all right good evening i'd like to call to order this city of delray beach historic preservation board meeting on april 15th 2026. can you please call the roll peter dwyer here jake liopolis here richard casser is absent chris kabisas here benjamin baffer here carol perez here john miller here all right um any changes to the agenda tonight no no okay can we get somebody move approval of the agenda i'll move approval of the agenda second all in favor say aye aye opposed okay question carries all right we have some minutes here uh from march 4th 2026. anybody have any comments remove approval i move to approve i'll second okay approval second uh all in favor say aye aye opposed okay uh swear we need to swear in if we don't have any quasi-judicial swearing in case or yes just in case okay public comment all right public comment any member of the public who um may speak tonight uh if you want to stand up and be sworn in by the authority invested in me as the notary of the state of florida do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth probably no comments from the public but if you have anything to say that's not on the agenda tonight now is your opportunity seeing none moving on all right uh presentations michelle good evening thank you all for being here michelle hoyland principal planner for the record so we are here tonight for the award deliberations for historic preservation board award of our applicants and property owners who have completed projects within the city of delray beach historic districts so as we are in about to approach may which is national historic preservation month this is with the national trust and this is in also from your backup tonight in the memo but each year local preservation groups and preservationists cities historical boards businesses civic organizations all come together to celebrate across the country um events that are promoted like we're doing with this event tonight and some other different types of events something you might want to look into on the internet to see if there are events across the state if you happen to be traveling in the next couple of months take a look and see what's available across the country but we're celebrating historic places heritage tourism um and projects that demonstrate a social and economic benefit to preservation this program began in 1973 as a week and in 2005 as it was extended by the national trust to a whole month of celebrations so tonight you know we're looking at our local projects on a broader scale it's important to note that we are about in the 250th year of the state of florida so there's also a celebration i'm sorry of the declaration of independence so there is a celebration occurring throughout the state you might notice different things when you're traveling i just came back from traveling to orlando and i saw at our rest stops there's little books there that talk about all the different counties in the state and their historic projects or important projects to those counties and cities in our in our state the national trust is indicating or has designated this month as promised to people in this country for that independence and that all people are created equal so you'll see some icons throughout the presentation that are referencing i heart saving places all people are created equal and it's important to the preservationists including yourselves to these places that we ensure that they remain preserved for those in the future to appreciate so tonight we had sent out a nomination ballot for you to preview take a look potentially go drive by some of these projects in six different award categories so it's one of our heavier years i would like to note that one of the categories is adjusting slightly which is commercial contributing it's commercial projects period because we have a mix of contributing and non-contributing in that category both you'll see when we get to it both projects were pretty equally matched in their improvements so i'm going to jump right in so this first category is residential contributing this is for additions and rehabilitation projects and we have three four four potential projects so we've got and i'm going to go item by item any questions you have along the way please stop me it's a conversation so you'll see the first is 302 northeast seventh avenue i will show you additional pictures here that one's known as the hartman heart the hartman house it's up in the palm trail area and it's individually designated the next is 131 southeast seventh avenue which is in the marina historic district this project is a joint project so while it's a duplex with two individual owners it's being considered as one project so there's a north unit and the south unit this is 1003 nassau street and 229 venetian venetian drive and then we have 108 northwest 4th avenue which is west settlers the previous projects in nassau park historic district on this one here is in west settlers so the hartman house is about a third of an acre it's on the northwest corner of northeast 7th ave and northeast 3rd street it contains a two-story home in the frame vernacular style it has a stucco exterior this structure was built in 1923 it also has a detached but connected by a breezeway a secondary structure in the rear which is here in that picture you can see with the porthole window that is a newer structure to the site this was listed to the local register in 2005 it was occupied by um gustave and ione hartman from 1923 to 1971 these owners came through for this addition that you could see with the picture window it's 236 square foot one-story addition that was added to the north side of the structure and it sits in a courtyard where a pool is it overlooks their swimming pool and what they call the green they refer to that as the green room because it overlooks the green on the property here's another view of that small addition this next one is 131 southeast 7th avenue in the marina historic district oh i i failed to state the previous owners or the owners for this previous project here are benita and jordan goldstein this is a before of 131 southeast 7th avenue um also to note all of our projects have had co's so that's one of our thresholds is it has to be a completed project so they span a variety of eras almost given the timing of covid and then you know recovery of covid some of these projects were approved during covid completed during covid up through to current day so 131 southeast 7th avenue is owned by robert and stephanie marchand it's a 0.16 acre site on the east side of southeast 7th avenue this property is a one-story bungalow you could see it has a front porch facing 7th it was built in 1925 it is obviously uh classified as contributing all of these are in this category to the district a 1925 garage that's in the rear of the property um went on underwent um renovations they um rehabilitated the structure in the rear this is before this is the best after we could get it's not quite a true after but you could see the garage is in its initial size here with a more historic door and window brought back so they also did an extensive stucco repair on the exterior of this building the contractor took really great care having staff come out visit the site look at the stucco patterns to ensure that there was consistency with the historic stucco pattern and again some of these are appear in progress it's hard for us sometimes to go on site if an owner is um out of the country or not around we can't get in touch with them and want to make sure we have access to the site so some of the pictures are a little bit um a little bit older is it all blue now it is yeah okay so our next um project again is that combined structures the duplex we've got two owners here 1003 nassau street used to be known as 231 venetian and that faces nassau where the other unit faces venetian at 229. so john and eleanor beckworth are the owners of 1003 nassau street and mark and louise holden owned the unit facing venetian so these owners came in in proximity very close to each other um at the time that this was being done south unit came through first and then the owners in the north unit um sold and the new owners came in to do theirs at the same time so it was really good timing for the overall site this project underwent exterior renovation the addition of a pool the addition of a porch a rear garage in the back of the site and some bringing back some of the historic integrity that existed here so we're just going through before and afters here they did quite a great job i think with their landscaping across both sides of the property added the fence here this is the garage in progress so we wanted to make sure you could see where this was tucked in it's kind of tucked in in the back of the site and that's what the garage looks like today this is the area where the swimming pool is now located it was a front front yard they did i think have some variances to facilitate that pool which turned out quite nice with their landscaping and their restoration of their front porch connecting to this it's i was out there this week it's turned out really nice small details include again that fence wood ceilings wood tongue and groove ceilings and now this is the north structure that faces venetian and so we see here a garage and that garage was enclosed for additional living space so you can see the front looks a little bit different some of these pictures it's it was really hard for me to even understand that that was a garage and now it's this it really looks so much different when you're out there but here you can also see they added a pergola on the front front porch this is a wood pergola paver bricks windows they also had a small improvement to the rear of the site including this area here where you can see new doors were added new patio space i wish i had the completed picture of the pool i didn't want to put the in progress picture of the pool but there's also a brand new pool in this backyard as well and then this is their front view looking at the property from venetian and they did just a really nice job with very simple detailing maintaining the wall that was there and adding gates i believe they maintained these bougainville but trim them back and then the last project in this category is 108 northwest fourth avenue in the west settlers historic district this is on the west side of the street this structure structure was built in 1949 the previous owner had come through for a renovation very minor facade updates and a minor addition in the back there were some delays due to conflict with the contractor so the house sat like this i want to say for about seven years unfortunately the owner was not able to complete the project due to that conflict and ended up selling the home so the new owners came in reimagined the site which is a very um you know large lot for west settlers historic district they did include an addition in the rear you might remember they came before the board asking not to put the porch railings on this one and i think it turned out really nice with their landscaping this is looking at it from the effectively southeast corner of the property um you can see here shutters that fit the windows as they should they maintain that medallion in the gable um the chimney feature as well with the chimney cap this is the rear of the property facing west and this is what it looks like now so there's that larger addition swimming pool and backyard improvement so that's the um those are the candidates in the first category and i can go back if you want to deliberate and discuss you can go back and look at any pictures you have questions let me know i have thoughts but does anybody else i mean just first glance and i've looked through it a little bit i i like the 108 northwest support the last one simply because this house could have easily come down and not been preserved the other ones i think were well maintained and well taken care of over the years and i i love the goldsteins and i love the hartman house and it's an appropriate addition in the rear i think they did a fabulous job but just in terms of overall preservation efforts i think in my mind this one for me it's a toss-up between this one and the 1003 nassau street the duplex so i think that one's pretty interesting you don't really see duplexes too much in the historic areas so and it's two i guess two owners are going to win it's a two for one and they so it was double the effort and i think the outcome was pretty amazing um they kept the historical integrity they added to it with great landscaping or you know um you know lushing it up um so i'm torn between these two um i can go either way michelle did 108 um did they do that was that was a rehabilitation and addition and addition yes where was the addition in the rear um we can go slide through kind of quickly so here you can see the rear and that is the addition so what you see peeking out on the very far left is the plane of the original house so you see the area where the french doors are open that is new as well as the area with the gable roof to the right i think they did an excellent job there um i also i also think the duplex was a very uh great project with the two owners involved and you know the addition was no small addition either and i think they they paid attention to the historic character and did a phenomenal job with not imposing that that addition onto the street the nassau and venetian is that a sam augeran jr i believe it is we use that generator right i was going to ask i don't remember that generator on the approval where is that in the front yard the main picture on nassau yeah it's in the street wasn't on your presentation it was in the ballot is it um i'm probably standing over it right you're probably standing right on it yeah well no it looks like it's not there anymore because oh yeah no it's up by the fence so if this is if that's a more recent photo than what's in our package maybe that was temporary this i took this photo this week like two days ago the fence was moved now this is a different view this has got to be a different view it's not can i come look at your ballot i don't have it with me yeah we could turn so the the brick work has changed yeah that's right there that was um that wasn't it wasn't installed yet uh oh it was there to be installed so they actually looks like they did move the fence yeah they widened the driveway as well the driveway's different too because this has got the curve yeah oh yeah yeah yeah we were um the week we were the two weeks we were preparing the packet it rained and rained and rained and rained so we weren't able to go out and get pictures with this beautiful blue sky so we were using some older pictures for the ballot that's why that was there yeah that wouldn't have been allowed to be there it took out that shuffle era were there any happy with that were there any challenges on this one that you're aware of like the other one that had the seven years of yeah so um the owners of this unit both owners were different when we initially started working on this project and they didn't get along the two owners the north unit owner i think removed a tree and there was a claim by this unit owner that while they were out of town and that tree was removed that their water line was broken and they were faced with a six thousand dollar water bill so they were arguing the other thing that happened with this one is the i believe the approval the original approval included a second story that they were coming or they were applying for above the garage and we were really trying to help them through the process but the way that was designed was not really streamlined for the structure then the adjacent neighbor didn't want them looking down so there was a push and pull on the design these owners decided to sell and they left then the owners next door decided to sell and they left so when the two new owners came in it was like perfect harmony between them they get along they worked together to come up with a plan for how they could each do some improvements to their structure without fully impacting each other which is really rare that we get that um situation you know coming through so i mean i think the detailing um while maybe the additions on these weren't quite as large as the addition on the northwest fourth avenue project the fact that they were able to compromise and work together was made our lives a lot easier and theirs so yeah this was a multi-year project as well this began in i want to say five or six years ago and it seems like a cohesive design right each each side is balanced it doesn't look like two no separate places and that was something we really struggled with um with the old owners because what you don't see here let me see if i have a picture of it so you can see how there's this porch their original the original owners wanted to come through and do a porch that extended further out into the front yard these owners did not they wanted to maintain the front facade um and make sure that they incorporated elements that would have been original to the building so there was some later you can see these columns here that were suspected to be later additions kind of got that corinthian look which wouldn't have been utilized at this time period so they went to a more original appearance where the other owners incorporated the wood pergola um and their front porch yeah for us i would say both of these projects were all of this these in this category were fairly equal um if we go back and look at this one there was a lot of push and pull happening with this because um they wanted to demolish this garage and so we worked with them um to not do that and really you know they had some damage issues that they were dealing with but the architect really saw the value of what we were trying to accomplish here which was maintain that original garage and then um these owners here had a ton of space they could have done a much bigger edition than they did and they came in with a very modest small edition um and the scope is similar if you look at the square footages on all of these so definitely was hard for us too all right uh does anybody else have any other comments we want to just take a straw poll here or well i think 108 checks all the boxes i mean it really is a standout uh resource would have been long these other other houses would have survived the due for kind of upgrade but this this this would have been gone if uh jake yeah i'm also i mean coming to the meeting i was definitely leaning towards uh the one on nassau street but then after the additional photos and seeing what 108 was in its previous condition it was um you definitely think that most people would want to demo the building and what they did with it it's really nice the one on nassau street it has amazing detail and it turned out great but i'm leaning towards 108. we just made a motion on this or how does this yeah i have a motion for you but a matter of note these are all contributors so the idea of demolition would have been a harder if not impossible road to go through to tear your you know tear a contributor down with that said in the time frame when this was sitting um unoccupied the previous owner did struggle you know with people entering the property and so things can happen you know where you lose a resource because of neglect not that they were neglecting but the um you know people entering the property so those are that was probably more of a threat in our eyes to see that the property was unoccupied than it was to see that or to think that it would get punched well it was it was obviously not maintained in the full way this woman that used to own it was 90 something years old um a member of the you know west settlers historic district for a long time she was a school school crossing guard um and this was a second home for her so she was going to utilize it for income producing we were really excited when she came through um and equally just equally excited as we were disappointed to see she ended up having to sell it it was really unfortunate um lost the opportunity for true general generational wealth when she had to walk away from this property with the new owners uh we explained all of that to them as well so they knew what had happened with this site and you know they took care it has been sold since they have um did their renovation it's been sold twice actually yeah it was it was i think it was pretty clear it was an investment property but the the owners of the duplex they're living there yeah into consideration i mean you can take anything you want into consideration but how do you consider it yeah i i hope i'm inclined to carry attention what we try to do is help inspire people to do that right yeah but it's not everybody does it's a harder sound with the uh be harder for us yes do you mind uh teeing up that motion absolutely to uh take a stab okay um i'll make a motion to approve 108 northwest 4th avenue west settlers historic district as the winner of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of residential contributing additions and rehabilitation motion a second should we call the roll on this one or say let's do that let's call the roll peter dwyer yes jake liopolis yes richard casser is absent chris kabasis yes benjamin baffer yes carol perez yes john miller yes one down five to go i think it's really a great testament to us that as a board you staff the city all that are involved that we have this many completed projects we're really seeing the districts come along here okay so this category is residential contributing exterior alterations so we have two one is in delida park at 503 northeast 2nd avenue this is owned by jeff and mindy booster and the other is 121 to 125 northwest 3rd avenue in west settlers historic district and each have some unique history that we'll review so first here um we have an original photo this was uh quite a bit of research i had done on this the structure is a streamlined modern it's our only true um streamlined modern in the delida park historic district it was built in 1947 um i remember in that research coming across postcards from the owners at the time who were sending postcards to families saying come to florida it's beautiful uh it's kind of neat we don't usually get to see that kind of history in the building records um but this uh was originally joined on um lots three and four you're going to see in a different category the portion of the lot that was removed in the back where a new house was built um but jeff who's jeff and mindy wooster um did this through the administrative review process and they this is what it looked like when they purchased the home it was probably a little more overgrown than this when they got it um this is what it looked like when they were done so they brought back at our great urging that porthole window once they found out it was there they wanted to bring it back um if the rear is so corner windows x ear alteration cross shelter so it's they lose that non-mute that was her goal so she has bluebird hair salon here this is the structure in the rear before we didn't have the best after picture so i didn't show it but we have a side after this is the before as well and you can see it's been repaired cleaned up around the outside of this new landscaping and walkways added throughout the site they do um in addition to her business at the hair salon she rents this out as a rental this structure in the back um is a guest cottage with an attached garage this structure was built i think that's why i haven't said the date i i don't know that we wrote that down i apologize but it is a contributing structure all of these are and so you can see she went through replaced windows the garage door it is used for garage purposes not livable square footage although they are using it like a rec space they added a pool here as well and this is off in the distance is the city hall parking lot so this is right behind city hall here so those are our two projects for residential contributing exterior alterations this has three different addresses it's two technically it's the main house with its guest cottage and then the beauty salon is it different lots or it's on a lot but with different addresses it's all together um there's a history on it about that where there were two separate lots that were joined at one point in time these projects were done at the same time yes administratively through the administrative approval process so this is really kind of a testament to what you can do through permit even um you know minor coa and permit revisions so we really try to tell people you don't always have to go through the board review to make minor changes when they're picking minor colors you know neutral colors it's a like for like window repair roof repair or replacement swimming pool these are the types of things that you can go through the staff review process for any thoughts yeah they're great projects and i agree um one has three times the amount of of uh work right uh but the um what is it the streamline modern so the streamline modern modern that one is just fantastic the the way they brought it back and they kept the character it's a unique architectural house in the in the neighborhood probably in delray also there's probably not too many of those um they did everything right i believe with the the strip driveway pads the just the the way they restored the the old look of it um this is like a picture perfect project i lean towards this one remember this one had the extra lot that was paired off and they built a new house on the adjacent lot same owner mr rooster yeah i i i'm leaning towards northeast second the 503 just simply because of the neatness of it as you say it's the only example of it that we have they did a great job on it it's still a very modest home they you know certainly could have had to do more but they needed that lot next door so yeah that was yeah so um but i think it looks fabulous so i think they're both great i would probably vote for this one i'm biased because i see this house every day it's in my neighborhood and it's a great job i know jeff and mindy they did a fantastic job and the other one is well done as well but um i have to keep my votes close to home i definitely think 503 it turned out amazing they both did and you said the owners they brought the the window the circular window back after seeing the original photo so see in this image here the window's not there the gate is closed you can kind of see the gate yeah so they wanted to really highlight that gate by placing it in the open position that slides over oh i see it it closes i'm glad to know the history on that window because kim and i discussed that maybe jeff added it or something right so now yeah that was where we got to see it very cool that's awesome yeah i agree with everybody i think both projects are amazing and um they did an excellent job but yeah i lean towards 503. both of these categories this thing that really stands out to me is what a big difference the landscaping makes in carol's credit but we tell people that all the time no but we really yeah i mean because we don't think about it when we're reviewing is i mean we they have a landscape plan in the package but it really i mean it's it's huge i mean mature trees too are some of the biggest um adders they add to the to the look of a property and the the feeling of warmth and security and there's just something about these large canopy trees that are so important so to see lots that are just completely cleared to put a new house and they don't think about the trees that were there it happens all the time i know on northwest northeast ninth there's a huge ficus tree that maybe he's come down already but remember jim chard would always talk about yeah the trees and we do get to have a conversation with owners about this through the early stages of the process um and they always ask do we have to bring landscaping forward and we express that you don't have to but that there's great value in thinking it through ahead of time you know you can see with this tree there was some trimming that happened that needed to be done um just minor very minor trimming when you're out there and you see this tree it's wider than a human around that one um part of the trunk it's it's very very old tree yeah yeah everybody does i do too my husband wants to remove but when they bloom you're like i can't it looks horrible for for nine months out here messy yeah you can park the car in the driveway yeah beautiful yeah all right i'm gonna make a motion somebody i think we have a consensus on this one sounds like i'll do it i move to make a motion to approve 503 northeast 2nd avenue del ita park historic district as the winner of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of residential contributing exterior alterations a second portion of the second please call the role peter dwart yes g gillianapolis yes richard cassers absent chris cabezas yes benjamin baffer yes carol perez yes john miller yes okay ready go on to our next so here we have residential non-contributing these are additions new construction and or rehabilitation the two projects in this category are 209 northeast fifth street also jeff and mindy wooster through rtg their company construction company and then 18 northeast 7th street which is also in delita park they're both delita park historic district and this is eric and rosita gilbert so here we are with the east lot of the previous award winner they went through the process to do a plat exemption to separate the lots from each other and they took a little bit of space off of the streamline modern side to add to this lot so the lot could be a little bit bigger keeping in mind at one point they were considering a garage on the streamline modern and they for orgo or went that in the interim to get this through the review with the board so here i don't know if any of you have driven by it i've driven by it and it's impressive i think the hard work that you as a board put in with this applicant for those of you who were on the board at the time this applicant came to the board three times which i think was hard on him hard on us hard on you but i think it was worth the diligence of the board because the scale of this second story does appear when you're in the field as a low slung second story structure sorry i skipped the slide so it is kind of peeking out over the front the one story portion really is what's facing the street with that porch and the individual garages the pergola over the garages the use of the paper bricks and here you can see a rear view with the swimming pool when i saw these i thought these were the renderings the pictures are so good they do a nice job they do a nice job yeah but this is actually the the completed structure in the built environment um the architect was richard brummer some of you may remember he was with richard jones previously and then he went out on his own this was i think only the second project we had seen from him um once he started in his own practice so yeah i mean it it's i don't have a lot of befores because it's a vacant lot but um the completed project when i when i first drove by it i was kind of blown away about how how much better it was than what we first saw um not that the first iteration wasn't great it was just a little large for the delida park district okay so next we have um 18 northeast 7th street and so well you know each of these all these projects have a little bit of a push and pull that happens with the applicants these applicants wanted to completely change the architectural style of the building and we had quite a few conversations enriching trying to encourage because this is on the cusp of becoming a contributor so it qualifies as a contributor next resource survey where we update all of our districts this would come in as a contributor so we really wanted to make sure that the applicant and the board understood that and what the benefits of that could be tax incentives all kinds of different things over the long term so they embraced um that and this is their completed project incorporating the use of brick at one point they had like a flagstone facade which i think was really beautiful but not really characteristic of the district so they went with that brick facade they didn't close the garage this was board approval but the overall form and function of the building and its original characteristics are really still in place um over what was there there is a large addition in the rear so the reason why we're pairing this against the non-contributing new construction is the improvements in the rear were quite substantial um and you can't even see that from the front of the house so it's a testament to what you can do in historic um adding on to property some people think you can't and they really did a great job um updating the structure and and making it larger for their their hopes in the future so those are our two projects for this category residential non-contributing christ yep both great projects um seventh street is really well done um the way that they um articulated the front it used to be just a flat roof and they they brought it out a little bit and offered a little central entry feature the way they enclosed the garage with the two single doors um but i remember i was on the board for 209 northeast fifth and i remember the back and forth and i do think that is a great example of how the board can help these projects become a better project and how the applicants if they're receptive like they were can actually um improve the project i think one of the items was i think it was the the garages had to be behind the front door or vice versa what what was that i forget um there was there was there was some movement there um they said in the uh the second story it was a straight vertical and they set it back from the uh which i would deck in the back on the second time so there was there was a lot of and it turned out amazing i think this is one of the best looking houses in the in the neighborhood um so that is my vote for 209. i asked for 7th street because i remember i think it was when i was on the board previously when that one came through and i remember the effort kind of similar with here that that we had to go through to to kind of walk that line of helping to guide the the applicant without designing from from there so i mean really big effort and for their credit hanging in there because that you know that that was also during a period of time where i'm sure i'm sure they were considering why don't we just sell this house why don't we just sell this house demolish it this was a risk for demolition yeah and i think they brought that um planter back the brick planter was was was big it was on an old it was on an old picture because i i remember thinking this looks like the 1960s house that i totally looks like it should have been there from the first place yeah they brought it back i believe if not then they added it they brought it back but that was where they originally had like the that 2014 flagstone yeah you know that that dry stack and we're like no no no you got to go with the mature gumbo as well 209 put in a mature uh live oak which is very nice and they it's a tall one so that that's taller than they need to go a little silver button wood off to the side there i would um lean towards 209 just because it's the architecturally it's just a really beautiful building um i'm sure that uh the 7th street did an amazing job also but i i'm just leaning towards 209. in the same boat i think well from what it sounds like it looks like a lot of work with you guys and um whoever is living in 209 they cooperated a lot it turned out great and they both look great it's also it makes it difficult because the before it's an empty lot and then the after is a beautiful house so deciding the criteria makes it tough but i'm leaning towards 209. a very narrow empty that's the part is they squeezed it in there it doesn't look out of proportion it looks great pete they're both in your hood so yeah they're both right nearby um they're great it's a tough choice i think that the uh seventh street project probably required a great deal of creativity to get where they ended up like you said an empty lock gives you a lot of flexibility even though it's narrow and great example of a new home i'm torn yeah i i could go either one i mean whatever motion is made i'm gonna support it so um the uh the live oak though that they did plant it kind of looks like uh some of gary the obvious is uh renderings where he puts these massive trees to make the house look smaller so seen that trick um but no either either one are good i remember i was on the board for the the 209 not the 18 so i do think 209 is a testament to when there is an empty lot or there is new construction that it it is possible to have it fit the character of the street and the historic neighborhoods and so sometimes you know designing from scratch is harder than when you have the constraints of of an existing house um it didn't start that way it didn't no it didn't start that way i don't think it helped them that the two houses to the east jeff built those jeff built and they were much smaller a lot of character we talked through that with him you know why don't you just do do that you know and i think he had owners who were coming through for the other two are on 50 foot lots this one is about 62 i think um you can correct me i think you i think you're right the added of the five feet um yeah the five feet allowed him to squeeze another garage in because the other two have single car garages and the other two the garages are set back yeah yeah way back and second story is set those other two on one side that's right they do seem they fit together now yeah all right motion i'll do it yes you're on a roll man yep i move well i make a motion to approve 209 northeast 5th street delida park historic district as the winner of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of residential non-contributing additions new construction and rehabilitation second i'll second second peter dwyer yes jake eliopoulos yes richard casser is absent chris cabezas yes benjamin baffer yes carol perez yes john miller yes ready here we go for category four so remember we um are calling this commercial not contributing as your reports say so both of these are also in delida park historic district we have 403 north swinton avenue owners are alex and margo platt this is a commercial office for compass realty for margo and um alex and then 111 northeast 4th street which is um the first one's on the corner of swinton and lake ida and the second one 111 northeast 4th street is on the corner of um seacrust or northeast second avenue in lake ida and that one's owned by john fugo that one's non-contributing the 403 north swinton is a contributor so many of you will remember this was a dentist's office for years and years and years i think all the way back to when i was a child this has been a dentist's office since the 80s yeah interesting fact about this structure when we were going through research with alex platt we found that this was actually located over on northeast fourth avenue closer to atlantic and it was moved here this is a wood frame structure and we believe it had wood siding but probably upon moving it they they did a stucco exterior i think that happened in the 70s perhaps so this is both of these projects are also admin approvals as some of the other ones you'll see where they repainted but they came before the board for their windows they were wanting to do no grids and we needed the board to help weigh in on that otherwise had they come through with the grids it would have been straight to permit so you can see here that oh wait the board also approved the roof the metal roof but you can see it's quite a transformation it's beautiful on this corner really just as a gateway structure to dell ida park the landscaping again is gorgeous as chris would say um the little fixtures the black fixtures integrating with the black railings um just really really pops nicely on the building we worked with the owner and their sign contractor to do that sign that was a bit of a stretch for me i almost brought that to the board um but they paired it back a little bit and placed it on a for you know on a wall not as forward on the structure but you can see new gutters new windows new doors new landscaping um really just turned out great they repaved the parking lot here some foundation plantings which make all the difference softening the elevation of the building just little details little details that have turned out really really nice um so next the other gateway piece you know as you're entering lake or dell ida park from um downtown as you come up north on second this was all admin these owners we worked with um not too much back and forth a little bit on the windows they're really wanting to ensure that they use the proper window colors and here they look green but they're actually more of that bronze color what's really the big piece on this in addition to the windows is the landscaping they just recently re-asphalted the parking lot you see it it almost looks like a computer generated in it really sharp we walked the site earlier this week so windows painting landscaping new signage cleaning up the parking lot it's really turned out quite nice for that corner bringing an older building up to um modern day standards so those are our two um this one was constructed in 1947 and the uh alex platt property the pink property was built in 1925 and over to you i mean i personally i'd like 403 but either one i think 403 gives me a bigger wow factor um but the landscape we're starting to find out that's that's has such a big impact on all of these i didn't realize the one one one that one elevation that that that's a great shot i haven't seen that part of it but i'm still leaning towards 403 yeah those three cypress trees look great they do a lot for the building what would you call the color for 403 oh no it's like a is it pink or is it like a lilac oh it's a pink it's just straight up pink it's close to pepto pink yeah yes the when it first went on i was like legally blonde i thought they were going to do 50 of the pink but no the landscaping went in the white the black detailing really bougainvillea on the side really off it really looks good against the pink actually although half of his uh podocarpus has died i was driving by there the other day that always happens with podocarpus yeah they need a lot of water they go they go you're not going to say you wouldn't think it but they need a lot of water right at first so they're not great plants actually um i think 111 is a great cleanup um but 403 is sort of a complete transformation it just feels like a new revived property um you know the bold color of the house i think it's it's a nice well it's a choice um the sign placement i actually think it works for a commercial building it's it's unique and it it's a nice interesting spot so i think the things that they've done for this one are a little bit more bolder and i lean towards this one the standing scene to me with the color it evokes more of a caribbean field you know i kind of if they had the siding i would say more but did the stucco i still you know it's grown on me yeah this was a um 403 was a big transformation and i just uh love it being on the corner i think it's i think it is a nice little gateway into that neighborhood from lake idam so yeah both of these are in my neighborhood again so i think they're great examples but i would lean to 403 just because of the transformation junior brit house want to make a motion why not i thought you want the motion motion to approve 403 north swinton avenue old school square historic district as the winner of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of commercial exterior alterations and rehabilitation second motion and a second please call the roll peter dwyer yes jake liopolis yes richard caster is absent risk a basis yes benjamin baffer yes carol perez yes john miller yes moving along fifth category there are three nominees in this category this is commercial multi-family residential non-contributing for additions new construction or rehabilitation so our first nominee is owned by the cra at 98 northwest fifth avenue our second is atlantic grove townhomes this project was done by new urban communities tim hernandez was the applicant on that and then we have 1180 and 1190 nassau street um which is owned by edward and jane graham oh again this is one of our duplex projects so it's edward and jane graham at 1180 and mark harrison at 1190. so first um is the cra building and this is another project that was a great partnership i think between the city staff and the cra um doing education and awareness i think because there were some interesting features on this building so there's commercial on the ground floor and residential units upstairs but the ground floor had this really unique car park so you can kind of see it beyond these brick um open brick wall features you could actually pull in drive in there park your car and then pull out so that was added as new commercial space and what we what resulted from that new commercial space were new retail office restaurant you know different kinds of uses that could be accommodated in there what else was added was an elevator which you can kind of see in the center of the building with the elevator overrun to access the second floor where it's a co-working space up up top on the second floor this property benefits from um different code allowances in the cvd code which you could come in with a restaurant here um within the existing space existing space without having to provide parking there's things that are designed to kind of spur development of the west settlers historic district so i think the cra did a great job capitalizing on that and they have um new tenants slated for this site some are already in um but what we what we struggled with a bit on this is it was a potential contributor so it's a non-contributor but it was on the cusp of becoming contributing um so we tried to encourage them to make changes that the changes that they made to it wouldn't affect that potential reclassification so that some of those things were very clear utilitarian in nature with that elevator that was added and then they had to um you know update these stairs that were at both ends you know they i think they really brought this building forward where you can still see some of the original form and function but it has changed whether or not we would actually classify this as contributing i'm not sure we would have to have a consultant engaged on that effort anyway but um you know here you can see the new sign the edmunds bain building um named for a member of the community i just think it's it turned out really nicely here along fifth avenue they also you can see in the pictures you see the sidewalk material so this goes up and down northwest fifth avenue and it's almost looks like a terrazzo look um they continued that on fifth as well so next we have the atlantic grove townhouse project so if any of you been to ziri yes probably everybody best tie through around um that is part of atlantic grove too so all of that building that faces atlantic avenue and the 301 and the 401 building is the commercial portion of atlantic grove and then there's this piece here where the townhomes are that is part of the overall unified site plan these townhomes are in the west settlers historic district but the commercial portion of the property is not as it's a unified site plan historic reviews anything on this site so they had been in um i think there was a land swap that happened or something with the mount olive church that there was a litigation on that occurred and many years later that was settled and they came forward to fill in this portion of the site with two new townhome buildings so this is what they came forward with it was a slight update to the paint color for the whole townhouse project the whole thing and then this being the new piece there are slight differences um very nuanced if you look here you can see on the left they have that porthole window they have the roof feature over the entrances but the new groups have metal roof on them there are varying balcony designs um throughout the site there was a streetscape now that they had to contend with per the cvd code that didn't exist previously um which you know designates what the organization of the curb where the cars are parked the signage portion of the right of way and where the pedestrians circulate the pedestrian clear zone so it really had a slight adjustment in the way the site was designed um you can see here with some of the jogs that had to happen on the site so the shifts over time did present you know a new approach to the design for the overall site um but yeah this was i think a really great infill and in the mix of this they traded a piece of their property with mount olive and if you're out there any time this week you'll see they're building out a parking lot behind ziri um that was all part of this at the same time yeah so a year was this completed um these approvals go back a long time michelle because i was these are like 2022 award i remember yeah so this was um final approval i think on this one was 21. um there was while they do go back a long time sometimes the co's take a while yeah it does take some time like i said we want to make sure what we're bringing i think 98 was 2022 and then this one was 2021 it takes time to get those co's in hand and they weren't ready last year for us to bring to you for 25 so they went on the list for this year you ready i'm going to go on to our next i have to say both of these projects required a lot of was there a lot of variances and things like there were some minor things like there was a workforce housing unit with this one that had to go up to commission before it came to you we've now changed that process you don't have to go up and come back down they ended up not being able to sell that workforce housing unit and had to purchase it out that happened recently but um yeah just it's hard sometimes when there's so many moving parts on these bigger projects for your next one okay and so next we had another interesting project 1180 and 1190 nassau street for those of you who um have heard us maybe talk about this through presentations this site then these there's two duplex buildings so there's four units on this site this site and the development of these buildings on this site were the impetus behind nassau park historic district becoming established because of a house that was similar in style to what's across the street existed here and was demolished to make way for this so the community came together and were involved and had a hand in creating the new historic district so nassau park historic district was also originally conceived in 1935 um sam ogren has his fingerprints um over many many of the homes on this two block stretch of residential this was the city's first subdivision east of the intracoastal waterway on the barrier island so what these owners envisioned was an updating of the exterior of the structure a little flex of their balconies um on either side of the front there it almost we have gone out and taken multiple pictures it was really hard to get this to not look like a black and white photo the color scheme is very neutral um here we are we we went and got that blue sky uh yesterday but um you've got a board and batten siding on this with the horizontal railings they also had some adjustments of the pools that are just over the fence here you can't really see in any of the photographs but they moved away from that mediterranean spanish style architecture to a more modern transitional or i think we called it masonry vernacular in this case so they kind of knocked the 80s out of this one i think that the architectural detailing it's nice to see that it's on all sides of the building there's detailing the back and the front not just treating the front only it'll be interesting i have heard that the owners in the rear because the rear building still looks like this um aren't in agreement to come through but they want to do something perhaps paint um so we're waiting to hear hear what they come up with because they both have to do they have to agree you can't just do half the building so those are our three nominees for this category thoughts i'll go first i um yeah this duplex that's amazing what they did um with that i don't even remember seeing it i have to go by and take a look um and it's it's kind of hard because the the duplex and then the commercial building and then a multi-family building are all in the same category so it's just uh it's kind of a mixed bag this one it is but if you're going for commercial i mean i would say the 98 northwest fifth avenue um between the two multi-family i mean i would go with the nassau street the to me they seem like pretty much two separate categories we see that but yeah i think um 98 that's that's a wonderful thing to have in in this this area in this neighborhood what they're doing with the building and getting businesses in there it's a great thing for the community i really appreciate that one part of the reason why we incorporated these together is the regulations that get applied for commercial are the same that get applied for multi-family commercial the duplex went in as well because we didn't have a category to fit it into and didn't want to have to wait a year so to us it made sense to bring it in to this category but if you feel like you want to split some things out you certainly could make some adjustments if you wish okay with that i think nassau street is a great uh it's a great change and an update from the mediterranean look to a more modern sleeker look it's it's just so much nicer um the the landscaping is that picture right there the landscaping is very well done i like the use of the florida thatch palms um it's just that that i run by there sometimes and it looks really nice from outside the wall i wish i could have seen behind it what they did with the pool but still this done very nicely though it doesn't look historic right it's not really doesn't there's no historic nature to this um i think the other projects um and i don't know if we're looking at that but the other projects still pertain a little bit of that especially ninety eight it's a it was almost a contributing structure that that now has been updated and i think by having to add the elevator and then having those other two stair features having similar sort of uh covered areas it brings the building a new a new life and it makes it feel alive um and i i think the just this whole project all together seems amazing you know commercial property um in the west settlers district the paving pattern the landscaping the the way they added the new features to the old building um i think this one for me takes the cake cool anything else i agree kind of with carol too that you know in terms of impact to the community where it's built the 98 northwest fifth avenue really has paid the most impact to the community i mean um you know but folks on nassau street are gonna be fine right so nassau street is a1a but whether that whether that whether that job got done or not but uh northwest fifth avenue really really needed this i agree i think 98 northwest fifth avenue it came out came out dynamite oh they all did but it has the i think it has the best transformation for the the given projects i think the board's made a compelling argument for 98 northwest fifth avenue yeah i'm gonna fall in line yeah i think it's a really nice project well done i i agree with the comments on 1180 and 1190 i remember and this was the second go around or third go around for this building because it first it i don't even know what it was it was very 80s and then it got damaged severely in wilma and it was it was empty for years and you could just see the mold from the outside and it was nasty um and then this kind of meisner i guess you could call it meisner-ish look um but i i think the the transformation has been fantastic but i yeah i'd go with the rest of the board on 98 absolutely somebody want to make motion come on man you're getting good all right good motion to approve 98 northwest fifth avenue west settlers historic district as the winner of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of commercial multi-family residential non-contributing additions new construction and rehabilitation second motion and a second call the roll please peter dwyer yes jake iliopoulos yes richard casser is absent chris cabezas yes benjamin baffer yes carol perez yes pete uh john miller yes okay final category so this category is commercially individually designated um property for addition and or rehabilitation um so we have two yeah 142 south ocean boulevard um which is the sandaway house and then 525 east atlantic avenue which is the colony hotel both are listed on the individual register local register of historic places so um the sandaway house came in and were struggling with the interior um space they host i wish i had the numbers in front of me of how many students they host a year but they not only host members of the public like us but they're hosting children school field trips um you know they've got touch tanks in the back where they have sea life um for the kids to come see anything from nurse sharks to sea turtles i believe and what they were struggling with was the inside space which was greatly constrained um when it would get hot these this porch area really wasn't usable and was having an effect on interior gift shop and and other um you know air conditioned spaces beyond so they came in to enclose the porch with glass windows um we worked really hard with mr iliopoulos's office gary at the time and susan russo and danica sanborn at the sandaway house susan russo is the president of or was i think she still is the president of the sandaway um to do a renovation where we could still see that this was a porch right so the use of um clear glass windows in the front in in a pain fashion rather than operable windows single hung something that maybe wouldn't look as um traditional as a porch might look and this is some this has been the approach with a lot of different properties across the city if you ever are out and about you see something like this you think hey that must have been a porch you're probably right um so they also did around this time um i think they did the porch ballasts as well um landscaping slight improvements they're always updating this site everything on this site is you go out there and it feels like oh this is a little new this little sign is new um they i think have a really great team that are story mapping the nature that's happening on this site so that is our first candidate and then the next candidate we have is the colony hotel so this portion if you're looking south this is if you're standing in place where this building is now and you're looking towards the hotel this is all the way on the north side of the parking lot behind the hotel north of east atlantic avenue and they were in need of space for maintenance and laundry so they were using some garage space that was underneath the old annex of the the hotel this project was done by roy simon along with justina bounton and her family and so that's what this is serving these are are actually operable doors and they do come and go from these entrances that is looking at the same area where the building is now this here so you can see in the distance that 2000s um mixed use project i built that one i was with ironwood were you yeah the whole project i remember carrie glitzing coming through for that yeah it's quite nice yeah my office is right across the street well built yeah it's nice are you just west um just west yeah so you're in that really cute building with the i think that's also a sam ogren i think it is it might be an ogren or a junior um we've looked that up i hope hope that building can one day be preserved it's so cool dan carter used to have his office in the back yeah i'm the only la now are you yeah he was in the back i remember i used to have to deliver his board packets to him and he'd always want to come in would you like a drink and you'd be having a cigar and i'm like no i got really i gotta go it's friday yeah um anyway so this is the location of that new um structure right here which you can see the gooseneff lamps are pretty cool in person um they're a little bit exaggerated in size but they make such sense on this building it's just what the building needed is you know a little a little jewelry so those are our two um projects and the individually designated category one of roy simon's last that was probably his last i remember hit project house so the dinkler's house over on that if anyone's been by run by that i've been taking pictures of it going up and back down and um but yeah the dinklers and this are the last two that we dealt with roy on and st paul's um memorial garden oh okay yeah that's right which i heard took a wall his little wall yeah yeah he bent my ear on this one so um i this one just for the sentimentality of it i i have to go with this one for justina and hillary and roy and i think it looks fantastic it could be you know part of the original you know and uh but love sand away and and gary did a great job on that one too so i mean this one's a tough one really it's a tough one yeah yeah i'm in the same boat i was i was leaning towards sand away just because of the garden itself is so extraordinary but that's not really part of the i think the scope here yeah um yeah the colony it just has yeah such a historic feel to it it's done with restraint but it it uh it has that same character as the rest of the building that's a hundred years old now right the colony as of a couple of months ago it wasn't i think what's pretty cool too as you can see the colony has a textured stucco pattern right and you had kind of picked up on this where it looks historic but it has it um yeah this is more of a sharp corner smooth stucco so i thought that was a really nice thoughtful approach on roy's part that it has the right color to match but it there's a nod you can tell it's yeah the trained eye can pick up on the nuance of the difference here i wish maybe they had a little bit more landscaping on the sides but um yeah this one for i guess uh sentimentality too sand away that the treatment of the windows is almost exactly what they did at space of mind at 102 north swinton where they enclosed the porch and and it looked very very similar i remember when that was done michael weiner and i think they we had also on carol's building when grant owned the building there was okay when he did the renovation maybe the first time there were like a plexiglass um windows windows on the front and closing the porch everywhere the entire building had plexiglass oh they did all of them yeah it's like being in an airplane you didn't see out after a while they don't weather well it was kind of the approach in the 90s and 2000s was that instead of actually doing glass was to use you know like a plastic material i think this is a much more eloquent solution i do think the double door here is a great improvement it just draws you in before it just looked like a forgotten feature and now it really feels like a main grand entry not even grand but just a you know an entry that you want to go into ada compliant that was a screen door i think yeah it was that screen patio with the gopher tortoise out there and the ramp was really built also yeah fortunately or unfortunately these are two of the most iconic historic properties we have in the city too so it's like a tie yeah you can do that we've we've done that before we've had co-winners and i 100 would support that if somebody wanted to make that money this would be the time to do it yeah okay okay i don't see how you could you know have one of these come in second it's a tie okay so i would still need a motion but you would just say full you could say it's joint winners you have to say the addresses yeah yeah please motion to approve 142 south ocean boulevard individually designated and 525 east atlantic avenue individually designated both winners as both winners of the 2026 historic preservation board award for the category of commercially commercially commercial individually designated addition and or rehabilitation rehabilitation yeah good job though second i did it who seconded yes thank you motion a second peter dwyer yes jake liopolis yes richard casser is absent chris kabasis yep benjamin baffer yes carol perez john miller yes jake can go to family dinners he doesn't go empty handed all right all right so next um order of the agenda first thank you thank you all for your time your commitment to this board and reading your staff reports every month and just really making historic preservation and your service to the city a priority it makes what we're doing worthwhile so we appreciate you all our next meeting is may 6th where we will honor the award winners hopefully they can all come sometimes they can't but if they can we'll have certificates for them and also do another brief presentation on each award winner we do not have projects slated yet for the next meeting we've got a bunch of people in the review process and i'm super nervous that they're all going to ascend on you at one time and if they do i apologize but i can't help it um i asked john miller to come to the may 5th city commission meeting and accept the proclamation for national historic preservation month that will be read um so we look forward to seeing you there at that meeting what else i did uh if i can weigh in for a second so i had reached out to uh the mayor and city manager about um honoring the colony for their 100th both of them said yeah great idea i haven't heard back so well we could certainly that would be an ideal yeah for well for the commission meeting would be the the i mean we could do it here certainly but i think the commission meeting would have more impact if we could put something together for that yeah i mean we can so what's going to happen maybe what we can do is this is we can certainly add it to our presentation for may 6th we are also trying our best to do not an honoring of but kind of a wrap of sunday village because the big block is you know co in the co base um i think they're under tco or about to get final co you know as you've been driving by you can see the east blocks are almost done with those with the arcade probably being the most impactful piece of that project we're expecting that to come through for co and mid to late summer so we want to highlight you know it's on social media people are posting pictures at the different businesses we want to do a highlight for the may 6th meeting of the progress with them now some of the landscaping is growing in and looking more mature the pictures i think are going to be really nice we still have the time lapse i'd like to kind of show that old time lapse again but we could do the colony and then what happens at the second meeting of city commission in may is we present the award winners from this tonight's meeting after you award on may 6th so we could have a presentation on the colony as part of that as well i only get like maybe five maybe ten minutes most i don't think hillary can take a whole lot of time away so she's super busy and we had talked to her about doing something and she's like i'm just so swampless season that you know maybe at that point it'll die down a little bit um but i i you know it deserves to be recognized i think for what month was their construction year uh it opened in i want to say february or march of uh 1926 and then it went bankrupt about a year later so and then it was empty for a number of years and then hillary's or justina's dad bought it and i think 1935. this was when did they rename it the altar rep or was it no it was the altar up for alfred t rep and then um actually my uncle had a stock certificate of del rey hotels he spent 150 bucks in 1925. lost it all so well i mean if you know we could have a conversation even offline yeah yeah yeah i don't want to take them any more board time but sure i don't mind that i'm just thinking um if we can't i think it would be important that they hillary you know is there just oh yeah a hundred percent if they can't be maybe we pick a month when it's out of season and a little less hectic for them totally okay with that as long as it doesn't you know gets done this year you think they would have maybe an event to celebrate right they're they they lost half the season because they had a sewage main sewage line break and they tore up half their building oh my god and so they didn't open up until january this year and off season they're going to have to tear up the rest of the half their lobby to do the other part of it so they've got some significant challenges they can have the party in the garages all that terrazzo floor in the in the lobby is going to have to get torn up so um anyway so yeah they're they're going through some stuff so she can't take a whole lot of time okay well i wrote it down we'll definitely highlight it at the may 6th meeting maybe you and i could work together on some older yeah we have a lot of resources and historic date on that yeah we found an old menu of their opening and it was pretty cool nice we're getting very close to frog alley very close um i wouldn't even mention it at a meeting if i didn't feel like i was close but um i don't know if it will be i don't think it will be may 6th but perhaps june which i think would be appropriate for the month but the next steps of frog alley is going to be rolling that out to the community um having some community meetings with the neighbors and the people who are owning property in that neighborhood it will cycle through historic and city commission so keep an ear eye out for that um happening in the coming months for those of you who don't know frog alley is a historically black neighborhood established by bahamians in the southwest neighborhood so think west and south of the police department building um south of west atlantic avenue and it's been on the docket for quite a while and i say that meaning all the way back to the 90s when i was here the first time and vera farrington and pat casey really kind of having to pick do they want to do frog alley or west settlers and they did west settlers so we're doing a nice tribute acknowledgement to her in the beginning of the document because she was a original resident from the neighborhood so it's a potential new historic district and we'll be bringing that forward soon something we've been working pretty hard on great anything else from the board concerns meeting adjourned thank you thank you