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I#/ STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: October 10. 2008 Application Number: 2008-1009B Property Location: 319 La Monte Terrace Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: QueenAnne/1907 Property Owner: John -Paul Augeri Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park N.R./ L.H.D. Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: 319 La Monte is a two storey frame house with an irregular floor plan on a brick foundation with a polygonal dormer along with front and side gables. The house has a wide soffit overhand with moulded cornice. There is a full front porch with moulded entablature and engaged square wood Doric supports at corners only set on brick piers. The house is situated on a narrow, shallow lot close to neighboring homes on either side. ALTERATIONS: The house has aluminum siding. There are replacement storm windows. The concrete front porch is not original to the house and has wrought irons railings and columns. The handrail for the front steps was installed"in 2007. APLICATION ITEMS: 1. A storage shed in the rear consisting of an 8 %2 x 11 foot wooden shed with aluminum siding (the house already has aluminum siding). 2. A wooden picket fence 4 feet tall along the east side of the property (wooden stockade fences already exist on the north and west side property lines). 3. A four foot wooded deck attached along the rear of the house with steps leading down_ each side. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: #1.The homeowner would like to install a ready to assemble shed in the rear of the house set on concrete block footings with a wooden floor. See photos #1 & 2. #2. To install a standard stock wooden picket fence along the side yard with the posts set in concrete. See site plan -right side. #3 To install a four foot wide wood deck along the rear of the house. The deck would butt up against the house; it would not be attached to the house. It will be made from standard stock pressure treated wood with stock railings around the deck and stock hand rails along the steps. See site plan and photographs #3-6 STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: I. THE ENVIRONMENT A. THE DISTRICT ENVIRONMENT The Chapin Park Local Historic District is a particularly fine residential area located close to downtown South Bend, the St. Joseph River, Memorial Hospital and Leeper Park. This section is meant to protect and guide appropriate maintenance of the common areas of the district (i.e. visual landscape and streetscapes). Required Brick streets contribute greatly to the character of the neighborhood. These streets have always been essentially passenger car thoroughfares. The appointments of the streets (i.e. lighting, curbs, horse hitches and monuments) should contribute as much as possible to their architectural, historic and residential character. Retention and maintenance of existing brick streets in the district is required. Repair work to fill