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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 9 August 2016 Application Number: 2016-0809 Property Location: 1240 West Thomas Street Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Period Revival/1920/Firehouse #4 Property Owner: Eric Boyd Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark Rating: Outstanding DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: Firehouse #4 is a 2 -story rectangular brick building. It had a flat roof with limestone parapet coping, metal parapet scupper/cornice with brick brackets underneath and ornate limestone detailing at the ends. The windows are 1/1 double -hung with limestone sills. There is a brick side chimney, and a roof penthouse with hip roof. ALTERATIONS: Most of the windows in this former firehouse have been boarded up prior to a 2007 fire. RME 2011-1110 approved replacement of metal roof to secure the building and protect it from the elements, although there is no evidence it was ever installed. An asymmetrical gabled roof has been installed without an approved COA or Building Permit on approximately half of the main structure, as well as a second story addition and gabled roof on the rear of the building. Areas where large overhead garage doors were originally located have been covered with vinyl siding. Most window openings have been covered with plywood or vinyl siding. APPLICATION ITEMS: Roof, window replacement, apply for addition — siding vinyl and window replacement is long term. Current plan is to keep windows boarded for security reasons (2 replacement windows have been broken). Color of vinyl siding is brown. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: HPC Staff has worked with the current owner in recent years to support a tax abatement and rezoning petition. Although an RME was issued for a replacement roof in 2011, the details of what was actually installed were not presented at that time. Additionally, the Building Department has provided a statement that indicates the current roof configuration was not approved with a Building Permit and has ordered all work to stop until a formal submission and plan is set for the proposed work. This property was heard at a July 26, 2016 Code Enforcement hearing where a date of January 26, 2017 was given for Code compliance. Owner proposes a 4/12 shed roof be constructed over part of the main building, from the west exterior wall 30' east to a 10'H wall built on existing brick interior wall, with a 1' overhang at west wall. Second floor addition atop one-story brick portion at rear of building is to be vinyl sided to match existing brown vinyl siding used to fill garage door openings; replacement windows to be used to fill window openings in this addition. Existing windows in building are to be left boarded up for security reasons. Most of this work with the exception of the windows and vinyl in the rear addition have been installed without COA or Building Permit. PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: n/a