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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A PR CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 17 April 2014 Application Number: 2014 -0414 �t1' PP Property Location: 724 Portage N" Architectural Style/Date /Architect or Builder: Free Classic 1897 Property Owner: Dustin Daily Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Rating: Contributing: Notable DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: As noted in the 2005 survey " This unusual Free Classic -style house showcases leaded glass windows and classical columns." The house is two storeys set upon an irregular plan brick foundation. The walls are wood clapboard with the large central second storey gabled dormer covered with wood shingles. This large hexagonal dormer with overhang is supported by two wood columns The Roofing is asphalt shingles. There is a full width front porch with decorative purlin brackets (A piece of timber laid horizontally on the principal rafters of a roof to support the common rafters on which the roof covering is laid.) at the fascia and four wood columns supports; there is also an articulated wood panel inset in the solid railing. The windows are 16/1 double hung; there are also leaded glass windows. The central front door has sidelights and wood entablature. ALTERATIONS: The roof is not original to the house. The 1979/1987 survey card noted 1/1 double hung windows, so some windows are replacements. Some of the doors may also be replacements. The rear porch and side entrance appear to be additions. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Install a picket fence around the front yard, a privacy fence along one side of the back yard, hand railings on the front porch stairs. STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: The homeowner wishes to install a 4 foot high French Gothic style cedar, spaced picket fence from the front set back of the porch on the south down the south alley side of the front yard across the Portage side of the front yard. This section will also include a gate with an arch at the front walkway. The fence will continue along the north property line on Leland and continue along the property line, turn toward the set back of the side porch and terminate. The homeowner proposes a 6 foot Spruce stockyard wood fence from where the proposed picket fence turns towards the set back of the side porch across the property line toward the alley way. Per diagram and product specifications submitted. The homeowner also proposes to install wood hand railings on each side of the existing front porch wood steps per drawing submitted. There are currently no railings. 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