The Historic Architecture Review Board on Oct. 16 voted to support an update to the Model Land Company National Register nomination, a long-running project to re-evaluate and document an early 20th‑century residential area of St. Augustine.

Julie Seymour, historic preservation staff, summarized the draft update: the period of significance has been expanded from 1838–1930 to 1838–1968; the nomination boundary was slightly expanded to include the Carolina Elementary School campus; and a comprehensive re-survey increased the inventory to 437 resources, including auxiliary structures such as detached garages and sheds that National Park Service rules now require inventoried. The update identifies roughly 310 contributing resources and 127 noncontributing resources in the revised inventory, and staff noted that 47 buildings recorded in 1983 have since been demolished.

Board members discussed outreach and notification. The board endorsed staff drafting a letter to property owners affected by the boundary change and recommended the city provide accessible materials explaining what National Register listing means locally (including that National Register status itself does not change most local building codes but can interact with local demolition/partial-demolition rules and preservation incentives). The board asked staff to coordinate with communications staff and with the state so property owners who are newly included in the nomination are informed ahead of any formal actions.

By voice vote the board recorded support for forwarding the nomination update to the State National Register Review Board; staff said the state review meeting is scheduled for Nov. 6. Seymour noted the federal National Park Service is conducting limited operations and that final federal action may be delayed while national review resumes; the state will continue its review and will forward a recommendation to the National Park Service when it is accepting nominations again.

The board asked staff to prepare and send direct mail notification to property owners added or newly classified as contributing, and to produce an explanatory webpage or communications packet describing implications and resources for owners.