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Request for a Certificate of Appropriateness - File No. PHDC2025-0003 - to construct a pergola at 6587 Cornerstone Ln., located on the north side of Cornerstone, west of Washington Rd., zoned R-1 One Family Residential, Parcel No. 15-01-326-010; Skyview Detroit, Applicant
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Resolved, that the Historic Districts Commission APPROVES the request for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the construction of a pergola at 6587 Cornerstone Lane in the Stoney Creek Historic District, Parcel Identification Number 70-15-01-326-010, with the following Findings and Conditions:
1) The property is in the Stoney Creek Historic District, the house is non-contributing to the district (non-historic), and the proposed pergola is compatible in massing, size, scale and materials with this part of the district;
2) The proposed pergola construction 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 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.