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SUBJECT
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Public Hearing and consideration of a motion regarding the replacement, relocation, and installation of new HVAC units on the roof of the structure on Lots 3, 4, and 5, Block 150, Western Division, located at 1502 Hidalgo Street. This property is within Saint Peter’s Historic District.
HD-009-2026
District VIII
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BACKGROUND
Initiated by: Tomas Cantu, Owner; Chart Construction, LLC, Applicant.
Proposed Scope of Work: The applicant is requesting approval from the Historic District Landmark Board for the replacement, relocation, and the installation of new HVAC units on the roof of the structure.
Site: The property is an H-B-3 (Historic Community Business District) zoning district.
Letters sent to the surrounding property owners: 35
For: 0
Against: 0
Granting or Denying an Application:
- As per the Laredo Land Development Code, Section 24.1.2.2(2), the Historic District Landmark Board shall utilize the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and Illustrated Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings; and the City of Laredo, Texas, Historic Urban Design Guidelines
Secretary of the Interior’s Standards:
1. A property will be used as it was historically or be given a new use that requires minimal change to its distinctive materials, features, spaces and spatial relationships.
2. The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
3. Each property will be recognized as a physical record of its time, place and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or elements from other historic properties, will not be undertaken.
4. Changes to a property that have acquired historic significance in their own right will be retained and preserved.
5. Distinctive materials, features, finishes, and construction te...
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