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Attachment 1 1 Orange County HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION Meeting Summary May 23rd, 2018 Old Orange County Courthouse 106 W. King Street, Hillsborough ___________________________________________________________________________________ MEMBERS PRESENT: Dickinson, Ireland, Loter, Menius and Peck MEMBERS ABSENT: None STAFF PRESENT: Sandbeck GUESTS: Fred Stewart, Architect for Chatwood COA ITEM #1: CALL TO ORDER Chair Dickinson called the meeting to order at 6:32 pm. ITEM #2: CHANGES OR ADDITIONS TO AGENDA: None ITEM #3: APPROVAL OF MINUTES for April 25th, 2018 (Attachment 1): Peck noted one typo. Ireland moved to approve the minutes as corrected, seconded by Peck; motion approved. ITEM #4: ITEMS FOR DECISION: Chatwood Certificate of Appropriateness: Staff began by providing members with a detailed overview of the Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) process for the benefit of new members. Members were referred to the handout labelled “Certificate of Appropriateness Review Script.” The project architect, Fred Stewart, was present to represent the property owners, Frances and Ed Mayes. Staff explained that this was a public meeting and that letters had been sent to adjoining property owners within 500 feet. No property owners responded to the letter with any comments or questions. Staff gave a PowerPoint presentation showing location maps, site plans and historic and modern photos of the Chatwood property, along with the floor plan and elevation drawings depicting the proposed work. Staff described the proposed project work and reviewed how each work item meets or does not meet the official HPC Design Standards. Staff pointed out that the proposed work was approved by the HPC in 2014-15 so this is essentially a resubmittal of the same project with some refinements. The proposed project will consist of a bathroom addition at the east end, and a kitchen addition that will replace the existing 1950s shed room across the rear elevation of the Johnson wing of the house. Discussion followed. There was a consensus that in general, the project as proposed will meet the design standards. However, several members raised some concerns about changes to the windows on the 1845 wing. As proposed, the project will eliminate two original windows on the east wall of the 1845 wing, as part of the bathroom addition and conversion of that wing into a master bedroom suite. In addition, the project calls for removing the two original windows on the south wall, flanking the chimney, and replacing them with larger 9 over 9 windows. Discussion followed. The removal of the original windows and the enlargement of the south windows is not consistent with the design standards. Mr. Stewart reviewed the measurements on the architectural plans and determined that there was a solution, whereby the two windows from the east wall could be shifted to the rear or south wall, and placed to the east and west of the existing windows now flanking the chimney. The two original windows flanking the chimney can then remain in place unchanged and not replaced with