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From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: e Contreras, Kalan; Corona, Nicole; Rivera, Andrew "Mark Rogers"; "Bri Miriani"; "Mark Biechler"; "Jerry Garcia"; Emily Little; "David West"; 1107 E. 10th Street - AGAINST Thursday, July 4, 2024 9:40:43 AM External Email - Exercise Caution Greetings Kalan – I strongly oppose the proposed development at 1107 East 10th Street in the Robertson, Stuart & Mair Historic District. Planning Commission Public Hearing: July 9, 2024 Case Number: HR-2024-047998; PR 2024-043549 – 1107 E 10TH ST This proposed development flies in the face of Local Historic District Design Guidelines and if approved, will set such a precedent that the “Local Historic District” concept will rapidly lose its integrity. This will open the door for similar inappropriate projects. Precedent must not be set at this important time, right after the HOME Code Amendments have just been adopted. This case will determine how HOME relates to Historic Districts in the future. It is a test case for our neighborhood and there will be many more to follow in every other historic district. Please protect the founding principles and Historic District Design Guidelines first, followed by new allowances for increased density allowed in HOME. We are in favor of increased density, but not at the expense of our protected “Local Historic District.” Developers and designers must increase density in forms that are historically compatible to the context. We must rely on the Historic Landmark Commission and the Historic Preservation Office to uphold the governing Local Historic Guidelines. HOME does not, and must not, supersede Historic Guidelines. The proposed project at 1107 East 10th does not comply in terms of scale, massing, height and is no way compatible with the design patterns of the Robinson, Stuart & Mair Historic District. Please register my strong opposition and sign me up to speak at the July 9 hearing. Thank you very much, --- together in the love of history, Emily Emily Little ARCHITECT FAIA 1001 East 8th St. Austin TX 78702 512-470-8058 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov". From: To: Subject: Date: Dominic Welhouse Contreras, Kalan 1107 East 10th Street Saturday, July 6, 2024 2:31:51 PM You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important External Email - Exercise Caution Case Number HR-2024-047998 1107 East 10th Street The proposed 3-story, 35-foot tall secondary building does not comply with our Historic District's Preservation Plan Design Standards. The vast majority of contributing structures in our historic district are 1-story with less than 2,000 square feet. This building does nothing to increase the livability of the neighborhood. It smacks of optimised AirBNB/daily rentals. I would ask the powers-that-be reconsider their decision. Dominic Welhouse 1209 1/2 E. 9th St. Austin, TX 78702 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov". From: To: Subject: Date: Paula Salinas Contreras, Kalan Case Number HR-2024-047998; 1107 E 10th Thursday, July 4, 2024 12:54:33 PM You don't often get email from . Learn why this is important External Email - Exercise Caution City of Austin Planning Department ATTN: Kalan Contreras Via email - kalan.contreras@austintexas.gov P.O. Box 1088 Austin, TX 78767 RE Case Number HR-2024-047998; 1107 E 10th Street Dear Ms. Contreras, I am writing to express my strong objection to the proposed project for an additional building at 1107 East 10th Street and to urge the Planning Commission to reverse its ill-advised decision at its July 9 meeting. I have owned property in this neighborhood for nearly 20 years. After years of work, many meetings and conversations, and thousands of dollars, the neighborhood, with the backing of a majority of property owners (and land area), sought to protect the uniqueness of the area through a historic district designation. In 2019, with the unanimous support of the Historic Landmark Commission, the Planning Commission and the City Council a the Robertson/Stuart & Mair Historic District, one of the few local historic districts in Austin, was born. As a local historic district, our neighborhood developed quite reasonable design standards seeking that new construction must be “compatible with the design patterns of the district.” Most of the contributing structures in this historic neighborhood are single-story homes under 200 sqft. The Applicant’s proposed short-term vacation rental property is a 3-story, 35 feet tall structure of 2,609 total sqft and quite simply does not comply with our Historical District's Design Standards. Moreover, the current design would dwarf the main home on the property and change the character of the block. Note, too, this property is in the middle of the neighborhood, not at its edge. Approval of this “secondary” building as proposed not only conflicts with our Design Standards it is completely contrary to the District’s goals and makes a mockery of the intent of the local Historic District. One wonders why the Planning Commission even seeks input of the neighborhood if it can so cavalierly disregard the written design standards of the Historic District which were written years before the Applicant purchased the property in 2022, and of which he most surely was aware. I urge you to reconsider this matter and deny the application for the reasons set out above and by my neighbors. Respectfully, Paula Salinas 710 Lydia St. Austin, Texas 78702 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov". From: To: Subject: Date: miguel a. guajardo Contreras, Kalan Fw: Historic Landmark Commission case 1107 East 10th Street Friday, July 5, 2024 5:36:36 PM You don't often get email from Learn why this is important External Email - Exercise Caution Subject: Re: Historic Landmark Commission case 1107 East 10th Street Refer to: Case Number HR-2024-047998 1107 East 10th Street The proposed 3-story, 35-foot tall secondary building does not comply with our Historic District's Preservation Plan Design Standards. The vast majority of contributing structures in our historic district are 1-story with less than 2,000 square feet. I live across the street from this address and across the alley from a three-story building. The residents of this property are always metaphorically in my backyard. My family and I have no privacy, and my grandchildren can not play outside without being watched by strangers. I do not want this for anybody else in the neighborhood, and allowing this to pass will be a violation of neighbors' privacy. Miguel A. Guajardo 1102 E. 10th St. Austin, TX 78702 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov". From: To: Subject: Date: Contreras, Kalan RE Case Number HR-2024-047998; PR 2024-043549 – 1107 E 10TH ST Friday, July 5, 2024 12:10:31 PM You don't often get email from Learn why this is important External Email - Exercise Caution Sharon Love 1003 E 8th St Austin, TX 78702 July 5, 2024 City of Austin Planning Department ATTN: Kalan Contreras P.O. Box 1088 Austin, TX 78767 SENT VIA EMAIL TO: kalan.contreras@austintexas.gov RE Case Number HR-2024-047998; PR 2024-043549 – 1107 E 10TH ST Dear Ms. Contreras, I am writing to express my strong objection to the proposed project for a second building at 1107 East 10th Street, which is scheduled for discussion at the Planning Commission meeting on July 9, 2024. As a neighborhood, we invested years of time and money to achieve one of only eight historic neighborhood designations in the City of Austin. This designation requires both high architectural integrity and the support of a majority of property owners or land area within a district. Robertson/Stuart & Mair Historic District deserves the enforcement of these rules. A Certificate of Appropriateness should not be issued for this project because the scale and design of this structure clearly conflicts with the Design Standards of our Historic District. This 3-story, 35-foot tall, 2609 square foot building is unlike 99% of the homes in the neighborhood. This neighborhood is 79% 1 story structures averaging 1600 square feet. Only one building exceeds three stories and it is 20% smaller than the proposed structure. These are not subtle deviations - this is a flagrant disregard for the Design Standards. Additionally, it is clear that the developer does not intend this structure to be used as a home. The proposed project’s owner is a self-described “real estate investor operating in the short-term rental and co-living space.” The existing structure is already in use for that same purpose. Mr. Jordan is taking advantage of the HOME ordinance to build a de facto commercial operation in a neighborhood that is already plagued by unlicensed short-term rentals (see multiple complaints filed at 311). Our neighborhood has embraced many ADUs that become homes, but we reject creation of yet another short-term rental that serves no one but the investor. The proposed structure blatantly flies in the face of the intent of the HOME ordinance’s goal of providing more affordable housing in Austin. The City made a wise and caring decision to support denser housing so that more Austinites can remain in the city we love. I urgently ask that you both enforce the Historic Neighborhood standards and support the intent of the HOME ordinance. Thank you, Sharon Love 512-423-8951 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov". From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: Jerry Garcia Contreras, Kalan; Corona, Nicole; Rivera, Andrew "Mark Rogers"; "Bri Miriani"; "Mark Biechler"; Emily Little; "David West"; Re: 1107 E. 10th Street - AGAINST Monday, July 8, 2024 1:19:25 PM Some people who received this message don't often get email from is important . Learn why this External Email - Exercise Caution Thank you, Emily and others, for the compelling and persuasive points. The women and men of the CoA staff are professionals of integrity who show sensitivity and responsiveness to the views of equally thoughtful and caring neighbors. We live in hope. Regards, Jerry Garcia From: Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2024 9:40 AM To: 'Contreras, Kalan' <Kalan.Contreras@austintexas.gov>; Nicole.corona@austintexas.gov <Nicole.corona@austintexas.gov>; Andrew.rivera@austintexas.gov <Andrew.rivera@austintexas.gov> Cc: Subject: 1107 E. 10th Street - AGAINST Greetings Kalan – I strongly oppose the proposed development at 1107 East 10th Street in the Robertson, Stuart & Mair Historic District. Planning Commission Public Hearing: July 9, 2024 Case Number: HR-2024-047998; PR 2024-043549 – 1107 E 10TH ST This proposed development flies in the face of Local Historic District Design Guidelines and if approved, will set such a precedent that the “Local Historic District” concept will rapidly lose its integrity. This will open the door for similar inappropriate projects. Precedent must not be set at this important time, right after the HOME Code Amendments have just been adopted. This case will determine how HOME relates to Historic Districts in the future. It is a test case for our neighborhood and there will be many more to follow in every other historic district. Please protect the founding principles and Historic District Design Guidelines first, followed by new allowances for increased density allowed in HOME. We are in favor of increased density, but not at the expense of our protected “Local Historic District.” Developers and designers must increase density in forms that are historically compatible to the context. We must rely on the Historic Landmark Commission and the Historic Preservation Office to uphold the governing Local Historic Guidelines. HOME does not, and must not, supersede Historic Guidelines. The proposed project at 1107 East 10th does not comply in terms of scale, massing, height and is no way compatible with the design patterns of the Robinson, Stuart & Mair Historic District. Please register my strong opposition and sign me up to speak at the July 9 hearing. Thank you very much, --- together in the love of history, Emily Emily Little ARCHITECT FAIA 1001 East 8th St. Austin TX 78702 512-470-8058 CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Please use caution when clicking links or opening attachments. If you believe this to be a malicious or phishing email, please report it using the "Report Message" button in Outlook. For any additional questions or concerns, contact CSIRT at "cybersecurity@austintexas.gov".