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<br />MINUTES <br />REGULAR MEETING <br />CITY OF PARIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br />CITY HALL WEST ANNEX <br />CONFERENCE ROOM <br />150 1ST STREET S.E. <br />PARIS, TEXAS <br />SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2005 <br />11:00 0'CLOCK A.M. <br />1.The Historic Preservation Commission meeting was called to order by <br />Chairman Arvin Starrett at 11:00 A.M. <br />A.The following members were present: <br />Barbara Wilson, Vice Chairman <br />Ann Rodgers, Secretary <br />Sue Lancaster <br />Paul Denney <br />Jerry Raper <br />Alternates:Brian Wear <br />Becki Norment <br />B.The following members were absent: <br />Claudia Hunt <br />C.Also present was Lisa Wright, Historic Preservation Officer, and <br />Bethany Golden, Main Street Coordinator. <br />2. <br />Consideration of and action on the following Certificate of Appropriateness: <br />A. Motion to excuse <br />265 S. Main Street - Gibraltar Renovations, Inc. <br />Barbara Wilson from the meeting was made by Sue Lancaster, <br />seconded by Paul Denney. Motion carried 6-0. <br />Don Wilson told the Commission that the windows in the Gibraltar had <br />previously been 2/2, which was appropriate in the Victorian era; <br />however, by 1916 when the building was redone and new buildings <br />were constructed downtown, they had moved away from those. Since <br />the building is an adaptive reuse building, he requested that he be <br />permitted to update the windows to 3/1, which are common in other <br />buildings downtown. Mr. Wilson presented photographs of Reep’s <br />Furniture, Jackson Books, Moore Law Firm, and the YWCA to evidence <br />other buildings in Paris’s downtown with 3/1 windows. <br /> <br />