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HASTINGS HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br /> <br />Minutes of the Meeting of February 2?, 1991 <br /> <br />1. Roll Call. <br /> <br />Present: Commissioners Goderstad, Hoeschen, Malm, Simacek, Thorsen, <br />Stoneberg and Smith. <br /> <br />Also Present: Michelle Gospeter and Bronwyn Skov from the Hastings <br />Chamber of Commerce, Ron Sheetz of the Chamber Tourism Committee, <br />John Grossman. <br /> <br />Historic Preservation and Tourism. <br /> <br />A National Park Service slide/tape show on tourism was viewed. <br />Following discussion included: <br /> <br />Reasons visitors come to Hastings: shopping, bingo at Prairie <br />Island, racetrack at Shakopee, skiing at Welch and Afton Alps; <br />travelers on vacation. <br /> <br />Amount of visitation: Thorwood's 5,000 visitors are almost 100% <br />from out of town; American Inn's business is 20% tourists and 80% <br />commercial; Remember Me sales are 50% out of towners; the Chamber <br />averages 18 requests for visitor information a month. A large <br />proportion of visitors are mature people on long weekends and <br />families from a 50 to 60 mile radius. <br /> <br />Things Hastings needs to encourage visitation: public restrooms, <br />signs on highways and around town, tour and guide publications, <br />exhibits, a visible contact office, more frequent programs like <br />home tours or porch festival, more shopping like Cedarburg and Red <br />Wing. <br /> <br />Gardner Porch Door. <br /> <br />Mr. Hoeschen asked whether the metal door installed on the front of <br />the Gardner House can be replaced with a wooden one. He suggested <br />that Lawrence Kasel could build one at reasonable cost. Mr. <br />Grossman noted that the HPC committee had verbally agreed to a <br />cosmetic improvement of the metal door by adding muntins and <br />painting it white. Those present, including the committee, stated <br />that cosmetic changes would not be enough. Mr. Grossman will find <br />out the cost of a wooden door as compared to cosmetic changes and <br />talk to the owner. <br /> <br />On a similar matter, Mr. Goderstad asked if a building permit was <br />taken out for the window work on the back of Sherman Williams <br />building. Mr. Grossman will check. <br /> <br />4. Designate Hastings Levee. <br /> <br />Mr. Malm asked whether the flag pole and veterans monument in Levee <br /> <br /> <br />