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Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness - File No. PHDC2025-0005 - to construct a storage building for Yates Cider Mill at 1950 E. Avon Rd., located on the south side of Avon and west of Dequindre, zoned NB Neighborhood Business with the MR Mixed Residential Overlay, Parcel No. 15-13-427-002; Mike Titus, Yates Cider Mill, Applicant
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Resolved, in the matter of File No. PHDC2025-0002, that the Historic Districts Commission APPROVES the request for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the construction of a storage building and related parking lot and landscaping changes at 1950 E. Avon Road, Parcel Identification Number 70-15-13-427-002, with the following Findings and Conditions:
1) The Yates Cider Mill Historic District is a non-contiguous historic district; and
2) The proposed construction of the storage building and associated parking lot expansion and site changes ARE appropriate in materials, massing, size, location, and scale; and
3) The proposed project DOES NOT destroy any historic or character defining features of the historic district; and
4) The proposed construction of the new storage building and associated landscape changes as proposed IS in keeping with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines, in particular standard numbers 9 and 10 as follows:
9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.
10. New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner that if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.