 Okay, welcome to the Monday, February the 7th, 2022 meeting of the Montpelier Design Review Committee. I will let members and staff introduce themselves. Meredith Crandall staff. Martha Smersky, member. Liz Pritchett, member. Eric Gilbertson, vice chair. And Steve Everett, member. And I will let Meredith review the remote meeting procedures. I can even say it tonight. I will try and keep this short. Right now, the only person other than DRC members that we have on is our applicant, our loan applicant for tonight. But we may have some people watching via Orca. You never know. Alrighty. So for anybody watching via Orca tonight, you can participate in tonight's design review committee meeting via the Zoom platform. You can either use this link here, click on it, and it should open up the Zoom platform, and you'll be able to see anything that we share on our screens as well as participate in the meeting. Or you can call in on this phone number, use this meeting ID, and you'll be able to hear and speak. And then if you actually turned your volume off on Orca, you'd still be able to see everything that might be a little bit of a time lag. If anyone is having problems accessing the meeting, please email me using this email, and I will do my best to get you into the meeting. So this is mostly going to be for Lance, just so you know. Turning on your video is optional. A reminder to everyone who's on to please keep your microphone on mute and you're not speaking to reduce background noise. And Lance, if you do have any technical difficulties, feel free to use the Zoom chat function with me. We try and use the chat just for those kinds of issues and keep anything substantive to the actual speaking part of Zoom. That way everybody via Orca can hear what's going on. Okay, just so that everybody knows, if for some reason I get emails and members of the public are having a hard time accessing the meeting and we can't get them in, then we'll have to continue the meeting to a time and place certain. So far that has not happened. So fingers crossed, knock on wood. All right, I'll hand the meeting back over to Steve. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. And we hear a motion to approve. So moved, says Eric. I second it, says Martha. All in favor of the agenda, speak your names. Eric. Lance. Ben. And Steve. So the agenda is approved. The next item is annual election of committee chair. Do I hear any nominations from the members? I nominate Stephen Everett. And I second it. That was too quick for comfort. And actually, there is an error. It should be nomination election of the committee chair and vice chair. Do I hear a nomination for vice chair? I nominate Eric for vice chair. So unless there are any objections, do I hear a voice vote by speaking your name for the two appointees? Do you want to do them together, Steve or separate? We can do them separate. How about the first nomination for Steve Everett? I say yes. This is Martha. Eric says yes. Liz says yes. Ben says yes. And I guess I can't say anything. You can decline or recuse. I've been outvoted anyway. So I accept. And how about approval for the vice chair? I say yes. This is Martha. Say yes, Liz. I also say yes, Ben. And I say yes. So Eric, you have been voted as vice chair. Thank you very much. And thank you all for continuing to serve on the committee as well. And we can now move to the first application for this evening for 707 Stonecutters Way, owner applicant FHS Holdings. Is there someone there from FHS to explain your application? First of all, it's nice to see some familiar faces. Hello, Mr. Everett. Hello, Mr. Cheney. Hi, Lance. Hi, Lance. Yeah, it's going to be nice knowing that two people here are going to kind of get a gist of what's going on in the air because you're frequent fliers. First of all, on behalf of Joe Miles and RK Miles, I want to thank you for making the time in your schedules for this proposal. And Merida, thank you very much for making this process pretty easy and enjoyable so far. You're welcome. Go ahead. I just said you're welcome. Can you give just a brief overview of your application? I can pull it up. Basically, we're just proposing some accessory structures placed throughout the air to simply organize and make our material handlers much more efficient in turn. Lance, I'm having a lot of trouble hearing you. Is anybody else? Yeah, it's kind of echoey. Can you sit closer to your computer? I think there's some background noise to some paper shuffling and so on. Is everybody muted? That might have been Steve, his microphone was right next to his papers. I moved his microphone away. Is it better? Yes. Okay, good. We're basically just proposing some accessory structures placed throughout the air to simply help organize and make our material handlers job much more efficient. In turn, giving us room and options to use space that was taken by the manually organized material that is currently being used under the building roof currently. So where I'm moving the hand here on the screen is where there's some rack systems. You can see there's kind of little squares. That's where there's going to be some new rack systems put up. I did a site visit with Lance. Most of these locations are places where in the summertime they already have materials outside. There are pictures in the packet that Lance provided and that you all have that show the rack systems installed in other locations. I don't know if those are other RK miles locations or if that was material supplied by the manufacturer. I think it was both, to be honest. Okay. Lance, if I understand this correctly, you'll be able to see these structures only from your parking area. Is that correct? Correct. I guess that, you know, coming in through the entrance of the gate, obviously you're going to see across the yard, but yes, inside the yard only. Yeah. I'm having just give me a second. I've lost you guys for a second. I may have been scrolling too fast. Are you showing something right now, Merida? I am. Are people seeing it? Yes. So, I'm showing a picture of the rack system. Yeah. Photograph. One is a crystal clear audio, even if the lingo isn't. Zoom, phone. Oh, there we go. Thank you very much. Yeah. Well, I just did it. I stopped the share screen and it was causing problems for you, Lance. Is the canopy part of the rack system? It is. Yeah. Basically, it's a steel roof truss with some screw down metal on top of this rack. It's not bolted to the building. It's off the building and bolted into some concrete pads. Thank you. What I apologize about, Merida, is when, obviously, when you share your screen, I lose you, but I don't know at all to get you familiarized with it. There's a building one, building two, and building three. And if it helps you or anybody on the board to let you know where L should one, L should two, and so on is, I can help you out with that. Basically, building one and two are going to have you know, racks that the overhead, the overhang of the existing building is 25 feet tall. The base to the bottom of the roof of those two buildings is going to be 18 foot 11 with five foot two from front to back, you know, from the base of the rack to the big, to the back of the column. The only, all of them are basically going to have the same height and imprint except for building three, which are much shorter. They're going to be on the same concrete pad. Those, the existing building overhang is 12 foot tall. And from the base to the top of that roof is going to be eight foot seven. Yes. And these are going to be sitting on a concrete base. Is that correct? Correct. The space where these proposed racks would be going has, you know, Ben and Steve might know is where we've stacked. Hitch is a lumber in the past, you know, for overstock and things like that. So basically this is just going to be using that print of where we put that lumber in a much more organized and safe structure. I see this as a continued industrial use of an industrial site and have no problem with it at all. Just a quick question, Lance. This is Steve. On building number two, is that center bay, which is existing, will that be closed off? It will. We're in hopes of eventually, like I said, this is going to organize what we've manually put inside, but Steve may be in future driving door, well, near L two, but drive, you know, door one, two, three, we might try to have a drive through from one to three. Yes. Just be able to bring in more materials for the customer. Okay, no, it was just a question. Does anyone else have anything else to add? Any comments, questions or suggestions? Nope. If not, I can go through the criteria. I'm not sure if Lance has a copy of that, but I will read for all projects, exterior design in materials of new construction or alterations of existing buildings shall be consistent and compatible with the characteristics of the existing building or other properties in the district. That's acceptable. Existing building shall be recognized as a physical record of their time, place, and use. That's acceptable. Architectural features, including but not limited to two, cornices, windows, shutters, fan lights and tablet or trim and other forms of molding or character defining, detailing, prevailing on the existing building shall be considered in the alteration. That's acceptable. It's a little iffy of whether or not we could call this an alteration, but I know there are times when accessory structures are put up, you're supposed to be looking at whether or not it's hiding features on other buildings. Here it doesn't really matter, but I didn't want to just say that one was not applicable for everybody, which is what I did for most of the criteria for this particular application. So that's in fact all the criteria that apply in this particular application. So based on those being acceptable, do I hear a voice vote? Speak your names if you approve of the application. Ben? Eric does. This is Martha. I say yes. Okay. And I say yes as well. So five in favor. So the application is approved and I will let Meredith explain the next step. So Lance, I need to finish up the administrative site plan report for this and then we'll be able to get the permit out the door. Do you want us to mail it or do you want us to email you when it's ready and you or somebody else can come by and pick it up? We've been having some issues with mail getting delivered lately. Yeah. Email's fine, Meredith. Thank you. Okay. Great. Okay. Thank you very much, Lance, for coming to for the meeting and good luck with your project. Again, thanks for the time, board members, and continue on with your meeting and have fun. Have a great evening. Thanks, Lance. The next item on the agenda is to review and approve the meeting minutes from January the 18th. Does anybody have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding the minutes? This is Martha. I moved to accept the meeting minutes the way they are. Eric, second. All in favor, speak your names. Is this everybody all at once? And Steve. So I think that's everyone. Does anyone have anything else to add to our meeting this evening? Not for me. If not, do I hear a move to end the meeting? I'll move that, says Eric. And I'll second it. This is Martha. Okay. All in favor, speak your names. Martha. Liz. Eric. Ben. And Steve. So the meeting is adjourned. Thank you all very much. Thank you. We do have items on the agenda for the next meeting, which is Tuesday, the 22nd. Oh, that didn't get put on here when the next meeting was going to be. That's two of us missed that in the planning department. So yeah, the next meeting is Tuesday, the 22nd, because the 21st is a holiday and City Hall will be closed. And we do have a couple of applications. Hopefully for Langdon Street, we'll be back. And another one. I'm going to just say thank you to Steve and to Eric for continuing to serve. Thank you very much.