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Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness - City File No. 21-001 - to construct a senior living building on the east portion of the lot, with new parking, drives and landscaping on the entire 10-acre parcel at 3861 S. Adams (site of the a.k.a. Lorna Stone House), zoned R-4 One Family Residential with an FB-1 Flexible Business Overlay, Parcel No. 15-31-301-011, Priya Living, Applicant
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MOTION by Janulis, seconded by Tischer in the matter of File No. HDC 21-001, that the Historic Districts Commission APPROVES the request for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the reconstruction, widening, and lengthening of the existing driveway and driveway cut to Adams Road; stabilization of the existing house including installation of approved windows and doors; new gravel pathway, lawn and gardens around the house; construction of a two-story tall 110,079 square foot living facility with circulation driveway and parking areas as proposed for the single-resource historic district located at 3861 South Adams Road, Parcel Identification Number 15-31-301-011, with the following findings and conditions:
1. The property is a single resource historic district, the proposed reconstruction, widening, and lengthening of the existing driveway and driveway cut to Adams Road; stabilization of the existing house including installation of approved windows and doors; new gravel pathway, lawn and gardens around the house; construction of a two-story tall 110,079 square foot living facility with circulation driveway and parking areas does not appear to destroy any character defining features of the property.
2. The materials and design for the driveway gate at Adams and final building and site design must be submitted for approval by staff.
3. The proposed reconstruction, widening, and lengthening of the existing driveway and driveway cut to Adams Road; stabilization of the existing house including installation of approved windows and doors; new gravel pathway, lawn and gardens around the house; construction of a two-story tall 110,079 square foot living facility with circulation driveway and parking areas are in keeping with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standard for Rehabilitation and Guidelines, in particular, standards 2, 9 and 10 as follows:
2) The historic character of a property will be retained and preserved. The removal of distinctive materials or alteration of features, spaces, and spatial relationships that characterize a property will be avoided.
9) New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction will not destroy historic materials, features, and spatial relationships that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and will be compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.
10) New additions and adjacent or related new construction will be undertaken in a such a manner that, if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.