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HomeMy WebLinkAboutminutes.hpc.19780124RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS 100 Leaves A regular meeting of the Aspen Historical Preservation Committee was held on January 24, 1978 at 1:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Those members present were Norm Burns, Jerry Michael, Terry End, Mona Frost, Jon Siegle, Gaard Moses, Florence Glidden. Also present is Joe Wells of the Planning Office. APPROVAL OF MINUTES The minutes of the January 10th meeting were addressed by the members. Ms. Glidden moved to approve the minutes as presented, seconded by Ms. End. All in favor, motion carried. TOM THUMB Preliminary Review Joe Wells, present today in the place of regular staff member John Stanford requested that an item be added to the agenda if time permits, that being a conceptual review of an application for an exterior addition to the Hutch building. Ms. Frost so moved, seconded by Ms. Glidden. All in favor, motion carried. The firm of Copeland, Hagman, Finholm and Yaw is representing the owners of the Tom Thumb building in their application for extensive remodeling of the buildings at the corner of Hyman and Mill all the way to the alley of Sabatini Sports. Yaw once again reviewed the drawings and application with the members explaining the changes that have been made since the conceptual review. The court area was depressed about 2' at the time of the first review. Now the street level comes through into the court area with a drop of about 3½' around the rear commercial spaces. The building on the corner of Hyman and Mill has been changed in the angle where it meets the corner. The uses of the different floors has also been changed. The two lower levels will be commercial space with the third level in the proposed new building for employee housing. The old Tom Thumb building will be only two levels. A ramp for handicapped will be provided as required by Code. Awnings are proposed going around the full length of both buildings. Probably olive green in color, but whether it will have writing on it or not has not been decided. The newly proposed building has been changed somewhat. In one aspect, the front elevation is lower, the entrance doorway is not recessed so far as before which gave it a tunnel effect. The windows in the old building have been changed to make them more symetrical. The new building will have an area cut back; it will start out at street level at the alley way, then cut back inwards on the Mill Street side. Bill Lukes discussed the question of signs with the members requesting some input from them. The applicant would prefer a directory type sign on the north side of the Tom Thumb building, or possibly on the south side of the old building. Probably lettering on the glass. The awning, he stated, would not be used for signage. Signs will be covered in the lease document and stipulations toward regulating this will be stated. Yaw stated that the model is being finished at this time, and will be done prior to the Public Hearing and will be placed in the ASPEN HISTORICAL PPESERVATION COmmITTEE January 24, 1978 HUTCH Preliminary review Planning Office for the members to review prior to that time if they so wish. The two existing buildings will be totally commercial space, and the new building will have two lower floors of commercial space with the third floor for Employee Housing. The new building will have two large spaces of a total of 2,000 sq. ft. commercial space. Burns doesn't have a problem with the awning on the existing buildings, but the awning on the new building doesn't cover anything, just comes out over the sidewalk. Yaw, however, feels it is a definite architectual statement and wouldn't favor seeing it removed. It helps break up that vertical mass. Burns suggested having the members do a preliminary scoring (GMP) on this project so the applicant can get an idea of where they stand before the public hearing on February 14th. Jon Siegle stated to the members that because his firm will be representing one of the interested parties in this project that possibly he should withhold his scoring. However, both Burns and Yaw felt that because this is just a preliminary vote, not the official record, they would want his input. Michael went over his scoring: his problem is with the awning on the new building; with the skylight windows on the new building and feels they are incongruous with the exterior of the building and gave the project a total of 10.5 Ms. End reviewed each category and gave the project a total score of 14 Ms. Frost reviewed her scores, and stated that she didn't like the awning on the new building on the Mill street side; she doesn't like the four little windows on Mill Street (skylight windows) and doesn't like the second story windows in the court area. She gave the project a total of 13.25 Ms. Glidden reviewed each category and gave the project a total score of 14. Jon Siegle stated that he felt the project was too big for~the site; the Mill street elevation is a problem; he doesn't like the skylight windows on the new building and gave the project a 10.5. Moses suggested a change in the set back of the vertical area of the main floor of the new building; would recommend matching the vertical mass on the new building to the old building inset; feels it makes a good contemporary statement and gave the project a 14 Burns stated the massing on the Mill street side of the old building line bothers him; doesn't like the awning on the new building, and gave the project a total score of 12.3 The average score for this project upon preliminary review is 12.6. Wells presented to the members sketches of the pro- posed addition to the rear exterior area of the Hutch adjacent to the Bank of Aspen. They are within the FAR. He felt that the elevation is insensitive to the surrounding buildings. The members reviewed the plans and discussed the project. It was the general consensus that the plans were inadequate and the members could not really tell exactly what was happening with this project. They suggested that it be tabled until better, more explicit plans can be submitted. RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS 100 Leaves Ms. End moved to better plans are with all members table this application until submitted. Seconded by Ms. ~Frost in favor, motion carried. Moses moved to adjourn at 2:30, seconded by Ms. Frost. Ail in favor, meeting adjourned. Ellen Atkins, Deputy City Clerk