Report on Amendments to the Carrboro Land Use Ordinance for Implementation to the Facilitated Small Area Plan for Carrboro's Northern Study Area

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were placed on lots large enough to include a garden plot, SHARED OR COMMON ELEMENTS approximately 7,000 square feet. Simple, gable roofs, minimal decoration, and full, or nearly full, front porches, are typical Although the construction era for the four building styles spans features. Slightly more decorative elements are also found, nearly five decades, a number of characteristics are common to including triple-A gables with shingles and vents, and sawn all. These characteristics include construction materials and spandrels and chamfered porch posts. The main block usually practices, such as the use of wood for framing, sheathing, attd contains a center hall and two rooms, although one type does decoration. The structures were almost always balloon framed have a separate entry for each of the two rooms. and supported on masonry piers. MILL RousE, two-story—Dating to the same era are the two- Finished floor elevations are usually minimal, ranging from 18 story, mill houses. Including both the L-shaped houses, and to 24 inches. The building facades are characterized by the one-room deep versions, which typically included a one- balanced or ordered fenestration; with window and door story, rear ell. These structures are also of wood frame openings placed symmetrically and regularly spaced. Entry construction and served both as rental housing and private porches are commonly found with the main facade porch residences. Some of the larger structures were operated as spanning between 80 and 100 percent of the main facade. boarding houses for unmarried laborers. The one-room deep Exterior lighting is minimal. Garages and other accessory variety can be seen with or without the dormer. structures are detached and usually set back behind the lot's principal building. FouRSQuARE - The large spaces in the attics of these handsome houses provided extra space, primarily for families, Of the many architectural features, seven elements have been and most were privately built. Dating to the earliest decades of identified as necessary in order to achieve the objectives noted the twentieth century, these two- or three-room deep, center above. These elements include: hall plan, houses provide some variety in the Carrboro vernacular. These houses are found plain, or with gables or 1. Porches that span 80 percent of the front facade. dormers. Most have three-quarter,or full,front porches. 2. Roof characteristics, as follows: -Main roof pitch between 10/12 and 12/12 CRAnsmAN — The first of the four building types that can be -Lower roof pitch between 3/12 and 4/12 considered to represent a national style, rather than the local -Minimum roof overhang of 16 inches on all eaves and vernacular,these structures are found in wood, as well as brick gables. and stone. The one to one-and-a-half story structures were 3. Clapboard or shingle siding with a four and a half to a usually built as private residences. five and a half-inch exposure. 4. Windows shall have a vertical to horizontal proportion of not less than two to one. ...YERNACUl.1RARCf�7TsC7iIRAL STRNDARDS....................................................................................................................................................................P"12