been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much of this boils down to a very frustrating legal conundrum that is the result of federal and state pre 'emion i want to turn this over

now being overseen by marcel boudreau. again, that project has been launched as we speak. marcel just recently assumes that role. to the right of that are the preservation and entitlement allocations and that work resides within the quadrants primarily. managed by elizabeth gordon. north quadrants and the south quadrants. we have dedicated preservation staffing within the planning information centre, as well as enforcement and within the flex team. we have, as of roughly two years ago, shifted the related preservation work specifically into the environmental division and then finally the cultural heritage work that we have just discussed previously, is primarily within citywide. it is managing citywide, but resources towards that work will be shared across the department as necessary over time. right now, again, as i mentioned , the historic preservation officer position has been otherwise redefined. that formally -- that work was formally done within that one position and it has been distributed over a number of managers. that includes myself and marcel, elizabeth, rich,

been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreau, the city administrator office, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much of this boils down to a very frustrating legal conundrum that is the result of federal and state pre 'emion i want to turn this over

been revisiting a almost 10-year-old study that was undertaken by the planning department and marcel boudreauffice, mr. bill barnes and of course the city attorney's office bill sanders who unfortunately cannot be here today which will lead me to ask that this item be continued to the call of the chair because i think he is important to this conversation and i want to thank you for meeting with my office and my staff, to further understand and get to the bottom of this regulatory arena. thank you in particular to public works for agreeing to hold off on adoption of your objective standards while we create this space for this hearing today and any follow-up that will come from it and thank you to that has indicated within the next quarter, they will present their updates to their 2010 recommend dumb which i just referenced and i also note the board of appeals in july of this year also requested that update from public-health. while much of this boils down to a very frustrating legal conundrum that is the result of federal and state pre 'emion i want to turn this over members of the public who