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story windows. Roof shingles will be a dimensional style as recommended. One member of the Commission, I thought was a member, he's actually not, your husband (referring to Don Sporleder) recommended that the first floor window be saved, and that is the window that is existing right now at this location. What I'll do now is pass these (pictures). We would like to move this window around the corner, we would save the whole window in its entirety, it's a wood window, the glass, the frame, and bring it around the corner to relocate in this location. There is not a window here right now. We would use the original window and bring it around the corner. Right now it sits right inhere. We'd like to move that original- doing so helps us considerably with the interior floor plan. It's difficult in that back room because there's an exterior stair well to the basement. In order to accommodate a floor plan that works in that back room, every bit of room that we can get helps. We'd also like to access this back stair well a straight shot- there's a stair well that's in there, and I hope that you can tell that from the pictures which one is which. That should be #5 or #6. When you walk into this back door, you can walk right straight down into this basement, or you can come into the laundry room. But to accommodate that we need some step space to get to that, otherwise there will be a big drop off if we put our door there. We believe we're conforming to the Group B standards which state that necessary structural improvements should be accomplished in such a way to cause minimal visual structural change to the original style and construction and also we're trying to use material to match as much as possible. We appreciate the recommendations of the Commission but also hope that the Commission, we believe that the loss of the window facing the East is a minimal disturbance to the original design of this structure. You can refer to those and I'm sure that you'll have questions on those pictures. Please be reminded that we're not moving the window out of alignment, we are eliminating it's location and reusing it in its entirety. We ask that you accept this application based on the overall approval of the design, with the changes that were made per the new elevation. Thankyou. Klusczinski: Thank you. Catherine? Could you clarify the staff's recommendations that this Commission should appoint either a committee or an architect? Hostetler: It was basically with regards to that window. When Don and I first met, Don didn't realize that there was an enclosed exterior stair well leading down by these elevations. We had another drawing. Don said 'why do we have to have a stairway there?' 'Maybe we could move it somewhere else. ' But it's a pre-existing feature, it would take a small nuclear blast to move that stair well, it's fieldstone and the concrete is about this thick on the stairs going down there. It's massive. That has to stay, and for them to do what they want to do, they have to move that window which is part of the original fabric of that house. I understand it's the only window in this one small room that original in the back; and they want to reuse it. The objection to leaving the window there is 1. when you look out of the window, all you're going to be able to see is basically that garage, it's going to block the view. All you're going to see going down the line is the back of that garage. The window itself is not in very good shape and neither is the brick surround. The lintel is in very good shape, but there are some problems with the window. I can understand why they'd want to move it and then completely restore it and put it on the east, because then it would overlook the garden and the tennis courts, that they have on the north side of their house and it would be much more pleasant to look at then a wall of vinyl. It's up to the Commission if they want to allow this to be altered in this state and then what they would end up doing is replacing where the window is with a course of brick that would match the old brick of the house. Then reconfigure that whole window system on the north side. I believe there's some pictures of the windows. Haupert: I probably should have stated this earlier, but #1 is looking to the east to the fence, there's not any real good view from the neighbors' into that area. The other one is from the window that Catherine was mentioning. Just the existing that's there. We'll have 50 foot of addition when you look at that window you'll see that long run of siding. Number 3 is the picture to the north which is the tennis courts and a better visual space where you can see most of the backyard and the play area or recreational area. Hostetler: They used to have internal gutters. And they were compromised at some point in time and this window up here, and this one down here took the brunt of it. That whole top area with 5