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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: April 30, 2010 Application Number: 2010-0414 Property Location: 902 Leland Architectural Style[Date: Gabled-ell/1900 Property Owner: Santos Fernandez District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: 902 is a one and a half storey gabled -ell duplex set on a brick foundation. The walls are covered with Insul-brick the windows are 1/1 double hung with a frontwindow 18/1 with shutters with a cut out design. The porch is enclosed with a full pediment over the door and brick biers. The gabled roof with gable returns has asphalt shingles. . ALTERATIONS: The Insul .Brick was applied to the wood siding in the 1940s. The storm doors and windows are aluminum. The three car wooden garage at the rear of the house has been demolished. The porch had some modifications completed in 1951. APPLICATION ITEMS: Would like to build a post fence around the back yard with a loop chain through each treated post. This will also prevent cars driving through lawn. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The owner wishes to install a post fence composed of green treated lumber 4"x4" posts set into the ground with concrete around the perimeter of the rear yard along the alleyway and property line. Each 4'-5' post will have a reflector attached. To enclose the yard the posts will have coated metal chain looped through holes drilled into them per drawing attached. 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 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, Stone 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 close proximity to a building may cause structural damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) them at a more appropriate location as soon as planting season permits and upon approval of a C of A.