Title
Resolution to Extend the Broadway Historic District Study Committee and to Require all Building Permit Applications within the Proposed Broadway Historic District and 1001-1013 Broadway Historic District to be Referred to the Historic District Commission for Review
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval is a resolution to extend the time allowed for the Broadway Historic District Study Committee (“Committee”) and require that applications for permits within the proposed historic districts be reviewed by the Historic District Commission. The Committee’s work is complete, however additional time is required to prepare the legal description and proposed ordinance language.
Background
On October 3, 2006, City Council created the Broadway Historic District Study Committee to study generally both sides of Broadway from south of Plymouth Road, with the final area to be determined by the Committee. The study committee term is one year and the Committee is to report their findings no later than January 2008.
On March 5, 2007 City Council appointed seven members to the Committee, including four residents of the study area.
Historic District Study Committee Process
The Committee first met on March 28, 2007 and established a timeline to complete the work by December, 2007 in order to meet City Council’s deadline. The committee then met three times in May, including one meeting that was spent touring the study area to review and discuss the boundaries of a proposed district.
The Committee continued to meet in June, July, August and September, and in September adopted two preliminary reports, one for a larger residential historic district containing Broadway, Traver, Moore, Jones, and Cedar Bend; and one containing the properties at 1001-1013 Broadway which were formerly locally designated as an Individual Historic Property. As required by local and state ordinance, the preliminary reports were distributed to the State Historic Preservation Office, t...
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