rear yard; convert existing one-car side garage into a porte cochere for rear-yard access from College Street (J. C. 'Jake' and Faye Long Greener House, home of Grapevine's first fire chief) Type: garage_outbuilding, hardscape Staff rec: Approve with conditions that all exterior materials, windows, doors and paint colors be approved under a separate CA Discussion: Applicant cited a parking problem with no legal parking; Klempin flagged that the garage sat three feet from the boundary where five feet is required, but said the new garage had 'a nice proportional relationship' with the main house and neighbors. Outcome: approved (5-0 (recorded ayes: Gilliam, Derr, Anderson, Shope, Ware)) — moved Sean Shope, second Margaret Telford
Staff-approved CAs (3)
CA12-08 405 East Texas Street; CA12-09 414 East Texas Street; CA12-10 924 East Worth Street
Other business: February 22 minutes approved as corrected: Sean Shope had formally abstained from the CA12-07 (BIATWIC LLC/Tony Bologna) vote.
Commissioners volunteered public money for a historic marker on the Yancy farmstead, underscoring their promotional as well as regulatory role.
📄 Full verbatim minutes: Transcript HPC 2012-03-28
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