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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: November 8,'2007 Application Number: - 2007-1029 Property Location: 815 Forest Avenue Property Owner: Julie and Mark Bruneau Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park NR/LHD Rating: Contributing STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/HISTORIC CONTEXT: The Queen Anne at 815 Forest was built in 1891 for Flora and Charles Horst. Charles was a hackman for Miller & Newman. They raised three children: Rudolf, Sarah and Jay. Sarah, who became a nurse inherited the house in the 1930s and lived there into the 1940s. APPLICATION ITEMS: To enclose backyard for privacy and to end random foot traffic between Forest Avenue, Leland and the alley between them. Per site material submitted. Fencing and style to match that of COA#2007-1023 "Hamilton" black aluminum with Quad Finials. This would be a new 60 foot fence with a walk gate along the rear of the back yard and alleyway CHAPIN PARK STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly shaped, of varying topography and with different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. Chapin Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines on Chapin Place will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Required Fencing, walkways, outbuildings, private yard lights, signs (i.e. house numbers) and benches (visible from the street) as well as trees located in a yard or tree lawn which reflect the property's history and development shall be retained. A tree located in such areas shall only be removed if the removal is required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure or for such other reason acceptable to the Historic Preservation Commission. Storm damaged or diseased trees should then be replaced with an approved species at the same or approximate location wherever possible. _ Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open (meaning spaces between the pickets) and consistent with the historic character of a structure enclosed. Recommended . New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Front yard areas should remain open. (See above for information regarding fences.).Trees in close proximity to a building may _ cause structural damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) them at a more appropriate location as soon as planting season permits and upon approval of a