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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: June 2, 2017 Application Number: 2017-0602A (Application delivered by property owner to Building Department on June 1, 2017) Property Location: 1240 West Thomas Street Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Period Revival/1920/Firehouse #4 Property Owner: Eric A. Boyd Landmark or District Designation: Local Landmark, ordinance #9037-99 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 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. COA 2016-0809 to construct shed roof over part of building, and second floor addition atop one-story brick portion at rear of building with vinyl siding and replacement windows was denied. APPLICATION ITEMS: Mono roof 4/12 pitch, rise west to east ending at center of building resting on ledger/East stud wall. Low profile mono roof resting south brick wall and interior brick wall. Open courtyard. DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: See COA 2016-0809, pending with the Building Department as a Violation of City Ordinance. Not in compliance with the Violation Remedy Requirements as ordered to be completed by March 13, 2017. Owner has constructed a 4/12 single sloping roof surface over part of, roughly one half, of the main -building, from the west exterior wall 30' east to a 10'11 wall built on existing brick interior wall, with a 1' overhang at west wall. Concrete floor of open courtyard is 6-8" lower than adjacent floor. Owner plans to utilize existing floor drain and lower floor height to manage accumulated moisture in the courtyard. This roof has been installed without COA. See report of structural inspection by Siqueira, LLC, submitted with this application. In summary, the inspection reveals inadequate joists spanning 17.5' running east -west at 16" oc, supported at masonry walls; roof level beam sag, exterior walls that lack bracing, trash pile in "courtyard", recommended provisions to dispose of snow and drain rain in "courtyard", multiple deficiencies in the framed mono - sloped roof at North West, and 2x4 joists spanning 10' that are insufficient. PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: n/a STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: Group B