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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: November 2, 2009 Application Number: 2009-1102A Property Location: 1307 East Wayne Street North Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Tudor Revival/1928/11.R.Stapp Property Owner: Pam and Jeff Bickel Landmark or District Designation: East Wayne Street Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The home at 1307 E. Wayne North has a 2 storey frame construction that is faced with brick and stucco with a rectangular plan. The house has a flared gabled roof with asbestos shingles, there is also a one storey gabled side section and a one storey flat rood section at the rear. There is a large front shed roof dormer; and front and rear gabled formers through the cornice. The windows are 6/1 double hung sash windows, there is a arched entry door with arched diamond-shaped multi -paned leaded glass side windows. ALTERATIONS: The screened -in front porch was noted as an addition on the August 1986 survey card. COA#2003-0109 Replaced 13 wood windows with Pella brand aluminum -clad wood windows: 3 double. hung windows on the east side, 1 double casement and 3 double hung on the west side and 6 rectangular double hung windows on the back of the house. Casement was replaced by a Pella casement window. Kitchen windows replaced to match windows in the rest of the home. Driveway replaced with solid drive way. APPLICATION ITEMS: Patio, seat wall, adjust slope of yard to drain away from the house, pergola. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT. The homeowners are installing a wooden cedar pergola at the kitchen entry at the rear of the house. The pergola is inset between 4x4 pillars which are set in concrete and is attached to the house under the slope of the roof. The pergola is not visible from the street. The home owners are also adding landscaping features in the backyard. They are changing the grade to slope away from the house and creating a patio with an outdoor living space that includes raised stone seating and a fire pit per drawing submitted. The patio and stone seating and fire pit are being created using UNILOCK Riverstone product line. The rest of the backyard lawn is landscaped with trees, shrubbery and boulders. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: East Wayne Street: B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING AND ACCESSORIES Individual properties in the district are characterized by a house located in the center of a flat lawn, often divided by a walk leading to the front entrance. Several of the residences are sited on two or more building lots; however, the preponderance of the homes have been erected on a single lot. Most of the properties include a double garage, usually located at the rear of the property. The majority of garages are accessed from straight driveways leading from the main thoroughfare, while a few are accessed from the alley. There are also a few homes with a covered carport located at the rear of the property, as well as a few with circular driveways. Driveway and sidewalk materials include concrete, asphalt and brick All of the properties have trees and most have trimmed shrubbery and/or hedges. Most of the houses conform to a uniform setback line within each block. Required Major landscaping items, fencing, walkways, private yard lights, signs (house numbers) and benches which reflect the property's history and development shall be retained. Dominant land contours shall be retained. Structures such as gazebos, patio decks, fixed barbecue pits, swimming pools, tennis courts, greenhouses, new walls, fountains, fixed garden furniture, trellises and other similar structures shall be compatible to the historic character of the site and the neighborhood and inconspicuous when viewed from a public walkway.