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PROPOSED CHANGE(S) The Applicant wishes to install four additional parking spaces in the side lot next to the apartment complex off of Lincolnway East. The owner is proposing to pave the spaces with brick and erect decorative brick and wrought iron piers on either side of drive. REFERENCE TO GOVERNING STANDARDS: Restoration: Rehabilitation: The Preservation Guidelines for East Wavne street Local Historic District: b)... The Guidelines for the Edgewater Place Local Historic District follow the Rehabilitation Model... I. Environment A. The District Environment Required New plant materials, fencing, walkways .. shall be compatible with the character of the neighborhood in size, scale, material and color. Prohibited Existing relationships of buildings and their environments shall not be destroyed through widening existing streets, changing paving material, or by introducing inappropriately located new streets or parking lots incompatible with the character of the neighborhood. Signs ... and paving material which are out of scale or inappropriate to the neighborhood may not be used. B. Building Site and Landscaping Recommended New site work should be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Prohibited Front vard areas shall not be transformed into parking lots nor paved nor blacktopped. Front yard areas shall not be fenced with the exception of properties along Lincolnway, which may be fenced, but not with enclosed stockade -type fencing. RECOMMENDATION The owner is proposing to install four parking spaces toward the front of the lot adjacent to 709- 711 Lincolnway East. The proposed parking spaces would be paved with brick and surrounded by decorative brick and wrought iron fencing. However, the owner has failed to submit any details regarding the proposed fencing making it impossible for the staff to make a recommendation. The owner has stated that he intends to attend the meeting at which time he will submit examples and give a more detailed description of his proposed project, after which the staff will make its recommendation.