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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: Application Number: - Property Location: Architectural Style/Date: Property Owner: District Designation: Rating: June 2, 2009 -2009-0601 -- - - 809 Forest American Foursquare/1890 Elaine and Bobby Meyer -Lee Chapin Park LHD Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The home is a two storey with an irregular floor plan set upon a brick foundation. The roof is hipped with side gables and cornice returns and covered with asphalt shingles. The chimney is slightly offset with corbelled brick. The exterior walls are 4 1/2" wood clapboard with frieze and molded cornice and corner boards there is a full width front porch with four slender turned spindle columns, a concrete floor and molded cornice. The windows are 1/1 double hung with molded entablatures. ALTERATIONS: The rear porch was enclosed and a one storey addition built onto the rear of the house. A bay window was added to the west side of the house. The barn noted in the 1987 survey card has burned: There are aluminum storm windows and a new roof. The original wooden porch has been replaced by concrete. A second storey addition in the rear of the house was approved by the Commission in April, 2009. APPLICATION ITEMS: Replace rotting picket fence in front of side yard with new wooden picket fence 4' tall, and continue on south side of yard to attach to existing fence at rear (on north) of yard. See Photographs 1-3. DISCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: The homeowners wish replace a rotting white picket fence along the front of the side yard with a new wood picket fence 49' long, 4' high and then continue this wood picket fence on the south side of yard, 11' long 4' high to connect with existing wood fence on rear and north sides. This would enclose the yard. (See Diagram A) The materials would be wood fencing, either treated or cedar in a style compatible with immediate neighbors. This would be most likely spaced French Gothic just like the current front fence per attached Menard's flyer. (See Exhibit A) STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING & ACCESSORIES This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly shaped, of varying topography and with different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. Chapin Place presents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines on Chapin Place will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Required Fencing, walkways, outbuildings, private yard lights, signs (i.e. house numbers) and benches (visible from the street) as well as trees located in a yard or tree lawn which reflects the