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Beaudin: If we look at this area right here, anywhere in this vicinity, we think that a porch is entirely appropriate and you could even imagine it wrapping slightly around here. That's typical to the neighborhood. It's south facing and it actually helps with solar heat gain for the den space. It's an amenity that belongs in the character of this neighborhood. Gagliardi: That would completely change the architecture of the front of the house also. Beaudin: It doesn't actually. Gagliardi: Could we have the architect speak to that? Beaudin: The existing columns that are on the front of the house and the framing around the windows provide a great opportunity for three posts to carry that roof element. Chair Ritter: We'll bring the next speaker up. Thank you. I have two more speakers; Amanda Gagliardi and then Terry Townsend will be last. Amanda Gagliardi: I'll pass Chair Ritter: Okay, Terry? Terry Townsend — Architect: Good evening, we're here to talk about porches. As a background, basically there are two types of porches. There's a projecting porch and there's an engaged porch. So a projecting porch traditionally would be the foremost portion of a fagade. It could be open on three sides and would have this whole roof element. That's more or less what staff is suggesting. What we have is an engaged porch. An engaged porch uses parts of the front of the fagade to wrap around and create a covered space. So if you look at the diagram, from the outside column to this wall is nine -feet wide, the depth of this is seven feet, six inches. That's what we currently have. If you can see in the shaded area here, it's a recessed porch. This is considered an element where they are engaging the porch. It was suggested that we include a porch on the front fagade. One suggestion was actually in front of the laundry room, in front of the existing porch and in front of the den, and the end result of that would be this. So, I would lose the shed dormer, I would lose the gable at the end which we are calling a living room, and the height of the main ridge would increase by about two -to -three feet. So we lose these important elements that are on the fagade right now. We are losing these elements that are very special to my clients as far as this engaged porch. The other alternative was to have the porch extended in front of the laundry room and powder room, and again what happens in this scenario, again I'm losing that dormer and it is in front of the fagade of the den so now I'm crushing this side of the gable and again the ridge goes up two -to -three feet. So we are losing that element. We have a nice balanced clad. We have two gable ends. We have this central element in the front. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, April 13, 2016 Page 6 of 33