The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday afternoon.
Elizabethtown Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman provided an update on his office’s research on expanding historic preservation in the city, as requested by the council following a zoning change for a property on College Street earlier this year. Reverman said the city’s Historic Preservation Commission has been considering updates to the Historic Preservation Ordinance and properties to consider including.
“This first phase was just to look at expansion of the district to the north up to Poplar Street, so that would be from Mulberry to Quince, and just taking that straight up to Poplar Street,” Reverman said. “This doesn’t mean all of those properties would be recommended for approval to be within the district. It just means that they’ve asked staff to do a study and research those properties and provide information to the commission to see if they do belong within the preservation district.”
Any recommendations from the commission would ultimately go before the city council for final approval. Reverman said any residents with recommendations should contact his office.
“They don’t have to be districts, and they don’t have to be downtown,” Reverman said. “We can designate anything, any building, any structure, any site as an individual landmark within our city that can be regulated and guided with our historic preservation program.”
Project L.E.A.R.N. President Ann Borders provided an update on the organization, which provides support and day habilitation for adults with intellectual disabilities. Borders discussed the growth the organization has seen since its founding in 1983, such as acquiring their building in 2022, along with challenges including funding and facilities.
“Our utility costs run well over $1,000 a month because of no insulation in the walls and floors, and when we put the blown insulation in the ceiling I talked to the gentleman who did the work about doing the walls, and he said ‘well, you can do it, but it’s going to be very expensive,’” Borders said.
Learn more about the organization by finding the PL ProjectLearn account on Facebook.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet for a regular meeting on May 12, with budget meetings scheduled for May 5 through 8.
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