MAGNOLIA SPRINGS, Ala. — The wheels continue to turn for plans to revitalize the Magnolia Springs Community Hall. That’s because during its regular meeting Thursday, the Magnolia Springs Historic Preservation Commission approved the concept plan for the hall’s renovation.

The vote followed a recap of how the Magnolia Springs Preservation Committee and the town’s Community Association, which are made up of Magnolia Springs residents, came up with a new plan upon the request of the commission, which consists primarily of town council members.

“We got a new plan on March 22,” Committee Director and Chair Janet Paarlbert told the Commission.

That plan includes first stabilizing the structure, which was built in 1894 and is currently in need of repair.

“We can’t even let children in,” Community Association President Virginia Stone said. “They’d fall through the porch.”

Architect Laurie Smith Sikorowski of Walcott Adams Vernuille in Fairhope explained that the new plan includes following federal guidelines in refurbishing existing bathrooms, extending the hall, the addition of a kitchen and the installation of a wheelchair ramp.

“And we added windows to the bathrooms,” she told the commission.

The completed project would allow for the seating of 210 people in the 19^th-century structure.

With the concept plan approved, funding can be sought for the project.

“We do have enough money to do the first few things,” Stone said at the meeting, “like at least stabilize that building.”

Also Thursday, the Magnolia Springs Historic Preservation Conmission: agreed to solicit names to fill a vacancy on the Mangolia Springs Historic Preservation Committee to be considered at next month’s meeting; heard Commission member Donna Eslinger announce that work on a brochure is under way; discussed streets signs that would identify the town’s historic district; discussed training coming up in Orange Beach in May 11; discussed the possibility of hosting a camp meeting in 2013, in which a case study of a historic preservation project would be detailed; and announced that its next meeting would be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, in Magnolia Springs Town Hall.