May 2023 Committee Meeting

MEETING NOTES
Historic Designation Committee Meeting
Wednesday May 24, 2023, 6:30pm

​Emily Taff, Committee Chair, began the meeting via Zoom, 14 people in attendance (including consultant, Aaron Fortner)

• Schedule - topical Community Meeting dates are set: Thursday evenings, August 24, Sept 7, October 5, and October 19. Possible 1st draft of regulations in mid-February 2024 - but tbd!
• Community Meeting Planning - Aaron explained the general plan for meetings - very conversational, with an open discussion after each explanation/review. Including review of other districts’ regulations and if that would work for CP or not.
  • Meetings topics are:
    • Underlying Zoning Regulations, General Regulations and Procedures
    • Regulations for Contributing Structures
    • Regulations for Non-Contributing Structures
    • Development Controls, Parking, Driveways, Curb Cuts, Sidewalks
  • Include HD overview - Why we are doing this background and potential benefits?
  • Need a plan for managing discussion and handling the unexpected
• Input/Comments - Committee discussed general ideas for improving the input gathering
  • Comment sheets for in-person participants, Survey Monkey form for on-line participants. Need to consider if/how to gather input from non participants too.
  • Publicity and security discussed (ie nextdoor sharing)
• Fundraising / Finance - Stacy F. - goal is to reach out to individuals we all know as well as potential ‘major donors’. He will send around a sample letter as an example for reaching out to people we each know. Emily - general idea it to fundraise from individual and organizations, as well as CPNO. It’s important that we do the best we can to have a thoughtful conversation about this and in order to do that we need Aaron’s help and expertise, which is what we are raising funds for. Initial fundraising is important so that we know of what would be reasonable to ask CPNO to contribute. All CPNO funding would be voted on by the membership. Total estimate is around $30K, we should aim to raise more.

Next Meeting will be June 28, 6:30 pm via Zoom