During new business, the Building Official noted that updated Historic Preservation and Architecture Review Committee (HPARC) guidelines—an approximately 80‑page document developed over nearly two years—are scheduled to be presented to Mayor and City Council at the next workshop. After that presentation, he proposed bringing the guidelines to the Ordinance Review Ad-Hoc Committee to follow the same resolution-based adoption path used for the SI/SD procedures, and the committee was receptive to that approach. Once Council work sessions and committee review are complete, the City will need to integrate these guidelines into its development review process for historic areas, which can impact design review, permitting, applicant submittal standards, and public communication.This presents an opportunity for consultants and vendors specializing in historic preservation standards, design review workflows, digital guideline publication, and permitting-system configuration to help Lewes operationalize the new HPARC guidelines, train staff and applicants, and potentially build interactive tools or checklists that align project submittals with the adopted guidance.

The guidelines are long (about 80 pages) and have been in development for nearly two years, suggesting significant substantive content that will need to be communicated to applicants and integrated into review workflows.