HISTORIC
DISTRICT COMMISSION
Judge Welsh
Hearing Room
Members Present: Steve
Bergquist, Joe Collins, John Dowd,
Marcene Marcoux, and Carol Neal.
Members
Absent: Polly Burnell and
Clo Tepper (excused absences)
Staff: Matt Mulvey and
Maxine Notaro
Administrative Review –
The owner presented on her own behalf. She wants the doors with one pane of glass
per door. The project was O.K.d.
Minutes of the
Motion: Approved the minutes as revised.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Marcene Marcoux Vote:
3-0-2 ab (SB, CN)
Public Hearing
2007-41
Application by Scott
William Grady on behalf of Nick Calabrese for a Certificate to be issued in accordance with the Provincetown
Historic District Commission established under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15
of the Town of
The architect returned with a
new plan. He also had a copy of the original
plan as amended last week. The first
item was how he treated the staircase at the entry point which had been amended. He said that he had tried to “declutter” the
design. Also, there was aa discussion
for a new means of egress in the living room.
There’s now a panel in the bottom of the door and this style will be
carried throughout the plan. The double-decked
French doors have been made smaller and everyone had agreed that we had a
hodge-podge of doors. We have scaled
down the entire egress and simplified the balustrade and have added a hip
roof. Doors and windows were the main
things addressed.
Mary Jo Avellar came to speak
about the swimming pool part of the plan.
She also wanted the presentation made to the public instead of just to
the Commissioners.
The entire house will have a
cedar shingled roof. Formerly the entire
yard was a parking place and given that the owner of this home hopes to make it
a single family dwelling, it will now have only two parking spaces resulting in
an enlarged garden and pool.
Matt Mulvey cautioned that 3
ft below grade you have ground water and he’s worried about the buoyancy of the
pool and how this water level will impact on the neighborhood.
Mary Jo said that the plans
are lovely but she is concerned about the fencing around the pool. The pool will become an attractive nuisance
and she wanted to know about the fence. The
architect said that the pool will have a built in security cover (push of
button). The pool cover will cost $20K
and will be an ultra sturdy cover sliding on tracks that will be controlled
from inside the home. The architect said
a 200 lb. man could stomp atop the cover and not dislodge it or gain access to
the pool.
In addition to Mary Jo’s
concerns there were two letters read into the minutes. One from direct abutters, the Tate family and
the other from Peter Marshall who lives directly across the street in the AIDS
support building. Matt said that at the
ZBA hearing they received permission for the pool.
Steven wants to know about
the pergola in the front yard. The
architect said that this is a detail that we have to come back to the committee
for.
Motion: Accept the plan as presented with the
addition of the safety locking mechanism for covering the pool – and with the
omission of the pergola which has yet to be presented.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Marcene Marcoux Vote:
5-0-0.
2007-42
Application by James W.
Gunn for a Certificate to be issued
in accordance with the Provincetown Historic District Commission established
under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15 of the Town of
The plan for 10 x 4 addition
to an existing deck was presented. This
project was presented before and the Commissioners had thought that a captured
baluster would look better than the lattice work. The entire rest of the complex has lattice
work so this condo didn’t want to appear different. John Dowd said, “Whatever is consistent with
the rest of the building is O.K.”
Motion: Accept the plan as presented.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Marcene Marcoux Vote:
5-0-0.
2007-43
Application by John Reis,
Inc. on behalf of Rachel and Robert White for a Certificate to be issued in accordance with the Provincetown
Historic District Commission established under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15
of the Town of
Both Carol Neal and Steven
Bergquist stepped down from hearing the case.
Maxine Notaro also left the room since the applicant is her mother.
John Reis said that he
basically wants to extend the roof line in order to install a dormer. This will allow them to put a bedroom on the
2nd floor but it will go up higher into the peak of the old building. After a great deal of discussion on how to
make the completed addition more pleasing, the following motion was made:
Motion: Accept the plan provided the roofline is
raised to the minimum head height of 7 ft. 3 in., line up the windows, and have
the dormer set back to the original facade.
Revised plans will be resubmitted by John Reis at a future date.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Marcene Marcoux Vote:
3-0-0.
2007-44
Application by Douglas B.
Hill and George P. Moccia for a
Certificate to be issued in accordance with the Provincetown Historic District
Commission established under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15 of the Town of
This property had
previously received administrative approval for replacing all the windows with
2 over 1. They plan on shingling the kitchen
and will replace a door. They’d like to
replace the clapboards with shingles and let the shingles age naturally. The amount of skylights requested caused the
most discussion; they said it was for cross ventilation.
Steven B. visited the house
and doesn’t object to the skylights.
Motion: Accept the plan as presented.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Joe Collins Vote:
5-0-0.
2007-45
Application by Jerome
Carlson for a Certificate to be
issued in accordance with the Provincetown Historic District Commission
established under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15 of the Town of
George Dunlap, the owner,
presented the plan to the HDC. He wants
to demolish the building and rebuild it since it’s not suitable for year-round
living as the pipes have frozen in the past.
The existing cottage contains only 160 sq ft but the proposed cottage in
the same footprint included the deck area as the footprint.
There were two letters of
support read into the record and only one objection orally stated.
Carol Neal said she wants to
talk about demolition………… bylaws
prohibit demolition and permit only if it’s an unsafe building.
Mr. Dunlap would like to know
how he could improve the building. John
Dowd said that the new plan doesn’t fit in with the neighborhood at all; it’s a
little bit too much for the existing yard.
Motion: Continue the case until the next meeting on
October 3rd or October 17th.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Carol Neal Vote:
5-0-0.
2007-46
Application by Mario Russo
and Frank Gilligan for a Certificate
to be issued in accordance with the Provincetown Historic District Commission
established under the General By-Laws, Chapter 15 of the Town of
Tom Thompson, the architect,
presented on behalf of Frank Gilligan, one of the owners. All the other owners of the condominium had
expressed approval of the plans and there were letters in support.
Joe Collins said that the
building is not visible from the street – at all!
Motion: Accept the plan as presented.
Motion: John Dowd
Seconded: Marcene Marcoux Vote:
5-0-0.
Update from Matt Mulvey
A $47,500 fine has been
levied against
Adjournment happened at
Respectfully
submitted
Evelyn Gaudiano
Approved by _____________________________ on ____________, 2007.
John Dowd, Chair