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Memorializing City Council action taken on October 20, 2010, granting the appeal of Wayne Lundeen to install replacement windows at the property commonly known as 732 Margarett Street located in the City's Dayton's Bluff Historic District.
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WHEREAS, on or about August 11, 2010, Liberty Construction, Inc., on behalf of the owners [Wayne and Gail Lundeen] of that real property commonly known as 732 Margaret Street which is located in and therefore subject to the Citys Daytons Bluff Historic District ordinance, made application to the Heritage Preservation Commission (hereinafter the HPC) under HPC File No. 10-043 for a building permit to undertake work on the said premises including replacing windows on the third floor level, replacing windows in a stairway, altering a window opening and adding two windows to the west elevation gable; and
WHEREAS, on September 23, 2010, the HPC, having provided notice to the owners, duly conducted a public hearing on the said application where all interested parties were given an opportunity to be heard; and
WHEREAS, at the close of the hearing, the HPC, based upon the testimony, records, and the HPC Staff Report dated September 15, 2010, moved to both approve certain aspects of the application as well as deny other aspects of the application, and, particularly with respect to the denied aspects of the application, did so based upon the following findings of fact as set forth in the Staff Report which is incorporated herein by reference as follows:
"1. The property is considered pivotal to the character of the Daytons Bluff Historic District.
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2. Windows are considered a character defining architectural feature of a property. The removal of the original/early, wood, windows does not comply with the principle that states, the removal or alteration of distinctive architectural features should be avoided. Photographic evidence was not submitted that shows the level of deterioration requires replacement; howev...
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