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didn't attend to its contents. In September and October, 2004 we had major emergency repairs done to our kitchen and bathroom when a plumbing leak collapsed the kitchen ceiling. Both the kitchen and the bathroom had to be completely rebuilt. During some of this time we were living in a motel. When we could live at home we lived in total chaos. Anything coming in the mail that didn't require immediate attention was doubtless filed away somewhere or lost as we tried to live in a house that was undergoing major repairs. When we discovered that our capitals were broken or cracked we began the procedure explained in our longer written statement. What was begun to locate appropriate capitals in September of 2004. The actual work of installing the Doric'capitals which seemed best to conform with those on columns on Park Avenue began in the summer of 2005. Although we had not yet read the guidebook as such for the capitals none the less, it was, made in the spirit of the statement on page twenty of the guidebook quoted in the staff report. Dissatisfied with the replica we had used before we were for a design more in keeping with the historic period of the structure. Just as the work was about to get underway on our porch my husband had a conversation with Wayne Doolittle, (inspector), about the capitals; this was on July 11th, 2005, when Wayne took the photograph of the broken Scamozzi which forms part of the application packet. My" husband and Wayne spoke for a few moments about the difficulty of finding the appropriate replacements for the broken or damaged Scamozzi. Had Wayne said anything at the time about the necessity of filing a C of A we would have done so. In fact we would have done almost anything to avoid the hassle that this misunderstanding has produced for all concerned. But, we knew no more after this conversation than we did before. We decided to replace the broken Scamozzi with the Doric capitals because we did not like the plaster imitation Scamozzi installed by Peacock and Company in 2002 and we could not find anything that looked better through our contractor, Jeffrey Dierbeck, with whom we have worked with for over twenty years. We began work on the project hoping to get it finished by winter so that we could stop the deterioration of the columns themselves. We prefer the look of the Doric capitals and find them consistent both with the period eclecticism'of Queen Anne style and the capitals of the other houses in our part of Park Avenue. Somebody on the committee asked me to bring a broken piece of the Scamozzi capital here because you would want to see it. LYNN PATRICK: Did the contractor who replaced the capitals put in for a building permit? DIANA MATTHIAS: No. He spoke to Wayne and Wayne evidently told him that he shouldn't do that because we had to submit the C of A which as soon as we knew about it we did. LYNN PATRICK: He spoke to Wayne and Wayne told him he should not put in for a building permit? DIANA MATTHIAS: Yes, that is what the contractor told me. LYNN PATRICK: Is that correct, Wayne? WAYNE DOOLITTLE: No that is completely false. I talked to him and I told him he needed to have a building permit. He asked me at the time when he was painting the house, and he asked me should he stop painting the house. I said no - that doesn't come under our jurisdiction so he continued painting the house. I told him under no uncertain 6