5-E-21-HZ Approved as Modified

Demolition of non-contributing carwash and billboard fixture. The existing structures on the site are non-contributing to the National Register Historic District and the NC overlay.

Construction of new residential duplex on the corner of Forest Avenue and S. 17th Street. The three-story duplex will utilize an L-shape design, with frontage on both Forest Avenue and S. 17th Street. The massing fronting S. 17th Street measures 66'-8", with a secondary massing (the side of the Forest Avenue elevation) measuring 17'-4" wide. The section fronting Forest Avenue measures 66'-8" wide. The overall massing is 18'-8" deep, with two one-story, flat-roof massings projecting towards the street on both Forest Avenue and S. 17th St. elevations.

The three-story building features a flat roof with metal coping (finished to match window headers and frames); an exterior of modular-sized brick veneer; and one-over-one, double-hung aluminum-clad windows topped by black anodized aluminum headers. The primary entries feature full-light, iron doors on recessed cedar-sided entry vestibules, with concrete steps and concrete on window wells.

The Seventeenth Street (east) elevation features an a four-bay façade, with a two projecting, one-story, flat-roof massings flanking a recessed entry. The entry will feature paired, 74" wide by 96" tall, iron, full-light doors, covered by a flat-roof metal canopy and accessible by cast concrete steps. Both flat-roof massings feature three adjoining windows topped by a single aluminum header. The rooftop of the flat-roof massings will serve as a balcony, accessible by iron doors on the uppermost level. Four fenestrations are evenly spaced along the upper level, with two windows on the outside bays and two doors accessing the balconies. One lower-level window is visible, partially obscured by a window well. A secondary massing is slightly recessed from the east elevation; this structure is the side of the residential unit fronting Forest Avenue. Two double-hung, aluminum-clad windows will be on the secondary massing (on the lowest level and the uppermost level), per conditions of approval.

On the Forest Avenue (north) elevation: two, two story, flat-roof massings flank a recessed entry stoop. The flat-roof massings serve as balconies, accessible by iron doors on the upper level (third story). The identical massings feature two single-light picture windows on the first story and three adjoining one-over-one windows on the second story. Doors to match the 17th Street elevation are accessible from the concrete entry stoop clad in 6" wide vertical cedar ship-lap siding. The overall elevation features three levels of one-over-one, double-hung windows topped by metal headers.

The rear (south) and rear (east) elevations feature two brick-clad chimneys topped by metal coping; irregularly spaced one-over-one, double-hung windows on two visible stories; and a series of window wells for lower-level windows. Corner elevation windows will feature aluminum headers to match façade windows.

REAR: At the May 20, 2021 HZC meeting, application was approved with conditions identified by staff, with the additional condition that the rear elevation drawings be revised and return to the Commission for review. The L-shaped rear elevation features irregularly-spaced double-hung, aluminum-clad windows topped by anodized aluminum headers. Over each secondary entrance door is a flat roof, metal canopy, painted to match window frames and headers. Doors are 3' wide by 7' tall smooth-finished fiberglass doors with a single light. Metal roof coping extends around rear elevations, finished to match window frame colors.

A paved parking lot will be primarily accessible via the alley, with an exit off Forest Avenue. The site plan includes the preservation of several existing trees (elms, magnolia, etc) and the placement of several native shade trees on both facades and fronting the alley.

Conditions of approval per 5/20/21 HZC and 6/17/21 HZC meetings:
1) Granting of all necessary variances at 5/18/21 Board of Zoning Appeals meeting;
2) Break up large massing with no transparency on rightmost side of S. 17th Street elevation (using two stories of double-hung windows to match, lower level and upper level);
3) On the Forest Avenue elevation, use doors to match design and placement of those on S. 17 Street instead of perpendicular to façade;
4) Parking to meet City Engineering requirements;
5) If possible, retaining wall along Forest Avenue to be retained or re-constructed using materials to meet design guidelines;
6) Rear elevation drawings to match those submitted for 6/17/21 HZC meeting.