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Historic Preservation Committee
Special Meeting
3:00 PM, Monday, January 8, 2023
City Council Hall Council Chambers, 540 Water Street
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1. Roll Call: Richard Berg, (Chair), Craig Britton (Vice Chair), Kathleen Croston,
Kathleen Knoblock, Walter Galitzki, Monica Mader and Michael D'Alessandro;
Monica MickHager (Council Liaison)
2. Election of Officers
3. Approval of Minutes:
A. Review draft 12/5/23 Regular Meeting Minutes deferred to next Regular
Meeting.
4. Correspondence/Attachments: This Place, a quarterly publication of the
Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
S. Appearance of Fairness:
6. New Business: None
7. Old Business: None
8. Other Business:
A. HPC 2024 Workplan
I. Opportunities for preserving equity in preservation.
II. Public Comment with a 3 -minute limit per person.
III. HPC Questions, Discussion, and Input
IV. Motion on Workplan objectives generated today.
9. Adjournment: Next scheduled Regular Meeting, Feb. 6, 2024
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Permit No. 3063
HPC 2024 Workplan
To facilitate final development of the HPC Workplan and in keeping with Council's
adopted strategic plan - see the attached draft template. The 4 objectives are directly
from the Mayor's October 2023 letter. Staff hopes this is helpful and look forward to
our discussion.
Objective 1: Provide input for Planning Commission and City team consideration
on the 2025 Comprehensive Plan Periodic Update relating to historic
preservation with a specific focus on how the City's historic and cultural
resources goals and policies can be tied to implementation measures that will
help unlock and inspire affordable, dense, quality housing opportunities.
Suggested 2024 Action Items
Action Item
Description
Schedule
1) Review existing relevant
Objective
Comprehensive Plan
Goals and Policies
2) Develop recommended
amendments if needed
3) HPC Meeting dedicated
to Comprehensive Plan
Amendments
Objective 2: Administer and improve Special Property Tax Valuation program
along with County Assessor to help historic structures receive property tax relief
upon completion of qualified rehabilitation improvements
Suggested 2024 Action Items
Action Item Description Schedule
Objective 3: Enhance City information on historic property preservation and
development procedure improvements that will enhance housing equity,
density and affordability and overall process efficiency.
Suggested 2024 Action Items
Action Item Description Schedule
Objective 4: Complete design guidelines for windows, solar panels, exterior
commercial lighting, and hardscape installations for Council consideration.
Suggested 2024 Action Items
Action Item
Description
Schedule
1) Circulate draft
guidelines
2) Initial discussion
3) Assign Subcommittees
4)
BACKGROUND
Building Blocks for the Comprehensive Plan
Port Townsend Urban Waterfront Plan
In recognition of the need for improved municipal guidance and control in the urban waterfront
planning area, the Waterfront Plan was adopted by the City Council in December of 1990. The
Waterfront Plan was a detailed plan for the Urban Waterfront area that addressed:
• Uses of public and private properties;
• Height and bulk of structures;
• Housing and transient accommodations;
• Open space;
• Pedestrian and vehicular circulation throughout the planning area;
• Physical and visual connections throughout the planning area;
• Physical and visual connections to the rest of the waterfront and from the bluff above; and
• New urban design guidelines and regulations.
The Waterfront Plan was among the first steps in the City's attempts to revise and update its
Comprehensive Plan. Urban design guidelines and regulations originating in the Waterfront Plan
were later codified in Chapter 17.30 Historic Preservation Code of the Port Townsend Municipal
Code.
In 2007, the City adopted an updated Shoreline Master Program. To improve efficiency, the
master program incorporated relevant policies, regulations, and design recommendations from
the Waterfront Plan and the stand-alone Waterfront Plan was retired.
LAND USE ELEMENT
Historic & Cultural Resources
Goal 17: Preserve historic and cultural resources to retain our connection to the past, enhance
community values, and leave a historical legacy for future generations.
Policy 17.1: Use the expertise of the Historic Preservation Committee (HPC) in matters that
relate to the preservation of Port Townsend's heritage and strategies to retain a sense of the
past as the City grows and changes. Continue to use the HPC for all mandatory design reviews of
developments within the City, as specified in Chapter 17.30 Historic Preservation Code PTMC.
Policy 17.2: Encourage the retention of significant historic and cultural resources that foster
community identity and pride.
17.2.1: Promote the revitalization of older housing stock, preservation of neighborhood
patterns, and the marking of important sites.
17.2.2: Develop incentives that promote the adaptive reuse and preservation of historic
buildings (e.g., use of the upper floors of downtown historic buildings). Ensure that incentives
provide reductions in regulatory requirements such as parking, in exchange for desired public
benefits.
17.2.3: Work with downtown property owners to seek grant funding to rehabilitate and
seismically retrofit historically significant structures.
17.2.4: Promote commercial historic district revitalization strategies that recognize and
capitalize on the historic traditions of Port Townsend.
17.2.5: Apply both the International Existing Building Code and the Special Valuation for
Historic Properties program to historic structures within the National Register Historic District.
Policy 17.3: Coordinate with the Port Townsend Historic Preservation Committee and the
Jefferson County Historical Society to seek funding to revise and update the City's historic survey
and enhance interpretive opportunities.
17.3.1: Continue to research, identify, and inventory Port Townsend's historic structures and
sites.
17.3.2: Integrate an inventory of Port Townsend's historic sites and structures into the City's
permit database for ease of recognition in permitting.
Policy 17.4: Continue to refine and implement the historic preservation guidelines in the zoning
ordinance to govern the demolition of historic structures and walls more than 50 years old.
Ensure that the guidelines include a map and inventory that identifies all significant historic
structures in Port Townsend.
Policy 17.5: Continue to refine and implement historic preservation guidelines in the zoning
ordinance to govern the conservation and preservation of historic murals.
17.5.1: Ensure that the guidelines include a photographic inventory that identifies all significant
historic murals in Port Townsend.
17.5.2: Consider establishing guidelines that prohibit the repainting, removal, or alteration of
historic murals, except for instances where the structural integrity of the building is at stake or
where new development would obscure an historic mural.
Policy 17.6: Develop and implement an historic preservation element in a future amendment
to this Comprehensive Plan.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT
Commercial Historic District Revitalization
Goal 7: Strengthen, preserve, and enhance Port Townsend's Commercial Historic District as an
active and economically viable place to shop, conduct business and government, live, and enjoy
cultural events.
Policy 7.1: Maintain public areas and ensure a safe environment to increase the use of the
Commercial Historic District.
Policy 7.2: Maintain and enhance the pedestrian -oriented character of the
Commercial Historic District.
Policy 7.3: Encourage the rehabilitation, renovation, and adaptive reuse of upper floors
of historic buildings (e.g., for artist studios, permanent housing, and office space), which will
contribute to the vitality of the area.
Policy 7.4: Create, maintain, and improve the Sims Gateway and other entrances into the
Commercial Historic District through the use of enhanced plantings/street trees and street
furniture.
Policy 7.5: Encourage development in the Commercial Historic District that harmonizes with
and contributes to Port Townsend's small town atmosphere. Businesses in the district should
provide services, goods, entertainment, and community gathering places for Port Townsend
residents and visitors.
Policy 7.6: Encourage the retention of existing businesses in the Commercial Historic District.
Policy 7.7: Ensure that Commercial Historic District public improvements accomplish the
following objectives: encourage pedestrian movement through the district and into shops and
businesses, and support, rather than overshadow, downtown functions.
Policy 7.8: In cooperation with downtown business owners and the Port Townsend Main Street
Program, develop a parking management strategy to encourage turnover of customer spaces
and to encourage long-term parking in areas outside the Downtown Commercial District (e.g.
use of the Haines Place Park -and -Ride Lot and free downtown shuttle for employee parking).
Policy 7.9: Work with the Port Townsend Main Street Program to coordinate training and
educational opportunities tailored for Commercial Historic District retailers (e.g., customer
service/host training, understanding the market, diversifying the mix, and window and retail
display).
Commercial Historic District Revitalization
Port Townsend's plan for revitalization of the Commercial Historic District identifies three
important areas of involvement for City government.
First, the City's plan should ensure the provision and maintenance of appropriate public
improvements in the Commercial Historic District. The quality of the physical link between public
and private spaces is crucial to the proper functioning of the Commercial Historic District and its
businesses. Public improvements should help create an inviting environment for shoppers, with
clearly marked streets, convenient shopping places, well -lit sidewalks and good pathways
between parking areas and stores. Public improvements should provide basic infrastructure and
services in a manner that is visually compatible with the nature of the functions they support. In
order to implement the Commercial Historic District revitalization policies of this element, the
City should develop a comprehensive public improvements program that is tailored to the
specific needs of the district while reinforcing private projects.
Second, the City's plan should provide adequate parking and parking management to meet the
needs of customers, merchants, employees, visitors, and residents. It should be regulated to
encourage turnover of customer spaces and to discourage abuse by long-term parkers. In order
to ensure well designed, maintained, and managed parking in the Commercial Historic District,
the City should develop a parking management strategy. The parking management strategy
should take into account not only the numbers and locations of parking spaces, but also
methods of enforcement — the incentives and disincentives that can be used to encourage
parking in certain areas.
Finally, the City should provide assistance to the Port Townsend Main Street Program in
strengthening the Commercial Historic District's existing economic base and gradually expanding
it. The City, in conjunction with the Port Townsend Main Street Program, should work to
enhance diverse resident- and visitor -based commercial activities and community events in the
Downtown.
Implementation:
1. In cooperation with the Port Townsend Main Street Program and merchants, develop a
comprehensive public improvements program for the Commercial Historic District that is
tailored to the specific needs of the area while reinforcing private projects. The program should:
a. Help to develop public/private partnerships to improve the pedestrian environment;
b. Promote the use of pedestrian visible signage in the Commercial Historic District; and
c. Ensure that Commercial Historic District public improvements are adequately maintained in
order to create a pleasant environment.
2. In cooperation with the Port Townsend Main Street Program and merchants, develop a
Commercial Historic District parking management strategy. In developing the program the City
should:
a. Examine incentive -based programs, coupled with education, to reverse resistance to using
more remote parking areas; and
b. Consider a variety of parking control alternatives, including parking meters, chalking tires,
cash boxes, and parking permits.
3. In conjunction with the Port Townsend Main Street Program, the City should work to
strengthen the Commercial Historic District's existing economic base and gradually expand it.
Activities that should be pursued through the Port Townsend Main Street Program include:
a. Studying local market conditions, identifying areas of opportunity, and designating strategies
to build on those opportunities;
b. Helping existing businesses find better ways to meet their customer's needs and expand to
meet market opportunities;
c. Recruit new businesses to complement the district's retail and service mix and boost overall
market effectiveness;
d. Find new or better uses for under -used or vacant downtown buildings; and
e. Seminars and short courses offered to merchants regarding customer service/host training,
understanding the market, diversifying the mix, and window and retail display.
4. Coordinate with the Port Townsend Main Street Program to maintain an organizational
structure that is efficient and effective in promoting the Commercial Historic District. Activities
that should be pursued through the Port Townsend Main Street Program include:
a. Promoting events that enliven the Commercial Historic District; and
b. Maintaining an ongoing planning and action program involving the business community of
the Commercial Historic District.
TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT
Goal 9: Encourage the City, transit, and private interests to establish coordinated parking
strategies to achieve overall transportation goals and to ensure that parking standards do not act
as a deterrent to new development or redevelopment.
Policy 9.1: Encourage private developers to address parking demand by participating in the
cost of shared parking facilities, agreement with others for the joint use of parking spaces and
through the use of bicycles, carpools, transit, and the Park -and -Ride facility.
Policy 9.2: Encourage private and public employers to provide bicycle parking facilities on or
near their properties.
Policy 9.3: Develop, update, and implement parking requirements that encourage new
development and the adaptive reuse of historic structures, limit the construction of new
impervious surfaces, and provide for parking needs of residents and employees.
9.3.1: Review and, where appropriate, reduce off-street parking requirements for new
commercial development.
9.3.2: Reduce parking requirements to provide incentives for the revitalization, adaptive reuse,
and preservation of existing historic structures within the Downtown Parking District and
commercial zones lying within the National Register Historic District.
9.3.3: Review residential parking needs in the Downtown core.
9.3.4: Distinguish between areas where non -motorized transportation should be encouraged
as a top priority (i.e., the National Register Historic District) and areas that are likely to be more
auto -oriented (i.e., the Gateway Commercial District).
Policy 9.4: Implement parking strategies that maximize the ability for the greatest number of
people to use the Downtown, emphasizing the accommodation of non -motorized travel and
transit rather than automobile parking places.
Policy 9.5: Consider parking pricing policies for on -street parking to reduce parking impacts in
the Downtown and to promote alternative transportation modes.
Policy 9.6: Develop a Parking Management Plan that addresses short-term and long-term
parking needs in the Commercial Historic District and other commercial areas.
Policy 9.7: Outside of the Downtown Historic District, property owners should be responsible
for providing parking and for managing parking demand generated at the site, to avoid any spill-
over parking on neighboring properties and streets.
HOUSING ELEMENT
Goal 3: Conserve and improve the City's existing housing stock.
Policy 3.2: Assist homeowners with housing in poor or fair condition in gaining access to
resources for repair or renovation of their homes.
3.2.1: Support efforts of housing providers to obtain Housing Preservation Grant Program
funding for the repair and rehabilitation of dwellings for low income renters and owners.
Goal 4: Promote a variety of housing choices to meet the needs of Port Townsend residents and
preserve and encourage socio-economic diversity.
Policy 4.2: Encourage innovation and variety in housing design and site development and
support unique and sustainable community housing projects such as co -housing, planned unit
developments (PUDs), "grow" home and cottage home developments, and cluster developments
that offer an alternative to the City's prevailing grid pattern.
4.3.2: Encourage adaptive reuse of the upper floors of historic buildings in the downtown for
permanent housing and artist studios live/work situations.
Goal 8: Facilitate predictable and timely permit processing.
Policy 8.4: Encourage lenders to make financing available for innovative/sustainable housing
(e.g., housing in upper stories of historic buildings, co -housing projects, accessory dwelling units
(ADUs), and "grow" and cottage homes).
UTILITIES ELEMENT
Goal 18: Coordinate with telecommunications utilities to ensure high quality service to all Port
Townsend residents and businesses.
Policy 18.6: Establish standards within the Port Townsend Municipal Code that ensure that new
telecommunications infrastructure within the National Register Historic District will be designed
and located to minimize adverse aesthetic impacts.
IMPLEMENTING DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
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