City of Aiken, SC Design Review Board Meetings, 2 Aug 2016

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Watch the Aiken Design Review Board Meeting from Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.

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Our August meeting of the design review board we have gone with us tonight is our acting secretary again and in just a few minutes we'll have the applications will have gone, read those at which time you can come up to the lectern here in the center and give us your name and address and anything you'd like to add to the application.

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In the meantime, our board is reviewing the minutes for our July meeting and then in a book will have a motion in the next few minutes regarding approval or changes to those minutes.

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Second think it's brutal.

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Written okay, thank you. Good I have a motion to approve the minutes for the work session and the regular meeting for July. Fifth, as as written all in favor, raise your right hand. Okay minutes are approved and then I'll ask Vaughn will go ahead and introduce the first application.

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First item is an application from Laura Callahan Morhaime avenue southwest the application is for the placement of a gazebo in the rear yard of the subject property. This is up to 14 foot diameter. Victorian-Style gazebo post be located along the western property line, approximately 10 feet from the side property line and approximately 60 feet south of the rear property line.

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The proposed location, the gazebo, will be visible from both paint, Avenue and lancaster street, and this was discussed with the board at its june seventh workshop prior to that regular meeting. So there are pictures and location map included good.

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Thank you and our applicant is here tonight, I believe if you could come to this Center lectern and and and give us your name and address, please Laura.

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Callahan 704 hain, avenue southwest k.

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South carolina, great and and actually you've been to the work session before.

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And we've actually discussed it in in a good bit of detail and you still are trying to set about the 12 or 14 foot I.

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I think I've decided on the 14 I'm just trying to get a manageable price. Yeah.

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Victorian, all the Victorian you know style is raises the price of thirty percent yeah. But that's my problem. That's not your problem. Sure.

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hmm I think that do you all have questions about I think we we discussed it in. You know a bit of detail last time the materialism I.

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Have a question for the board: okay, um get approved and I did I think a pretty good job of making it look kind of Victorian of it little Victorian shed. um The board allowed me to put it on closer to the fence by the Kombi center. There wasn't an issue about that. They want.

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They were very strict about getting it a certain footage from Lancaster, in fact, so strict that I had to move the shed over five feet, I'm, hoping that the same is true on this gazebo and maybe I could squeeze the fence, maybe six feet away from the fence or seven feet away from the fence, because sharon brown actually has her buildings very close to the fence, so I'm hoping that I can move it a little closer to the fence. With with the approval of the board.

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I, don't want it on the fence. I want to be able to plant behind it, but given that our yard is very long, narrow and I'm trying to make it look, so it's not going to be in your face on the driveway move. It back just a little bit also so it's aesthetically better now.

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There's some point: you'll probably go to the building inspections department because you're doing some construction there.

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Well, I'm, actually thinking about hiring a company who will build it in their factory and if I put the footings in they'll, just plop it on the footings.

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Right but I think you'll that.

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Requires a building permit anything with the dimension of greater than 12 feet has to have a permit.

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Okay and I'm not sure our board would would have a problem with I mean we did talked last time about not getting it too close to the fence and that's probably where the ten-foot came. I'm.

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Talking maybe six feet, yeah.

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I would I would review it with building inspections. It would.

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Likely not meet the set back from.

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The work they have story straight and it's not our it's not really out of design review. It's from the building inspections department that.

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Setback with the property line on the compy center side, yeah.

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How big was that shed.

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I think it's eight by ten or eight or ten by twelve or something so.

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It was exempt from or.

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Eight idea, yes,.

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It was probably exempt from building permitting regulation.

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Anything you're pouring concrete obvious.

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We do not send your blocks, yeah yeah,.

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But anything you're doing this relatively permanent involves a contractors and crews, and all you know I would just be safe and run it through building inspections, they're just right down the hall. Okay.

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Fact Mike Jordan is our is the acting planning director mike jordan are others in there. It's just it's just part of the mom okay building permit process. Okay,.

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Now the other, otherwise, you know we've seen it the materials were the. Is it actual wood or is it boy.

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That's the other part of the expense, that's part of the other part of the expense yeah.

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All turn would cut out right.

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Ok, ok I will go ahead and sit there any others. You would like to speak. You've been through this before many times. I know, I, don't think we have anyone else, but we have to still invite anyone who might have a comment procon regarding this gazebo on hain, Avenue you're. Welcome to do that. I, don't believe, will have anybody here who wants to come in. So would someone like to make a motion? Mr.

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Chairman with respect to application, 16 dash 052 and make a motion that we accept it, as is all.

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Right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna it for the benefit of the applicant, I'm going to say that it! If, if the, if you, if you're willing to accept this, if the plant, if the inspections department allows it to go closer within six feet of the fence, that we would not have a problem with that, yeah.

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That's a little different what's written, and that gives you some flexibility, but they'll have the final say: okay set, that's the modified, but I don't know if had a second yeah. Second, all right got two seconds: okay, okay, any other discussion.

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Is a firm that it's a 14-foot versus a 12-foot? Okay, good good enough? We need to give her an option.

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And yes, for the record you're talking about the cedar shakes on the roof, which is it appears to be cedar, but it doesn't note that anywhere so I think fiberglass shingles would be no problem.

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Okay, now we've got a motion. Second, all in favor of the application with that modification raise your right hand, alrighty good. Well. Thank you.

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Alright, mr. secretary next.

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Application is number 17 dash, 2003 applicant Daniel sertic at three thirty five, forty street southeast, the applicant is proposing a requesting approval to construct a new single-family dwelling on the subject. Property is currently a vacant lot that was formed by the subdivision of another lot that ran through from college and Avenue back on Tori street.

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This is a two-story dwelling proposed contemporary design with features evocative of traditional southern Lowcountry architecture, hip roofs with dormers, deep front porch columns along the length, the front of the house support exposed, brick piers, seven foot tall for over four windows, with transoms on the main portion of the front of the house to brick chimneys and a small separated master suite with the vestibule connecting it to the main portion of the house. It's going to be clad in a neutral colored.

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We heard gray five to six inch, hardiplank exterior siding and with the windows having fully functional plantation shutters and an asphalt primarily asphalt, shingle roof. Okay,.

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Alrighty and if you please give us your name and address yes,.

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Danielle sir tech, 335 or e street southeast okay.

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Good, thank you. We had a couple of possible changes that we discussed in the work session. That I think you said you all might consider that would need to be added into a motion, but just to help us word. The motion: are you thinking that you might do the standing seam roof on the front? Porch? Yes,.

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I think that would be a good consideration to add to.

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Character of the whole oak.

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Would definitely take that in.

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All right: well, then, when we make the motion we can, we can include that that would be one I think. Maybe that was the only only change all there was some discussion about potentially a rail which I know you don't have a design for now and don't even have the rail, but if you decided you wanted to add a decorative rail, then I think that would be another part of our emotion that we'd allow you to come back with it.

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If you want to have a rail, if you don't have a rail, don't have to come back, but you want to add a decorative rail on the front that same front porch. Then then, we'll probably include that in our motion that you'll be able to do that administrative leave that makes sense. Okay, then.

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Don't leave in a.

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You are saying: they're standing, seam, metal, roofs and then agricultural yeah.

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Roof yeah you're.

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You're focused on a standing seam group and that aspect.

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Probably yeah that.

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We actually discussed that when we walked around the corner of what kind of metal would you do an Ag Day? That's.

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Lie to be clear on yeah, that's pertinent comment, I think with the quality of this house.

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You would want to go with a with a architectural type metal panel, metal roof and and not the the old-fashioned barn mari metal. You know, and it's a it's a little more expensive, but you don't have a huge area like we discussed before there aren't all right, there aren't valleys or clear. That's right, I think I think so you know just in and you've got some working shutters and things like that.

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Yeah, that's a good question: they all have questions of the applicant. We it helped for you all to be in the work session. Appreciate you coming early for.

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I, don't think there was any other thing that maybe we needed to talk about you you, you may want to what we'll do if you decide not to do the plain concrete drive and you may since you're doing brick for the walk, you might decide to do a little brick edging around the concrete, and you know even every 12 feet or something crossways. You need to have joints anyway on the keywords.

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You need to have joints in your concrete for sure, so that'd be nothing that they could. They could allow you to do if you thought you might change that. Yeah.

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I think it would be good as on actually once we get the frame up and get everything moving.

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There are a couple changes we'd like to come back to the board, but just the money, details ID for speaking.

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Okay, all right, but those would probably be administrative changes. Not they were there to come.

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Out that meeting better yeah seriously, it's they don't change. You know if I have something that we want. If.

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You decide to make the brick the house out of brick or something no.

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We had another wing on the other side or a third floor. You need to come back here. We.

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Can do that, but yeah I mean I think that obviously in building a home you're going to be making changes here and there, as you make the fine tune. Yeah.

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If we do have some things like the brick on lay a lot.

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Of times the windows sometimes changed to so that could be probably administrative, ok,.

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Question what color trim are you thinking Trey.

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Would be white light.

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It's pretty nice.

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To the neighborhood yeah.

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Yeah literally fun to watch that go up. Okay, any other questions, I think that's it! Thank you.

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Just a minute: okay, I'll go ahead and see if there are others who would like to speak neighbors, perhaps with regard to this application for the new home on re street I, don't see anyone who wants to speak, and you would you like give this your name.

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Randy Walcott I live in 221 third Avenue, okay,.

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I'm very pleased to see a young professional couple coming in and filling in in historic district. You with a such a beautiful plan and I would say no pude supported good.

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Well, thank you for coming forward, appreciate the comments and you're coming tonight to the meeting yeah I. Can we agree with what you're saying all right? Would someone like to make a motion then, and if you'll include those two potential administrative changes regarding rail and in the roof, I guess the roof. We actually is that's a modification to the applicant right, the metal roof.

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The Dove administrative was the driveway, the.

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Rail in the driveway on it right.

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I make a motion mm-hmm, so mr. chairman I'd like to recommend we accept this application is written with the only change or modification being to the front port troops across the front being in a metal type roof, and also if we do need to come back for construction reasons and had a handrail that that would be handle administrative Lee, as well as any changes to the driveway that can be handled administratively. Mm-Hmm.

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Are down spouts and gutters that be another type thing that can come.

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Demonstrated right.

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I haven't come to the hope for second and we've got our motion. Second, any further discussion: okay, all in favor of the application, as amended, raise your right hand; okay, that's approved yeah. Thank you and I believe that's our business tonight. So.

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