HomeMy WebLinkAboutHRABMinutes2023March21Frederick County Historic Resources Advisory Board (HRAB)
March 21, 2022
First Floor Conference Room of the County, Administrative Building
107 North Kent Street, Winchester, VA
Members Present: Gary Crawford, Lucas Cook, David Sforza, and Dana Newcomb
Members Absent: Christopher Oldham, Steve Cantu, Robert Meadows, Robbie Molden, and Nicholas
Powers
Staff Present: Kayla Peloquin, Maral Kalbian, Jonathan Yates (Hellman Yates)
Agenda Items:
Call to order at 6:00 p.m.
Item 1: Minutes
The February 21, 2023 minutes were approved unanimously.
Item 2: Review of Parkins Mill Telecommunications Tower Conditional Use Permit (CUP)
Application
The Historic Resources Advisory Board (HRAB) has been asked to provide a review agency comment
pertaining to a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) application proposing a 150-foot monopole-style
wireless telecommunications facility on a 2.03 +/- acre property identified by Property Identification
Number 76-2-A. The property is zoned B1 (Neighborhood Business District) and is located directly
west of Front Royal Pike (Route 522 South) where West Parkins Mill Road intersects to the east in the
Shawnee Magisterial District.
Members discussed the visual impact from the proposed tower location on historic resources in close
proximity to the Parkins Mill Battery and Frederick Hall. Members discussed a previous sign put up
through the VA Department of Historic Resources near the intersection of Front Royal Pike and West
Parkins Mill, and noted DHR is usually amenable to replacement signs if someone is willing to fund
them.
Item 3: Historic Plaque Program
Staff provided an update on the Historic Plaque Program for which eight letters were mailed out to
the properties identified at the February 21 HRAB meeting notifying landowners that they have been
selected to receive a plaque. Four landowners responded indicating interest in the program. HRAB
members identified May 10, 2023 as a tentative Board of Supervisors meeting date to ask that the
Chairman of the Board present the historic plaques to participants at that time.
Members recommended mailing out a final reminder letter at the end of March to the properties
that have not responded. Members agreed that it would be sufficient for property owners to come
pick up their historic plaque at the planning office if they did not want to attend a Board meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:47 p.m.