Historic District Commission

MANISTEE CITY HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION Meeting of Thursday, January 4, 2018 3:00 p.m. - Council Chambers, City Hall, 70 Maple Street, Manistee, Michigan AGENDA I Call to Order II Roll Call III Approval of Agenda At this time the Historic District Commission can take action to approve the January 4, 2018 Agenda. IV Approval of Minutes At this time Historic District Commission can take action to approve the December 7, 2017 meeting Minutes. V Public Comment on Agenda Related items At this time the Chair will ask if there are any public comments. VI New Business DDA Presentation Tyler Leppanen, DDA Director will present a presentation prepared by MSU to develop a future vision for the River Street Streetscape and the Riverwalk to the Commission. The Commissioners will provide their feedback to Mr. Leppanen. VII Old Business Permit Review At this time the Commission may take action to close out any outstanding permits. VIII Public Comments and Communications concerning Items not on the Agenda At this time the Chair will ask if there are any public comments. IX Correspondence At this time the Chair will ask if any correspondence has been received to be read into the record. X Reports DDA Executive & Economic Development Director Museum Curator 1  Museum Director Planning & Zoning Director XI Members Discussion At this time the Chair will ask members of the Historic District Commission if they have any items they want to discuss. XII Worksession XIII Adjournment 2 Memorandum Denise Blakeslee To: Historic District Commissioners Planning & Zoning Director 70 Maple Street Manistee, MI 49660 FROM: Denise Blakeslee, Planning & Zoning Director 231.398.2805 dblakeslee@manisteemi.gov DATE: December 19, 2017 www.manisteemi.gov RE: January 4, 2018 Meeting Commissioners, the next meeting of the Historic District Commission will be on Thursday, January 4 2018. We have the following items on the agenda: DDA Presentation Tyler Leppanen, DDA Director will present a presentation prepared by MSU to develop a future vision for the River Street Streetscape and the Riverwalk to the Commission. Packets are being mailed early due to the holidays. If you are unable to attend the meeting please call me at 398.2805. Thank you.  HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION Council Chambers, City Hall 70 Maple Street Manistee, MI 49660 MEETING MINUTES December 7, 2017 A Meeting of the Manistee City Historic District Commission was held on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 70 Maple Street, Manistee, Michigan. Meeting was called to order at 3:05 p.m. by Chair Kracht. ROLL CALL: Members Present: Aaron Bennett, Teena Kracht, John Perschbacher, Lee Trucks Members Absent: Vacancy, Mary Russell, T. Eftaxiadis Others: Maxine Lipon, Tyler Leppanen Mark Fedder (Museum Director) Steve Harold (Museum Curator) Denise Blakeslee (Planning & Zoning Administrator) Lora Laurain (taking minutes for Denise Blakeslee) APPROVAL OF AGENDA: MOTION by Commissioner Trucks, seconded by Commissioner Bennett that the Agenda be approved as prepared. With a voice vote this motion passed unanimously. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MOTION by Commissioner Perschbacher, seconded by Commissioner Trucks that the Minutes of the June 1, 2017 Meeting be approved as prepared. With a roll call vote this motion passed 3 to 0. With Commissioner Bennett abstaining. Yes: Perschbacher, Trucks, Kracht No: None 1 PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDA RELATED ITEMS None. NEW BUSINESS: HDC-2017-05 – Maxine Lipon, 337 River Street During the demolition of the rear addition at 337 River Street the bricks on the south portion of the building fell off. Ms. Lipon is asking the commission for permission to replace the brick with siding. Ms. Lipon presented a vinyl siding sample with a cedar shake appearance as her first choice of replacement material and explained that the windows will replicate the original windows. MOTION by Commissioner Trucks, seconded by Commissioner Bennett that they approve the vinyl siding with a cedar shake appearance as replacement material for the back of the building at 337 River Street. With a roll call vote this motion passed 4 to 0. Yes: Perschbacher, Bennett, Trucks, Kracht No: None MOTION by Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Trucks that Maxine should present a visual rendering of the backside of the building including window framing and siding transitions to Mark Fedder for approval. With a roll call vote this motion passed 4 to 0. Yes: Perschbacher, Bennett, Trucks, Kracht No: None Election of Officers 2018 According to the By-Laws of the City of Manistee Historic District Commission their annual election of Officers is held at the December Meeting for the following year. Chair At this time the meeting was turned over to Denise Blakeslee who asked for nominations for the Position of Chair. 2 Commissioner Perschbacher, seconded by Commissioner Bennett nominated Commissioner Kracht for the position of Chair. Nominations were asked for three times. There were no further Nominations. Nominations were closed. With a roll call vote, Commissioner Kracht was elected Chair of the Historic District Commission for 2018, 4 to 0. Vice-Chair Denise Blakeslee asked for nominations for the Position of Vice-Chair. Commissioner Kracht, seconded by Commissioner Bennett nominated Commissioner Perschbacher for the position of Vice Chair. Nominations were asked for three times. There were no further Nominations. Nominations were closed. With a roll call vote, Commissioner Perschbacher was elected Vice - Chair of the Historic District Commission for 2018, 4 to 0. Denise Blakeslee turned the meeting over to Chair Kracht. Appointment of a Recording Secretary 2018 At this time the Historic District Commission will appoint a Recording Secretary to handle the administrative functions of the office. Motion by Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Kracht that Kelly McColl and Lora Laurain be appointed Recording Secretary for the Historic District Commission for 2018. With a voice vote Kelly McColl and Lora Laurain were appointed Recording Secretary of the Historic District Commission for 2018 unanimously. By Law Review Annually the Historic District Commission shall review their By Laws at their regularly scheduled meeting in January. Members of the Commission discussed the By Laws and if any changes were needed. None at this time. Schedule Meeting Dates 2018 At the last regular meeting each year the Historic District Commission schedules their meeting dates for the following year. The Manistee Historic District Commission generally holds their regular business meetings on the first Thursday of each month in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 70 Maple Street, Manistee Michigan at 3:00 p.m. The proposed meeting dates shows that the July meeting would be moved to the following date due to Independence Day festivities. 3 MOTION by Commissioner Perschbacher, seconded by Commissioner Trucks that the City of Manistee Historic District Commission schedules the following meeting dates for 2018. January 4, 2018 February 1, 2018 March 1, 2018 April 5, 2018 May 3, 2018 June 7, 2018 July 12, 2018* August 2, 2018 September 6, 2018 October 4, 2018 November 1, 2018 December 6, 2018 *Changed due to holiday With a voice vote this motion passed unanimously. OLD BUSINESS None. PUBLIC COMMENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA None. CORRESPONDENCE Request from Cynthia Millonzi for an extension of her certificate appropriateness until December 2018. MOTION by Commissioner Trucks, Seconded by Commissioner Perschbacher to approve an extension for Cynthia Millonzi permit until December 2018. With a voice vote this motion passed unanimously. STAFF REPORTS Mark Fedder, Museum Director - reported that with the initial window project being complete at the Historical Museum, he recommends beginning to look at installing storm windows at the Historical Museum. Mark presented information on wooden storm windows which closely replicate the original storm windows. MOTION by Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Perschbacher to approve installing wooden storm windows at the Historical Museum, 425 River St. With a voice vote this motion passed unanimously. Steve Harold, Museum Curator - discussed the newspaper article titled “Preserving Our State’s History” and encouraged everyone to contact their representative regarding proposed changes to the state tax credits. Denise Blakeslee, Planning & Zoning Director – reminded Commissioners that the 2017 Study Committee meeting is December 21stand the joint meeting. Annual meeting with Manistee City Council in December 12th. Denise would also like to schedule training sessions in January and asked Commissioners to tentatively hold Thursdays in January for training. 4 MEMBERS DISCUSSION Commissioner Bennett discussed placards that have been located at various historic buildings in Manistee. Mark Fedder has been letting property owners know that they are able to put up placards on their properties but that there isn’t any program in place to pay for them. Denise Blakeslee discussed the possibility of applying for a grant to reinstate the placard program. WORKSESSION: None. The Next meeting of the Historic District Commission will be on Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 70 Maple Street. ADJOURNMENT: MOTION by Commissioner Bennett, seconded by Commissioner Perschbacher that the meeting be adjourned. Motion passed unanimously. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 4:10 P.M. MANISTEE HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION __________________________________________ Lora Laurain, Recording Secretary 5 The Manistee Downtown Development Authority was successful in securing Michigan State University (MSU) assistance through a competitive application process to develop a future vision for the River Street streetscape and the Riverwalk, as well as the intersection of River Street and Cyprus Street (US 31) within downtown Manistee. The main goals of this project are to develop a re-visioning of the current underutilized backs of buildings along the Riverwalk into a more user friendly and attractive place for people to use, improve the streetscape of River Street to become more pedestrian friendly and walkable, and to improve the visual appearance and first impression of the River Street/Cypress Street (US 31) intersection. On August 28, 2017 the first of three public input sessions took place. After receiving comments and input from the community the MSU team put together the following presentation with conceptual plans for the project area. The next step is for the community to provide feedback as to what you like and do not like about the designs. MSU will present the final report in the spring of 2018. You can provide feedback by going to the city of Manistee website http://www.manisteemi.gov/ and email your comments to Tyler Leppanen, Manistee DDA executive and economic development director, tyler.leppanen@manisteedowntown.com, or stop into City Hall at the front desk and fill out a comment form. Another option is to go to the Downtown Manistee Facebook page and comment on each picture. With your help and insights, we can create a community vision for our downtown. PROJECT TIME FRAME August 28, 2017: Winter/Spring December 7, 2017: 2018: Meeting One 2018: Meeting Two Initiate Community Meeting Three Design Input Implementation Visioning Final Presentation Follow-Up Input Activity Please use sticky notes and a pen or pencil and place your thoughts onto the character images, preliminary concept plan and design images located around the room. For additional comments, please use the paper handouts. 1. What do you like about the designs presented today? 2. What do you dislike about the designs presented today? 3. What improvements/additions would you like to see regarding the designs presented today? Next Steps: Final Recommendations Meeting Three Presentation (Scheduled for Winter/Spring 2018) THANK YOU For more information, please contact: Wayne Beyea, beyea@msu.edu Warren Rauhe, rauhe@msu.edu