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ALTERATIONS: <br />APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace 6 foot wood picket fence with same. Style will be <br />"4' Western Picket" by Schuell Fence Co. (See Attached A) Fence will be installed as <br />current fence with the "backside" toward the yard and the "front side" toward the alley. <br />DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: Per diagram provided (See attached B) <br />by the homeowners the new 4' Western Picket Fence will replace the current fence in the <br />same location. <br />STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: <br />B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES <br />This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly <br />shaped, of varying topography and with different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are <br />generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. Chapin <br />Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have <br />property -lines -on- Chapin -Place 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 <br />(visible from the street) as well as trees located in a yard or tree lawn which reflect the property's <br />history and development shall be retained. A tree located in such areas shall only be removed if <br />the removal is required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure or for <br />such other reason acceptable to the Historic Preservation Commission. Storm damaged or <br />diseased trees should then be replaced with an approved species at the same or approximate <br />location wherever possible. Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open <br />(meaning spaces between the pickets) and consistent with the historic character of a structure <br />enclosed. <br />Recommended <br />New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property <br />found in photographs, drawings and newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to <br />existing surrounding site elements in scale, type and appearance. Front yard areas should remain <br />open. (See above for information regarding fences.) Trees in close proximity to a building may <br />cause structural damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) <br />them at a more appropriate location as soon as planting season permits and upon approval of a <br />C of A. <br />Prohibited <br />No changes may be made to the appearance of the site by removing trees, fencing, walkways, <br />outbuildings or other elements before evaluating their importance to the property's history and <br />development Front yard areas shall not be transformed into parking lots nor paved nor <br />blacktopped, nor enclosed by solid fences, chain link, nor industrial/commercial style fences. <br />The installation of unsightly large devices, such as television satellite dishes, skylights or solar <br />panels, shall not be permitted in areas where they detract from the architecture of a building are <br />intrusive to the public view of the building or are highly visibly from a public street, or ruled <br />inappropriate after Commission review. <br />Utility poles with high- intensity overhead lights should be installed so that they cannot be seen <br />from a street. The Commission will evaluate all installations as well as any potential exceptions <br />resulting from special circumstances, before granting a C of A. <br />2 <br />