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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: May 3, 2010 Application Number: 2010-0503D Property Location: 712 Forest Avenue Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Free Classic/ 1903/Ennis Auston, Architect Property Owner: Vittorio Hoslc Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Notable DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: Two storcy rectangular plan home set upon a concrete block. foundation. Wood clapboard siding on V storey. 2"" storcy is covered with wood shingles. Asphalt shingled gambrel roof with a curved slope over porch. Two upper dormers projecting from front, one gabled, one hipped. Front porch with grouped Doric wood columns supporting an entablature. Balustrade with spindles and moulded banister. Pent roof with moulded rake and knee brackets over north entrance. Windows are double hung. Projecting bay windows on North side. Hipped dormer windows have a diamond pane transom. Two small recessed windows in the attic. Gabled garage located at rear. ALTERATIONS: Aluminum storm windows and door. APPLICATION ITEMS: Remove existing picket fence and replace with privacy of similar material. Extend driveway fence from main house Southwest side to existing location. Add gate to Northwest alley side. Extend fence to include main house side entrance. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Homeowner would like to exchange the existing decorative wooden picket fence for a "dog car" wooden privacy fence because neighboring tenants dump litter into their yard. New fence placement will include an existing side entrance on the alley side for security, in which a gate will be installed to access the alley side door. New fence will extend fence on neighbor's driveway side approximately 25' to deter excessive litter; the fence and gate installation will be behind the setback of front porch. Both gates will be softened from street view by existing landscaping. The 6'x 14' alley entrance gate will be a residential sliding gate apparatus faced with the same pressure treated "dog car" style fencing to match the rest of the installation. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: Chapin Park: 1. THE .ENVIRONMENT 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 Fencing, 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 above for information regarding fences.) Trees in .