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CITY OF AMES
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
CALL TO ORDER: Kim Hanna, Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA:
MOTION: (Dietzenbach/Hallock) to approve the Agenda for the meeting of November 13,
2017
MOTION PASSED: (7-0)
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 9, 2017:
MOTION: (Grevstad-Nordbrock/Hallock) to approve the Minutes of the meeting of October 9,
2017.
MOTION PASSED: (7-0)
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PUBLIC FORUM: There were no public comments.
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ISU HISTORIC PRESERVATION STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: DRAFT HERITAGE
TOURISM PROPOSALS FOR AMES
The undergrad and grad students in CRP421 were charged with proposing a heritage tourism
solution for Ames, a need identified in the “Proposed Ames Comprehensive Historic Plan:
Goals, Objectives & Action Steps”. The five student groups will introduce their in-progress work,
in which they will address some or all of the “Who, What, Where, How, and Why.”
After each presentation verbal feedback from the Commission was given to the students and
the Commission did write down comments/suggestions for improvement for each presentation.
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REVIEW OF THE AMES COMPREHENSIVE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN
Mr. Anderson verified with the Commission that they received a pdf of the Ames
Comprehensive Historic Plan and stated that tonight they are not going to go into any great
detail on a section but maybe at the next meeting can go into further detail in areas that need
further review.
Mr. Anderson stated that in the plan there is the Executive Summary that has five chapters that
are Introduction, Public Sector Responsibilities, Historic Contexts, Historic Property Potentials,
and Integrating Historic Preservation into Planning.
He handed out a list of Historic Surveys that have been conducted so far in Ames, which are
part of Chapter four and include maps and descriptive. Mr. Anderson did note on the surveys
the first one on the list “Iowa State University Survey” that was done in 1980, they no longer
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have the results but is hopefully it exists somewhere and went over the list of surveys that have
been done so far. He stated that an intensive survey of College Heights was done in 2009 and
nothing further has been done further with that. The next step would be to either submit a
National Register nomination or create a local historical district, no one has looked into if any of
the property owners would be interested in establishing a local historical district. Mr. Anderson
mentioned that the next step for the Commission would be to see if they want to pursue the
areas that have already been done or discuss any new areas that have not been looked at yet.
He did note that the Ames Comprehensive Historic Preservation Plan is a ten year plan and this
one was adopted in 2009. If the Commission has anything they would want to pursue to go to
the City Council to get approved for any grants that may be available.
Ms. Hanna thought it would appropriate for the Commission to review Chapter four and put
together a list of something they would want to pursue before the next meeting and also make a
priority list/action plan of what could be done within the next couple of years.
It was asked if there were digital copies of the surveys. Mr. Anderson stated that they do not
have all of them digital and they ones that are not digital would be in City Hall’s files.
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COMMISSION COMMENTS: None
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STAFF COMMENTS: Mr. Anderson let the Commission know that they have not heard
anything new regarding the nomination for Downtown but it has passed at the state level.
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MOTION TO ADJOURN:
MOTION: (Grevstad-Nordbrock/Hovis) to adjourn the meeting.
MOTION PASSED: (7-0)
The meeting adjourned at 6:57 PM.
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Kim Hanna, Chairperson Amy L. Colwell, Recording Secretary
Historic Preservation Commission Department of Planning & Housing
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