| Ms. Whateley asked how much of a delay that would cause for a study to get |
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| underway, especially with a project that was considered an emergency. Mr. |
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| Delacourt stated in the normal process, rather than just deciding a property was next, |
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| the Study Committee would take a request to City Council to initiate the next study. |
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| He pointed out that no one had been requesting studies, but rather the City operated |
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| from a Potential List, which was treated as a request. He commented on a normal |
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| study, he did not think it would change the time frame, it was merely a matter of |
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| another step as part of the process. He did not think it would change the time frame |
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| much in an emergency situation because presently if there was a request for work or |
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| demolition to a potential property that might damage the integrity of the resource, an |
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| immediate request for review rights would be made to City Council, or a moratorium |
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| would be requested of Council. |
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| Mr. Delacourt stated he would submit the request to the Clerk’s Office requesting to |
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| be on the next City Council Agenda. He noted the Committee might want to have a |
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| representative attend the Council meeting in the event there are any questions, but that |
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| would happen prior to any study work beginning. He did not think the Study |
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| Committee would be prevented from beginning some preliminary research on a |
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| property, noting if Council did not agree to initiate a study, the Committee’s work on |
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| the property would stop. He commented the Committee would not ask the consultant |
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| to begin any work on a property without Council agreeing to initiate the study, but the |
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| Committee itself could begin some research. |
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| Ms. Kidorf stated one advantage of this process would be that the Committee could |
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| ask Council to grant review rights even if it was a non-emergency situation. She |
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| explained there was an allowance in State Law for Council to designate a “potential” |
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| or “proposed” historic district, which was not a moratorium, but did give the Historic |
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| Districts Commission review rights for a period of time. She noted that would not |
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| stop all work, but it did create a temporary historic district where the work would |
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| have to be reviewed by the Historic Districts Commission. She stated that was |
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| another option to protect a resource. |
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