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speak in opposition of the CoA and recognize each for a maximum of 5 minutes each. Anyone wishing to speak... it doesn't mean that you have to take the full 5 minutes, but you may. Alright. Krostenko: Joan Downs-Krostenko, 849 Forest Avenue. I'm the chair of the Chapin Park Historic District Historic Preservation Commission Liaison Committee. I have my committee here with me today, and I have their signatures on their letter. Dear members of the St. Joseph County Historic Preservation Committee, we, the members of the Chapin Park Historic District Preservation Liaison Committee respectfully request that you honor and uphold the regulations in the Chapin Park Historic District Guidelines and reject any Certificate of Appropriateness which seeks to install replacement windows at the Anderson House at 710 Park Avenue, especially those which are metal clad. The Guidelines and the preservationist community are clear on the inappropriate, ineffective and destructive quality of such replacement windows. Argon gas is notorious for leaking out of such windows within a year or two of their installation. At that point water condenses inside and the insulative quality of the windows is destroyed. Furthermore, such windows are notoriously unsightly, particularly when filled with condensation, and unlikely to fit the sagging or no long true apertures of historic homes, further destroying and insulating quality that their marketers proclaim they have. We are not convinced that restoration and rehabilitation of the existing windows at 710 Park Avenue has been investigated. It is our understanding that bids for this procedure have not been submitted. We fear the precedent which will be set if the landmark property at 710 Park Avenue is allowed to have modern metal clad windows installed. How will you be able to demand restoration and preservation or original windows, or almost any other original feature, at other properties if such features on the Anderson House are not deemed important enough to save? (Hard copy of letter, complete with signatures submitted into the record and is included with minutes) And I would also like to add that the comment about 50% of the houses in Chapin Park already having aluminum clad windows is completely without bearing on this argument. There are all kinds of abominations that have occurred to our beautiful buildings in Chapin Park before we became a historic district. Metal clad windows are one of them. And I think that we became a district to cease seeing this kind of destruction done to our beautiful buildings, so I don't think that has any constitutional bearing on this question. The other thing that I would like to say is that those of us who have had our houses painted by those that understand how to paint historic homes will tell you that you do not need to repaint your home every two to three years, or necessarily every five years if you get a good paint job on there the first time. Thank you. Patrick: I'm resetting the timer. Youens: My name is Susan Youens, I live at 850 Forest Avenue and I simply want to second everything that Joanie Downs-Krostenko said and add my own very unhappy experience with a single double hung metal modern window that I couldn't wait to yank out once it had failed and caused all kinds of structural damage around the frame in the space of one year. The house on Park Avenue is so beautiful, so historically important, such an architectural monument in the neighborhood that I for one would hate to see anything compromise the integrity of such a structure. So I hope that the Commission will not approve this C of A. Thank you. Patrick. Thank you. I'm resetting the timer. Sakimoto: I'm Susan Sakimoto of 851 Park Avenue, the other end of the street. I have just finished restoring over four dozen of the windows in my house, and throwing out the metal clad storm windows. My house is substantially warmer this year. I put thermometers on the windows last year, being a former rocket scientist I couldn't resist. The restored windows have done substantially better than the new 1950-1960's double pane windows which leak like a sieve. They actually do better than the triple pane argon windows I had in my previous house because the argon leaked out after a year. I would like to suggest that there is one solution that I don't think has been suggested yet and that is to take the existing sashes, and they are wide old hard wood, and you can actually put two panes of glass and a spacer in those with a bit of care. Essentially replacing nothing but the glass, and I'm not sure that's been suggested yet. Its probably the cheapest option and maybe the most efficient. Patrick: Thank you. Sporleder: Are we going to be allowed to speak to any of these people? 2