^You know, I think I actually like that house. Should make the mowing easy. Has a deck. The attached garage on the alley side is pretty sweet. Generally I favor the elephant gun house.
I understand the need for standards, but some things (like the window replacement denial for 3008 Missouri) seem excessive.
1) The replacement windows will match the existing windows, which were grandfathered in when the district was established.
2) Every other house on the street (except for the one used as reference in the denial) appears to have the same general setup, where "the proposed window profile of the top sash of the proposed windows [probably] does not match the original profile".
It would be one thing if they wanted to replace original windows with non-compliant windows, but to deny like-for-like replacement seems excessive. If they ever want to replace the existing windows they will have to modify the inside wall of the house, and revert the windows back to their presumed original appearance.
While I'm at it, the CWE shingle denial seems like overkill too.
Are they visible? Yes
Should they have known better? Yeah, probably
But, when viewing the porch roof from a sharp angle (like from the street level) is the difference between a GAF Timerline shingle and a GAF Slateline shingle really that obvious? Making the owners remove their roof over this somewhat minor discrepancy seems excessive, and wasteful.
Tim,
Do you think the neighborhoods should rewrite their design guidelines to be less restrictive or do you think CRO Staff and the Board should be more permissive?
Harry Weese was one of the most important mid-century architects in the country, and this building makes up part of one of the best Brutalist-style ensembles anywhere (and yes, Brutalism is back in fashion again). Thirty years from now our children are going to furious about this, wondering how the hell we let this happen.
Back in fashion in what sense? It's inhumanity was, is, and will be inherent. It should be preserved in a museum. Unfortunately preserving it means continuing people's suffering.
^ i love Brutalism in a sculptural sense, but some examples of the style are more inhabitable than others. the Weese STLCC@FP buildings are wonderful sculptures but they might as well be windowless. Not that I want them demolished, but I imagine being inside them is pretty miserable.
And yes, you should probably duck when someone points that kind of halfway in your direction.
+ some awesome candidates for the National Register of Historic Places. 
