New primary structure fronting Leonard Place. The two-story, three-unit townhouse measures 63'-7" wide (with units approximately 21'-3" wide) by 36' deep , with the main massing set 20' from the front property line. Parking is a 60' wide by 41' deep concrete pad located to the rear of the house and accessed from the alley via a 24' wide (tapers to 18') driveway.

The townhouse features three front-gable roof massings (10/12 pitch) for each unit connected by a central cross-gable roof, with shed roof dormers on the side elevations. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles. Each unit features an 11'-8" wide by 9' deep front porch covered by a front-gable roof with overhanging eaves, decorative brackets, a horizontal header, and shake siding in the gable field. The porch roof is supported by two Craftsman-style tapered wood columns on brick piers. Each porch has brick stairs, a wooden railing with plain balusters, a beadboard ceiling, and a quarter-lite wood front door with wooden trim. The flooring material is not specified.

The building will be clad in an exterior of smooth finish fiber cement lap siding (Hardi Plank) with corner boards and a decorative band separating the stories, and it will rest on a brick foundation. All windows are made of aluminum-clad wood, and all but the transom windows are one-over-one, single-hung with projecting wood sills and trim.

The first story of the façade (southwest) features three adjoining windows to the left of the porch for each unit, and the second story features paired windows followed by a transom window for each unit. The left side elevation features three windows on the first story, a transom window on the decorative band dividing the stories, and two shed roof dormers projecting from the primary roofline, the front having two windows and the rear having one. The right side elevation features two windows on the first story and an extended shed roof dormer with two windows on the second story. The rear elevation (northeast) features two windows flanking a secondary entrance with a brick stoop on the first story of each unit, and there are two windows per unit on the second story.

CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL PER 4/17/25 HZC: 1) site plan and elevations meeting relevant standards of City Zoning code, including Middle Housing standards, and City Engineering standards; 2) fiber cement siding to be smooth-finished and 4-5" in exposure; 3) final material specifications, including window and door selections, submitted to staff for approval.

A. Roofs
1. The shape of replacement roofs or roofs on new construction shall imitate the shapes of roofs on neighboring existing houses or other houses of the same architectural style. Roof pitch shall duplicate the 12/12 pitch most often found in the neighborhood or replicate the pitch of neighboring building. Roof shapes shall be complex, using a combination of hips with gables, dormers where appropriate to the style, turrets, or other features that emphasize the importance of Victorian-era or Craftsman styling.
2. The eaves on additions or new buildings shall have an overhang that mimics existing buildings near the property. A minimum eave overhang of at least eight inches must be retained or used on new buildings or additions to existing buildings.
3. Repair or replace roof details (chimneys, roof cresting, finials, attic vent windows, molding, bargeboards and other unique roof features). Use some of these details in designing new buildings.
4. Materials used in roofing existing buildings or new construction shall duplicate the roofing materials originally found in the neighborhood. Asphalt or fiberglass shingles can be appropriate, as are wood, slate, standing seam metal, or metal shingle or tile roof coverings. The color of roofing materials should be a dark green, charcoal gray, black or dark reddish brown to simulate the original roof colors.

C. Porches
2. Design elements to be incorporated in any new porch design must include tongue and groove wood floors, beadboard ceilings, wood posts and/or columns and sawn and turned wood trim when appropriate. If balustrades are required, they must be designed with spindles set into the top and bottom rails.
3. New buildings constructed in Old North Knoxville must contain front porches large enough (at least eight feet deep) to provide adequate seating.
4. In new construction, the proportion of the porches to the front facades shall be consistent with the historic porches in the neighborhood.

E. Wood Wall Coverings
1. Synthetic siding is inappropriate and is not allowed either as replacement siding on existing buildings or new siding in new construction.
4. New construction must incorporate corner and trim boards and appropriate door and window trim to be compatible with adjacent historic buildings.

F. Masonry Wall Coverings
12. Stucco surfaced masonry can be an appropriate for foundation in new construction. Brick and stone can also be appropriate.

G. Setbacks and Placement on the Lot
1. Maintain the historic façade lines of streetscapes by locating the front walls of new buildings in the same plane as those of adjacent buildings. If existing setbacks vary, a new building's setback shall respect those of adjacent buildings.
2. Do not violate the existing setback pattern by placing new buildings in front of or behind historic buildings on the street.
3. Do not place new buildings at odd angles to the street.
4. Side yard setbacks for new buildings shall be consistent with those of existing historic buildings, so gaps are not left in the streetscape.

H. Scale and Massing
1. Relate the size and proportions of new structures to the scale of adjacent buildings.
2. Break up uninteresting boxlike forms into smaller varied masses like those found on existing buildings by the use of bays, extended front porches, and roof shapes.
4. New buildings must reinforce the scale of the neighborhood by their height, width and massing.
5. New buildings must be designed with a mix of wall areas with door and window elements in the façade like those found on existing buildings.
6. Roof shapes must relate to the existing buildings, as must roof coverings.

I. Height of Foundations and Stories
1. Avoid new construction that varies in height, so that new buildings are equal to the average height of existing buildings.
2. The foundation height of new buildings shall duplicate that of adjacent buildings, or be an average of adjacent building foundation heights.
3. For new buildings with more than one story, beltcourses or other suggestions of divisions between stories that suggest the beginnings of additional stories shall be used.
4. The eave lines of new buildings shall conform to those of adjacent properties.

J. Materials
1. The materials used for new building exteriors shall be consistent with materials already found on buildings on the street.
2. Artificial siding and split face block are not acceptable materials for use on new buildings.

K. Features
1. Design new buildings with a strong sense of a front entry.
2. Use front porches in new designs, and make the size of those porches useable for sitting. New porches shall be at least eight feet deep, shall contain design features such as columns and balustrades that introduce architectural diversity, and shall extend across more than half of the front façade.