Meeting Date: September 7, 2021
To: City Council
Ben Martig, City Administrator
From: Mikayla Schmidt, City Planner
Title
Consider Second Reading of the Ordinance on the Northfield Depot Reassessed as a Local Heritage Preservation Site.
Body
Action Requested:
The City Council approves the second reading of the ordinance designating the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railway Depot (Northfield Depot) as a local Heritage Preservation Site.
Summary Report:
The city may, from time to time, determine that certain places, buildings, structures, properties, or district areas or properties within the community are of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, landscaping, and culture and those locations should be subject to additional review as it relates to the Land Development Code (LDC).
The property owner, Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC), Planning Commission (PC), or City Council, may initiate an application for Heritage Preservation Site Designation. In this case, Save the Northfield Depot initiated the application who owns the property.
The building, originally constructed in 1888, is being reassessed as a local Heritage Preservation Site. In 1980, the HPC and Council designated the Northfield Depot as a local heritage site. Moving the Depot building triggered the need to reassess the buildings designation as a local heritage site.
Process:
The Heritage Preservation Commission and Planning Commission shall review the application for designation in accordance with the Type 4 review procedure as established in Section 8.4.7, Type 4 Review Procedure (Planning Commission or Heritage Preservation Commission Recommendation and City Council Decision) and shall make a recommendation to the City Council. Section (I) Action by the Heritage Preservation Commission references 8.5.7, Heritage Preservation Site Designation, which modifies Section 8.4.7, Type 4 Review Procedure.
Both the HPC and PC, approved motions wit...
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