April  11 , 2007
6:30 PM 
Main Level Conf. Room
City Hall

Present: Commissioners Dave Brown, Pat Jones, David Meyers, Phyllis Ravensberg, Tom Riggs, Wally Schramm and Alan Lamberg (Staff)

Guests: Nic Fahey, Laurie Smith, and Kevin O’Brien, all representing Agape Construction Company.

1. Approval of Minutes: Minutes from March 14, 2007 meeting were approved as read.

2. Volunteer Coordination: None

3. Citizen Comments: No comments offered.

4. Certificates of Appropriateness:  Two COA’s submitted from Agape Construction Company, both dealing with new construction in the Meramec Highlands subdivision

            Case 07-04, 1025 Barberry Lane – Consists of new construction of a single family atrium ranch home within the Meramec Highlands historic district.  The applicant is Mr. Nicholas Fahey of Agape Construction Company.   The COA was Approved With Conditions that a window be added to break up the expanse of wall of the garage on the east elevation. 

            Case 07-05, 1075 Barberry Lane – Consists to new construction of a single family two story traditional home within Meramec Highlands local historic district.  The Applicant is Mr. Nicholas Fahey of Agape Construction Company.  The COA was Approved With Following Conditions:  (1) Roof pitch changed from 10-12 to 8-12. (2) Concrete on the front elevation given a “finished” look from the street. (3) Cupola over the west wing be moved to garage and brought into scale with rest of the building.

5. Old Business

            5a. Favorite Building Awards Ceremony – The commission reviewed opinions formed during “drive by” of the nominated buildings on Thursday April 5^th.  Final decision of nominees was then made. The question arose during the review as to how to deal with ties when multiple nominations were deemed worthy of recognition in the same category.  After some discussion the commission decided to eliminate the ordinary modifier “best” used in previous years and use other descriptive modifiers such as “prime” or “great.”  In all, twelve awards were selected.  

            5b. Historic Quinette Cemetery – It was announced earlier this year that the Park Board has officially taken over responsibility for the cemetery and the City Council has approved the Park Board ordinance.  Issues of significance are: (1) Any third party improvement will have to be approved by the Park Board and will have to be financed by the party making the request.  (2) All changes and improvements to the grounds will have to be done in accordance with Park Board standards.  Because the cemetery is a landmark, regarding matters of visual modifications to the site will require consultation of the Commission by the Parks Board.

            5c. Signage for entrances to historic districts -  Alan Lamberg presented the preferred design of the signage, which was approved by the commission and will be presented to the City Council for final approval.. The aluminum sign will be 24 by 24 inches and will utilize official City colors (dark green with a red ribbon border).  The City of Kirkwood seal will be centered on the sign.  The name of the historic district (Central Place, Meramec Highlands, East Monroe, or Jefferson-Argonne) will appear above the city seal and the words – Historic District, will appear below the seal. 

            5d. Ordinance Review – The remaining ordinance draft to be reviewed, Provisions Related to Procedures for Design Review, was tabled until the next business meeting.

6. New Business:  None

7. Adjournment  The meeting was adjourned at 8:03 PM