Art Jury Committee Preview Meeting Minutes
RSF Association Office - 8:30 a.m.
October 9, 2006

Return to Art Jury

Previous Art Jury Minutes

PDF Format - 1 page

Present: Vice President Diane Larsen, Secretary Jack Queen and Member Gail Frazar

Also Present: Building Commissioner Robert Green, Planning Director Keith Behner, Senior Planner Kirk Dakan, Associate Planner Arnold Keene, Associate Planner Liz Avalon, Consulting Architect Jim Kelley-Markham and Administrative Assistant Jasie Gan

Absent: President Mark McClure and Member Ken Markstein

Draft of Village Master Plan           

The Art Jury reviewed the draft Village Master Plan and recommends approval.

Proposed Amendments to Chapter 44 – Off-street Parking

The Art Jury recommends that the Association Board conduct a first reading and proceed with the subsequent steps required to approve and adopt the proposed amendments to the Chapter 44 – Off Street Parking Regulation.

Draft of Demolition Permit Regulation

1. While the Art Jury enthusiastically endorses the objective of regulation the demolition of Historic structures, the Art Jury is not recommending approval of the Demolition Regulation as drafted. The draft regulation will not accomplish important historic preservation objectives as it doesn’t include a viable enforcement component and fundamentally lacks teeth. The Art Jury hasn’t had the opportunity to fully consider alternatives and to research how other jurisdictions deal with these issues.
2. The Art Jury recommends that the Board direct that staff work with the Historic Preservation Committee and the Art Jury to draft an effective regulation that includes incentives that encourage actions that work to preserve important historic community assets. Incentives could include reducing Association assessments for owners who preserve historic structures, application fee waivers, other regulatory dispensations and the like. Further, either the regulation or a companion guideline should catalogue other local, State, and Federal programs and benefits available to owners of historic structures. These include such things as Mills Act property tax reductions and building code dispensations under the State’s Historic Structures Building Code.
3. Additionally there needs to be information dissemination that historic regulation may not necessarily mean prohibition of any work on a historic building. Sensitive additions and modifications that preserve the historic integrity of a structure are possible.