Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Request by Owner Bruce Imig for a Certificate of Appropriateness for Demolition of a House After an Interior Fire Located at 326 S Kentucky.
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in Downtown McKinney
MEETING DATE: May 7, 2026
DEPARTMENT: Development Services - Planning Department
CONTACT: Rayna Alam, Historic Preservation Planner
Cassie Bumgarner, Planning Manager
RECOMMENDED HPAB ACTION:
• Staff recommends approval of the Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition of the house after an interior fire located at 326 S Kentucky.
ITEM SUMMARY:
• The applicant requests approval of a Certificate of Appropriateness for demolition of a house after an interior fire located at 326 S Kentucky.
• The applicant submitted photographs and a structural engineering report documenting the deteriorated structural integrity.
• The home was surveyed in the McKinney Historic Resource Survey of 2023 and built circa 1920. It is a Minimal Traditional style home with a low-priority rating.
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 326 S Kentucky to be low priority rating, built circa 1920.
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 exemplify a distinctive building type or architectural style, or that has only minor historical significance