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Memorializing the decision of the City Council to grant the appeal of All Energy Solar from a decision of the Heritage Preservation Commission denying an application for a building permit to install solar-panels at 662 Conway Street in the Dayton's Bluff Heritage Preservation District.
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WHEREAS, on April 5, 2018, Kristen Sachwitz, d/b/a All Energy Solar, for and on behalf of the owner of the building commonly known as 662 Conway Street, which is identified as a “contributing” building to the City’s Dayton’s Bluff Heritage Preservation District, made application to the Heritage Preservation Commission (hereinafter, “HPC”) in HPC File No. 18-019 on March 9, 2018, for a building permit to install solar-panel equipment on the southwesterly oriented elevation of the subject building’s roof. One set of panels [“Installation No. 1”] would be sited at the “front-half” of the building’s southwest roof plane with a second set of panels [“Installation No. 2”] to be sited on the rear-half of the same roof plane but behind a dormer and chimney; and
WHEREAS, on April 12, 2018, the HPC, having provided notice to affected property owners, duly conducted a public hearing on the said application where all interested parties were given an opportunity to be heard; and
WHEREAS, at the close of the said hearing and based upon the testimony and records, including the HPC’s staff report dated April 5, 2018, which recommended denial of the permit application, the HPC duly moved to deny the said application for the reasons set forth in the staff report and particularly its findings numbers 8, 10, 15 and 16 as set forth below:
1. On July 23, 1992, the Dayton’s Bluff Heritage Preservation District was established under Ordinance No. 17942 (Council File #92-900). The Heritage Preservation Commission shall protect the architectural character of heritage preservation sites through review and approval or denial of applications for city permits for exterior work within designated...
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