HomeMy WebLinkAboutAppeal UpdateC KGROUN 7
MORNINGSIDF
GUIDELINES
HEP BOARD RULING
5725 North Ba shore Drive
This application for the approval of a .new metal
gate came to the Historic and Environmental
Preservation Board on November 6, 2007, after it
was installed without a permit.
The gate that was installed is comprised of a pair of
palm trees and foliage with a sunburst background
that reaches a height of 8' 10"
The original application, which had been approved
by the ..HEP .Board in 1996 was for a simple metal
picket gate with masonry piers, totaling five feet in
height.
The guidelines for Morningside state that permitted
materials for walls/gates include masonry or simple
metal picket.
Additionally, Morningside guidelines state that
fences, walls and gates are not allowed on the .front
property lines at all. However, because the
properties that are on South Bayshore Drive
(waterfront property) are set so far back towards the
water, the .H.EP Board has typically allowed
exemptions to the guidelines for these homes.
In other words, the originally approved gate was
already an exemption to the guidelines.
The application was scheduled to go to the Historic
and Environmental Preservation Board on
November 6, 2007. The application was approved,
with the condition that the gate be replaced with the
one originally approved by the hoard in 1996.
The HEP Board did not approve the installed metal
gate because the gate did not comply with the
guidelines; the installation was done without a
permit, and the HEP Board felt that it would set a
dangerous precedent to start permitting exemptions
based on "artistic merit," without express guidelines
for what types of artistic gates should be allowed.