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Attachment 1 <br /> Orange County <br /> HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br /> Meeting Summary <br /> June 261h, 2019 <br /> Old Orange County Courthouse <br /> 106 W. King Street, Hillsborough <br /> MEMBERS PRESENT: Todd Dickinson, Tom Loter, Art Menius, Paul Noe, Steve Peck <br /> MEMBERS ABSENT: Susan Ballard, Becky Paxton (both excused) <br /> STAFF PRESENT: Peter Sandbeck GUESTS: None <br /> ITEM #1: CALL TO ORDER <br /> Chair Dickinson called the meeting to order at 6:41 pm. <br /> ITEM #2: CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO AGENDA: Staff will give an update about Stillhouse <br /> Creek wood artifacts next to Post Office <br /> ITEM #3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES for April 24th, 2019 (Attachment 1): Menius moved to <br /> approve the minutes as corrected; seconded by Loter; motion approved. <br /> ITEM #4: ITEMS FOR DECISION: None <br /> ITEM #5: DISCUSSION ITEMS <br /> a. Bingham School (landmark) developments following HPC visit: <br /> Staff presented an overview of our HPC site visit, then discussed the information sharing <br /> meeting held the following day at the school with Mountains To Sea Trail staff and <br /> volunteers, the owner of Bingham School, the owner of the Steel String Brewery and <br /> DEAPR staff. Issues discussed included: the extent and scope of the Brewery events; well <br /> water usage; truck traffic; DOT requirements for turn lanes; and possible adjustments to <br /> boundaries of parcel proposed to be acquired by the County to create larger buffers to <br /> better protect the setting of the Bingham School property. This area called The Oaks <br /> community was placed on the state Study List for the National Register back in the 1990s <br /> as a rural historic district but was never defined with a detailed map. Staff the provided an <br /> overview of the history of the community and showed photos of the historic properties <br /> there. Discussion followed about the proposed land acquisition by the county and the <br /> potential for a future rural National Register Historic District there. <br /> b. Landmarks in ETJs: report back from meeting with Chapel Hill: Staff reported on a <br /> recent meeting with a Town of Chapel Hill planning staff member to discuss landmark <br /> issues for both jurisdictions. Chapel Hill is actually investigating the idea of expanding the <br /> local Historic District Commission's role to include designating local landmarks within their <br /> municipal boundaries. They are open to working collaboratively with the County. <br /> Dickinson reviewed the history of the ETJ issue, where we have large swaths of land <br /> around the municipalities where nobody has jurisdiction over historic preservation in those <br /> ETJ zones. Staff will pursue getting more movement on this effort. <br /> 1 <br />