COA APPLICATION #2020-0302: NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORIC SOCIETY INC. V. SOUTH BEND HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

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8. Consideration for removal of existing healthy vegetation materials and features will be given when it is in conflict with the original design intent of the landscape, such as when an important vista has become overgrown or when plants have grown out of scale with their intended purpose. 9. Maintenance of, removal of, and additions of vegetation materials and features should consider maintaining existing or intended vistas and spaces, screening intrusions, creating new spaces where appropriate and maintaining defined areas of shade and sun. 10. Invasive vegetation shall be removed whenever technically feasible and shall be replaced with appropriate vegetation consistent with the original design of the park and with current factors such as security, ecological conditions, and wildlife management practices. 11. Hazardous plants or portions of plants should be removed promptly. 12. Plants with diseases that are difficult or not practical to control or cure should be removed promptly to prevent their infection of other plants. 13. Mutilated or distorted plants should be removed. 14. Plant replacements should be added on a schedule that will insure a continuity in the landscape design. 15. Existing vegetation shall be protected adjacent construction activities by fencing the root system prior to the start of construction. 16. Future plantings of the main floral garden in the central section of the park shall be guided by the design of the main floral garden as laid out by George Kessler in 1912. 9.5 Circulation (includes Roads, Paths, Parkways, Drives, Trials, Walks, etc.) Refer to Sections 9.2, 9.5, 9.6, 9.8, 9.9 and 9.10 for additional Standards and Criteria that may apply. 1. The following shall be preserved: Riverside Drive, Lafayette Boulevard, Park Lane (Foote Street), Bartlett Street, the Alleyway east of Michigan Street running north from Bartlett Street, all sidewalks, curbs, pathways around the duck pond (west lagoon), stairways, pathways in and around the Sunken Garden, and the footbridge from the mainland to the island. Alteration or addition of Roads, Paths, Parkways, Trails, Walks, etc. shall be based upon physical or historical documentation of these items as they existed from 1910 to 1940. 2. Original or later contributing layouts of walks, roads, and paved areas shall be maintained. 3. Alteration of existing or addition of new circulation layouts will be considered if it can be shown that better site circulation is necessary and that the alteration does not alter the basic concept of the historic landscape design. 4. When replacement of circulation layouts is necessary, it should be based on physical or documentary evidence. 5. Original or later contributing circulation materials and features shall be retained and, if necessary, repaired by patching, piecing -in or reinforcing the material or feature using recognized preservation methods.