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• 1093 Riverside Drive South Bend, IN 46616 December 2, 1993 Chip Frederick Historic Preservation Commission 1123 County -City Building South Bend, IN 46601 Dear Chip, Enclosed is an Application for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the replacement of my garage doors. Security is the motivating factor in this request. We park our cars on the street in front of our house, and they have been vandalized repeatedly. We no longer bother to replace the tape deck in my husband's car. I have had my car's rear window smashed and the driver's door shot with BBs. Our garage is hardly a secure haven in its present state, however. It has been broken into on numerous occasions, although nothing has ever been taken since we store nothing of value there. Despite our best efforts to secure the doors from within, we have not been able to deter would-be thieves from finding ways to open them. toI wish to replace the original doors with a modern model that can be opened from within my automobile. I frequently get home after dark, and would not feel safe getting out of my car in the alley. I know of an armed robbery, a purse -snatching, and a rape within a block of our house. The looks of the replacement door are, frankly, of little concern to me, and if the Historic Preservation Commission prefers a certain model or material I would be glad to be advised on this point. We are willing to keep the old garage doors and store them in either the basement or the garage. I am asking to replace two door openings with a single large one because of the difficulty of maneuvering a car into the garage at present. The structure is set close to the alley and requires a tight turn. We have attempted it on only one side of the garage, and that opening was narrow enough that we scraped the side of our car. The other door, which we never have tried to use, is six inches narrower. Thank you for considering this request. VY\ aA C-1 Marsha Stevenson