Uh to this meeting of the historical and architectural review board uh for Wednesday, October 1st.

Uh first on the agenda is a call to order.

Uh second is the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands on nation under God, indivisible, liberty, and justice for all.

Okay.

Next on the agenda is the approval of meeting minutes for August 6.

Uh do I have a motion to approve?

So moved.

Second.

Approved.

All those in favor.

Aye.

Meeting minutes are approved.

Now we can get into the applications for board review.

First, we have HARB 2025-11, 323 Midland Avenue.

I think this is the third time for this one.

So if you'd like to come up, uh share the latest round of changes, um, specifically those details that are visible externally uh briefly, and then we'll discuss as needed.

So as you noted uh here for 323 Midland, uh under new owners, Allison and Christopher Colmer.

So previous two applications were under a previous owner.

Oh gotcha.

Okay.

Different architect, different owner, different project.

Um the uh proposed addition to the uh structure here is solely at the rear of the main uh massing of the existing uh dwelling.

Um proposed structure is two stories.

Uh first floor is going to be kitchen, mud room, and uh family room.

On the first sheet, you can kind of see the dark shaded area.

Oh, real quick, can you um put the plans on the table there and then we'll have the camera going?

Yeah, that way we can there you go.

And just yeah, just kind of walk through it as you're as you're describing it.

Thank you.

Uh so as mentioned, there's uh the proposed edition is at the rear of the main body of the house.

You can see kind of the the original rectangle of the house here, and then to the rear, the dark shaded area is the uh proposed increased uh footprint to the first floor level there.

Um the lighter shaded areas here and here are uh single-story open porches, and then the hatched area uh the diagonals is proposed second floor area there to the rear.

So matching the existing uh side yards on the right, and then conforming to the 25-foot requirement on the left-hand side, and uh the existing front of the home would remain as is untouched.

Moving to the next sheet, we look at the uh proposed rear elevation.

Um so uh if you're familiar with the home, um the front of the home is has basically uh one large gable coming off of a gambrel um kind of cross uh roof uh with two uh gable dormers coming off.

So we're trying to extend the second floor and first floor utilizing the same pitch of those front cables, which is about a 14 on 12, um, and extending those toward the rear, uh capturing that space above while also tying into the main massing of the two and a half story structure as it is now.

Uh so looking at the left side here, we've got the open porch here on here, um outdoor fireplace with a chimney extending up, stone on the base to match the existing house.

Uh first floor um is currently a mix of painted white clapboard and painted white stucco.

Uh we're choosing to build the clapboard.

I'm not sure.

It's a little bit of an anomaly on this house.

There's one on the front, uh, one side is stucco and the other side is clap board.

Um try to match that on the base, and then the sidewall shingles will be painted to match uh the existing as natural cedar.

Um all windows would match trim to match roofing would match, and then the proposal is on the porches to do more of a metal standing seam roofing on those units there.

Uh and then as well, you can see kind of the detailing um along here with the um in this case I'd probably do PVC brackets versus you know a wood bracket, but the intent is to match um the overall existing style of the home and try and make a uniform uh uh um aesthetic out of the condition here.

Um the dormer that sheds off of the main gambrel, the upper portion of the gambrel.

Currently it is uh shorter in here, kind of this triple window that you see noted as existing in here.

The proposal is to extend that across here, as with the second floor edition.

We're taking some windows out of the current stairway, so we'd be adding some windows into the interior stair to keep some natural lighting within that space there.

Uh the mud room basically stays in the location it is now, just kind of extending further back to allow for more kitchen and pantry area on the interior.

Um the left side elevation, uh, which faces.

You can kind of see the original massing of the Gambrel uh structure here, and then there is a slight step back in relief uh when we move from that massing into the proposed addition at the rear.

Uh so the proposal is to extend that roof line um above the second floor here, plated down at about six foot six to kind of bring down the scale closer to where the gambrel is plated just to make it feel a little bit uh smaller there, and then dormer out um the shed dormers as we need to for the space in the interior, and then hit the roof off for the patio on the grid.

There's a proposal here to put in an additional window here to balance out the elevation.

Currently there's nothing in that location.

Moving to the right side elevation, um the main section up front remains unchanged.

There was a previous elevator edition that was done at some point, um, which would remain untouched, and then the proposed edition here kind of gets tucked behind the um original massing of the house.

Uh materials all match as proposed.

Moving to page five, these are uh proposed renderings of the um rear corners, back right and left of the house.