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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION. FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: July 9, 2008 Application Number: 2008-0606 Property Location: 631 LWE and 625 LWE Property Owner: Verl Sheets and Eve M. Pierce as, Trustee of Eva M. Pierce Rev. Trust Landmark or District Designation: Edgewater Rating: non-contributing and a vacant lot STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE/ 11STORIC CONTEXT: The house was built in 1900 by George F. Geyer who owned it until his death in 1930 when it was inherited by Mattie Geyer Gardner. The Geyer family had been using the house as a rental since 1921. Dean Gardner, Mattie's, husband, sold the house in 1948 to Charlotte Jacobs. It was the Jacobs family who _constructed the commercial addition on the front of the house around 1955 APPLICATION ITEMS: Install wood fence for property security and appearance. The front being at the set back of.621 LWE. (Exhibit A) EDGEWATER PLACE STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: I. THE ENVIORNMENT B. Building site, Landscaping and Accessories: 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 be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Plant materials and trees in close proximity to the buildings that are causing deterioration to the building's historic fabric should be removed. Prohibited: No changes may be made to the appearance of the site by removing old plants, trees, fencing, walkways, outbuildings and other site elements before evaluating their importance to the property's history and development. Front yard areas shall not be transformed into parking lots not paved nor blacktopped. Fronts yard areas shall not be fenced, with the exception of properties along LincolnWay, which may be fenced, but not with enclosed stockade -type fencing. RECOMMENDATION: The fence will be wood stockade fencing along the rear and side of the property and chain link across the front and other side of the property to match current fencing applications. Staff recommends approval. (Exhibit B.)