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STAFF REPORT CON110ERN-111ING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 2, 2009 Application Number:, 2009-0601 Property 1;ocation: 809 Forest .Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: American Foursquare/1890 Property Owncr:'Elaine and Bobby INIever-Lee Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park LI- D Ratino: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The home is -it two storey with an irregular floor plan set upon a brick foundation. The roof is hipped with side gables and cornice returns and covered with asphalt shingles. The chimney is slightly offset with corbelled brick. The exterior walls are 4 1/2" wood clapboard with frieze and moulded cornice and corner boards There is aftill width front porch with .four slender turned spindle columns, a concrete floor and moulded cornice. The windows are 1/1 double hung with moulded entablatures. . ALTERATIONS: The rear porch was enclosed and a one storey addition built onto the rear of the house. A bay window was added to the, west side of the house. The barn noted in. the 1987. survey card has burned. There are aluminum storm windows and a new roof. The original wooden porch has been replaced by concrete—A second storey addition in the rear of the house was approved by the Commission in April, 2009. APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace rotting picket fence in front of side yard with new wooden picket fence 4' tall, and continue on south side of yard to attach to existing fence at -rear (on north) of yard. See Photographs 1-3. DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowners wish replace a rotting white picket fence along the front of the side yard with a new wood picket fence 49' ]oil(,, 4' high and then continue this wood picket fence on the south side of yard, 1.1' long 4' high to connect with existing wood fence oil rear and north sides. This would enclose the yard. (See Diagram A) The materials would be wood fencing, either treated or cedar in a. style compatible with immediate neighbors. This would be most likely spaced French Gothic just like the current front fence per attached Mertard's flyer. {See .Exhibit A) 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 arc unique to each structure. Chapin Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines oil Chapin Place will be considered on a case-by-case basis.