HPC Meeting — 2014-09-24

September 24, 2014

Present: Burl Gilliam (Chairman), R. Lee Derr (Vice Chairman), Ashley Anderson, Vick Cox, Margaret Telford, Sean Shope, Chuck Voelker (Alternate) Absent: Ted Ware, Shane Wilbanks (City Council Liaison), Monica Nance (Planning & Zoning Liaison) Staff: Paul W. McCallum (Executive Director, Grapevine Convention), David Klempin (Historic Preservation Officer), Mary Bush (Historic Preservation Secretary)

Public hearing items#

HL14-07 — 705 East Texas Street#

Work: Historic Landmark Overlay for a 710 sq ft 1946 minimal traditional house in the College Heights Addition, part of the Original Town Residential Historic District. Type: designation Staff rec: Approval of the historic overlay to record the property's history and give the Commission input in the development of the house, per the proposed design guidelines. Discussion: Staff presented the asymmetrical gabled house, sheathed in No. 105 wood siding with aluminum windows ('a popular and sophisticated feature for the 1940s'), as part of College Heights' intact late-19th/early-20th-century fabric. Outcome: approved (6-0) — moved Margaret Telford, second Ashley Anderson

CA14-59 — 705 East Texas Street#

Work: Renovate and incorporate the existing 710 sq ft 1946 house into a new 1.5-story traditional-style house of 3,188 sq ft with a 499 sq ft detached two-car garage; lift the original house onto a new foundation; designed to be compatible with landmarked neighbors at Texas and Wood Streets. Type: addition, garage_outbuilding Staff rec: Approval with conditions: HL14-07 approved for the property; all exterior materials, windows, doors, light fixtures and paint colors approved under separate CAs. Discussion: Cooper described injecting a soil stabilizer so 'you are back to a foundation good for 100 years' and designing the house 'to mirror the Dr. Davis house across the street,' using 105 siding and wood windows. Derr wanted 'to keep the same feel as the original house'; Cooper agreed to siding rather than shingling in the gables and to 'one over one' windows as original. Gilliam told Cooper 'he really appreciated him and his work with the Commission.' Outcome: approved with conditions (6-0) — moved Vick Cox, second Margaret Telford Conditions: Historic Landmark Overlay HL14-07 approved for the property; All exterior materials, windows, doors, light fixtures and paint colors approved under separate Certificates of Appropriateness; David Klempin to review the 'one over one' windows and the gable siding (in lieu of shingling) as discussed

Staff-approved CAs (15)#

CA13-97 317 East Worth Street; CA14-39 214 East College Street; CA14-42 430 South Main Street; CA14-44 423 South Main Street; CA14-45 841 East Texas Street; CA14-46 701 South Main Street; CA14-47 841 East Texas Street; CA14-49 415 South Main Street; CA14-50 527 South Dooley Street; CA14-51 914 East Wall Street; CA14-52 404 South Main Street; CA14-53 326 South Main Street; CA14-54 419 South Main Street, Suite 200; CA14-55 841 East Texas Street; CA14-56 527 South Dooley Street

Other business: Oath of Office administered to reappointed Commissioners Gilliam, Telford, Voelker and Anderson; Vice Chairman Derr called for nominations and Burl Gilliam was re-elected chairman (Telford/Cox, 6-0). HL14-05 update: City Council approved the historic overlay with the compromise that 'the entire property will not be landmarked; only the exterior... Dahl building will be protected.' Minutes of July 23, 2014 approved (Telford/Voelker, 6-0).

📄 Full verbatim minutes: Transcript HPC 2014-09-24

Source: Source Index §Minutes-corpus — WebLink HPC minutes 2014-09-24.