Sou. Pines Historic District Comm, Aug. 9,

COME TO THE MEETING ! (please pass this notice on...)
HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION (HDC)
Thursday, August 9 at 4:00pm
Planning Department
180 SW Broad Street (next to Post Office)
If you can't attend, please email your comments TODAY to the HDC staff liaison:

Bart Nuckols, Planning Director nuckols@southernpines.net

To email the HDC members directly, see below:

Scott Boulton (Chair) r.scott.boulton@us.army.mil
Paul Harkness hawknhark@pinehurst.net
Carl Kessler CarlKessler@nc.rr.com
Clemm Shankle cshankle@earthlink.net
Louis Scribner Louie@Scribner.com
John Heckathorn jdhaia@earthlink.net
Heather Mcdonald heather.mcdonald1@us.army.mil

FACTS:
The Cedar is on property that is within the boundaries of the Town's Downtown Historic District and, therefore, is subject to review and regulation by our Historic District Commission.

The property was purchased by MVOC LLC of Cary which has plans to demolish the building (the old La Terrace Restaurant) on the site and cut down the Cedar to make way for a 6,500sf steakhouse.

Owners of property within the Historic District must submit their plans to remodel or demolish buildings and/or objects (including landscape) to our Historic District Commission for evaluation along with an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness, which only the HDC can issue.

A Certificate of Appropriateness is required before the owners can apply to the Town for a building permit.

The HDC reviews the plans to ensure that improvements conform to the Town's historic preservation/architectural guidelines and that nothing of historic significance is destroyed or modified. The NC Statutes and our local ordinance allow the HDC to include "significant landscape" as part of its review.

When the cedar was brought to the attention of the HDC, it's members voted to submit the issue to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for a ruling on whether the cedar deodara qualifies "significant landscape." SHPO ruled that it does.

Now the HDC has to decide what to do. Please let them hear from you today!