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B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES <br />This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly shaped, of varying topography and with <br />• different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each <br />structure. Chapin Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines on Chapin Park <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 from the street) as well as trees <br />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 <br />only be removed if the removal is required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure or for such other reason acceptable <br />to the Historic Preservation Commission. Storm damage or diseased trees should then be replaced with an approved species at the same or <br />approximate location wherever possible. Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open (meaning spaces between <br />the 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 photographs, drawings and <br />newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Front <br />yard areas should remain open. (See above for information regarding fences.) Trees in close proximity to a building may cause <br />structural damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) them at a more appropriate location as soon as <br />planting season permits and upon approval of a C of A. <br />Prohibited <br />No changes may be made to the appearance of the site by removing trees, fencing, walkways, outbuildings or other elements before <br />evaluating their importance to the property's history and development. Front yard areas shall not be transformed into parking lots <br />nor paved nor blacktopped, nor enclosed by solid fences, chain link, nor industrial I commercial style fences. <br />The installation of unsightly large devices, such as television satellite dishes, skylights or solar panels, shall not be permitted in areas where <br />they detract from the architecture of a building, are intrusive to the public view of the building or are highly visible from a public street, or <br />ruled inappropriate after Commission review. <br />Utility poles with high-intensity overhead lights should be installed so that they cannot be seen from a street. The Commission will evaluate <br />all installations as well as any potential exceptions resulting from special circumstances, before granting a C of A. <br />• STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The proposed fence is recommended for approval. <br />Written by <br />Elicia Feasel <br />Historic Preservation Administrator <br />0 <br />