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HEMA No. 2023-02 – The Gilmaker Block (302 West Fourth Street) May 3, 2023 Page 3 3 3 8 2 The eastern-most storefront facing Fourth Street will be rehabilited into a restaurant and the three storefronts to the west will be rehabilited for commercial use. The existing Fourth Street original storefronts on the primary (north) façade will be repaired in-kind and protected in place to maintain the existing historical character. All character-defining features on the north and east facades will be protected and repaired in-kind as needed, which includes original brick exterior, glazed brick trim, parapet, bay divisions articulated by piers, and architectural ornamentation. The second eastern-most storefront addressed as 304 West Fourth Street is composed of non-original replacement materials (aluminum- framing and replacement glazing) and will be restored to original wood-frame and glazing materials to match the original materials on the adjacent storefronts. The two western- most storefront doors, addressed as 306 and 308 West Fourth Street, each feature a wood spacer between them in order to support a wall between the two retail spaces. The spacers at the doors and between the upper transoms would be removed in order to align the doors as true double-doors and restore the transoms as a single transom at each storefront. Additional ground-level exterior modifications to the historic building’s primary facades include: two new aluminum roll-up metal garage doors with glazing, which will replace non-original windows at the east facade (while maintaining and protecting in place the original multilight transoms above); building code modifications to the existing paired pedestrian doors on the east facade; and a new door opening with a single, metal pedestrian door to provide access to the electrical room at the south end of the east facade (towards the building’s rear and below an existing single-hung window). The new aluminum roll-up doors on the east facade will have divided light configurations similar to the original fixed picture windows as identified in historic photographs. The existing paired pedestrian doors and transoms will be further recessed into the east facade wall in order to accommodate building code accessibility requirements, which involves lowering the existing floor, removing the steps at both entrances to provide a flat entrance surface, and reversing the door swing orientation. The east facade’s original three single-hung wood windows and single, centrally located large window with multi-light transom will remain in place. Modifications to the rear (south) alley-facing wall include three new pedestrian door openings and two new roll-up garage door openings to be added to the facade, which would remove five infilled windows, two window openings, one door with an arched transom, and one arched infilled door. One of the three existing arched door openings will be enlarged and arch removed to accommodate a new replacement door that is flush with the facade wall to meet building code requirements. The two remaining arched openings with a door and transom will remain, however the doors will be infilled with brick to accommodate interior altertions. Existing brick to be repaired and resused as structurally feasible. Brick deteriorated beyond repair to be replaced in-kind with new matching brick. The remaining windows (including openings and infilled brick windows) on the rear (south) facade and the one single-hung window on the east facade, above the new metal door, will be protected in place as structurally feasible to maintain historical character. In the