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continued to use it as a rental property. The house has a brick foundation, and is a wood frame structure with wood clapboards and frieze. The roof is a medium pitch hip roof covered in asphalt shingles. The lot is irregularly shaped as shown in the aerial photograph and district map,(Figures 1 and 2) and sits on an elevated site above the St. Joseph River. ALTERATIONS: The 1998 survey card lists the home as "unaltered" and there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. C of A 2007-0604 was staff approved for the following: "repair cedar siding, rebuild wooden screens and storms, repair front porch roof, scrape and paint porch surface, repair porch, replace hand rails, extend gutters and downspouts; in kind repair and replacement of rear porch, replace rotting basement windows with aluminum of same style." APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace badly damaged wire fence that surrounds backyard only with 6' cedar fence of very good quality with two gates to make safe play area for child. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Removal of damaged metal fence that runs along north and south property line, intersected at the widest easterly line of the lot behind the home (Figure 3). Replacement with 6' high, dog eared, cedar fence (Figure 4), twice coated with weather resistant stain, placed along the exact same line as current. Please note that the manufacturer listed on Figure 3 is not necessarily that which the contractor, J.D. Holm and Sons, will choose to install- but is provided as reference only to illustrate the appearance of the fence. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING, & ACCESSORIES Those properties facing the river on Riverside Drive generally have sloping front lawns and flat back yards. The majority of structures have been erected on a single lot. Many of the properties include a garage located at the rear of the property accessed from unpaved alleys running behind the property The district has a compact layout. Large homes are constructed on small lots while smaller homes, such as those on Hammond Place, are constructed on narrow, deep lots. Little of the backyard areas or rear first stories of these homes is visible from the thoroughfare. In recognition of this, greater latitude will be allowed in the application of the adopted standards in the rear of the properties, in order to accommodate the individual preferences of the property owners in the treatment of these backyard areas. Required Plants, trees, fencing, walkways, private yard lights, signs (house numbers) and benches which reflect the properties' history and development shall be retained. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends approval as proposal conforms to the standards and guidelines of the River Bend Historic District.