one down, one to go
May. 20th, 2004 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaLast night we had our hearing in front of the city's Historic Preservation Board about the changes we want to make to our house. Since we're in the Historic District anything that has an impact on the exterior of the house needs approval.
Yay, they say we can tear down the little addition in the back and build the two-story addition we want!
Boo, they say we can't replace the front door and the big arched window, because they're important historic features. Even though they leak cold air really badly and are single-pane glass.
And somewhere in the middle is that they don't like propanel roofs because they're not historic, so even though we have propanel on the rest of the house they want us to research alternatives for the addition. But they might possibly let us get away with it, depending on what we find.
Next week, the meeting with the city appeals board so we can get variances, we hope, on not having two off-street parking spaces (heh) and on the lot-line requirements (the existing house violates the requirement - if we want to do something to the house, even if by itself it meets requirements, we need a variance). Woo.
Yay, they say we can tear down the little addition in the back and build the two-story addition we want!
Boo, they say we can't replace the front door and the big arched window, because they're important historic features. Even though they leak cold air really badly and are single-pane glass.
And somewhere in the middle is that they don't like propanel roofs because they're not historic, so even though we have propanel on the rest of the house they want us to research alternatives for the addition. But they might possibly let us get away with it, depending on what we find.
Next week, the meeting with the city appeals board so we can get variances, we hope, on not having two off-street parking spaces (heh) and on the lot-line requirements (the existing house violates the requirement - if we want to do something to the house, even if by itself it meets requirements, we need a variance). Woo.
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Date: 2004-05-23 09:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-23 10:26 pm (UTC)How interesting! I never heard the actual name of the style, even through the year of dating an urban-planner-in-training, which is where I learned about a lot of other house styles around here.
We've got a real (20-year-old!) tile roof. A full picture of the house is here (http://www.incoherentlywordy.com/gallery/) if you're inclined to take a peek. (It doesn't actually have "Dennis" scrawled on the wall, though, and the landscaping's grown up some.) I'm curious, since you mentioned an arched front window, how similar our two houses actually are. I seem to remember your kitchen looking a lot better laid out than mine.
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Date: 2004-05-23 11:33 pm (UTC)