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Planner Justin Snyder
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Historic District Commission Agenda
Agenda
Historic District Commission
7 p.m. April 3, 2019
Town Hall Annex Meeting Room, 105 East Corbin Street
Public charge: The Hillsborough Historic District Commission pledges to the citizens of Hillsborough its respect.
The commission asks members of the public to conduct themselves in a respectful, courteous manner with the
commission members and with fellow citizens. At any time should any member of the commission or any citizen
fail to observe this public charge, the chair or the chair’s designee will ask the offending person to leave the
meeting until that individual regains personal control. Should decorum fail to be restored, the chair or the chair’s
designee will recess the meeting until such time that a genuine commitment to this public charge can be
observed.
1. Call to order, roll call, and confirmation of quorum
2. Commission’s mission statement
To identify, protect, and preserve Hillsborough’s architectural resources and to educate the public about
those resources and preservation in general. The Hillsborough Historic District presents a visual history of
Hillsborough’s development from the 1700s to the 1960s. In 1973, the town chose to respect that history
through the passage of the preservation ordinance creating the historic district.
3. Agenda changes
4. Minutes review and approval
A. Minutes from the March 6, 2019 regular meeting.
5. Old business
A. None
6. New business
A. Certificate of Appropriateness Application: 229 Thomas Ruffin St. — Applicants David and Joanna
Swanson request approval for a 999 SF addition to the rear of their existing house, and for removal of an
existing carport, basement stairway, and tree at 229 Thomas Ruffin Street (PIN: 9874-27-0992).
B. Certificate of Appropriateness Application: 409 W. Corbin St. — Applicant Patrick Spencer requests
approval to demolish a late 1960s wooden outbuilding with concrete block additions in the rear of 409 W.
Corbin Street (PIN: 9864-78-4863).
C. Certificate of Appropriateness Application: 319 N. Churton St. — Applicants Historic Hillsborough
Commission request approval to grade within the Union Street right-of-way and to install a large gravel
parking area along Union Street within the public right-of-way for parking in front of the Burwell School
(PIN: 9874-07-2965).
D. Emergency Works - Certificate of Appropriateness Application: 401 North Churton St. — Applicant Brian
Shepard on behalf of Landmark Management Partners, LLC, requests after-the-fact approval for
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demolition of the rear portion of the building at 401 N. Churton Street to permit construction to
recommence towards a previously approved Certificate of Appropriateness (PIN: 9874-08-3136).
E. Preliminary Review: 515 N. Churton Street —Summit Design and Engineering on behalf of 515 North
Churton Street, LLC, request review and comment on numerous after-the-fact changes to their approved
project at 515 North Churton Street requiring special use permit modification via the Town Board,
including moving large utility boxes in front of the building instead of in the corner of the building without
adequate opaque screening, changing light fixtures and their locations from the original approval,
removing a required landscaped area previously shown to buffer against residentially-used properties in
the rear and replace with existing parking stalls, adding non-cutoff light fixtures to the building with glass
globes, adding three vinyl door signs, changing the design of the porte cochere columns to steel beams,
grading outside the limits of disturbance thus necessitating removal of a required mature hardwood tree,
adding an aluminum fence not previously-shown on any plans to an additional retaining wall also not
shown on approved plans, making changes to the window trim, adding an additional parking lot sign, and
changing the orientation of the front steps and sidewalk (PIN: 9874-08-3880).
7. Updates
8. Adjournment