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4 STAFF REPORT CONCERNING APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS Date: 1 l October 2017 Application Number: 2017-1002D Property Location: _ 815 Leland Avenue Architectural Style/Date/Architect or Builder: Gabled -ell / 1900 Property Owner: Ailian and Emily Dean Landmark or District Designation: Chapin Park Local and National Historic District, Ordinance 49574-05 Rating: Contributina DESCRIPTION OF STRUCTURE/SITE: The 2 story irregular frame house sets upon a brick foundation facing east onto Leland Avenue. Roof is pyramidal with gables, a simple cornice, and asphalt shingles. The porch is house -width with brick piers, railings, and a simple fascia. The windows are 1/1 wood double hung with molded entabulatures. An oval window with wedge-shaped brackets faces the street on the second story. ALTERATIONS: CoA #2013-0924 called for repointing "brick with line patty; replace brick in-kind and replace wood siding in the rear." APPLICATION ITEMS: "Put up privacy fence around the side and rear yard." Additional information from attached sheet: "Install 118 linear feet of 6 foot high AC2 pressure treated wood privacy fence with 1 each tip to 48" dog eared pickets. I each 8 foot double picket gate in front 15 foot fence line over sidewalk by house. Pickets on rear fence line will have to be pickets "in", balance of fence, pickets out, Pickets to be 1" x 6" x 72" dog eared, sections to be no more than 8 feet wide with 3 each 2"x 4" x 8' stringers per section. Posts to be 4"x 4" x 8', all posts cemented at least 2 feet in ground. We build our wood fencing on site and do not use prefab sections. Customer responsible for clearing obstacles from fence line such as trees, stumps, shrubs, etc., and for locating and marking any buried electric gas lines, septic systems, sprinklers, etc., not covered by normal utility locate services prior to work beginning." See schematic (not to scale). DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECT: installation of fencing to enclose the side and rear yard, including connecting between existing garage and outbuildings. Per phone clarification from contractor Bruce Gustafson on October 12", fence portion facing the street to be hand -trade 4' picket fence with 2" spacing. This span will also include an 8' gate to allow access to yard, and will be set 25' back from the sidewalk (per the building department, fences closer to the lot line than 25' are required to be no higher than 3'). All remaining "rear" portions will be 6' privacy fence. Portions of this fence will be `pickets our' (the south wall), while western wall will be `pickets in' because of proximity to neighbors existing fencing. A 6' high gate connecting the house to the garage will also be added (estimated to be 30-40" in length by Gustafson). Per contractor's job proposal, "clearing obstacles" may require clarification, as there is groundcover and landscaping in the vicinity of the proposed work — most visibly the tree/shrub at the front of the property in the proposed 4' picket fence area. PRESERVATION SPECIALIST REPORT: N/A STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES: C:HAPIN PARK I. THE ENVIROXMENT A. THE DISTRICT ENVIRONMENT The Chapin Park Local t tistoric District is a particularl}y tine residential area located close to dov ntoNi n South Bend, the St. Joseph Ricer. Memorial Hospital and Leper Park. This section is meant to protect and guide appropriate tmintenance of the common arras of the district (i.e. visual landscape and streetwapes).