HARB approves three items, continues several others; demolition of 95 Chapin cleared

The City of St. Augustine Historic Architecture Review Board on May 19 approved three formal actions and continued several other agenda items to the board’s June 18 meeting. Approved items included an amendment to a historic-preservation ad valorem tax exemption at 66 Saragossa Street, a certificate of appropriateness for wholesale window replacement at 52 Saint George Street (with conditions), and a certificate of demolition for a house at 95 Chapin Street.

The approvals were brief on the record. For HP2025-0029, an amendment to a Part 2 certificate of appropriateness for 66 Saragossa Street, the board approved work to partially reopen an enclosed front porch, salvage existing street-facing windows where possible and slightly shorten a dormer window to accommodate structural framing. Staff had recommended approval conditioned on salvaging the existing window and reusing it on the…