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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 22 April 2013 Application Number: 2013-0422B Property Location: 626 Portage Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: 1899/Parapet Front/Commercial Building Property Owner: Michael Malesa Janovic Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Non Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The building is a one storey commercial structure with a rectangular plan. The foundation is concrete, exterior walls are brick with vertical siding applied to the front. The roof is flat with -a stepped parapet in front. There is a projecting cornice that spans the front fagade. ALTERATIONS: Vertical vinyl siding applied to front, solid panel replacement doorin front front- windows removed and covered with siding. APPLICATION ITEMS: Brick walkway 3' wide to allow access to gate on fence at north east corner at side of building. Fagade to include: three 46"W X 76" H windows, One glass 36" wide glass door; hardy board siding around windows and door, pattern to be determined. Signage to include South Bend Drum Company, Music Exchange, Mendoza's Clarinets (as per drawing); Security bars to be added across windows, two horizontal and six vertical 314" square stock construction welded with brackets raised 2" from building and anchored to building. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Beginning at the top of the building: the owner was advised by the building department that his initial proposal did not meet Code and has modified the signage on the parapet to one 33" X 74" South Bend Drum Company sign. The windows and doors will be installed but for security urposes standard vertical wrought iron fencing will be installed across the openings. The signs for the two other usinesses will be placed in the windows. Also removing all vinyl siding on front facade. All per diagrams binitted. 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 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 ba 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 lbove for information regarding fences.) Trees in close proximity to a building .may cause structural arnage. 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. Prohibited No changes may be made to the appearance of the site by removing trees, fencing, walkways, outbuildings or other elements before evaluating their importance to the property's history and development. Front yard areas shall not be transformed into parking lots nor paved nor blacktopped,