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Historical Commission April 8, 2014
Date: 2014 -04 -08 Time: 7:30 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Town Hall Conference Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street
Purpose: Regularly scheduled meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Chair: Sharlene Reynolds Santo (SRS)
Treasurer: Roberta Sullivan (RS)
Secretary: Carl Mittnight (CM)
Virginia Adams (VA)
Members - Not Present:
Robyn Parker (RP)
Nancy Kohl (NK)
Sally Hilgendorff (SH)
Others Present:
Sam Wagner, RMHS Student
Bram Kools, RMHS Student
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Carl Mittnight
Topics of Discussion:
Subiect
D-Iscussion
AcMm hams
R-esp,
Meeting
Reviewed meeting minutes, approved as amended.
File with clerk
CM
minutes
Budget
RHC members signed the warrant to reimburse expenses
File warrant
RS
for VA, as approved at the 3/25/2014 RHC meeting.
Archives
1. Filed MF Charles corporate records received from
Elbridge Grover and updated RHC database
accordingly.
2. Motion for Elena Dube to perform data entry services,
up to $100, Approved.
3. Inserted remaining photos into the Reading historic
inventory database.
4. RHC discussed getting organized to scan, or hire
someone to scan, the slide collection for better storage
and ease of access to the images. Further discussion
is needed.
St. Agnes
The building permit to renovate the parish center at the
Communicate with
SRS
Catholic
church was held up because of misinterpretation. The
the church and
Church
church address covers both the rectory, which is a historic
building inspector
building, and the parish center, which is not, and this was
to clarify.
not made clear to the town when the church applied for the
building permit. SRS received a call from Father Rock at
St. Agnes thanking the RHC for their help.
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75 Pearl Street
This is the Pearl Street School and a Design Review Team
RHC rep to attend
VA
(DRT) meeting is being held on 4/16/14 to review proposed
meeting
exterior and interior renovations.
Demolition
The RHC discussed coupling the Demolition Delay process
Contact the
CM
Delay Statute
with the Building and Demolition permitting processes.
Building Inspector
of Limitations
Proposed is when the demolition or building permit expires,
the demolition delay process would then have to be
repeated. A discussion with the Building Inspector is
needed to better understand the permitting processes,
expirations, and extensions.
RHC Rules and
This discussion depends, in part, on the conversation to be
Regulations
held with the Building Inspector. Rules and Regulations
discussion will be taken up again after that conversation.
Plaque
The RHC discussed offering plaques, indicating year of
Contact Markarian
CM
Program
construction, to owners of historic homes in Reading. Form
Sign company
and cost of the program has yet to be determined.
Research
1. VA learned that the process for creating the old
Reading street signs still existed but that it was
inappropriate to be used for the plaque program.
2. CM tasked with contacting a sign company in
Wakefield that makes historic home plaques for the
Town of L nnfield.
RHC Web Page
The RHC members will review the site as it stands today
Review web site
All
and develop suggestions for future use. A discussion will
and potential
be held at the next RHC meeting.
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Zoning
VA attended the 4/1/14 meeting where ZAC reviewed
Advisory
section 4, "Principal Uses" of the zoning bylaw. The next
Commission
meeting will be held at 7:30pm on 4/16/2014.
ZAC Meeting
Associate RHC
As per Chapter 40, Section 8D, RHC Associate members
Members
can be selected by the voting members of the RHC to
attend and vote at RHC meetings should a quorum be
needed to perform an RHC function.
Mail
The RHC received plans for a 3 house subdivision on
Sanborn Lane, off of Mill Street.
Adjourned
The meeting adjourned at 9:20 pm.
Next Meeting
Tuesday May 13, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Copies of referenced correspondence and documents are kept in Meeting Minutes binder and relevant project
folders located in the Reading Historical Commission Archives, lower level of the Reading Town Hall.
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