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STAFF REPORT <br /> CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A. <br /> CERTIFICATE OF APPROPMATENESS <br /> Date: June 2,2017 <br /> Application Number: 2017-0602A (Application delivered by property owner to Building Department <br /> on June 1, 2017) <br /> Property Location: 1240 West Thomas Street <br /> Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Period Revival/1920/Firehouse#4 <br /> Property Owner: Eric A. Boyd <br /> Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark, ordinance #9037-99 <br /> Rating: Outstanding <br /> DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/SITE: Firehouse#4 is a 2-story rectangular brick building. It had <br /> a flat roof with limestone parapet coping, metal parapet scupper/cornice with brick brackets underneath <br /> and ornate limestone detailing at the ends. The windows are 1/1 double-hung with limestone sills. There <br /> is a brick side chimney,and a roof penthouse with hip roof. <br /> ALTERATIONS: Most of the windows in this former firehouse have been boarded tip prior to a 2007 <br /> fire. RME 2011-1110 approved replacement of metal roof to secure the building and protect it from the <br /> elements, although there is no evidence it was ever installed. An asymmetrical gabled roof has been <br /> installed without an approved COA on approximately half of the main structure, as well as a second story <br /> addition and gabled roof on the rear of the building. Areas where large overhead garage doors were <br /> originally located have been covered with vinyl siding. Most window openings have been covered with <br /> plywood or vinyl siding. COA 2016-0809 to construct shed roof over part of building,and second floor <br /> addition atop one-story brick portion at rear of building with vinyl siding and replacement windows was <br /> denied. <br /> APPLICATION ITEMS: Mono roof 4/12 pitch, rise west to east ending at center of building restinh, on <br /> ledger/East stud wall. Low profile mono roof resting south brick wall and interior brick wall. Open <br /> courtyard. <br /> DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: See COA 2016-0809, pending with the Building <br /> Department as a Violation of City Ordinance. Not in compliance with the Violation Remedy <br /> Requirements as ordered to be completed by March 13, 2017. <br /> Owner has constructed a 4/12 single sloping roof surface over part of, roughly one half, of the main <br /> building, from the west exterior wall 30' east to a 10'1­1 wall built on existing brick interior wall, with a I' <br /> overhang at west wall. Concrete floor of open courtyard is 6-8" lower than adjacent floor. Owner plans <br /> to utilize existing floor drain and lower floor height to manage accumulated moisture in the courtyard. <br /> This roof has been installed without COA. <br /> See report of structural inspection by Siqueira, LLC, submitted with this application. In summary, the <br /> inspection reveals inadequate joists spanning 17.5' running east-west at 16"oc, supported at masonry <br /> walls; roof level beam sag, exterior walls that lack bracing, trash pile in"courtyard", recommended <br /> provisions to dispose of snow and drain rain in "courtyard", multiple deficiencies in the framed mono- <br /> sloped roof at North West, and 2x4 joists spanning 10' that are insufficient. <br /> PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: n/a <br /> STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: Group 13 <br />