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Recommendations
DESIGN GUIDELINES NEW CONSTRUCTION
1. 1. Garages Repair and andmaintain other outbuildings historic fencing should materials, be located especially where castthey and were wrought-iron historically: fences. at the rear of properties, with access from alleys. Where no alley exists and access is by a driveway off the street, the garage should be set as far back as possible, Try to solveobscured privacy and needs with traditional wood or metal materials, as 2. preferably by security the house. well as through landscaping. Avoid masonry walls. 2. Most historic garages were frame with shallow-pitch hipped or gable roofs and In fencesiding construction, use traditional picket fencesbuilt are appropriate, as are 3. simple and details. Some newforms: garages are being with an 8/12 roofplain board (an fences (vertical nailedrun). side by side onthe parallel side yards, pitch 8-inch rise boards in a 12-inch Because 8/12stringers). pitch roofFor becomes very traditional wire fencing garage, is both available and appropriate, is simple large whenloop-top placed on a two-car any multiple-car garages as should haveiron flat fencingOther in historic designs. roofs. historic roof examples also provide a variety of appropriate design possibilities. 4. Wood fences should be painted or stained with an opaque stain compatible with the house’s colors and should not be left to weather. 3. /FX HBSBHFT BOE PVUCVJMEJOHT TIPVME iSFBEw BT TFDPOEBSZ TUSVDUVSFT BT UIFZ EJE in the past. Avoid large structures that overwhelm or compete with the house— Avoidroof inappropriate designs as house. chain link, stockade, shadow board, 5. keep ridges wellfence below thosesuch of the Consider a flat, sloping roofbasket [Photo 54] weave, and contemporary rather thanother a gable roof; avoid designs. mansards and other high roofs; and keep overall A garage that fits in as wellsmall with other Village architecture. It has a gable roof, a single-width door, and is dimensions as possible. designed in materials similar to those in historic place the front sideused of the fence garages. toward the street; the structural posts and 6. Always stringers be on the inside of the fence. 4. Use two should single garage doors rather than a single double door. This maintains the scale and rhythm of older structures, making even a two-car garage seem smaller Keepmore high modest. fencing at the rear of the property, with lower fences near the front of the 7. and lot. Avoid obscuring views of the building; consider holding the fence back somewhat from the street ornot sidewalk, and providing a small stripoutbuildings to soften the were visual 5. Build in frame, brick, because relatively few planting garages and impact the fence. A maximumsiding fence height of three to four feetbeveled along thewood street is of brick.ofThe most appropriate for garages is horizontal most appropriate; rearoutbuildings, yard fences should be adoors, maximum of six high. Stains and siding. Garages and and their should be feet painted. varnishes on doors are not appropriate. See drawing 21. 8. Remember that any fence over six feet in total height is considered to be a structure and will require a zoningrequires variance. 6. The zoning ordinance new residential construction on vacant lots to have two off-street parking spaces per unit, unless a variance is granted. Careful location of these spaces can ensure that the traditional streetscape pattern of dominant houses, and not garages, is maintained. Remember also that to construct a garage with an apartment above it, your building lot must be at least 6,000 square feet—9,000 square feet if your lot already has two living units on it. See the Zoning chapter.
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[Photo 55] This classic frame building could serve as a model for new garage construction in the Village.