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STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: December 5, 2016. Application Number: 2016-1205 Property Location: 812 Golden Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: American Foursquare/1911 - Property Owner: Tim & Leticia Morris Landmark or District Designation: Riverside Drive LHD Rating: Contributing DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/ SITE: The 2 story frame house has a square plan and is set upon a concrete block foundation. It has a high hip roof with a gable projection on the main fagade and it is covered in asphalt shingles. The walls are aluminum sided. Some of the upper floor windows and the front fagade windows appear to be original 1/1 wood double -hung. All the windows have aluminum storms. There is an open porch with concrete block pillars and piers with wood Doric columns. The front door appears to be original. The house is situated on a very small wedge-shaped lot with a narrow front and side yard; the garage completely dominates the rear yard. ALTERATIONS: The house is aluminum sided and all windows have aluminum storms. The steel security door at the rear of the house is a replacement. The garage appears to be original. The storm door is not original. The south kitchen window has been reduced in size and replaced with a modern vinyl replacement window (1985). A south basement window has been replaced with a vinyl replacement window and the other south side basement window has a deteriorating aluminum storm and wood window. A window at the rear of the house has been removed and/or covered with aluminum siding (1985). The roof was replaced with COA 2007-0316. COA 2010-0802A for vinyl replacement windows was denied with the exception of the front third floor window, as it was determined by the Preservation Specialist that existing windows could be repaired and/or rehabilitated. COA 2016-1019 approved tear down of existing garage, and conditional approval of installation of a new wood deck and French doors (replacing windows) at back side of house; removal and replacement of existing wood windows was denied. APPLICATION ITEMS: Windows DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT. Owner proposes removal of seven existing first floor windows: four in living room to be replaced with Andersen 200 Series exterior vinyl -clad double -hung wood windows with Colonial "Grilles -Between -the Glass", and three in dining room to be replaced with P1yGem Contractor Series 2000 vinyl double -hung replacement windows. Reasons for replacement are to "increase energy efficiency and safety, and because windows are believed to have too many problems to justify the cost of repair." Andersen vinyl -clad wood windows were chosen for the front of the house, visible from the street; P1yGem vinyl windows for the dining room as they are not visible from the street and face the neighboring house, which is situated extremely close to this property. PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: I met with Tim Morris the owner of 812 Golden Ave at his address located in the Riverside Drive Local Historic District. I had received an email from Director Feasel in response to a call from Mr. Morris. We walked around the interior and exterior of the house discussing the condition of his existing windows and his plans to remodel the back yard and remove the extremely small garage.