Application to Remove Historic District Designation from Locust Inn Historic District
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY PLANNING & BUILDING INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Planning Commission VIA: J. Mark Willis, Directoqii - VIA: Mary Beth Cook, Deputy Director FROM: Kirsti Uunila, Historic Preservation IfiL-Ittr DATE: March 31, 2017 SUBJECT: April 11, 2017 Joint Public Hearing: Application to Remove Historic District Designation from Locust Inn Historic District Background: The Calvert County Code, Chapter 57 Historic Districts, specifically §57-8.C. and §57-9.A., together with the Maryland Annotated Code, Land Use Article, § 8-101 et seq., sets forth the criteria and procedures for the removal of designation for Historic Districts. Discussion Jeannie-Cousineaux Stone, on behalf of PAR Limited Partnership, property owner, submitted a petition to Historic District Commission (HDC) to remove historic district designation from the Locust Inn. The historic district located at 14478 S Solomons Island Road in Solomons, Maryland, is shown on the Tax Assessor's Map 46A as parcel 21, and is zoned as Historic District Overlay. The property was designated a Calvert County Historic District by the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners by a County Resolution in 1988 under case number HD 88-01. The HDC reviewed the application at their regular meeting on Wednesday, February 8, 2017. The HDC voted 6-0 to deny the request to remove the designation and to forward that recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners and Planning Commission. The findings on which the HDC was based are attached along with other supporting documents. In accordance with the Zoning Ordinance, the HDC has forwarded their recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners for a joint public hearing with the Planning Commission. Recommendation/Conclusion Staff recommends the Board of County Commissioners and Planning Commission hold the public hearing, accept public comments, close the record, and take action. Attachments: 1. Historic District Commission Findings 2. Application from Jeannie Cousineaux-Stone 3. Staff Report with November 2016 photos 4. Letter from Nell Ziehl, Maryland Historical Trust 5. Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties Form and addendum Attachment 1— Historic District Commission Findings Concerning the application to remove historic district designation from the Locust Inn Historic District The application of Jeannie Cousineaux-Stone to remove the historic district designation from the Locust Inn Historic District is before the Historic District Commission in compliance with Chapter 57 of the County Code, specifically: §57-8: Criteria for designation C. Should an Historic District no longer meet the above criteria and the specific criteria for which it was originally designated, the Historic District designation may be removed by legislative action of the County Board of Commissioners after receipt of a recommendation from the Historic District Commission §57-9: Procedures for petition for designation or removal. A. Petitions for Historic District designation or removal of an Historic District designation shall be filed with the Historic District Commission or its designated representative. The petitions concerning Historic District designation shall include a completed Historic District application form and additional information as required by the Commission or its designated representative to enable the Commission to make a well informed decision. The HDC found that primary structure in the Locust Inn Historic District still meets the criteria under which it was designated as described in Resolution 55-88, creating the Locust Inn Historic District: WHEREAS, on November 15, 1988, the Board of County Commissioners made a careful review of the application and found that Locust Inn is a significant structure and should be Historic Districted because the structure has significant value as part of Calvert County's heritage and that it exemplifies the economic development of Solomons Island and Calvert County. The HDC found that the language of the Resolution, quoted above, does not correspond verbatim to the language of the criteria in the County Code but can be inferred to invoke the criteria listed in the Code, specifically: §57-8.A. (1) Historic and cultural significance. The historic resource: (a) Has significant character, interest or value as part of the development, heritage or cultural characteristics of the county, state or nation; and (d) Exemplifies the cultural, economic, social, political or historic heritage of the county and its communities. Three documents were submitted as evidence and supporting the finding that the Locust Inn still meets the criteria under which it was designated and are attached: 1 Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties forms, CT-973, addendum dated July 15, 2015 and the form dated August 26, 2002. 2. Letter dated February 8, 2017 from the Maryland Historical Trust, signed by Nell Ziehl, Chief, Office of Planning, Education and Outreach 3. Staff report prepared by the Historic Preservation Planner, including photographs dated November 2016 prepared for review of owners' application to demolish the structure Conclusion: On February 8, 2017 at their regular meeting, based on the evidence cited, the HDC voted 6-0 to recommend denial of the application by Jeannie Cousineaux-Stone for removal of the historic district designation from the Locust Inn. Attachment 2 - Application to remove historic district designation from Locust Inn Historic District 88-01 CALVERT COUNTY HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGNATION APPLICATION' r - OFFICE USE ONLY Historic District Case g 884)1 MUIP# CT-973 Blare C Site NAME Lout Inn }MC Meeting Date 02-08-2017 Filing Date _41-19-2017 NAME OF APPLICANT Irct4 h i e Y1rf21,1X- -3‘131C. SA-Delc eitoz. RNg- 1-1-41b MAILING ADDRESS 0 -.-6CDV 24 Maer —DCtaa-L- k [20(A2;d' Zara Adthaw. `l 0 Le Le122_ siovet_ts v1157 • ez-wl. 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Pelagatti, Attorney at Law File No. 19683 PG 0316 Tax ID # 01-017462 / 01-007211 B( 816 1b65 J111 ceb, made this 28th day of October, 2016, by and between Robert Lee Siemon as surviving Joint Tenants with Pearl L. English who died on March 6, 2009, party of the first part, Grantor; and PAR Limited Partnership, party of the second part, LR - Deed (v, Taxes) Grantee, Reccrdiup Fee no CT 2%.0 , Name: tan o - PAR lid Ref: 4876/276 • ♦ LR Surcharge - -a linked 4173. itnetqietb - LR Recordation Tax linked 8,500. LR - State Transfer Tax - linked 4,250.0 'Pat for aub in rons'iberation of the sum of Eight LR - NR Tax - ltd 0.0 Hundred Fifty Thousand And 00/100 Dollars ($850,000.00), which SubToial: 12,810.0 includes the amount of any outstanding Mortgage or Deed of Trust, Total: 12,825.2 if any, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said 11/01/201£ 02.37 Grantor does grant and convey to the said PAR Limited CC04-5 Partnership, in fee simple, all that lot of ground situate in the #7215450 CC0702 - Calvert County of Calvert, State of Maryland and described as follows, that CovniynC07,01.02 - is to say: ReVisier 02 Tax Map 46A, Parcel 20 known as 14474 $ Solomons Island Road, Solomons, MD 20688 more particularly described on attached legal description by Collinson, Oliff & Associates Inc entitle "Description of 3,892 Square Feet, more or less The Property of Robert Lee Siemon Located in Solomons First District, Calvert County, Maryland" AND Tax Map 46A, Parcel 21 known as 14478 S Solomons Island Road, Solomons, MD 20688 more particularly described on attached legal description by Collinson, Oliff & Associates Inc entitle "Description of 14,310 Square Feet, more or less The Property of Robert Lee Siemon Located in Solomons First District, Calvert County, Maryland" Robert Lee Siemon as surviving Joint Tenant with Pearl L. English who died on March 6, 2009 BEING the fee simple property which, by Deed dated May 21, 1999, and recorded in the Land Records of the County of Calvert, Maryland, in Libor 1174, Folio 616, was granted and conveyed by Edgar Jenkins and Virginia N.