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3. 2002-0410; 1414 Leer Street; replace siding & install windows. KAREN HAMMOND-NASH: The owner, under threat from the City Code Enforcement Department, seeks to replace the siding on this building, and to install two additional windows, as the present number of windows in two of the nine apartments in this building are legally inadequate for the number of present occupants. The staff recommendations for this building are as follows: 1. Since the siding is presently artificial, in kind replacement is appropriate, and should be approved. 2. Restoration of a window in any location where a window used to be is also appropriate, and should be approved. It is probable that the removal of the old siding may reveal such. The installation of new, hap -hazard windows in a previously solid wall would further compromise the integrity of a building that cannot afford further compromise, and that should not be approved. 3. The missing or broken door at the back of the building should be repaired or replaced. 4. It appears from the inspection photographs that at least two out of the three front entrance doors have recently been replaced, one with a colonial revival style door having a nine -pane window on the top half, and one with a Colonial Revival "Cross and Bible" style door. Either one of these styles may be appropriate to use. All three doors in the front of the building should be the same. LEIF BOUSKILL: Code Enforcement has given us a short period of time in which to make repairs to the windows in this building. One of the previous landlords had installed the top windows in the building prior to me owning the building. I have only owned the building for the last two years. The previous owner that installed the top windows in the building did not put the siding back on after they had installed the windows for some unknown reason. In the last couple of days we have talked to a few of the past landlords of the property and we found out that a lot of the siding is still in good shape and we might be able to find siding to match what is already presently on the property. We are planning on repainting the building also. We would like to pull a lot of these old windows out and replace them with wood framed sash windows. I do have a meeting tomorrow with Code Enforcement and I think we have passed on almost everything. I did ask the inspector to come back out and get the property re -inspected today and that didn't work out too well, because we had already gotten it Friday and everything had passed with the Fire Marshall. What we would like to do with the windows on the top floor is finish off the siding and maybe put some wood trim around them in the form of trim mounts. JOHN OXIAN: There could still be original wood trim for the windows underneath the siding, depending on how far out the siding has been installed from the building itself. I would also like to offer the following recommendations to the owner: 1. Before you install new additional wood trim to the windows that you first check under the siding and make sure that no previous wood trim has been left behind around the windows. It is possible that the wood side boards for the windows are still under the S