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THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br />OF SOUTH BEND & ST. JOSEPH COUNTY <br />MONTHLY MEETING <br />MINUTES <br />March 18, 2002 <br />MEMBERS PRESENT: <br />MEMBER ABSENT: <br />7 Floor, Commissioner's Conference Room <br />County -City Building, South Bend, IN <br />Joann Sporleder, Catherine Hostetler, Richard <br />Morrison, Gerald Ujdak, John Oxian, Mary Jane <br />Chase, Martha Choitz <br />Richard Helmus <br />STAFF PRESENT: Karen - Hammond -Nash, Assistant Director <br />Thomas Bodnar, City Attorney <br />Wayne Doolittle, Inspector <br />ALSO PRESENT: Teri & Tom Evons, Mary & John Graham, <br />Kathryn Anderson <br />I. CALL TO ORDER <br />CATHERINE HOSTETLER: Called meeting to order at 7:30. <br />II. PUBLIC HEARING <br />A. CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />1. 2002 -0305; 1321 East Wayne Street South; addition. <br />KAREN HAMMOND -NASH: The applicant seeks to build an 18' wide by 30' long addition to <br />the (North East) corner of their home. Staff recommends approval. The staff does, however, <br />have three concerns regarding the proposal, as it is presented. <br />1. The original window sills are cast concrete, and the new window sills are proposed to be <br />brick. Staff recommends that the new window sills be cast concrete like the existing ones. <br />2. The existing character defining detail over and around the back door will be lost. The <br />gabled hood is not extra special, but the brackets supporting it are. We recommend re -using <br />them, if possible. <br />3. The roof of the proposed addition would cut across an upstairs window, and the proposal <br />is to build a sort of notch in the new roof, over the new breakfast room, to accommodate the <br />window. The notch is actually a rather clever solution, and not bad looking, in itself. However, <br />we are not sure that it really solves the problem regarding the window, because the view of and <br />from the window will remain obscured. We do not know whether structural constraints would <br />allow moving the existing upstairs window several feet to the side, so that it is not blocked by <br />I <br />