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Mike and Chris Neises 1043 Riverside Drive Project: Proposed Installation of garage door. Overview: Our current garage access is from the cross alley which runs along the northside of our property and accesses the garage from the east (front) side of the garage. This means that our back yard is currently open and our desire is to be able to close fence that off for multiple reasons. • Security – access to our backyard/rear home entrance from people walking through the cross alley is easy as the gate is open when we are in and out of the garage. The only way to limit is if we stop and close the gates whenever we come and go. This is at a minimum inconvenient and is difficult to do in inclement weather, especially when snow accumula- tion makes it difficult to open and close the gate. Safety – traffic on the cross alley, while not significant in volume, is a problem in terms of speed and proximity to our property as our home sits right on the alley and there is no lawn buffer. For the sake of ourselves and our young grandchildren, we want to be able to per- manently fence that side of the property. Privacy – with the current access on the cross alley both car and pedestrian traffic is liter- ally happening on the edge of our back yard. While most are courteous, some are not. Serviceability—current garage door configuration of single overhead door, and hinged sliding door, along with footprint of driveway only accommodates one vehicle being parked inside the garage. We are proposing: 1. Installation of a 14' wide garage door (Wayne Dalton – Lowes brand, Colonial Panel door without windows) on the back side of the garage which is 16' wide. 2. Proper building permits would be pulled and an appropriate wood header would be in- stalled to support the load of the hip roof. 3. The siding boards that would be removed from the back opening would be salvaged and used to side in the existing single car overhead garage door on the front of the garage. An entry door (salvaged from the front door of the house) would be framed into this opening. 4. The original sliding door (front left side of the garage) would remain untouched. 5. The concrete that is currently forms the driveway in our back yard would be broken up and removed. Topsoil will be brought in for planting grass and perennials. 6. Immediate plans would be to securely lock the chain link fence with longer term plans to incorporate wooden privacy fencing consistent with that along the back of the property.