Title
Pleasant Street Historic District. Application for Certificate of Appropriateness for new construction of a single-family residential house on an empty parcel. Application for modification of front setback. Located at 602 NW 2nd Street (B)
Petition HP-18-01. Thomas Hawkins and Sara Nash, owners. Application for Certificate of Appropriateness for new construction of a single-family residential house on an empty parcel. Application for modification of front setback. Located at 602 NW 2nd Street. The property will be non-contributing to the Pleasant Street Historic District.
Explanation
The property is located at 602 NW 2nd Street in a newly formed “minor subdivision” in Pleasant Street, with four empty lots. The applicant owns Lots C & D (parcel #14308-000-000). Lot D is approximately .08 acres and is located on the corner of NW 6th Avenue and NW 2nd Street; Lot C is approximately .07 acres and is located north of Lot D and south of an existing house. The applicant proposes to build a single-family residence on Lot D and use Lot C as a side yard. The proposed single-family dwelling will be a non-contributing structure to the Pleasant Street Historic District.
The applicant is requesting to build a new two-story, four-square style house facing NW 2nd Street. The house will be approximately 2,300 square feet, not including a porch on the front and a screened porch on the rear. The house will have a concrete block foundation, fiber-cement siding, wood-clad windows with 3/1 simulated-divided lights, wood doors and architectural shingles on the hip roof.
The property is zoned RC (Residential Conservation); refer to Exhibit 2 for the required setback chart. Setbacks for the house on Lot D are proposed and required as follows: Street Side 8’ (none required), Interior Side 5’ (5’ required), rear approximately 24’ (20’ required). The applicants are requesting a front setback/ porch encroachment modification of 2’, where a 10’ setback is required with an allowab...
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