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The existing house is a one-story, wood framed vernacular bungalow house on brick piers with wood lap siding and a 5V Crimp metal roof. The house has a gable roof with a concrete block chimney, secondary hip roof structures, a rectangular plan type, and double hung 2 over 2 wood windows. According to the Florida Master Site File, the house contributes in scale and character to the Fifth Avenue neighborhood which has been evolving since the mid nineteenth century. The structure appears on the 1922 Sanborn map, and the site file indicates the house was constructed in 1903.
The applicant is proposing to remove the existing finished 75 square foot open rear porch and the 120 square foot conditioned rear home extension in the back of the house, as well as remove the wood siding on the contributing structure. The rear home extension includes the third bedroom. The project would add an addition of approximately 525 square feet of conditioned space to the rear of the house, in addition to 162 square feet of open rear porch. The addition would be one story wood frame construction on brick piers, which would include conditioned space with a butler’s pantry, a bedroom with a walk-in closet, and an unconditioned covered screened porch with a 5V Crimp metal roof to match the existing house. The project would also include adding cement fiber lap siding on the existing house, to be painted to match the existing paint color. The existing windows and coach light are being saved for re-installation into the new addition. The addition will be in the back of the existing house and not visible from the right-of-way, thus maintaining the appearance of the front of the house. Part of the existing 6 foot tall stockade style fence with dog eared pickets will be removed for the construction activity around the new addition and then reinstalled. A segment of new fencing will be installed on the east property line, adjacent to the new addition, which will match t...
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