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Presentation of the Application by Georges Enderle to the Historic Preservation Commission on November 19, 2007 Introduction As you all know, my house is a beautiful building, and I feel a heavy responsibility to preserve the unique character of my house. But the windows are deteriorating severely and need repair. Since September 2006 I have been discussing=my,window problem with the Historic Preservation Commission many times and, in the process, I have learned quite, a lot about windows. Including the visits of some commissioners to my house, we.had six meetings. So today is our seventh meeting. Unfortunately, we could not find a solution so far. My application: Four Marvin replacement windows in the bay area: wood ultimate insert or wood tilt pacs with vinyl jamb liners, double hung, double pan, upgraded to Low E II with Argon gas. To be clear, my proposal concerns only the four windows in the bay area of the dining room. The replacement windows (inserts or tilt pacs) are of high quality, in wood, without aluminum clad, and double pan. Neither interior nor exterior storm windows are required. In my view, they meet the essential criteria of sustainability and authenticity to address my window problem. Why? The windows cannot "restored in-situ" as the staff report says. Rather, they have to be take out, repaired in another location while the dining room is exposed to bad weather, and then moved in again. There are three options we have examined in our discussions. However, none of them is acceptable. First option: To install a second ulass on the existing restored single pan windows. This is not possible because the size of my windows is too big and the strength of the windows would be impaired severely. Second option: Interior storm windows could be installed, technically speaking. But this decision is at the discretion of the occupant and I do not want interior storm windows. Because they substantially impair the aesthetics of the dining room and need to be removed and reinstalled in spring and fall respectively, hence reducing my quality of life. Third option: Exterior storm windows. But they are technically not feasible in the bay area. Moreover, they would harm the current historic aesthetics of the exterior of this area. Furthermore, my house never had exterior storm windows. How then could the Historic Preservation Commission require installing something new that is alien to my historic house? Because none of these three options is acceptable and no other proposal was offered by the Commission (see my letter of November 6 to Mrs. Hostetler answering her letter of October 24), I cannot but ask for the proposal of four Marvin replacement windows as wood ultimate inserts or wood tilt pacs. /H