Level II: Fourth And Gill H-1
8-K-16-HZ
Approved With Conditions
Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of the proposed solar roof panels with the conditions that they are mounted only on the rear 2/3s of the side-gabled surface of the roof and on the rear porch roof.Applicant Request
Porch elements; Roofing; Skylights or solar collectors; Windows- LEVEL I
- Repair and restore 15 original wood double-hung windows. Replace rotted siding between upper and lower levels of rear porches. Replace porch flooring with 1x4 wood tongue-and-groove. Replace plywood ceiling on lower rear porch with wood beadboard. Replace ashalt shingles in-kind on ear porch roof and entire house.
- LEVEL ll
- Installation of eighteen (18) ~39.5"x66" reflective solar panels on southeast face of side-gabled roof. Panels (in black) are to be flush-mounted to a metal rail system, also black, parallel at less than 6 inches above the roof shingles. They will have an anti-glare finish that will minimize their reflectivity. An inverter and second power meter will be installed on the side of the house alongside the existing power meter and above the power box.
Fourth and Gill H-1
- Style: Queen Anne (1891)
- Two-story frame with weatherboard and imbricated shingle wall covering. Hip roof with lower cross gables, side hipped roof dormer, rear shed roof dormer, raised panels, brackets, fishscale shingles and square vent in front and side gables, asphalt shingle roof covering. Queen Anne-over-one double-hung windows. One-story full front and side wrap-around porch with turned wood columns, checkered pediment over front steps with raised square applied motif and brackets forming segmental arches. Vertically corbelled stuccoed brick interior offset chimney. Brick foundation. Cut-away bay on north elevation with applied sunburst in central wall rather than window.
- Style: Queen Anne (1891)
Applicable Guidelines
Fourth and Gill Design Guidelines, adopted by the Knoxville City Council on April 20, 1999 and June 29, 1999.
See Guidelines- MECHANICAL GUIDELINES
- 3. Solar collectors should not be visible from public streets.
- PROPOSED SOLAR PANEL GUIDELINES for FOURTH & GILL
- Contemporary solar additions to building roofs have no historic counterpart and make a strong impact of the visual character of existing buildings. While both goals of historic preservation and energy conservation are important, care must be taken that one is not achieved at the expense of the other.
- In designing and obtaining permission to install solar technology on a historic home, the applicant is to consider the following preferences and requirements for design and placement of solar devices. These provisions are designed to minimize irreversible visual and structural impact of the devices on the historic appearance of the building.
- The Historic Zoning Commission is under no obligation to approve projects that do not adhere strictly to these guidelines, and may require that more preferred alternatives be pursued as a condition of project approval.
- Requirements:
- Solar technology should not be visible from public streets or, if visible, should be installed on an accessory building, a rear facing elevation, or a side elevation that does not face onto a public street.
- In all cases, regardless of the location of the solar installation -
- 1. Solar collectors and mounting systems should be compatible in color to the property's roof materials.
- 2. Framing equipment associated with the installation of solar technology, including brackets, edging around solar collectors, and other metal features, should be treated, color clad, or covered to be made as unobtrusive as possible and to minimize contrast between the solar collectors and equipment and any roofing materials.
- 3. Slope, elevation and position relative to existing architectural features should be minimally visible from public streets.
- 4. Historic roofing materials or features, including dormers and chimneys, may not be irrevocably altered or removed for the solar installation.
- 6. For roof-mounted solar installations:
- The solar equipment should be mounted parallel to the roof slope and not more than six inches above the roof, as measured vertically from the top of the equipment to the roof surface. With the provided exception of building-integrated solar technologies, solar equipment should not be located forward of any point of a roof slope facing a public street, and no closer than 1/3 the depth of the main body of the roof if there is no slope toward the street (see diagrams).
