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4. DISCUSSION OF HISTORIC SITES. Historic Plaques Placed onto Atlantic Isles Entrance Bridge, and Lagoon Bridge in Atlantic Isles; Newport Fishing Pier and the Water Villa and Pergola, pending. Action: Cassey Gabor said the plaques were already placed onto3tlantic Isles Entrance Bridge, and Lagoon Bridge in Atlantic Isles and no one knew about it She said there should have been a ceremony and the Board members, media and the public should have been invited to attend. Chairperson Scholl said when we place historic plaques in the future we will make a note to try to have some kind of small ceremony and invite the media, as there is very little public awareness. Richard Schulman said the Newport Fishing Pier has negotiations underway so until we know the results of those discussions he feels that we should defer the Fishing Pier until the next meeting at which time we will probably have more information. Chairperson Scholl said his property is the Water Villa and Pergola and we are going to defer discussion on that as well because he has been working with staff based on the condition of what we can do there. Bonita Shoki moved and Cassey Gabor seconded a motion to defer discussion on the Newport Fishing Pier and the Water Villa and Pergola. The motion was approved by a 4-0-3 [Michelle D'Arbelles and Trina Duluc absent; Phillip Chernoff arrived late] vote. Chairperson Scholl said as a point of reference that the Atlantic Isles Entrance Bridge and Lagoon Bridge in Atlantic Isles is really the only historical bridges in the City, these are the only original bridges in Atlantic Isles, when he first moved here the entrance bridges were just like this bridge. There were two little narrow bridges that only one car could pass at a time, and in the early 1990's the County condemned those bridges because they were sinking and were not properly designed for vehicular traffic which is'one of the reasons that this bridge is now one lane. Chairperson Scholl said in regards to the two bridges in front of Atlantic Isles, he would call them historic reconstruction, so what the County did was to bring a proposal to the Island residents. He said it was not a formal process, they said that they have to rebuild the bridges, and because they were historic, we all felt that we wanted to see something nice there. The County rebuilt the bridges completely b'ut built little light towers that emulated the light towers in the old bridges. Richard Schulman noted that they were originally built in the 1920's. Chairperson Scholl said if this bridge ever gets structurally unsound we can just put a post in it and it will be a walk-over. He said we try to keep trucks off from it, now that was the real issue, when a truck came on the island they would either have to go down by his house, and they really could not make the cul=de-sac turn because it was too tight for them so they had to go on the lagoon. Heavy trucks would go over this bridge and that was damaging it and so ultimately they narrowed the bridge so it is much tougher for a truck to go over and hopefully that will help preserve it for several more years. Richard Schulman passed around pictures of the historic plaques ithat were placed onto Atlantic Isles Entrance Bridge, and Lagoon Bridge in Atlantic Isles.' He said that they have not made up plaques yet for the Newport Fishing Pier and the Water Villa and Pergola. Chairperson Scholl said he is not really in favor of having a plaque put up at his house because it is a private place. He has people coming on his property all the time trying to take pictures and it has been very frustrating and that is why he put his hedge up and put gates up. For years they would pull their car up and walk up to his house and try to take pictures and walk around the property. • Summary Minutes 2007-0123 HPB Mtg Page 2 of 7