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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: September 5, 2008 Application Number: 2008-0903 Property Location: 605 Rex Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Gable -front/ c1905 or c 1899 Property Owner: Joan Downs Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The house is a gable -front one and a half storey structure with the original shingles in the gable and clapboard siding and corner boards. There is a full width screen enclosed porch with wood supports set on brick piers and rail with stone caps. There is wood and chain link fence along the side yard on the west and a stockade fence along the east side. See Photograph #1 ALTERATIONS: The 6/6 window in the front gable is a replacement window for the original two narrow 1/1 windows. The fences are not original to the house. APPLICATION ITEMS: Continue current fence around back of property to close off lot from the alley. See Exhibit A. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The Applicant wishes to enclose the lot along the alley and west side with fencing to match what is currently there. The current fence is a 4.5 foot chain link fence stretched between wooden supports. See Exhibit B and Photographs #2&3 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