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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: ,lune 10, 2010 Application Number: 2010-0602 Property Location: 849 Forest Avenue Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Gabled-ell/1898A925 remodel Ernest Young Property Owner: Joan Downs and Brian Krostenko Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Notable DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The house has two storeys and is set on an irregular stone foundation. The exterior walls are wood clapboard with corner boards. The roof has a steeply pitched front gable, asphalt shingles; there are also shed roof dormers that contribute to the varying and projecting roofline. There are two small entry porches at either side of the center wing, the roofs are an extension of the wing roof with wood square piers at the corners. The windows are 4/1 double hung with simple lintels. There is a single leaf wood panel front door. There are brick steps and porch floors. There is a two car garage in the back. ALTERATIONS: The body of the house appears to be unaltered. The roof was replaced with COA42005-0721.-2. A garage door was installed and the flatwork, retaining wall and a fence around the yard were repaired and re -worked with COA#0403-2006. APPLICATION ITEMS: The original fence of wood recently fell down (it had been in poor repair far 8 years). 1. would like to replace it with a 6 foot metal fence which has decorative finials and allows light into the garden and views to the alley. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeo«Hier wishes to replace a wood fence and install a 6 foot black aluminum fence along the rear of the property along the alley on either side of the garage. Please refer to product information and site plan attached. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: CHAPIN PARK 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 Fencirig, 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 (meaning spaces between the pickets) and consistent with the historic character of a structure enclosed. Recommended New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Front yard areas should remain open. (See