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four Square. Mr. Carson was a dentist and eventually became Mayor of South Bend. The Carson's resided there until 1991. APPLICATION ITEMS: #1 Remove Aluminum siding and repair siding and trim. Prime and paint original clapboard siding. #2 Reconstruct front porch per attached drawings (Al & A2 -with detailed project description) Design based on old postcards of house (copies attached). See Exhibit A West North Shore Standards: VII GENERAL: House alterations, restoration, preservation and rehabilitation shall be such as to not change a house to a style previous to its original style. No mention has been made in these standards about color. We trust restraint and good taste will be exercised. III. STRUCTURES C. Porches and Steps Which are Readilv Visible From the Street: Permitted: Replace porches and steps with materials matching the original as closely as possible. A cement porch floor is permitted for the structure on Lot 12. Klusczinski: And the petitioner is present, could you please state your name and address for the record? Dvorak: Sure, Ryan Dvorak 215 W Northshore Drive, along with my wife Angie Dvorak who's back there. Crumlish: I'm Brendan Crumlish with Studio B Architects. Klusczinski: You're entitled to a 15 minute presentation. Dvorak. We're just trying basically to restore it back to it's original appearance. We're in the first block of Northshore Drive and we're one of the few non-contributing houses because in the 1950's they took off the porch, added the siding. We're going to take it back to how it looked before that happened. We don't have extremely detailed picture of the porch, only those postcard views and so that's guided the design here. If we find more detailed images as we go we'll try to get it closer, but that's the best image that we can find of how the porch originally looked. Klusczinski: Any questions for the petitioner? Ujdak: Yes, bless you. Klusczinski: That wasn't a question! Ujdak: I commend you. Sassano: Is the new porch to be black? Crumlish: No, I bet that's 'brick'. Sassano: Yeah, you know I have to ask too because I love doing these projects and you always have to ask why they took it off. Any luck in figuring out why they took it off? Dvorak: You know, I don't know when they took it off they put in this white stone patio thing. They replaced the piers and I think that they just decided that it looked neater? I cant' really say. Crumlish: It rotted out. I'm pretty positive that that handrail up there wasn't flashed to the roof and it rotted out and the roof just leaked and eventually just degraded everything, the ceiling and then it was just demolition by neglect. Sassano: Yes, it had a flat roof. Crumlish: It appears to be or a very low slope. Dvorak: The back service porch or our mud room area has a flat metal roof with boxed gutters so I imagine that's what probably what the front porch originally had. We've put a 1/12 slope on this which is pretty close to flat. Klusczinski: Any other questions? Sassano: Can it be designed so that we can't see it? Crumlish: Oh, you're not going to be able to see the black there's quite a rise in elevation to this house, you won't see it...the roof and it's 1/12... Hostetler: There's steps that go down. Sassano: It's just that as you're walking down the sidewalk, as low as you can get it, I mean, obviously you want the water to, I mean you don't want the same problem again. Klusczinski: Any other questions? We'll move to Commission discussion. Thoughts, comments? Chase: It's nice to see a house restored. EL