HomeMy WebLinkAboutHPC Minutes 2013-05-08 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION - Minutes
REGULAR MEETING 5:15 P.M. May 8, 2013
I. 5:15—CALL TO ORDER:
II. 5:15—ROLL CALL: Present: Tom Brandon, Dan Stafford, Devi Tate; Absent:
Marilynn Baker (Excused).
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
A. April 10, 2013: APPROVED
IV. 5:20—OLD BUSINESS:
A. None
V. PUBLIC HEARINGS:
A. None
VI. WORKSHOP:
A. Commissioners discussed current historic preservation conditions in Pasco
and options for the Historic Preservation Plan:
a) The Pasco historic Preservation Commission is the group initiating
collaboration with the Franklin County and railroad museums. This effort
in still in its infancy.
b) The City of Pasco has no "save the historic commercial building"
regulations.
c) Incentives should be promoted; strict regulations might do more to alienate
property owners from historic preservation in this social environment.
d) Commissioners were not entirely convinced that Pasco has complete and
intact historic neighborhoods. If there are, Commissioners favor incentives
over strict regulations.
e) Schools in Pasco (CBC?) could offer historic preservation in curriculum as
elective coursework.
fl Listing on the Pasco Register of Historic Places (PRHP) should require
owners' consent, unless the register was recognition only and not
regulatory (resembling "yard of the month" recognition).
g) Pasco should consider becoming a Certified Local Government.
h) While articles and social media would be excellent promotional media,
tours, events and workshops may be overkill, given the current lack of
prepared historic sites/destinations.
i) Historic window replacement might be made affordable with a PUD
weatherization grant combined with a historic preservation grant.
j) Pasco needs to broaden its inventory of historic buildings/sites.
k) There is both fairly positive and very negative talk about historic
preservation in Pasco.
VII. 6:25—OTHER BUSINESS:
A. Commissioners recognized the June 12, 2013 to June 26, 2013 meeting
reschedule.
VIII. 6:30—ADJOURNMENT