Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request by Owner Kevin Scott of KLS Plus Properties LLC for a Certificate of Appropriateness for Demolition of a Detached Shed Located at 408 Oak Street
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in Downtown McKinney
MEETING DATE: December 4, 2025
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
CONTACT: Rayna Alam, Historic Preservation Planner
Cassie Bumgarner, Planning Manager
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
• Staff recommends approval of the Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition of the detached shed at 408 Oak Street.
ITEM SUMMARY:
• The applicant requests approval of a Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition of the detached carriage house located at 408 Oak Street.
• The applicant submitted photographs documenting the deteriorated structural integrity.
• Both staff and applicant performed historic research on the property to determine a construction date of the shed; however, it was inconclusive. There are no accompanying photographs or documents to firmly date the structure. The shed does not appear on any Sanborn maps.
• The home was surveyed in the McKinney Historic Resource Survey of 2023 and built circa 1940. It is a Ranch style home with a low-priority rating. Staff believes the removal of the detached shed will not change the priority rating of the residence.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
• The Zoning Ordinance states that owners shall not construct, reconstruct, alter, change, restore, expand, or demolish any exterior architectural feature of a building or structure that is visible from a public right-of-way located in the H - Historic Preservation Overlay district without first obtaining a certificate of appropriateness.
• The criteria for approval mandates that the following standards, guidelines, and criteria be used in a balanced evaluation of the project:
o Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings to assist in the consideration of all applications.
o Checklist of design elements to be reviewed and evaluated.
o Consideration of the preservation priority rating assigned to the property in question.
• The McKinney Historic Resource Survey of 2023 found the home at 408 Oak Street to be a low priority rating, built circa 1940.
• Definition of low priority: Typifies a common local building form, architectural style or type, with no identified historical associations; is a moderate to severely altered resource with reversible modifications that exemplifies a distinctive building type or architectural style, or that has only minor historical significance.