2024_02_222-224 Court Square_BAR

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22-224 Court Square Feb 2024 (2-15-2024) 3 From The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings, 2017. Restoration (Page 166): Recreate Missing Features from the Restoration Period If documentary and physical evidence are not available to provide an accurate recreation of missing features, the treatment Rehabilitation might be a better overall approach to project work. Rehabilitation (Page 78): Design for the Replacement of Missing. [If] the missing feature is important to the historic character of the building, its replacement is always recommended in the Rehabilitation guidelines as the first, or preferred, course of action. If adequate documentary and physical evidence exists, the feature may be accurately reproduced. A second option in a rehabilitation treatment for replacing a missing feature, particularly when the available information about the feature is inadequate to permit an accurate reconstruction, is to design a new feature that is compatible with the overall historic character of the building. The new design should always take into account the size, scale, and material of the building itself and should be clearly differentiated from the authentic historic features. For properties that have changed over time, and where those changes have acquired significance, reestablishing missing historic features generally should not be undertaken if the missing features did not coexist with the features currently on the building. Juxtaposing historic features that did not exist concurrently will result in a false sense of the building’s history. ITS Interpreting. Number 4. Inappropriate Replacement Doors The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation, July 1999 In accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and the Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings, replacing a missing historic door with one that matches the historic door is preferrable if physical, pictorial, or photographic evidence exists to document its appearance. Absent that, the door may be replaced with a new unit that is compatible with the style and character of the historic building. Suggested Motion Approval: Having considered the standards set forth within the City Code, including the ADC District Design Guidelines, I move to find that the proposed entrance alterations [state options approved] at 222-224 Court Square satisfy the BAR’s criteria and are compatible with this property and other properties in the ADC District, and that the BAR [approves the request]. [approves the request with the following conditions: …] Denial: Having considered the standards set forth within the City Code, including the ADC District Design Guidelines, I move to find that the proposed entrance alterations [state options denied] at 222- 224 Court Square do not satisfy the BAR’s criteria and are not compatible with this property and other properties in the ADC District, and that for the following reasons the BAR denies the request. Criteria, Standards and Guidelines of the City Code, under Major Historic Review Review Criteria Generally Per Chapter 34, Div. 5.2.7. C.2: a. In considering a particular application the BAR will approve the application unless it finds: i. That the proposal does not meet specific standards set forth within this Section or applicable provisions of the City’s design guidelines; and