Architectural Review Board 2-11-26 - Feb 11, 2026

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What were the opening procedural items and roll‑call for the February 2026 Architectural Review Board meeting?

Brian Landrum 0:00

All right, this is 705, I'm going to call this meeting to order. Can we get a roll call, please?

Michael Garcia 0:06

Michael?

Brian Landrum 0:07

Here.

Troy 0:07

Troy? Here. Brian?

Brian Landrum 0:09

Here.

Troy 0:09

Beth? Here. Norman is absent. Frank? Here. Mr. Chairman,

Brian Landrum 0:14

this is Juan. Excelente. We'll move on to procedural matters. Do we have any requests to participate remotely through electronic communication means? We do not. Hearing none, we'll move on to the approval of the agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda?

Beth 0:29

Second.

Brian Landrum 0:31

All in favor? Aye. The agenda is approved. Now we need to approve the December 10, 2025 Threepen resolution. We'll make the motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Do we have any citizens or visitors signed up to speak tonight? We'll move on to item number seven, election of officers. Bylaws item 4.1 states that Prince William County Architectural Review Board shall annually at their first meeting in the calendar year a chairman and a vice chairman. Item number 4.2 states that nominations shall be made from the floor of the brief office and the voting carried out by voice vote or by ballots that must be read aloud during the counting of votes which must take place in public session and recorded in the election resolution by sending forth the member's name and the person she or he voted for or by any other method which will display publicly and immediately how each member voted.

Brian Landrum 1:33

So we'll go ahead and proceed with item number seven.

Brian Landrum 1:44

So, do we have any nominations for either office? I nominate you for chair. And do we have a nomination

Michael Garcia 1:58

for... Look, are you going to vote together or separately? Well, the nomination is good, but then you have to vote. We don't do nominations to vote first. It's up to you. Okay, we'll just do one at a time. That's fine. It's easier for me to do one at a time. Okay. Do we have any other nominations on the floor for

Brian Landrum 2:15

chair? Hearing none, I will go ahead and call the vote. There's one nominated candidate, Brian Landrum, myself. And I'll go ahead and just... Call a voice vote. All in favor of... That's the individual. That's what you just read. Right. Thank you. Can we have a roll call vote please? Michael. Aye. Brian Landrum.

Troy 2:46

Troy.

Brian Landrum 2:47

Aye. Brian Landrum.

Troy 2:48

Brian.

Brian Landrum 2:50

The same.

Troy 2:52

Beth.

Brian Landrum 2:53

Aye for Brian.

Troy 2:56

Frank. Aye

Michael Garcia 2:57

for Brian. Mr.

Beth 2:58

Terry.

Michael Garcia 2:59

You have a new chairman. You want

Brian Landrum 3:00

me to write it in?

Unknown 3:02

All right,

Brian Landrum 3:06

and then I will go ahead and re-nominate Mike Garcia for vice chair. Do you accept

Troy 3:19

the nomination?

Unknown 3:20

I think we friended out last year.

Brian Landrum 3:25

All right. Yes, sir. I'll take it. All right. By default. And we'll go ahead and call a... Oh, we need a second to get to that one. Oh, thank

Michael Garcia 3:33

you. Wow. Okay.

Brian Landrum 3:36

All right. And a roll call vote.

Troy 3:40

Michael. What do you say? Troy. Aye for Michael. Brian. Aye for Michael. Beth. Aye for Michael. Frank. Aye for Michael. We have a new

Michael Garcia 3:51

question. No way. No, that would have been nice. Everyone else in the county seems to want to do

Brian Landrum 4:02

that. All right. So excellent. So we're through item number seven. I'd like to move on to item number eight, staff time. Do we have any staff presentations to you? We don't have a presentation now.

Justin 4:17

Do we have any staff updates? So staff updates, I think. Do you have anything, Justin, you want

Unknown 4:25

to?

4:25

No.

Brian Landrum 4:27

So, there's been, you may or may not be aware of the fact that there's been some, probably, at least it made it to the historic, the Bennett School. The county is looking at options to expand the courthouse center and that's where the school is and they're, I guess that their option that they prefer is to demolish the school. It's more, but they presented as, and this is not a decision that we made in the planning audit. This is something that Facilities has decided based on, largely they gave a presentation to the board of their plans and it was based on, you know, number of alternatives and this alternative was chosen probably more because of cost than anything else, so. The historical commission was very concerned about this decision and they didn't think that the board had all the information about how significant the school was so they drafted a letter to the board that was sent last month.

Brian Landrum 5:48

Just bringing it up because in case you've heard of this situation, I just wanted to make you aware that would