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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: I August 2011 <br />Application Number: 201.1-0727A <br />Property Location: 420 LaMonte Teri-ace <br />Architectural Style[Date/Architect or Builder: Center Gable /.Remodeled 1907 <br />Property Owner: Alvin Wile)• <br />Landmark or District. esignation: Chapin Park <br />Rating: Not included in survey- <br />DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The house. is a two storey rectangular structure with <br />aluminum siding. The foundation is brick. There are metal awnings, aluminum storm windows. and <br />doors. The windows are 111 double hung. Asphalt singles are on the roof. Noted that it was part of the <br />Chapin/Fassnaclit Estate, perhaps part of the estate's Agricultural Buildings. There is a long, narrow brick <br />pathway to the front door. <br />AI,TERATjONS: Possibly repurposed as a residence. May have been moved to current location in <br />1907. All exterior treatments are not original. <br />APPLICATION ITEMS; Two decorative sections ofFrench Gothic Picket fence 4' high in front of <br />property. <br />DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowner proposes to install a four foot French <br />Gothic fence in front of his home. This will replace a decorative metal garden fence at that location. <br />STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: <br />;CIIAPIN PARK <br />B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES <br />This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly shaped, <br />of varying topography and with different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are generally behind <br />houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. Chapin Place presents a <br />unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines on Chapin Place <br />will be considered on a case-by-case basis. <br />Required <br />Fencing, walkways, outbuildings, private yard lights, signs (i.e. house numbers) and benches (visible <br />from the street) as well as trees located in a yard or tree lawn which reflect the property's history and <br />development shall be retained. A tree located in such areas shall only be removed if the removal is <br />required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure or for such other reason <br />acceptable to the Historic Preservation Commission. Storm damaged or diseased trees should then be <br />replaced with an approved species at the same or approximate location wherever possible. <br />Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open (meaning spaces between the <br />pickets) and consistent with the historic character of a structure enclosed. <br />Recommended <br />New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in <br />photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to existing <br />surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Front yard areas should remain open. (See <br />above for information regarding fences.) Trees in close proximity to a building may cause structural <br />damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) them at a more <br />appropriate location as soon as planting season permits and upon approval of a C of A. <br />Prohibited <br />