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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: April 6, 2009 Application Number: 2009 -0403 Property Location: 614 Portage Avenue Architectural Style/Date /Architect or Builder: American Four Square -Free Classic/1900/ Remodeled 1928 Property Owner: Liz Dube and Faith Patterson Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park LHD Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: This is a two storey clapboard American Foursquare set upon a brick foundation. The house has a steep hip roof with front dormer -- - -- with wood shingle siding with 6 light side by side windows. There is a full width front porch paired with square supports on brick piers, with wood balustrade and square balusters and lattice work around the bottom of the porch. The font of the house has large bay windows with 2/2 double hung and 1/1 wood lintels. The front door has a wood lintel. ALTERATIONS: APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace 6 foot wood picket fence with same. Style will be "4' Western Picket" by Schuell Fence Co. (See Attached A) Fence will be installed as current fence with the "backside" toward the yard and the "front side" toward the alley. DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Per diagram provided (See attached B) by the homeowners the new 4' Western Picket Fence will replace the current fence in the same location. 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