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REQUIRED <br />1...1 <br />New or different fencing requires a C of A and shall reflect the style and character of the individual property and the surrounding <br />environment and properties. <br />RECOMMENDED <br />The current or historic character of lawns should be preserved. Front yard areas, common lawns and tree lawns should remain open. <br />New or replacement trees should be compatible in variety with those presently growing. Vacant lots should be kept landscaped appropriately <br />while vacant, and may be used for recreational or residential development. <br />PROHIBITED <br />Existing relationships of buildings and their environments shall not be destroyed by widening existing streets, applying asphalt or other <br />bituminous coverings or by introducing new streets or parking lots. Signs, streetlights, benches, nese plant materials, fencing, walkways <br />and paving materials which are out of scale or inappropriate to the neighborhood may not be used. The erection of high walls or <br />barriers which would alter the relationship of the houses, shall be prohibited. Utility poles with high intensity overhead lights shall notbe <br />used on main thoroughfares. <br />B. BUILDING SITE, LANDSCAPING 8: ACCESSORIES <br />This section focuses on individual properties and amenities. Building sites tend to be irregularly shaped; of varying topography and with <br />different setbacks with regard to plots. Alleys are generally behind houses. Landscape accessories like fences are unique to each structure. <br />Chapin Place represents a unique situation within the district. Applications from properties that have property lines on Chapin Place will be <br />considered on a case-by-case basis. <br />REQUIRED: <br />Fencing, walkways, outbuildings, private yard lights, signs (i.e. house numbers) and benches (visible from the street) as well as trees <br />located in a yard or tree lawn which reflect the property's history and development shall be retained. <br />A tree located in such areas shall only be removed if the removal is required due to storm damage, disease, threatened damage to a structure <br />or for such other reason acceptable to the Historic Preservation Commission. Storm damaged or diseased trees should then be replaced with <br />an approved species at the same or approximate location wherever possible. <br />Fencing visible from the street in front of the structure shall be open (meaning spaces between the pickets) and consistent with the <br />historic character of a structure enclosed. <br />RECOMMENDED: <br />New site work should be based upon actual knowledge of the past appearance of the property found in photographs, drawings and <br />newspapers. New site work should also be appropriate to existing surrounding site elements in scale, type, and appearance. Front <br />yard areas should remain open (See above for information regarding fences.) Trees in close proximity to a building may cause structural <br />damage. Owners are encouraged to remove these trees and replace (or replant) them at a more appropriate location as soon as planting <br />season permits and upon approval of a C of A. <br />_STAFF RECOIUVIENDATION: Staff recommends approval based upon adherence to Building Department <br />requirements and Chapin Park Standards & Guidelines. Additional C of A rnay be required for removal of <br />groundcover and landscaping. <br />Written by <br />Adam Toering <br />Deputy Director <br />Approved by <br />Elicia Feasel <br />Executive Director <br />