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03-28-2024 (Historic Review) MinutesWylie Historic Review Commission Regular Meeting JAI March 28, 2024 — 6: 00 PM fN Council Chambers - 300 Country Club Road, Building #100, Wylie, Texas 75098 CITY OF WYLIE Chair Sandra Stone called the meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. In attendance were Chair Sandra Stone, Vice-Ch Allison Stowe, Commissioner Kali Patton, Commissioner Anita Jones, Deputy City Manager Renae 011i Community Development Director Jasen Haskins and Former Administrative Assistant Mary Bradley. Absel were Commissioner Krisliegh Hoermann and Commissioner Laurie Sargent. COMMENTS ON NON -AGENDA ITEMS Any member of the public may address Commission regarding an item that is not listed on the Agenda. Members of the public mustfill out aform prior to the meeting in order to speak. Commission requests that comments be limited to three minutesfor an individual, six minutes for a group. In addition, Commission is not allowed to converse, deliberate or take action on any matter presented during citizen participation. None approached the Commission. CONSENT AGENDA All matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine by the Commission and will be enacted by one motion. There will not be separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired, that item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and will be considered separately. IIII 11i III, 11111!11 11111111111RIIIIIIIIIII, 11111!!1 1111 Commission Action on Consent Agenda A motion was made by Vice -Chair Stowe and seconded by Commissioner Patton to approve the Consent Agen as presented. A vote was taken and carried 4 — 0. 1 vffiff' �# I 111�lqo�I;�I!!Il I 1 1111111111111111111111 IM"IRMITIT mllyffl'•.•1 Deputy City Manager Renae 011ie presented an update on the Economic Development Corporation project. She stated that she attended the EDC Board Meeting the week prior. 104 South Ballard, which is the old pawn shop, was approved to be demolished but the Board wanted to have the mural saved. She explained that the EDC staff met with the artist who suggested it was time for the mural to be replaced in order to keep it up. She explained that instead, they will be working with the Downtown merchants, the City Manager's Office and the marketing explained that she thinks there is two different components. One being the craftsman component and then everything else in the ordinance like the attached garage. She stated that the issue for her was there are so many elements that do not abide by the ordinance and with the little bit of craftsman there is, it makes it all quite not up to it. Director Haskins stated that he feels like he has enough information the help the applicant decide on how we need to move forward. Qq,mmiasign Discussion AS3 Deputy City Manager 011ie presented to the Commission regarding amendments to Section 6.3. of the Zoning Ordinance. She stated that the work session was not necessarily to address every single thing or get it corrected, but to start a conversation so staff can know what changes the board might want to see. The Commission discussed E.2.c. Chair Stone asked for clarification on what the wording means. Deputy City Manager 011ie explained that if someone wanted to build a big storage or garage, that would be an accessory structure, and HRC would have oversight over that. Chair Stone questioned if someone wanted to build a second home on their property if that would go into this Ordinance as well, or if this was just strictly about a new accessory structure to which Deputy Manager 011ie stated that it could, but a lot of that would fall back on the Zoning Ordinance because not every district allows a second residential structure. 6 nit 6'r-IWAI-OWIMEM� Nsi 11WANNE11411I.NW1411 W14 I I &VITIM I 1W41 IM 11wolt" III I .M. , 71MITnt �670 , I,, C C OLL C, isamajonu• - wanted brought to the new structure and to her, that is what this says. Vice -Chair Stowe stated that she liked the way this was redone. She stated that it's sort of broad but telling applicants to try to meet the standards. Commissioner Patton stated that this is just saying the majority of it has to be craftsman but we should be able to tell that it was built in 2024. Chair Stone discussed E.3.a. stating that it sounded good because before it stated that a letter from a structural engineer was required period as to now stating it is required if the request is based on lack of integrity ani structural soundness. The Commission discussed EA.b.iii. Deputy City Manager 011ie explained that in her mind, new meant a new build. Or if her house is already existing in the Historic District, regardless of what style it was, it was already there but now she wants to build a garage or shed or a greenhouse, which is a new accessory structure. Not a new main primary and it has to meet these criteria. Commissioner Patton confirmed that this would apply to new changed to something along the lines of accessory structures constructed after June of 2024 because this is going to be from this point forward and so there is no confusion as to the house being old but the structure being new. She mentioned new accessory structure constructed after the date must be detached. Deputy City Manager 011ie stated that the date will alreaA�A be there because the date will be the date that the ordinance is adqs�ted. Anpliiing that is changed only becomes effective the day that the ordinance is adopted. Vice -Chair Stowe stated that she thinks it needs to be clearly defined as to what an accessory structure is. Director Haskins stated that the current definition according to the Zoning Ordinance is accessory structure means structures that are incidental to and located on the same lot as a principal building and this includes but is not limited to and gives a list of other structures. Chair Stone stated that she is fine for anything to be built outside of the Historic District, but in the District, we need to make sure it is what it is supposed to be. Deputy City Manager 011ie agreed that we need to truly define what accessory means. Vice -Chair Stowe agreed. The Commission discussed 6 ft. sidewalks. Vice -Chair Stowe questions why they were included if it can't bi enforced. Director Haskins stated that if there wasn't a sidewalk that already existed, they would ask the homebuilder to build a sidewalk and make it 6 ft. If there is already a sidewalk there, through his interpretation, bi is not required to tear that sidewalk out and put in a new one to meet the 6 ft requirement. Only if there is no sidewalk there. Vice -Chair Stowe questioned when that was going to be enforced. Deputy City Manager 011ie stated that the reason for the 6ft sidewalk requirement was because the idea was that Downtown needed to bs Page 14 more walkable and focusing on Ballard and Jackson. She stated that when the extension to Keefer happened, this was not addressed. Vice -Chair Stowe stated that she would like to see that we try to move to the 6ft sidewalks. She stated that she does not it should be forced upon the homeowner. Deputy City Manager 011ie stated that they would get together with staff and bring up the recommendations to get more information. The Commission discussed parking for non-residential and if this was feasible with smaller lot configurations in the Downtown Historic District and whether should it be worded differently. Deputy City Manager 011ie stated that she believes there will be instances where there's parking that may not need to be concrete. She stated that in her opinion, it is almost better to get rid of it altogether as this statement is a bit confusing right now. Commissioner Jones stated that there is not the real estate in downtown to provide parking. Chair Stone mentioned the important thing to make sure of is that handicapped residents have spaces to park. Director Haskins stated that if the commission's wish was to think about doing away with required parking, staff would look into federal law to find out handicap requirements. Chair Stone stated that she is open to that and making it easier for people to walk in Downtown but she does want to make sure we are providing some space for handicapped people close to where they need to be. Commissioner Patton stated that she believed removing parking would be a great thing for businesses as people are going to walk and see things that they would not normally see. The Commission discussed residential structures within the Historic District and that it states it shall hal identifiable features appropriate to the architectural style of the building. Chair Stone questioned control wh coming to planting to which Director Haskins answered that if it was now part of the ordinance, Co Enforcement would go out and could be able to write a zoning violation if it is in the zoning ordinance. Dep t think this comld be enforceable, The Commission discussed that it con CjJ5L F-W - 1 be enforceable if there was an HOA. The Commission discussed that it would be hard to enforce planti requirements. Deputy City Manager 011ie stated that staff would look at this and look at local government to s the language that was addressed on landscaping. I The Commission discussed item 10 regarding the choice of color for the primary facade. Deputy City Manag 011ie stated that she wanted the Commission to look and see if they wanted to add anything or if anything need to be reworded because she didn't want for someone to look at the ordinance and think that they were limited a] that these were examples. She mentioned not making it part of the ordinance but having a sample book for t applicants to view. Deputy City Manager 011ie thanked the Commission for being informative and having conversations that gave" lot of good information. I A motion was made by Commissioner Patton and seconded by Commissioner Jones to adjourn. A vote was taken and carried 4 — 0. Chair Stone adjourned the meeting at 7:45 p.m. dra Stone -- air Gabby Fernandez - Secretary