{"id":39086,"date":"2018-06-12T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=39086"},"modified":"2018-06-12T06:47:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:47:25","slug":"the-historic-commission-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=39086","title":{"rendered":"The Historic Commission and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am headed to a meeting with the Historic Commission today.\u00a0 They sent us a letter.\u00a0 You might recall that our new place in is an historic neighborhood, and all exterior changes have to meet their approval.\u00a0 Our architect met with them to discuss the design of the addition that is being added to the side\/back of our house, and they approved.\u00a0 They required us to have mullions on the outside of our new windows, and that was a good call because the windows look fantastic.\u00a0 They are also requiring us to build a fake chimney for our gas logs fireplace.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38843\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1036-878x1024.jpg\" alt=\"New townhouse - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"850\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1036-878x1024.jpg 878w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1036-277x323.jpg 277w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1036-768x895.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_1036-300x350.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My visit has nothing to do with any of those things.\u00a0 This picture, which was taken before power washing and paint,\u00a0 is a hint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39090\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Exterior-before.jpg\" alt=\"Townhouse exterior before - The 2 Seasons\" width=\"850\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Exterior-before.jpg 972w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Exterior-before-430x311.jpg 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Exterior-before-768x555.jpg 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Exterior-before-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, look at this horrible photo which I dug out of my trash file. It&#8217;s hard to see the difference, but the tree on the left was diseased and rotting, and it was leaning towards our house.\u00a0 Our landscaper recommended that we have it removed.\u00a0 However, we failed to get the Historic Commission&#8217;s permission.\u00a0 Trees over a certain diameter need approval to be removed.\u00a0 Whoops!\u00a0 Someone reported us, and now I am going to plead our case.\u00a0 Ordinarily, Mike would handle something like this, but he will be out of town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39091\" src=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-10-at-3.59.10-PM.png\" alt=\"Townhouse exterior before\" width=\"873\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-10-at-3.59.10-PM.png 873w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-10-at-3.59.10-PM-430x276.png 430w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-10-at-3.59.10-PM-768x494.png 768w, http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-10-at-3.59.10-PM-300x193.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see a little bit of the tree on the top left.\u00a0 This photo is from the realtor&#8217;s listing.\u00a0 The tree that is growing out of the foundation was also removed legally since it is small in diameter.\u00a0 The tree on the right is not on our property, and it is not diseased.\u00a0 It is on the city&#8217;s easement in front of our property line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, friends, wish me luck tonight.\u00a0 If we could have saved that tree, we would have because I would have much rather spent the money that it cost to remove it on something else.\u00a0 And by the way, we just had our second meeting with our landscaper, and he might actually get to start working on our yard in early July.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am headed to a meeting with the Historic Commission today.\u00a0 They sent us a letter.\u00a0 You might recall that our new place in is an historic neighborhood, and all exterior changes have to meet their approval.\u00a0 Our architect met with them to discuss the design of the addition that is being added to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39086"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39119,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions\/39119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}