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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes March 15, 2005 Page 2 1 VI. COMMUNICATION WITH CITY COUNCIL 2 6.1 Designate a Planning Commission Representative to the March 22 2005 Ci1y Council 3 Meeting. 4 5 Chair Stromgren stated that Commissioner Young would attend the City Council Meeting on 6 March 22, 2005. 7 8 VII. PUBLIC HEARING. 9 NONE 10 11 VIII. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS 12 8.1 Presentation of Sunset Memorial Park Administration Buildin • A Preliminga National 13 Register and Condition Assessment— Charlene Roise and Todd Grover. 14 15 Ms. Moore-Sykes stated that Sunset Memorial has met with Staff and a subcommittee of the 16 Planning Commission to review and discuss revisions that they are proposing to Sunset 17 Memorial Park. She stated that the Sunset Group also held an Open House on January 11, 2005 18 noting that since then the City Council has approved the contracting with Hess, Roise and 19 Company, historical preservationists, to assess the condition of the Administration Building and 20 report back to the Planning Commission and City Council with their findings. She stated that 21 Ms. Roise and Mr. Grover have completed their assessment and are present to report their 22 findings to the Commission. 23 24 Charlene Roise stated that she is an Architectural historian with Hess, Roise and Company 25 noting that the company has been around since 1990 working across the country on a variety of 26 projects. 27 28 Todd Grover, McDonald &Mack stated that he specializes in historic preservation noting that 29 his organization has been in existence since 1976. 30 31 Ms. Roise explained that she and Mr. Grover were hired to take a look at the Administration 32 Building located at Sunset Memorial to determine eligibility for national historic designation 33 potential. She stated that upon visiting the park they determined that the entire park area had to 34 be included in the review along with the Administration Building. She stated that they 35 determined that the park itself appears to be eligible for the national register noting that many are 36 determined eligible but not formally nominated. She provided the Commission with a brief 37 history of the park stating that she reviewed the history in the context of cemeteries in general. 38 She stated that the park plan was originally designed by Allen and Nichols, a prominent local 39 architectural firm and the first real firm of its' kind in Minnesota. She noted that Mr. Nichols, 40 who died in Rochester, Minnesota, appreciated the design enough to be buried at Sunset 41 Memorial Park. 42 43 Mr. Grover stated that his focus was the structural analysis of the building noting that a synopsis 44 of the suggested reuse of the building is detailed in the report provided in the Commissioners 45 packets.