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What is the zoning ordinance’s role in administrative review for historic district projects?
Item for discussion is the synthetic building material in the old and historic district. Miss Murphy?
Out of my ear.
So for some background, um, which was also in your staff report, the zoning ordinance in the town of Leesburg delegates administrative review authority to the preservation planner in a few different broad areas uh for administrative review of certificates of appropriateness rather than requiring full public hearing with the Board of Architectural Review. Across the board these actions are intended for minor whoop I lost my PowerPoint. Here, I'll hold up the I didn't print a copy, so... You'll memorize it? I did not memorize it. Oh you know what
and I forgot to read the disclaimer. Unplug unplug it. See if it does something. Maybe it's not you. You don't need to.
You know, I used to print the PowerPoint and then we hired a sustainability manager and the director started yelling at us for printing paper. Now I don't print paper.
Well I always get mad when people um read the PowerPoints word for word. So you could do it tonight though. I I might have to. Not working. Do we know if people can hear us? Well while they're doing that, let me put uh read the disclaimer. Um the town has experienced audiovisual issues, that is preventing video from being displayed on the cable TV channels and on the website. Town staff is working to correct the issue as quickly as possible. In the meantime, if you need closed captioning or a copy of tonight's presentation, please visit the council's agenda page on the town's website.
I have it brought up on my laptop if someone will go grab it from my desk.
Just say the historic way is sometimes the best way, like printing out paper. Thank you. Okay, I'm still Lauren Murphy, the preservation planner, and I can use this now whenever you're ready. Go ahead. Okay, Chaptia,
go ahead.
Okay. Um so the zoning ordinance does delegate certain authority to the preservation planner. It's intended to be minor actions that are clearly and easily approvable. And it's also meant to be a benefit to property owners, mostly in the old and historic district, which is the H one, although there are some actions in the gateway and H two district, which can also be done administratively. So in twenty twenty one into early twenty twenty two staff did a thorough overview and rewrite of this particular section as it relates to the H one. We are not able to expand actions in the H two, but we can could potentially look at the gateway district. And I believe we will look at the gateway district as a part of the um zoning ordinance rewrite.
But in twenty twenty one-twenty two we focused primarily on the old and historic district, which is where the majority of our residents and property owners have um parcels within an architectural control district. So that list was drastically expanded, probably about three times as much um in January of last year. Administrative review does not have a fee and it is generally faster than Board of Architectural Review because it does not require a public hearing.
Nope. Can you move it for me? Maybe. Okay, thank you. Um so as it relates to composite materials, and I will just say I prefer the term composite over synthetic materials, so I'm gonna use those interchangeably both in the um the staff report and in the presentation tonight. The zoning ordinance does not generally give authority to the preservation planner for the implementation of new composite materials. They can be approved as replacement in kind, meaning if someone has composite siding today, they could replace it tomorrow with the same material. Um there are also other in kind replacements that can be done like roofing, gutters, porch flooring, etcetera. There are also circumstances where the BAR might defer certain future requests to staff, especially when the existing material is no longer available.
We've seen this multiple different times in the old and historic district. Asbestos siding and masonite siding in particular are known to be inferior or dangerous products and they are no longer being produced in this country.
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Agenda
5 items
1
What is the zoning ordinance’s role in administrative review for historic district projects?
2:49–16:26
2
How are composite (synthetic) materials approved or rejected in the historic district?
16:26–27:22
3
What categories of administrative approvals exist for building and site enhancements?
27:22–37:23
4
How does the council handle signage approvals and size limits in historic areas?
37:23–44:54
5
What are the rules for mobile food units across different zoning districts?
44:54–45:29
Speakers
4 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.