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STAFF REPORT <br />CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A <br />CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS <br />Date: 9 June 2020 <br />Application Number: 2020-0403 <br />Property Location: 1515 East Wayne Street <br />Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Colonial Revival / 1926 / H.R. <br />Stapp <br />Property Owner: James and Emilia Shaffer <br />Landmark or District Designation: East Wayne Street Historic District <br />#7796-87 <br />Rating: Contributing <br />DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The house at 1515 E. Wayne is a 2 storey frame construction set upon <br />an irregular floor plan. It has a gable roof with returns covered with asphalt shingles. The windows are 6/1 double <br />hung with louvered shutters. The entry is a single gable canopy with pedimented with arch under. <br />ALTERATIONS: <br />The house has aluminum siding and storm windows. There is a one storey east wing addition. There is a 2 story <br />gable roof rear wing addition that was built in 1930. COA#2006-1113 documents the replacement of 8 south facing <br />windows a one east second floor window with Crestline's Crestfit Vinyl Clad wood pocket replacement windows <br />6/1. COA 2009-0831A allowed for the replacement of 12 windows on the 1030 addition and two bathroom <br />windows with custom Crestline Crestfit Vinyl Clad wood pocket replacement windows. <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: “Fencing. (Installation of black chain link fence)” <br />DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The applicant has retroactively applied to install chain link <br />fencing: <br />1.Black chainlink fence encloses the side yard of 1515 East Wayne. <br />a.Dimensions: 42’ on the eastern edge, 57’ behind the bushes along East Wayne Street, and 21’ <br />connecting back to the house <br />This property includes lots 53 and 54 of the Sunnymede plot, as well as the 11’ of the East Side of Lot 55. <br />Prior to the erection of this fence, the Commission approved the removal of the chain link fence and tennis court at <br />1417 East Wayne Street in October of 2017. Many properties have privacy fences of various materials (including <br />chain link) enclosing rear yards. For example, 1402 East Wayne Street has a 4’ chain link fence visible from the <br />street enclosing the rear yard: it is unknown if this predates the establishment of the Local Historic District. <br />Three properties fail to comply with the Standards and Guidelines requirement that fencing not be forward of the <br />building setback: 1246 East Jefferson (chain link fence obscured by hedge along Sunnyside Avenue), 1102 East <br />Wayne Street (‘historic’ wrought iron fence atop a masonry embankment wall) and 304 Twyckenham Drive (two <br />rail 4’ ‘estate fence’). <br />STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: East Wayne Street Local Historic District Guidelines <br />I.THE ENVIRONMENT <br />A.THE DISTRICT ENVIRONMENT – The district is characterized by its proximity to downtown South Bend. It <br />encompasses several blocks of East Wayne Street, North and South, from Eddy Street east to Greenlawn and the south side of <br />Jefferson Boulevard from Eddy Street east to Sunnyside Avenue. The district is bounded on the north by Jefferson Boulevard <br />from Eddy Street to Sunnyside Avenue and then by the north property lines by the Wayne Street properties to Greenlawn. <br />The south boundary is the southern right of way of the alley or the southern property lines of East Wayne Street, South. <br />Unique features of the neighborhood include the island of homes between East Wayne Street North and East Wayne Street <br />South, the parks at each end of the island, and the brick pillars at the entrance way (Eddy Street) to the subdivision with <br />signage reading “Whitecomb and Keller’s Sunnymede.” <br />[…] <br />Required